welcome to episode number 299 of category-five technology TV it is Tuesday June the 11th 2013 and I'm your host Robby Ferguson and I'm your co-host air-cool on and coming up in the newsroom apparently they can accurately control robots with simple thoughts now a school code-breaking contest is set up to select the cybersecurity talent of tomorrow the new Playstation 4 will be around 100 dollars cheaper than the new Xbox one and Honda is building a lawn mower that moves at a top speed of 210 kilometers an hour so stick around for these in the show room all right guys tonight is very exciting we're continuing kind of our micro unofficial series on web server hosting and how to secure up our web server so tonight actually we're gonna be looking at a couple products that are going to tell you whether or not your website your law your WordPress blog or whatever you have going is susceptible to somebody hacking it somebody turning it into a malware site so we're gonna show you a couple of 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Association of Internet broadcasters and we're gonna just pretty much get right into our feature tonight that's cool so I I know that a lot of you and and just a lot of us it's it's fun to tinker with building a website and one of the cool things that you can do is you can get out there and get WordPress you can get Joomla you can get all these different pieces of software and you can use those to expedite the process of getting your own website built so it can you know I'm using WordPress you can build a really quick website you can get online very very quickly but what happens if you don't apply the security patches because maybe you just don't know how or maybe you've never done it before or maybe you install a plug-in something like that that actually causes your system to become exploitable that's what we're looking at tonight I want to show you how we can pretty determine pardon me how we can determine if your website is exploitable as well as your web server so the first tool that I want to look at I told you that I would look at a couple of tools that are available to you free of charge and they certainly are the first one of course you're probably running a Linux server to run your website if you're using a shared hosting service it's possible that maybe you don't have access to logging in to SSH and running scripts directly on the server maybe you only have FTP access or something like that but if you're in a case where you actually have physical access to a server or you're you built the actual box or you're hosting it at home on a Linux box something like that then this initial piece of software that we're looking at is going to be for you so what I'm going to do is I'm just going to do this on my computer here just to show you what what it is that that we can do in order to determine if our computer or our server is susceptible to hackers and malware and people exploiting our site but first why would that be a concern I mean why does it matter if somebody exploits our website there are a couple of different reasons first of all if your website is getting hit by hacker tax or Exploited code maybe they're using your website to send out spam for example that's just one thing that can be done using injection code it'll affect the performance of your server so all of the websites that you're hosting on that web server are gonna be really really slow but also all of a sudden you wonder why are none of my emails getting through why can't I send email to anybody it always bounces back because all of a sudden you find yourself on black lists because somebody reports that there's a lot of spam coming out of this server that has it's not you it's somebody has exploited it and so all of a sudden you're blocked but it gets worse because if you're in Google and you're working really really hard to get up in the search engine results Google Bing Yahoo out to Vista you know whatever it may be that you're trying to get your rankings up in if they detect that all of a sudden your site has been compromised and guess what you become a part of that blacklist as well or people who are running antivirus products on their computers they go to your website and it says can't go to this Web site it's a security risk so now you've got a loss of your reputation because people don't feel like they can trust your website or your company if it's a company website if it is a company website then you've got the loss of revenue too you've got this chance to actually lose sales because people are going to your website whoa I'm getting a warning here that there's some kind of a malicious software or something exploited on this website so all of a sudden that becomes a really really big problem the other thing that I like to take into consideration is that I want my website viewers visitors viewers in our case but my website visitors I want them to be safe I don't want to run the risk of distributing malicious programs onto their computer that could exploit them or possibly be involved in some kind of identity theft thing that happens to them so I want to make sure that my server is as safe as possible so step one is the server itself so the first thing that I want to do is I want to install a piece of software that is going to allow us to scan our local servers so if your SSH into this server or whatever you are all we need to do is go sudo apt-get ins and while first we would do an update okay I've