Category Archives: Linux

The Nature of Christian Preaching

Posted on 2009/04/23 by ngilmour

While I’m out of town, I figured I’d give you readers some food for thought, and here’s the question of the day: is Christian preaching primarily the transmission of content that happens to involve rhetorical performance, or is it primarily … Continue reading →

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My Vista Exile

Posted on 2009/01/07 by ngilmour

Well, my Ubuntu 8.4 disk doesn’t have the driver for the new laptop’s wireless card, and I’ve now burned three .iso disks, and none seems to want to install Ubuntu on the new computer. (I got a new laptop for … Continue reading →

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I didn’t realize how fast this machine could go

Posted on 2008/07/31 by ngilmour

I’m now almost a full week into using my new machine, and I never realized how much the dual-boot thing slowed it before.? Now it boots before I can get my notebooks out, updates fast, brings websites into full view … Continue reading →

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Even Linux Can’t Fix Stupid

Posted on 2008/07/29 by ngilmour

After a day’s worth of installations, upgrades, and other such things, I ended yesterday with a fully functional, last-me-another-three-years Ubuntu laptop. Then I woke up this morning. I tried logging on, to no avail.? Said my password was invalid. I … Continue reading →

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I Took the Plunge

Posted on 2008/07/28 by ngilmour

Actually, nothing so dramatic happened. My 2005, low-end laptop was running out of hard disk space, and so, after asking Mary’s permission and waiting until we got back from Johnson City (she needed to work on a paper there), I … Continue reading →

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Bring out the GIMP

Posted on 2007/12/20 by ngilmour

I fiddled around with GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) a bit yesterday, and it’s got everything that I use on Photoshop. Once again, it’s amazing how a global community of geeks with vaguely socialistic leanings can design programs as good … Continue reading →

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