Police in South Salt Lake, Utah, have arrested a man they say tried to steal a fire truck so he could drive home — to Washington — for Christmas. Detective Gary Keller says firefighters on a medical call heard the $500,000 truck’s air horn blaring Monday and ran outside. They found a man in the […]
A teacher from Austin, Texas confiscated a bunch of CDs containing free Linux distributions from a student who was demonstarting GNU/Linux on his laptop and handing out the CDs. After this, the teacher sent an angry email to Ken Starks of the HeliOS Project, where the student got his Linux CDs from. “This is a […]
Here are some powerful quotes from the past to stir our minds to things eternal. “Light means nothing to a blind man.” – A.W. Tozer “Some preachers ought to put more fire into their sermons or more sermons into the fire.” – Vance Havner “The Bible definitely is infallible, how else could it survive so […]
I have started a new blog called “Virtualization News“. The site concentartes on the increasing popular virtualization technology. Using virtualization a system manager can run several virtual computers on one single PC or server. This provides an excellent resource for testing new versions of system software without endangering the live systems as well as allowing […]
I have started a new sister site to the Free Press Release Center. The new site is called “Press Release Writing Tips” and is your one-stop shop for in depth information about writing press releases. Over 34% of press releases are rejected at the FPRC and as a result I want to educate writer more […]
Just to let you know that I have started writing for the TFTS blog. Technically I am a staff writer which means I will be writing two in-depth posts a week. Andrew the owner/editor has written a nice welcome post. Gary
As many of you know we are building our new house… I am uploading pictures with the progress of the building here: New House Check back from time to time to see any new pictures! Gary
Three Norwegian tourists came under fire and one was shot after the satellite navigation system in their car guided them straight into one of Rio de Janeiro’s most dangerous slums. The three men cut short their vacation in Brazil and headed home Monday after Trygve Killingtveit, 24, was shot in the shoulder by suspected drug […]
A friend of mine (Waldemar for those of you who know him) just sent me this link to a video about the REAL nature of money and debt and it goes a long way to explain the current economical crisis we are in but the video was made in 2006. The blurb says this: “Paul […]
Make Blog has a fascinating picture representing the Linux boot sequence, in which ‘nodes’ (system calls) are “are laid out using an unweighted force-directed layout algorithm, where each node is simulated as if it were electrically repulsive and had springs between nodes”. See it here.