I’ve written a great deal about the reasons for my choices in the election this year over on my Threads blog, but I’ve largely viewed technology as a wash. Today Jason Hiner of TechRepublic rates the candidates, though he emphasizes that this is not an endorsement. He lists five critical issues, net neutrality, broadband development,…
Tom Durst is a friend of mine who lives in Washington state and has written a number of helpful essays on faith and spirituality. Some of his essays were hosted on biblepacesetter.org which will no longer exist after the end of the year. I have designed a new site for him and am now managing…
The tip is at nixCraft.
TechRepublic has an excellent video, and a text article. I have been slow in moving toward Vista, but I now have a few installations to deal with. The basis of this video and article is that often one wants to have extra backups of certain critical files. I do this because quite frequently I want…
. . . according to TechRepublic’s Jason Hiner.
I encountered this and found the answer here, but I would also note that my system has xtightvncviewer rather than just vncviewer. Executing the command in a terminal automatically changes the selection, but if you’re looking for it in Synaptic Package manager, it will be xtightvncviewer you want to install. Following installation, everything worked fine.
Two years ago this month my father passed away at age 86 after a full and interesting life. He was an amateur radio operator starting in his teens, and he passed that on to his family. I am without equipment at the moment, but I do get on the air via my brother’s echolink (N3AU-R),…
You can download it here, or find a review at pcmag. HT: OpenOffice.org Training, Tips, and Ideas.
Of course, it’s on the Energion Publications Announcements blog. I set out to brighten up our theme and clean it up a bit. The new theme adjusts to browser width and also has the same header and links that we use throughout our company site. I’m releasing the source code in accordance with the GPL…
My mother’s computer slowed down and eventually became unusable after upgrade to Windows XP SP3. One option, of course, was to remove SP3, but we couldn’t even get things working well enough for a reinstallation. (Note that I’m typing this on an Ubuntu machine.) Despite a number of things that annoy me about Vista, I…
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