Churches are wasting money on Microsoft Office when other excellent FREE alternatives are available that would be more than sufficient for most people. See the bottom of this post for suggestions.
Microsoft Office .docx or Open Format .odt? Many churches will feel bullied into buying MS Office when they start receiving emailed documents in the […]
Today is Saturday and, as I am not preaching tomorrow, and the day being more relaxed than usual Saturdays I decided to check the stats on my blog. I have noticed I get a lot of hits to my post about vnc on my server.
It was after my backup mishap (see In Praise of […]
Don’t computers come with fonts, you may ask? Yes you will have got some with your machine, but when you want to do something special you could find that your fonts library is limited.
Over the years I have built up a collection of fonts. I once got a disk full of them free with […]
In a comment on my recent Google post Tim asked about other search engines.
I can recommend Hyperwords, the extension to Firefox. Not an alternative search engine but a different way of searching.
Find it here.
Earlier this week, contest sponsors put three laptops up for anyone who could hack into one of the systems and run their own software.
A $20,000 cash prize was offered but the prize was halved each day, as contest rules were relaxed and it became easier to penetrate the computers.
The MacBook Air fell first.
A Fujitsu […]
I wanted to know how to get VNC to auto-start on my server without me having to manually do it on the server with a monitor connected. I went to the Ubuntu forums but found no answer there. After experimenting I discovered it was not complicated after all. It seems I had […]
Read full post... I bought some bananas today.
My wife had done some shopping earlier but had forgotten fruit. I was sent out to get some. I didn’t think twice about whether to get Fair Trade, I believe in thoughtful, responsible buying. Since then I have been wondering how far we should take this.
There is an internet […]
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