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We warp back into our childhood and go off the deep end in the land of Cult and Sci-Fi. Expert wiseguy Jaspio tells us about the history of one of the most popular toylines of all time : Transformers. We celebrate 30 years of Silicon Civil War with this great interview and bring you music from Scann-Tec, brought to you by Ultimae records. Don’t forget that this episode is also available as a Google hangout recording. Shownotes. Archonia store : http://www.archonia.com/mangashop/en/ Transformers Wiki : http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Main_Page Scann-Tek : http://www.ultimae.com/en/composers/scann-tec/index.html Ultimae records : http://ultimae.com/

We kick off season 5 of Knightwise.com by cutting into a hot topic : Ubuntu on Mobile phones. Oblivious to the announcement Canonical made a couple of days ago about bringing Ubuntu to the Mobile phone, we talked to one of their lead developers in December of 2012.  Alex Chaing tells us about the development of an Ubuntu distribution for mobile devices. What were the hurdles, how is it done and how do YOU get it on there. A sneak peak behind Canonicals roadmap, a geeks guide to getting Linux on your tablet. Shownotes Alex Chiang   Getting Ubuntu on your nexus :  Our new theme music : http://lukefontainemusic.com/

We close of the year (and season 4 of Knightwise.com) with the video coverage we shot at the “Softlaunch” event of Belgians first ‘Internet only’ TV-Content provider : Weepee.tv. You Cable-Cutters can watch and learn what it is, how to get it, how it works and what other geeks might think of it. Will this be the death of classic television for geeks or just a fab ? Find out in KW408. Shownotes. - Weepee.tv 

On the very end of the year we give you a preview of the upcoming book “On the Edge” that is about to be published by Knightwise.com. In this weeks storytime we read 3 stories from the book all centered around the very absence of technology. Chill out and enjoy this episode and don’t forget you can get your hands on an advanced signed digital copy of the book by sending a donation our way. Sit back, Relax .. its Storytime. Shownotes Knightwise.com Donation page. The “Making OF’ screencast of how this show was recorded.

We bring you a showcase from an interview we did on the Nosillacast podcast that is perfect for the holiday season. Find out ways to make your geeky and non geeky friends happy with this free geek gift guide, packed with tips and tricks to make the ultimate stocking stuffer .. without spending a single sliver of gold pressed latinum. Shownotes. The Nosillacast Podcast Give a free computer. Create bootable usb disk: ubuntu.com/download/help/create-a-usb-stick-on-mac-osx On windows uunetbootin: unetbootin.sourceforge.net/ Make persistant howtogeek.com/howto/14912/create-a-persistent-bootable-ubuntu-usb-flash-drive/ Storage Dropbox dropbox.com Ubuntu one one.ubuntu.com/downloads/ Google docs Backup Crashplan crashplan.com Remote assistance Teamviewer portableapps.com/apps/utilities/teamviewer_portable Communications Skype account Pictures Flickr Picasa account The gift of free applications Portable apps portableapps.com Portable apps for macs freesmug.org/portableapps Ninite ninite.com The gift of free music Podsafe music blog.blogtalkradio.com/blogtalkradio/17-places-to-find-podsafe-music/ itunes – Music Podcasts, Spacemusic podcast, Chillcast The gift of free knowledge Khan Academy khanacademy.org TED Talks ted.com/talks iTunes U Itunes podcasts about a certain topic The internet archive archive.org- books, movies, podcasts and audio Signout. Thank you for the donations, Keep them coming Donate to the show and get a free eBook “The best of Knightwise.com” for Christmass   

We get technical this week with a great open source and free network attached filestorage solution called NAS4FREE. After running down the list of things it can do we show you how to tweak into the core of your cross-platform filesharing world, enabling you to use it as a central filehub for all of your devices and from all of your locations. We top it off with some information on how to virtualise the whole solution and give you a spot of music from Planet Boelex’s new track ‘Refurbished’ all of that and more on Kw405. Shownotes. nas4free Planet Boelex : Refurbished

Time to deep dive into some geeky solution for running all your favorite operating systems at the same time. We talk to Lord Drachenblut about using Proxmox to build a dedicate server for your Virtual machine needs, and do it all for free. If you ever dreamt of running all of your operating systems at the same time on a dedicated server and building your very own enterprise style datacenter .. tune in now. Shownotes Lord Drachenblut’s list of Vm’s.Proxmox : http://www.proxmox.com/products/proxmox-veEtherpad – openvz container from turnkeylinux pulled through the proxmox interfacehttp://www.turnkeylinux.org/etherpadmineos – http://minecraft.codeemo.com/irssi – centos vm with irssi, ssh, and sshfs installedmurmur – debian vm with murmur server installedbig blue button – http://www.bigbluebutton.org/ metasploitable – opennms – centos install with opennms package repo added http://yum.opennms.org/Windows Server 2008 R2 – available from microsoftsogo – centos install with the sogo repo added FreeBSD 9 – freebsd 9 install, install images available from freebsd.compostrgresDB – centos install adding postgresDB from repoZentyal – linux small business server distro available at http://www.zentyal.org/downloads/