already done that so we're just gonna go install lineThe and it's spelt a little bit differently than you would expect ly n is and then hit enter enter your password for Super User and you'll see that it's gonna get one new package and this one is just gonna tell us you know what what could be done differently about our actual physical server to make it safer to be running websites on it and it could be our computer or whatever really really simple you're gonna love this all we need to do is enter a really quick command because now it's you see that it's installed and it's gone through okay we've installed it with apt-get you can install it with your favorite package manager I happen to be on point Linux which is Debian 7 so all I'm gonna do is go sudo cuz we need to be sudo a super user again lineThe - C which is to say check all use all of the scans that we have possible and available to us and then - capital Q and that means just do it don't bother querying me I don't want to have to hit enter every time that it runs a scan and find something I want it to just finish the scan and go through so it's quiet mode and it's just gonna finish the whole thing and then output what it finds so with that command sudo lineThe - lowercase C - uppercase Q hit enter and you'll see that all of a sudden this amazing free scanner is going to go through my server or my computer and scan all open ports and possible software that is exploitable things like that but what's lovely about this if I can say is that it doesn't just detect hey by the way you've got this exploit that could be problematic it actually provides really good suggestions and so this software will say okay well here's what you need to do you need to install a pam module for password strength testing that would be a good idea and it actually goes step by step through every suggestion that it has based on your computer and you may find some interesting things in here that you may not have thought about or realized would actually help improve the security of your server think about if it's co-located here's one here why don't you disable drivers like your USB storage when not in use you could SSH in and disable your USB storage drivers because what can happen is somebody on site could plug in a USB Drive and all of a sudden they're walking away with your data or your customer data or your users data so we're thinking now not just for security as far as somebody hacking but also data theft so it gives some really really great suggestions that is called lineThe the next one that we need to do is we need to find out okay now that we know that our server is you know this is what we need to do to our server it's given us a full report and I mean it is a very very comprehensive report I didn't scroll up very very very far here but look at all the stuff that it's tested here I'm scrolling and scrolling and scrolling everything it's just gone through a ton of stuff just to tell me what I need to do to really solidify the security of my server so now that we know that we want to know okay well okay well maybe you know this port is open but I have a firewall and so it's actually not open but to the world because it's blocked at the firewall or maybe it's not a concern that port 80 is open because obviously we're hosting a website so but how do we know like I said at the beginning of the segment I've got WordPress or I've got Joomla and they're constantly bringing out security fixes and patches but I'm not updating them because it's really really tedious sometimes or maybe I just you know maybe I installed my blog and I haven't used it yet or it's maybe I've it's fallen by the wayside and it's just sitting there maybe I've got a joomla 1.5 install and it's just sitting there so all of a sudden that becomes really really dangerous because all the exploits that are found to this software that is publicly available so you imagine WordPress I can go and download WordPress and I can read through all the source code and find out exactly how it works and then I can say oh looks like the programmers made a mistake here they accidentally put a dollar sign instead of an ampersand and so now I've got access and I've figured out a way to inject code into a website so then I just do a search for any WordPress site and I start injecting so the tool that I want to show you now is in fact going to test from the outside world what can be exploited on your server it's gonna throw script commands at your servers get line so if you're watching your Apache logs for example you're gonna start to see some really interesting stuff because it's gonna basically test everything that they possibly can so what I'll get you to do is bring up a simple website here's the address for you cat5 dot TV slash stopped the hacker it's as simple as that cat5 dot TV slash stop the hacker and when we do that it's gonna take us over to a service called stop the hacker and you'll see that it does a lot of different things one of the things that it does is it detects malware it detects whether there are exploitable scripts that are on your server that could be exploited it checks ports it sees if there's anything that's opened up that shouldn't be it does a lot of stuff and it's absolutely free to run this this scan which they call the vault the website vulnerability check so all that you have to do is just enter your website address in here just like that and that would be your website and you would go to cat five