Please be advised: the following is the crazed imaginings of a diseased mind. This is the intersection of faith and technology. In this blog you will read the interesting but true wonderings that go on in my mind. Therefore, expect the unexpected, or, better, unexpect the expected.
The things I plan to discuss here involve the various Linux Distributions I use and have used, the Life and Times of Moses, tips and tricks for the Gnome3 graphical user interface, Christ in the Old Testament, virtualization for you and me, so forth and so on. If some of what I just said sounds like Greek, then good. You are prepared to go forward. If it all sounded interesting to you, then good, you are ready to read. If you are already falling asleep, then good, have a nice nap. See? Everyone’s happy.
I’ll also be discussing my projects and their status’. These include Recovery OS, which hasn’t been announced yet, and my new book project that I’ll outline at a later date. These two will post when necessary. Speaking of which, anyone know of some free hosting for Linux OS’s? I need a place to hang my ISO’s as my own hosting site would probably want more money if I posted it here.
Now some info about myself. Currently, I am running Fedora 17 on a Sony Vaio. Yeah, go ahead and tell me I am stupid in the comments. I love the OS, but the Vaio forced me to switch from Linux Mint to one of the Fedora based Distros. Mind you, the learning experience has been incredible, and I am thankful that I have been able to learn at the forefront of technology, first at the feet of OpenSuse, and then under the hat of Fedora. That said, I do still miss Linux Mint, and will most likely go back some day. Till then, I conduct my little projects and experiments to see where they go and how long it takes till I break them. Fedora has, so far, proven to be surprisingly resilient and, more importantly, the community is top notch. Seriously, they don’t just give you the work around, they provide the fixes to get you running. RPM Fusion is one of the best repositories I have ever seen. It’s rare to find so many meta packages to keep your system up to date for you without external programs. Gotta love it! There’s something nice about being so far upstream, too. They update very, very regularly. Thankfully, I can choose when to update as opposed to being bothered with it.
That was the technical side. Now for the faith side. I have been a Christian for most of my life. Raised in a Christian home, I was plunged into the secular, anti-Christian atmosphere of the US Army in the 2002 and learned the true meaning of faith in action. I have lived my faith since. Not that I haven’t hit any bumps in the road. If anything, I could say that I haven’t hit any road for the bumps, but just as with my technical side, I’m learning and thankful for the opportunity to grow and change and improve my skills and knowledge.
That’s why this is a fusion of the Spiritual and the Technical, because I can’t really separate the two, not without bifurcating my own mind and life. I pray for God’s blessings on you all.
Glyn
