DB#298 - Online Confession?
Feedback Friday! Australia prays for rain; the Kentucky Derby; What to think of online confession? Ubuntu, Kubuntu, widgets and podcasting; God’s plan and the choices we make: the art of saying ‘no’; Music Man episode 7; Anne Frank.
Music in this show:
- Matthew Ebel - Every Color
http://www.matthewebel.com/ - Derek Miller - Fakeout
http://www.penmachine.com/podcast/audio/audio.html - Friction Bailey - The Next Chapter
http://www.myspace.com/frictionbailey
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Tip for those of us who have touchpads on our laptops and run ubuntu
http://ubuntu1501.blogspot.com/2007/04/configure-synaptic-touchpad-settngs.html
I wrote this on yesterday’s blog, but now that I’m preparing to download DB#298, I thought I would add it to day’s show… At least the part about the pod loader.
I saw this on Internet Scout today:
http://www.podloadr.com/
It is a utility to load things on to your I-Pod. I don’t have an I-pod, so I’m not sure how useful this may be.
Sometimes I don’t know why Father Roderick puts up with me. Here are the links to the artist’s websites.
Matthew Ebel - Every Color
http://www.matthewebel.com/
Derek Miller - Fakeout
http://www.penmachine.com/podcast/audio/audio.html
Friction Bailey - The Next Chapter
http://www.myspace.com/frictionbailey
Fr Roderick, this link:
http://www.whois.net/whois_new.cgi?d=absolution-online&tld=com
Will show you who actually owns/runs the absolution online place. Some feller in the UK.
Much nonsense, and seems to be another thing to confuse the confused about the nature and value of the sacrament.
Fr. Roderick, I suggest checking out the Linux Reality podcast (linuxreality.com) for a great podcast for new Linux users. The host stays away from the “Gnome vs KDE” or “Unbuntu vs Red Hat distro” type arguments. They’re all good in their own way.
I have Ubuntu (Gnome) on my desktop and OpenSuse (KDE) on my laptop, and I personally don’t find KDE any more appealing than Gnome. Both of these distributions easily dual boot with XP, which is very important to me since I develop software in Windows and have a lot of Windows-only software.
to those of us with touchpads on our laptops. this may work with others but this howto is for ubuntu.
http://ubuntu1501.blogspot.com/2007/04/configure-synaptic-touchpad-settngs.html
While I cannot remember where I saw the story now, I read recently that there was scam online confession site. The person running it was taking the collected sins and using them for a radio show. Not good. Avoid all of these sites.
Another Linux-tip: DON’T download programmes for Ubuntu directly from the Web using Google. There’s a package manager in Ubuntu with which you can search, download and install new programmes. It’s called Synaptic Package Manager. You can enter it via System > Administrator. You’ll need your password to run it. With this tool you can enter search terms like ‘podcast’ and it will give you all the programs which do something with podcasting. It takes dependencies into account when you want to install something.
Installing downloaded packages downloaded via Google can mess your package management up completely.
P.S.
A copy of a magazine (nummer in Dutch) is called an ‘issue’.
Thanks Colin for the links, your music segment is really nice :).
The absolution-online site is listed in the museum of hoaxes:
http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/weblog/permalink/absolutiononline/
Fr Roderick, if you want slick graphics for Ubuntu, don’t worry about KDE -v- Gnome, look into Beryl or Compiz(If Beryls too hard to set up). I’m Pretty sure Compiz is automatically installed in Fesity Fawn and accessed through system->preferences->desktop effects
Feisty Fawn is a beta version, so far as I know, not suited for beginners. It still has a lot of issues. I would advise to stick with a stable release like Dapper Drake (version 6.06 LTS), which has the longest support.
With synaptic you can install beryl, compiz and emerald if you like. But first make sure your videocard 3d acceleration is supported by Ubuntu.
Dem Duthmen, what dey gonna does next?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/6604879.stm?lsm
People in melbourne can pray and praise god all they want, nothing short of a miracle will save brisbane.
Our dams were built to stop floods, not supply the city water; we’re down to 19% and the city uses around 1% a month.
http://diffidence.org/wp/archives/2007/04/nineteen-percent/
and while that’s just my mate’s opinion, the government is starting to admit that there is a problem.
http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,21648417-3102,00.html
Everything is NOT ok in australia. Water in brisbane is going to run out next year, and the measures our government is taking to keep us going when it does won’t be ready in time.
