Years ago they used to call it war driving; roaming the neighbourhoods with a laptop, a wifi card and sometimes a high gain antenna. All in the pursuit of a free internet connection.
Archive - August, 2010
How to overhaul a video streaming computer in one easy step
Review: Avast Antivirus
A couple of weeks ago we looked at FamilyShield as a great way to protect your home computers and family from the ugly stuff that lives on the internet. This week we are going to take a look at a high quality free Antivirus for your home computers.
I Wish a was a Country Singer
I’ve always wondered how country singers come up with songs like “I Just Bought A Car From The Guy That Stole My Girl, But The Car Don’t Run So I Figure We Got An Even Deal”. Is this what passes for creativity when your feeling down in the dumps? How is a guy who writes a blog about technology and the church supposed to be creative when he’s feeling down?
Technology was Never Intended to be Evil
I love technology, the good, the bad and the ugly, I love it all. But some days I look at how we have perverted some technology and I wonder why? We have all probably seen some movie were the scientist develops something so amazing with the intent of improving the human condition only to have the antagonist steal it and use it for evil. While this makes for great movie plots, it happens in the real world more often then we think.
I will always have a Linux system on my desk
Copyright, Licensing and Paying for What You Use
This is part two of a series of posts that I will be doing on the issue of copyright and the church. As I have said before, I’m not a lawyer or a licensing guru, just a Church TechGuy who has taken the time to learn as much as I can on the issue. I encourage you do the same. If you’d like to start from the beginning, you can find my first post of this series here. Now lets jump into licensing and how to pay for what you use. Continue Reading…
Review: Carbon Copy Cloner
You just bought a new hard drive for your mac but you want to make it the primary drive and not just a second drive, what do you do? Grab a copy of Carbon Copy Cloner. And so I did… Continue Reading…
Some facts about Copyright, Public Domain, Creative Commons and Fair Use
This past week some of our planning and admin team sat down to talk about copyright and licensing. Sort of a “what licensing do we have and what can we do with it?” meeting since these licenses are expensive and we want to make sure we are getting the most out of them and that we don’t have too much if any duplication. Needless to say we filled a couple of large white boards with legalese, different types of copyright, usage details and notes. So I’m going to boil it down to as short a list as possible to share with you. Continue Reading…
The truth of comparing “Apples” to Apple
As a computer guy I get a lot of people asking me “what kind of computer should I buy?” And with the school season upon us the questions get a whole lot more frequent. I don’t claim to be a genius in this area, but 6 years of selling comercial IT systems and working for an Apple authorized sales and service center, I have some strong and in my opinion well grounded reasons for what I recommend. But lately I have been recommending Apple products to people more and more. And here’s why… Continue Reading…