dot TV slash stop the hacker to get here and we press the free vulnerability scan and now it's gonna ask me for very very simple information my email address my domain my first name and my last name phone number and so on what I'd actually like to do Erica if I may I think I should bring up my server lock so that we can actually see what's gonna happen here because it is rather interesting to see firsthand what's happening when they run this this scan so we're just gonna I'm just going to SSH into our server we're gonna actually go with the real server I'm almost in ok I am so secure there's multiple levels of security and now we are in that server we've already looked at a couple weeks ago Apache top which is an amazing tool to allow me to see what's actually happening on my server so I've got that running on the server now we're gonna jump over to our cat 5 dot TV slash stop the hacker we're gonna enter my email address get rid of the HTTP colon slash slash on your website address we're gonna save Robbie Ferguson to five four five two two eight five eight eight which is our phone number here and then I agree to the terms and conditions which you can read on the site and then run a free scan there we go so what's gonna actually happen is it is gonna start scanning the site now I see that ok well because I've already run this scan they're actually saying no it won't allow me to run the scan again so I'm gonna show you I happen to take a screenshot which is really dummy here we go oh it looks like they might may actually let me run it a second time how about your check I'd love to show you this I'll get the screen shot up for you just in case but if that starts whacking away at our server which it is Oh brilliant look at this what's going on so you see what is actually happening what they're doing is they're hitting pages on my website that don't even exist they're trying to get into the root user folder that tilde means that it's trying to get into root they're trying to access index.html with a tilde at the end which is a backup file they're scanning through all these different files that don't even exist on my website so my logs are gonna show 404 but if you happen to be running one of the pieces of software that they are scanning for exploits say the site server software happens to be on your server then they will determine whether or not it is able to be exploited so then once that's done here's the brilliant part remember that this is absolutely free you're gonna actually receive a report by email and it's very very comprehensive now my report even though our website came up and we put a lot of work into the security of our website so I was pleased to find that we actually don't have any critical exploits you see that our results are very very good here at category 5 but it does give me some info and there are 12 pages here to this comprehensive report that tells me some of the things that I can do to increase the security of my website where it's gonna get a lot different is if you happen to have a script running on your site Joomla whatever that is exploitable what I mean by that is somebody could inject code into your website they could use your server to control other computers or to send out mass email or they could break your website or compromised your user data you often hear about big companies that you know somebody hacked into their database and we're able to steal user passwords things like that usually that's how it's done they're gonna be using some kind of form SQL injection which is going to be tested for by this scan so do check it out it's cat five dot TV slash stop the hacker it is free to get that report it's gonna tell you all the different things that are concerns about your website they do also offer some really really cool services that I'm just gonna really quickly just let you know about it basically they can operate very much like a anti-virus product an anti-malware product for your actual website so if you've got the report you decide you know what I really want to make this an ongoing thing you can actually go through let's say a small business plan and starting at ten bucks a month you can get reputation monitoring and blacklist monitoring which is going to tell you if anything has happened on your website that you should be concerned about it's gonna scan for known malware scan for viruses and it's gonna scan every single page on your website and then pardon me the plans can go up from there reason I show you that is because you can actually have a proactive scan running on your website so that you don't have to manually run this free report every time also some of the plans that they offer will automatically remove malware from your website everything that I've shown you so far all that it does is it tells you if there is a problem and then it's up to you to actually do something about it so don't think that what I've shown you tonight is gonna fix your problems what I want to show you tonight is we want to know is there a problem is there something on your website that you need to be knowledgeable about and and aware of that somebody could exploit or possibly is already exploiting and using server resources attacking your customers and and possibly compromising their confidentiality those are the things so once you know and if you find that oh I actually do have a lot of critical threats here then you need to contact your local web designer or if you know how to program