Month: October 2005

  • FOSS OTD (10/12): Gaim

    Most of the people reading this page probably have an AIM (AOL Instant Messenger) screen name. A lot of you probably have AOL, Yahoo! Messenger, ICQ, MSN Messenger, and Jabber screen names. Keeping all those IM (Instant Messaging) clients logged in and up to date can be a real pain. Enter Gaim, today’s FOSS OTD.…

  • FOSS OTD: Mozilla Firefox

    Today’s pick is the wonderful Mozilla Firefox browser. More secure than Internet Explorer (IE), more flexible than IE or Netscape (NS), fast, reliable, and extensible, Firefox is my browser of choice. A side note: if, due to a crash, you should ever find that Firefox fails to load your bookmarks, take the following steps: (1)…

  • FOSS OTD: Memtest86

    “What?”, you ask? “FOSS OTD” = “Free / Open Source Software Of The Day.” I’m going to try this out, though it’s likely to be somewhat sporadic; I do, after all, have classes to pass! Anyway, the selection for the day is Memtest86, a Stand-Alone Memory Diagnostic. Memtest86 will help you find memory problems (hopefully)…

  • Poem of the Day: Ode to a Nightingale (John Keats)

    MY heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains     My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk,   Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains     One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk:   ‘Tis not through envy of thy happy lot,          5   But being too happy in thine happiness,       That thou,…

  • Holy Trinity Church

    I visited the Hyde Park location of Holy Trinity Church, today. I figured that any church holding services in a chapel at a synagogue has got to be interesting. I really liked it. It really made me think, and provided a lot of what I’m looking for in a church home.