A Blog and Web Site About The McDougall Family
It is very rare that I delete a post after it is published. I made this rare exception yesterday. The post was about a school teacher that reprimanded a student after he shared Linux disks with his fellow students. The computers at my house run under Ubuntu Linux, NOT Windows. Many Many people believe that […]
Read MoreUp to this point, our main computer printer has been a HP Photosmart D5360 inkjet. It is a very nice printer, but as you probably know, the price of ink is outrageous. I refill my own ink cartridges, which helps; but, that is a pain, and the whole deal is still expensive. 99 percent of […]
Read MoreIf you frequent McDougallsHome.net, you may have seen the widget displayed above. What is this “Ubuntu 8.10” thing? Your computer, that you are looking at right now, has an “operating system” that controls the computer and runs the programs you want to run. On your computer, the operating system is probably Windows XP or Windows […]
Read More(Updated – Original Post Sept 1, 2008) I have a quite old Toshiba laptop. Carol and I are going on a missions trip to Moldova in October. Many on our team to Moldova are bringing a laptop computer along so they can check e-mail, use Skype, and other stuff. My old computer had Windows 98 […]
Read MoreHave you wondered how I got those nice frames around my photos? And, how about the text or “watermark” with our web site lightly on the photos? I use a great free program called FSResizer by FastStone. Visit them at www.FastStone.org for several very handy photo tools. FSResizer is specifically made for Windows. I do […]
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