your way around it it will give you some suggestions but essentially you need to get those holes patched get them fixed up at that point and that's where you know with category five with our report coming up as showing that we have no critical issues at this time I could get all you know I'm so good at security and I'm so great and I'm Way ahead of the hackers and blah blah blah but the fact is that the hackers are always working to exploit and always working to compromise your data so should I get like that and be all confident and oh now I don't I don't I ran a report in 2013 I know I'm safe no because they're still working on it so you need to continue to work on it as well at the very least every six months be doing something to make sure that your website is absolutely safe not just for your your users but for for you for your company's reputation and for for your blog for whatever it is that you do it's a good good practice absolutely and of course you know now that you're dealing with that welcome to the world of website administration that's what it's about sometimes I'm sitting there hacking the hackers I call it when the hack comes and you're fighting fighting fighting something you have to you know take and like taking hand like you have to be in control of the security of your site you you know your users want to make sure that they're safe going on to your site and I think by you know increasing your reputation just by a scan is a big thing for even your site as well yeah you know it's all about increasing your application for your customers and just maintaining it I mean you work so hard to get up there and Google why lose it on account of somebody hacking your site and defacing you I think it's a it's a tough thing too because I've seen it happen where a customer will you know they'll they'll buy a website long long ago get it built won a content management system so of course you're looking at something like Drupal or Joomla or something along those lines WordPress and then for five years they do nothing and then when it happens because it will happen pretty much guarantee you somebody exploits the site and what does it come down to who are we gonna blame do we blame the person who set up the website for us and the first place or do we blame the web host because they should be protecting you know it's up to you to make sure that your website is safe because it's your code and it's your responsibility to keep that up to date so hopefully I've equipped you tonight with some tools that are gonna help you to understand what you need on your website check out with us on your Linux box check out cat5 dot TV slash stop the hacker from any computer to scan your website and find out what what's going on let us know if those have been helpful for you thanks everybody no problem ready for the news oh I'm ready alright okay so here the tops toys from the category 5 music whoo robots are a step closer to leading our thoughts thanks to researchers at the University of Minnesota biomedical engineers in the University's College of Science and Engineering have developed a non-invasive system that allows people to control flying robots by using only their minds that engineers created a skull cap fitted with 64 electrodes that can track the electrical activity of a subjects brain the brain signals were sent to a computer which has translated them into Wi-Fi commands to a four-blade flying robot so for example when a research subject was asked to think about making a fist with his right hand that robot would move to the right the subject didn't have to actually make a fist to see the robot perform the command I was just all fond it's all thought process but the subjects were able to get good enough to maneuver the fly robot through two large rings suspended from a gymnasium ceiling the lead researchers beni a biomedical engineering professor said that the technology has the potential thought has a potential to create thought-controlled wheelchairs artificial limbs or other devices for use by people who are paralyzed or have near genetic terra generative disease diseases that's a cool point because I'm like okay that's really really cool neat technology but imagine if somebody who is completely unable to use their limbs for example could control a wheelchair and just by their forest just to be able to enjoy that part of life to be able to get around that's awesome if technology can be that far along and it's just to be able to function normally like you know you have to with I'm not sure how the limb technology works today but I think if you can control it with a thought that is being able to function like a normal person you wouldn't feel this big difference between you and somebody else because you both have to think to move your arms so who cares if you know that arm is plastic you're both are thinking to move it if I could if they could get it to that point where it's actually well they talk about lifting up your right fist well imagine if you could actually do that with a robotic arm just by thinking about it that's like so also in the news schools are being urged to sign up for a code-breaking competition aimed at developing the next generation of site cyber security experts teenagers from 1416 will put their wits against each other to break secret messages and then write their own schools will score points for coming up with the toughest codes and then when a virtual and then have a virtual contest