Archive for June, 2005

MakeSpammersHistory: All comments turned off

Monday, June 27th, 2005

I’ve temporarily disabled blog comments for new posts. Sorry.
Today I’ve received, and deleted somewhere in the region of over 400 blog comment spam messages. I am so angry, and so upset that there are selfish, evil people out there who disrupt people’s websites. I sincerely wish that there was something that we […]

The power of defrag

Monday, June 27th, 2005

Amazing what an overnight defrag does to your PC. My PC had gradually been slowing down, and it was getting more and more noticeable with frequently-used applications, such as Outlook and Firefox, taking longer and longer to start up. So, the night before last, I left my PC on overnight and ran […]

SUSE Linux 9.3 Professional

Saturday, June 25th, 2005

Last night, I left the PC on overnight and downloaded the SUSE Linux 9.3 Professional LiveDVD ISO file, all 1.4 GB of it. This morning I burned the ISO to DVD and booted it up.
(For those who don’t know, an ISO file is an image of all the files on a CD or DVD, […]

Olivia Kuser

Wednesday, June 22nd, 2005

This afternoon, I’ve been reading an issue of God’s Friends, a newsletter from Saint Gregory of Nyssa Episcopal Church in San Francisco (it’s available as a downloadable PDF file), and have been quite struck by the painting of Olivia Kuser, which is featured in the November 2004 issue.
There is a moving, almost haunting feel to […]

Which theologian are you?

Monday, June 20th, 2005

Kelvin’s blog today has a link to the Which theologian are you? quiz. I’m Jürgen Moltmann, seemingly. This is how I scored:

You scored as Jürgen Moltmann. The problem of evil is central to your thought, and only a crucified God can show that God is not indifferent to human suffering. Christian discipleship means […]

Opera 8

Monday, June 20th, 2005

I’ve just downloaded and installed the latest version of the Opera web browser, Opera 8.01, and I have to say that I am very impressed with it.

Fast, secure and standards-compliant
In fact, if I wasn’t so hooked on Mozilla Firefox I am certain that this could become my favourite browser. It is fast (loads much […]

Searching for INF files

Sunday, June 19th, 2005

Here’s a question posed to me by my friend James:
Do you know if there’s a way of seeing which .inf file a device is using for its driver?

I didn’t, and he didn’t. But together we seemed to work it out, with a little bit of detective work.
See, James is trying to get […]