There are many creative and fun ways to show your Dad some love this Father’s Day. You can go skydiving with him, create a podcast of his favorite songs, home-cook his favorite steak for him, or go to Mass with him and the rest of the family. And if you want to celebrate fatherhood with [...]
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In this week’s roundup, we’ll see why Pope Benedict XVI considers priests as a gift for the church and for the world. If you are a Linux newbie you’ll surely find the next link useful as it shows you 5 things new users of the free operating system should know. Would you like to know [...]
An Atheist Defends Religion, Prayer Before Sex and Other Stories Worth Sharing
In this weekend’s roundup we’ll see how an atheist defends his claim that humanity is better off with religion than without it, find the reasons why everyone is crazy about vampires, learn how to install Ubuntu 9.10, browse more than a hundred brilliant tilt-shift photos, take our first glimpse at the Google Chrome Operating System [...]
Free Software: Create Your Own Avatar with MeMaker
In the world of computers, an avatar is a graphical representation of a user. Avatars come in different sizes, colors, dimensions and shapes. I like avatars so much that I use one as my profile image in my Facebook page. There are many tools to create a personalized avatar, but in the world of Linux [...]
Vatican Library Uses Linux
I was browsing the Vatican Library website when I chanced upon this bit of interesting information. The Information Technology Center (C.E.D.) of the Vatican Library uses Red Hat. The site’s info page reveals that C.E.D.’s networks “are protected internally by two first-level firewalls in a Linux Red Hat environment”. But that’s not all. Of the [...]
Linux Helps Me Live a Stress-Free Life
Most of my day is spent in front of the computer. Thus a perfectly functioning machine is of vital importance to me. I do not want to worry about viruses and spyware. I do not want to have to defrag my harddisk every now and then or reboot everytime I install a new application. I [...]
Weekend Roundup: Stunning Photos and Wallpapers, Ubuntu 9.10, Dan Brown Wanting to Meet the Pope and other Stories Worth Talking About
In this weekend’s roundup we’ll take a look at stunning photographs, heed the Pope’s call to use digital technologies to spread God’s Word, find a good reason to install Ubuntu 9.10, rule the internet with Firefox add-ons, pray for the faithful departed, discuss Dan Brown’s desire to meet the Pope and download awesome Christian wallpapers.
How to connect to SmartBro Prepaid in Ubuntu Jaunty
A friend of mine recently bought a SmartBro Prepaid USB stick (Huawei E156C). She asked me to help her set it up. You might think that you need to be a Linux geek to configure the mobile broadband to work in Linux. It is so easy anyone who knows how to use a mouse and [...]
Dualbooting My iPod
I have a 4th generation iPod. It is ancient, I know, but it still functions without any problems. Well, I’ve never had problems with it ever since I purchased it in the summer of 2004, except that it does not allow me to play free and open source audio codecs like OGG and FLAC. I [...]
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