attempting to crack those of codes of other schools it is an extension of what is known as a cyber security challenge which is in its fourth year and designed to find and encourage people to work in computer security protecting people and organizations from hackers and computer viruses and that's so interesting I think about all these Code Breaker iOS apps and things and so like are they like monitoring and would that be weird if you know you got an email or you got a pop-up in the game hey you're one of our number one code breakers come work for the FBI Danton but they're they're doing it with kids kids kind of a little bit creepy but cool nonetheless what's this what is this ps4 nice so Sony is set to sell the PlayStation 4 for cheap price than Microsoft's rival Xbox one the Japanese firm announced that the e3 trade show is it that it's machine will be sold for three hundred and forty five pounds in the UK for 399 sorry no 4 in the UK for 349 pounds sorry and in the US for $399 and 399 euros across Europe it added that it would not impose restrictions on secondhand games oh that's a little jab at Microsoft right there and Sony also revealed that its box would look like having previously kept the design under wraps at its February ps4 press conference just me or is it it's like it's the ps4 it's boxier than the ps3 but otherwise the same it looks the same looks the same but just boxier and the controller's thinner is it a little bit thinner there you go maybe it could just be the angle for many in the audience at the Los Angeles event the scale of the price difference came as the biggest shock early in the day Microsoft had revealed its new console would cost 429 pounds in the UK and $499 in the US and 499 euros across Europe so Stefan Toledo editor-in-chief of the gaming news site katako said Microsoft is going to need to look again at the price or explain why it offers better value such as the inclusion of its Kinect sensor mm-hmm okay ps4 versus Xbox one go from past experience with Xbox 360 and ps3 this is the best system I don't know why it says it's hard because I'm such a Microsoft lover when it it's hard because like I just I love the game quality lives and life down here I'm just not you know I love the ps3 I love fallout I love the game sure okay yeah but I just girl there's just something about Microsoft that I just I like about the Xbox like me that I asked folks except the red ring and dead that's the only thing I don't so i could say ps3 has that it's never once you know given me this deathly ring that i have to go you know call it my dad to pay for and fix and or sit there sit there at the dinner table start tweaking for a week because i can't be playing my xbox I'm just I grew up with always you know why not play Halo after school my favorite games were on the Xbox jawed is reminding us that fallout is a PC game as well which ironically would be on Windows but even still it's a valid point you don't need to go out and buy an Xbox 360 for Dave may do votes for the PlayStation any day especially today so I am sorry I really don't like to have to censor the show after the fact I mean I have to go back and post produce and Microsoft Erica what else you got for me well okay it's better than Microsoft why I like a flaming bag not wonderfulness so but you better watch out groundhogs cuz Honda engineers are racing to build the worldís the world's fastest lawnmower after being put up at a test by Top Gear magazine now yeah the world's fastest lawn mower that's even better than the Xbox they are targeting a speed of 130 miles per hour like a lawn mower but in Milan that's faster than I've ever driven in a car ever ever losers okay so that would easily beat the current road speed record that is 996 point five miles per hour claimed by the fuel addicted firm Gold Eagle a first look at the machine showing flames coming out of the exhaust has been the British lawnmower racing Association yes that's a real thing said Top Gear's more would not be able to compete in the July's World Cup championship because of the strict limits on the number of modifications allowed on the motors and the bodies of the lawn mower honda said it's hard to simply it had simply taken on the product project to promote its sporty credentials yeah because when I think it's 40 companies I think yeah well how fast is your lawnmower go faster than yours because they can go faster than my crazy imagine what that would do to your take your truck like your grass especially we've got Hills grass quality like if you just flying over hills I I get the impression that it's actually like a something that people do like get on their lawn mowers and race well I guess in the UK it's it's it is you guys make fun of goodness me you guys are racing it alone what if someone starts using it like you know when you have those dirt bikes on the side of the road not dirt bikes but before we learn like Nikifor wheeler or when they have Vespas or like you know like like little motorized vehicles what if they start using these on the side of the road danger because and what if you were able to control it with your thoughts cool well you guys can also get the full stories at category-five dot TV newsroom the category-five dot TV newsroom is researched by Roy w-waahhhhh Nash with contributions by our community of viewers if you have a news story you'd think is worthy for an on-air mention email newsroom at I caught it at category five dot TV and then for the category