Archive for August, 2006
Monday, August 21st, 2006
Update on Verizon/PhoneGnome
Well, we have been running on Verizon/PhoneGnome for about a month now and I am pretty happy with it, overall sound quality has been great and everything is working well. It looks like Verizon charges will total to about $25 a month (they have hefty fees and charges) and VocalNet $15 a month, which [...]
Comments Off - Posted in VoIP/Telecom by Andrew Mitry
Monday, August 21st, 2006
Focus on the Prize
Yesterday, Father Anthony as part of his American Idol series was speaking about the idol of comfort, one of the points that struck me was why we should deny ourselves. The reason he gave is that the reward outweighs the cost, citing examples of how Christ, St. Paul, Mother Teresa and others willingly suffered [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in Bible Study, Christianity by Andrew Mitry
Monday, August 14th, 2006
Chapter Summary on Matthew 20
This morning’s quiet time was Matthew 20:1-16, the parable about the laborers all paid equally. I enjoyed it so much that I decided to try the chapter summary method for bible study this week.
The chapter summary involves reading it at least five times, asking questions and summarizing the central themes.
Chapter Summary Form from Rick [...]
Comments Off - Posted in Bible Study by Andrew Mitry
Sunday, August 13th, 2006
Switching to Ubuntu
Over the past few months my Windows XP desktop was beginning to crawl, I knew that it was getting close to the time when it would need a clean wipe and maybe some hardware upgrades. I decided to invest in an extra gigabyte of RAM and one of the fastest hard drives on the [...]
3 Comments » - Posted in Open Source, Web/Tech by Andrew Mitry
Saturday, August 12th, 2006
New Tech for the New School Year
These past two weeks I haven’t been able to write much because we have been swamped preparing for the new school year. By the grace of God Little Flock Christian School has blossomed, changing this year from a program that offered K-3/K-4/Kindergarten with a student population of less than 50 to a program that [...]
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Thursday, August 3rd, 2006
Periodic Floppy Buzz
A few days ago the floppy drive on my Windows XP desktop started buzzing periodically, I thought it was just me and maybe I had contracted a virus. I checked my Symantec Antivirus Corporate Edition and it hadn’t picked up anything so I installed AVG, still nothing. I thought maybe spyware, ran [...]
