Archive for January, 2007
Sunday, January 28th, 2007
Lent Readings and Services
St George and St. Shenouda Coptic Orthodox Church has published the Lenten version of their Coptic Presentation Application. Just like the annual version, this presentation is in English, Coptic and Arabic and can be run from any Windows machine with Microsoft PowerPoint or PowerPoint viewer.
Lent Menu – March 23,2007
Lent Menu – March 4, 2007
Lent [...]
Comments Off - Posted in Coptic Presentations by Andrew Mitry
Thursday, January 25th, 2007
Live Windows Media Streaming Mini-Howto
Monday night we had a Bible study at our house, it was given by Bishop Paul, the bishop of Mission Affairs. By the grace of God it was attended by over 70 people (I think that is a record for our family room). During the day I got lots of requests to stream the Bible [...]
7 Comments » - Posted in AudioVisual, Streaming, Web/Tech by Andrew Mitry
Friday, January 19th, 2007
Coptic Presentation Application
St George and St. Shenouda Coptic Orthodox Church along with other Coptic churches in the Northeast are doing a great job putting together a presentation application (PowerPoint based) that contains most of the church’s services, including the readings, liturgies, songs and Agpeya. The presentation is in English, Coptic and Arabic and can [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in Coptic Presentations by Andrew Mitry
Wednesday, January 17th, 2007
Root Canal
Updated: The x-ray to the right is of my root canal, not just an example.
I had my first root canal performed today, it wasn’t nearly as bad as everyone makes it out to be. That may partly be to having a great dentist, if you are in the area (Sterling, VA – off Route [...]
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Wednesday, January 17th, 2007
Flash Player 9 for Linux (x86)
Penguin.swf announced the final version of Flash Player 9 for Linux (x86) today. This release is a much needed accomplishment for desktop Linux, with Firefox and Flash 9, the vast majority of websites are now workable.
There is a thread on Ubuntu Forums on how to install it without waiting for the repositories to update. [...]
Comments Off - Posted in Open Source, Web/Tech by Andrew Mitry
Wednesday, January 10th, 2007
Favorite Online Shopping Sites
I don’t care much for shopping at brick and mortar stores so I end up doing the vast majority of my shopping online (for both personal and church). I can usually find what I want, don’t have to worry about it being in stock and get it at a better price. Here are [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in Web/Tech by Andrew Mitry
Wednesday, January 10th, 2007
Two Week Update on Katharion Trial
We started a trial with Katharion’s anti-spam service two weeks ago, so far the results look good. All our users are saying that they are getting almost no spam, max of one or two in the past two weeks. Also, no one has reported any false positives.
Yesterday, we setup access lists on our [...]