five dot TV newsroom I'm Erica on thanks Erica tonight's show is brought to you in part by Netflix get your free one-month trial at cat five dot TV slash Netflix also category five technology TV is brought to you in part by net talk at cat five dot TV slash phone and now they've got unlimited text messaging you can eliminate the need for Wireless text plan with your cell phone provider we were mentioning off the top I mean data plans can be really really 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though we're a week late I just want to say very very happy birthday on behalf of category-five TV from here in Canada yes happy belated birthday and we really appreciate your boy you've you have raised him well alright so we can jump into the course so for the we have a viewer question it's more of a congratulations from D Kelly 810 Kelly she's sending congratulations to Abigail Dennis I figure just for the congratulations everybody oh yes from Dennis okay yes okay yeah Abigail Smith now Abigail Paige is is married it's been a couple or a few weeks now and she's back from the honeymoon and raring to go so congratulations thank you for sending that in for sure and we have one from some little shoe I just watched your video about setting up Wirecast I saw you adjusting the saturation brightness and etc on your cam picture adjusting the picture like that is a part of what Wirecast can do or did you change the picture color and brightness of the cam on your computer right okay so we demonstrated just to go back a little ways this was that was your first episode wasn't it when we looked at how to connect a bunch of cameras to Telestream Wirecast to see let's see how good her memory is folks 236 I'm going over to category 5 dot TV but 237 huh and in the search box over at the right hand side here I'm typing in Wirecast and we'll use Microsoft LifeCam studio because those the cameras that we were using that episode so 236 yes well done 12 guesses so okay so on that episode so that's how you can find episode number 236 just gonna close that before it airs blast our audio what we had done is we showed how to hook up multiple 1080p webcams to tell a stream Wirecast and when you saw me adjusting the focus and the saturation and the colors and and all that kind of stuff that is actually a feature of the Microsoft LifeCam studio driver so it's not a feature that in particular is not a feature of Wirecast Wirecast is a switcher but it works with the source basically as you provide it that said it does provide the ability to go to the source settings and you can change things like that based on the the videocam driver so I hope that answers but that that was all part of the driver for the LifeCam and accessible from within Wirecast so we have another question from naked cook hey make it cook ravio the programs on linux yours is the most informative any thanks you guys are amazing but here's my thing most Linux tutorials are based on software what's the best and is good for me coming from Windows Mac environment if you buy a computer system 76 that's not available here it's a lot of money so if I'm going to build purely for Lenox what do I do it seems that Lennox is more sensitive to hardware and yes is due to the free open source your thoughts and my name is Garth okay Garth the whole thing about Linux being more picky a finicky about hardware really I don't think it has as much of an impact as it used to printers yeah you probably want to go with like a brother printer that you know has Linux printer drivers things like that but generally speaking I mean it's gonna work on anything the you throw like that you throw it on but some distros may have a different focus and may work better on certain hardware I know like if you're using Wi-Fi on a laptop there are you know there may be problems with the boomtube but point Linux may work just fine or vice versa that kind of thing can be true because it's really what they packaged in with the distribution so I would think that best thing possibly to do would be to get into forums for the distributions that you're looking at find out what hardware other people are running but that doesn't really you know these days yeah I mean good guys steams system76 isn't available in their area I wonder if maybe what you could do is go to system76 find out the specs cuz it's gonna display what they're actually using in the in their builds and say okay well they chose this motherboard because we know it's compatible with Linux so maybe we go for that and then build something similar not to take the business away from them but if it's not available to you where you live then then that's that is what it is right so but I've I've had really really good luck with and you know that things are changing I uh I stand by Nvidia I love Nvidia and that's what all of our systems run and all of our chipsets even the laptop is Nvidia chipset because I wasn't a big fan of AMD and and the ATI cards and and all that but those times are changing too so you know I think they're becoming better and better and who knows right so I think it's also personal preference but to get it working really Linux I mean if you try three different distros probably one of them will hit the nail on the head and it'll work just fine so it's picking the one that works for you we switched over to point Linux just for an example we were using PC Linux OS and PC Linux OS seven has just been released just so you know so if you're