A few years ago a company was selling off some of their old thin clients. We purchased a whole bunch of them for about $50.00 each for the non-profit I was working for and started using them to connect to our Windows Server 2000 and…
Find International Country Codes for Phone Calls
One of the challenges with having friends, family and co-works all around the world is figuring out how to call them. Although I love to use Skype for most of my international voice and video calls, occasionally an actual phone call is needed. I came…
Looking at Linux Terminal Server Project (LTSP)
We’ve been playing around with the Linux Terminal Server Project for a while now and Some who I used to work with managed to get it up and running on a few different Linux boxes! At the time we were running a primarily Windows Terminal…
OverDrive Media Console Incompatible with New Apple iOS 5
Overall my experience with the new Apple iOS 5 on my iPod Touch has been a positive one. All of the main applications on the device are compatible and the device is still quite responsive and snappy. There is one problem that I have however……
Help Prospective Mothers in Papua New Guinea
Sometimes it’s amazing how much you can help, through something so little… In rural Papua New Guinea one in seven women die in childbirth! Yep, that’s right, 1 in 7 women die in childbirth! That’s a shocking statistic to say the least. To give birth…
The Best EQ Setting on the iPod for Country Music
Using the default headphones that came with my iPod Touch 2G I did not really notice mich of a difference between the Music EQ settings. My left headphone stopped working recently though so I picked up a much better pair of headphones, and now I…