I can’t in install the latest Ubuntu version Feisty 7.04 on one of my computers - every time I try it shows “can’t access tty; Job control turned off”. This seems to be a common problem among those who want to install the OS. Some sites report this is a major bug. Did anyone of you encounter similar problems?
@Taquoriaan: As I can see from http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu Feisty isn’t a beta relese since final release was on Mar 19 2007. Hence it SHOULD be a stable one (regarding my installation process it isn’t that stable as it should be
)
On my Centrino Notebook it works on my older desktop PC it does not…
@Matt: a final release doesn’t necessary mean it’s a stable release, a final beta is also a final release.
They tell if it’s a stable release, like Version 6.06 (Long Time Stable or LTS).
@Taquoriaan OK thanks for the clarification, I didn’t know that. I think I’ll give 6.06 LTS a try, hope it works…
Folks, in the process of contacting Derek K Miller, I discovered that he is currently suffering from colorectal cancer. Your prayers for his health would be appreciated.
The issue of online confession was recently discussed on getreligion.org at:
http://www.getreligion.org/?p=2385
(The getreligion.org site is very well done. I wish there were a Catholic equivalent.)
OK Ubuntu V6.06 LTS works fine.
For those of you who encounter the Feisty bug as mentioned in the comment above (81131) and don’t want to use 6.06LTS: A solution might be to install 6.06 first and after that upgrade to 6.10 and then to 7.04 (e.g. via online upgrade possibility).
BTW: Did you know that there’s a Christian Ubuntu Edition available? Check it out on http://www.whatwouldjesusdownload.com - scroll down to “ubuntu CE”. Hay anyone tried it yet and can give a review?
Another great show Fr. Roderick.
Just a quick one - The Queen is not just the queen of England… but of (according to the wonderful Wikipedia…) “the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Jamaica, Barbados, the Bahamas, Grenada, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Antigua and Barbuda, Belize, and Saint Kitts and Nevis, where she is represented by Governors-General.”
Fr. Roderick - is there an SQPN flyer that we could download, print and put up to help advertise SQPN?
graham
@Matt: Please, Christian Ubuntu, is, like GodTube and the Christian Wikipedia an initiative of fundamentalist bible-belt christians. I really don’t see the use of it, locking yourself away from the ‘big bad outside world’. It is certainly not what Jesus taught us.
Hey Father, last year when I visited Amersfoort I found these two phrases in valuable,
” spreekt u engels” and I am not sure of the spelling but ” danku well”
cheers fergus.
Taquoriaan, I would disagree about Ubuntu CE. It appears to just be a regular Ubuntu with bible and rosary programs installed as standard.
Matt, I upgraded from 6.10 to 7.04 via internet and it worked fine, so I’m probably not much help. I had no problems installing 6.10 originally though.
@Craig Hancock:
You can add bible and rosary programs to the normal edition of Ubuntu just as easy. That’s not the thing that’s bugging me. What annoys me is the ‘censored’ or ’special’ christian versions of media. The only thing they do is stigmatize christians, because non-christians see this as a evidence that christians view themselves as better people. It’s bad marketing.
@Taquoriaan: I can totally agree with you. I’m also a little bit sceptic towards putting an universal operating system into a religious category, whether it’s Christianity or other religions.
HOWEVER I’m curious what the system consists of. So thanks Craig Hancock for your explanation what the CE version is made up of.
Even if there would be a Buddhist version I would be interested in what “is behind”… Curiosity is my nature
I tried to install edubuntu on a computer in my classroom but have run into a problem: I don’t know how to install from an ISO image. I found a program (ISO Buster) that unpacks ISO files but then I’m left with a bunch of files that don’t seem to do anything. Even the “install” folder seems devoid of anything that will kickstart the installation. The ubuntu/kubuntu/edubuntu websites make it look like a window with step-by-step instructions will pop up. But that’s not what I’m getting.
Anybody got any tips?
WF, normally ISO images are burnt onto a CD or DVD. Then you boot the computer with it in the drive and it brings up the install program.
I’m not sure if Ubuntu allows installation from windows. Maybe someone else knows?
Craig,
I burned it to a CD but got the same results. If anyone knows a way to do this without entering code or going through DOS I’d be grateful.
Does the computer try to boot off the CD? If not you would have to go into BIOS when the computer first boots and tell it to look at the CD drive first, before the hard drive. It should be pretty simple once it boots off the CD.
Craig,
It’s not booting off the CD. Going into BIOS exceeds my technical ability. I may just have to stick with Windows.
Thanks,
William Ferguson