using PC Linux OS awesome you want to get that we were using that and then when they brought up version six it's stopped working on our hardware so that's where we said okay now we've got to find another distro so Ubuntu 12.04 worked but it was sluggish and point Linux worked flawlessly so you can see you know between three different distros one of them is going to work it's all Linux but each one is packaged a little bit different has support for different hardware in different ways so but for the failsafe I mean find out some hardware that is already working for people get into the forum Xubuntu forums and things like that and find out what people say what people are using who boot is a good example because they've got a really big community base and people will answer your questions there now we got another question from John oh yeah hey guys well personal question so according to Robbie's personal website at WB dot Rabi furnace can Robbie Ferguson dotnet he's known as Robbie Ferguson aka DJ Robbie F I was wondering does the DJ stand for disc jockey or data jockey regarding charge DJ Robbie F was my stage name so that was all disc jockey stuff yeah your stage name yeah it stage me yeah back before Becca and I had kids we were on the stage quite a bit we played all around Ontario and yeah people laughing it's awesome no it's pretty cool we did Ural trance and vocal trance and electronica and yeah that's and if we're gonna pick it up one day but we should bring it on to the show sometimes invincible mutant is my favorite in the chatroom love you man I should mention too for our viewers who are joining us from mainland China really really exciting news you know that we've been working on getting that alt feet going so that you have access to the show through the Great Firewall of China we've actually been able to migrate all feeds together we're in the process of doing it we're talking terabytes of data being transferred from one server in California to another server halfway around the world so that process is underway we've been running it the transfer has already taken over a hundred hours of consistent transferring my bandwidth bill is gonna be crazy but what it means to you in mainland China is that you're going to be able to subscribe to our regular feeds you're gonna be able to access the video on our website it's all going to be transparent to the firewall so you're gonna be able to actually catch the show as other users do for people in America in Europe in in Russia and Canada and everywhere in between where you're not blocked what you're gonna see is that the RSS feeds everything is going to be a lot faster everything is being moved on to a different CDN and you're gonna be able to receive the feeds much much faster than ever before so if you want to find out more check out my blog it's balled nerd calm and there is some information there about the test that we've been running they were successful and very very happy to announce so for those who are from China just want to let you know so just remind just reminded me there and we got one more question from my question so hi Ravi could you please show how to install wine and TeamViewer in point Linux I jump from Zorin OS to point Lenox and so far I haven't been successful installation of TeamViewer I understand that the it needs wine to run on in Lennox thank you keep up the good work and best regards from kevo I don't think I don't know that it requires wine I don't think maybe it does but but I love the question I love that okay you know Here I am have made the transition over to point Linux and probably loving the distribution anyways but here's the thing is that we need to learn our way around getting some things to install because is not because of a point Linux thing it's because point Linux is based on Debian 7 so it is a whole different beast to anything you know that came previously because we don't have the ia32 libs and you know you're running a 64-bit distro I guarantee you because otherwise you wouldn't be having any trouble maybe but I don't think so I think you're running 64-bit and that's exactly what the problem is so let's see what we can do we've got about ten minutes left of the show so this is fantastic I'm going to bring up my web browser I'm going to get over to TeamViewer do a quick search TeamViewer dot-com nice and simple okay download it's automatically detected that I'm on linux now I know that I'm on 64-bit Linux so typically what you would do is of course without even thinking about it you would download that and you would save it or open it with GW package manager and in my case because I want to show you what's going on let's actually just download it and we're gonna go dpk and well sudo dpkg - i for install TeamViewer there we go we're gonna see some interesting things go on here whole bunch of dependencies unavailable well here's the thing okay it requires ia32 libs well what did I say already okay sudo apt-get install and let's do IA 32 libs see what happens guess what it doesn't exist there's no such thing because we are on Debian 7 it's a multi arc system as opposed to the old method of doing things so it's new it's improved it's fantastic but you need to understand your way around now the problem is because they've built the TeamViewer 64-bit package as as if it has a requirement for ia32 libs you're right you can't install it but what you can do is you can go with a 32-bit so what we'll do is we're gonna grab