Time to gather up a cup of coffee or whatever warm substance you drink and snuggle up with a pillow for this weeks “Storytime” edition where we reminisce about times long gone and how to give old windows 98 machines, eternal life using tools like Clonezilla, Vmware converter and Virtualbox. Shownotes. Windows 98 Socket A ATX Mainboards Clonezilla Vmware converter Virtualbox Aopen HQ48

We take a good look at the hubbub around Ubuntu 12.10 with Mister Alan Pope. Canonical employee deluxe and host on the UUPC podcast. We try to find out whats awesome about Ubuntu, Who is Who in the world of benevolent dictators, New features in the upcoming Ubuntu release and the difference between Youzeewoozees and Tweakyweekees   Shownotes. Ubuntu Canonical Mark Shuttleworth’s blog UUPC Podcast Alan Pope

We kick off season 4 with a great tutorial podcast on how to let the internet work for you. A deep dive into the functionalities of ‘If This Then That’ enlightens you how to tie all of your social platforms together and through automation, have cyberspace work for you. Shownotes Intro If this then that From Twitter to Google+ Policy change by Twitter. Signoff

We take a look at one of the hottest devices currently on the market and stare down the bellybutton of the Google Nexus 7. After looking at hardware software and specs its time to answer the important questions : How can this technology work for us AND what will it do to the market. A different approach at a product review this time that will surely enlighten you in some way or form. Spice it up with some great feedback from the voicemail and twitterspheres and we have another Knightwise.com podcast .. in the can. Shownotes Intro Nexus 7 Specs Hardware Software Feedback #KWQOW and #KWPOW Doortodoorgeek on Serversultimate Mr Gadgets on Kc303. New Google Voice number for US listeners : (218) 262-9237 New website by @moonenmoonen Knightwise.com wallpapers. Signoff

We take a deep technical dive into the “sliders workstation” and how you can “do your computer thing” independant of hardware, operating systems and software and slide from OS to OS. We talk about hardware, browser platform, desktop productivity, communications, entertainment and storage and how to do it between all of your different devices. This is the “sliders 101” of cross platform computing. Shownotes Intro Hardware Operating System Browser platform Applification Software to “applify” Webapps Fluid (Osx) Fogger (Linux) Prism (Now Webrunner)  Extentions Chrome Evernote Gmail Mail links to Gmail. Hootlet Office and Wordprocessing Google Docs Google Apps Gliffy Mindmeister Openoffice. Todo : Wunderlist
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 eBooks Calibre (IOS – WIN – LIN ) Ebook Library on Dropbox or shared partition RSS Google Reader Instapaper Pulse – Flipboard .. Content Creation Audacity (Win-Lin-Osx) Jokosher (Ubuntu) Screen Recording Video Editing Communication Desktop Hootsuite (Web based) Twitter-Facebook-Linkedin-GooglePlus Desktop integration Ubuntu : Web content integration Pidgin or Adium IMO Skype Storage Google Drive Dropbox Portable Storage Shared Partitions Central File storage (Samba – NasDrive – SSH mounts) Offline Life ? Gmail Offline Chrome extention Googledrive + Dropbox for offline sync Signoff New Google Voice number for US listeners : (218) 262-9237

After our little unscheduled hiatus we are back in the saddle with a superlong and fun packed episode with the hardest working man in podcasting : Doortodoorgeek. We talk about a wide variety of tech topics ranging from Android to Ios, Apple Windows and Linux , Rooting phones, Rasberry pies and life as a geek. We are super excited to get this cross platform maven on the show and are very VERY happy to bring you this extended episode of the Knightwise.com podcast. Shownotes. www.doortodoorgeek.com

Its tinker time again as we swap out a spinning 4200 RPM harddrive from my 2.1 Macbook air and swap it out with a 60 gigabyte SSD Drive from Macsales.com. A good howto, some smart tips, a cameo from scotty and a speedrace. All of that and more in this weeks KWTV. Shownotes. www.macsales.com

In this episode we give you some ideas and possibilities when it comes to building your own home Linux server. While putting an old clunker back to good use or using a VM, we give you tips and tricks on using the command line, CLI applications, web based interfaces remote desktop sessions or even terminal servers. Let technology work for you and build your own home linux server with this podcast as your loyal companion. Shownotes. What hardware to choose. What to consider. Installation Start out with ubuntu server install Set static ip and DNS. Choose packages Services Ssh Samba MiniDLNA. Dhcp. Dns etc. Command line applications Irssi Centerim Nano Newsbeuter Mc Alpine Twidge Googlecl W3m Gpodder Iptraf Xvidenc Byobu Virtualbox Web based interfaces Webmin Owncloud Apache Transmission Vuze Jdownloader Graphical user interface Choose your graphical desktop Lxde Xfce Gnome shell Unity Hook it up to a screen Use it as a workstation Hook it up to your tv Install xbmc X-forwarding Free nx Automating Automate scripts with cron Signoff