that 32-bit file you'll see that now they've actually looks like updated their website to say also this will work for multi arc so let's do it I'm gonna grab that file so anytime you see multi arc remember that's you now okay so now I'm gonna go LS and I see that I've got not just the 64-bit but also the 32-bit so and I go sudo dpkg - i teamviewer linux dot deb enter okay so there were some errors couldn't find packaged live XTS t6 installed so what we'll do is we'll do apt-get no sorry sudo apt-get install lib XTS t6 : i 386 because we need the the 32-bit version of that because that's what we're installing here and hit enter we'll see now that's actually forced TeamViewer to continue installing processing triggers for menu blah blah blah we're done so now we can go sudo apt-get update we know we should get no errors unless we misspelled update there we go so should be no errors there we go if there are any errors we can do a dash F I'll show you how to do that if you get any errors about some some packages missing we can do this okay so you see I've got no errors so I'm good to go sudo apt-get install dash F will simply force anything that needs to be installed that's required so now that that's done okay and I'll post all the information in the show notes for episode number 299 all right so you'll see all the commands that I'm throwing in here in terminal and you can do it at your own pace let's see if TeamViewer is now on my menus yes TeamViewer 8 you see it is on internet okay so let's give it a try TeamViewer 8 there we go except my license and we're in we're set so that's all there is to it keep in mind that TeamViewer is free for non-commercial use only and of course if you want to use it for commercial use you need to purchase a license so but there you go working in point Linux this is the same version that you're running so that's thank you very much for the question no problem good guy was saying in the chat that he couldn't get the anvita driver working on point linear Nvidia okay so for that what I do is go into synaptic package manager' okay and type nvidia as your quick search and you see I've already got an install excited this when I first installed my system there's a package called Nvidia - detect simply install that so then go to your terminal and type sudo Nvidia - detect and hit enter you'll see that it is recommended to install this package Nvidia - GLX so you can copy that to your clipboard go back to synaptic package manager and type Nvidia - GLX and you'll see that that is somewhere there it is okay so that package has installed some other things that's why I'm seeing more things there so I installed that package reboot the computer and then we're gonna go so Nvidia detect is actually gonna tell you in point Linux which driver am I supposed to use then you just find that package it tells you which package to install reboot your computer it's literally that easy I mean gone are the days where installing a video driver is tough you know when you had to kill X sessions and go through all those hoops and all that kind of stuff it's that easy so good luck let us know if that if that solved it for you okay because that would be awesome any other questions for us while we're still here in the meantime just to let you know big news I mean next week is a huge show you know this is episode number 299 next week carry web is gonna be joining us in studio we are going to be looking a look back hosted by Kari Webb the original very first co-host of category 5 TV she was here from seasons 1 and 2 and she's gonna be hosting the show so it's a it's a really special episode we're gonna actually be looking back over 300 episodes of category 5 TV just to kind of refresh you know where have we come from we're gonna look at some of the early days and then scream through all the way up to episode number 300 within hopefully about an hour so and then following the show it's very special broadcast but following the show get your webcam set up get Google Plus up and running and you'll be able to join the Google Plus hangout we're actually going to be sitting in the studio not just me not just Kerry but a handful of the co-hosts and myself and and lots of people are gonna be here and we're gonna be we're gonna be chatting with you I'm looking forward to it's gonna be a lot of fun so think of your questions or comments about category 5 and that's the way to go another thing that thank you for reminding me we'd love to give stuff away and this is here to remind me we you remember we reviewed this product this is the newer tech 7 port USB 2.0 hub but it has a 2.1 amp powered output so you can recharge your iPad whatever device you can power a TV like mini PC unit whatever it's 2.1 amps dedicated power it's fantastic the this is a you know seven ports USB 2.0 it's a really sleek little device and they've sent us one to give away after we reviewed it several months ago so really excited to have that for you that we're gonna be giving away two weeks from tonight all you have to do is be in the chatroom and if you can't be in the chatroom during the live show send me an email tonight live at category-five TV doesn't have to be tonight just between now and then make sure you send me an email let me know where you're from and then we will include you in that draw live at category-five TV well send this anywhere in the world so we want you to win it all right it's 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