Ten Commandments

The Geneva Bible notes state that the Millennium is past and that currently we are experiencing the Gog and Magog invasion into Europe and America of the Turks/Moslems. A consistent interpretation of fulfilled prophecy of the phrase “fire came down from God out of heaven” indicates that people and the…

Jonathon Edwards is sometimes viewed as the last of the Puritans. This is a mistake. He was not among the “Calvinist ancients.” He is better described as the first of the “Calvinist moderns.” Edwards’ theology of experientialism helped to destroy Calvinist covenant theology in America, which is one reason why…

The Jehovah’s Witness cult teaches that Jesus Christ was not worshipped during the incarnation. In order to deceive people, the JW’s translated the Greek words which are normally translated as worship in other Bible translations as either “obeisance” or “worship” depending on whether it was in reference to Jesus or…

Deep in a cold, a joyless cell, A doleful gulph of gloomy care! Where dismal doubts and darkness dwell, The dang’rous brink of black despair Chill’d by the icy damps of death, I feel no firm support of faith. How can a burden’d cripple rise? How can a fetter’d captive…

Even though Fedora is a very stable Linux distribution I have recently experienced some problems which were resolved most easily by reinstalling. My impression of upgrading between releases is that each upgrade leaves behind some cruft from the previous release. While there are downsides to formatting your root partition like…

To have numlock automatically turned on after startup in LXDM/LXDE edit /etc/lxdm/lxdm.conf. sudo nano /etc/lxdm/lxdm.conf Uncomment the line that has: # numlock=0 Set numlock=1 and save the file. numlock=1 Numlock should now be enabled on boot.

To change the default file manager in Linux edit /usr/share/applications/defaults.list $ sudo nano /usr/share/applications/defaults.list Then search for “inode/directory”. In nano, press Ctrl-W to search. It should look like this: inode/directory=pcmanfm.desktop Change the part after the equal sign to whatever file manager you prefer such as nautilus, thunar, nemo, dolphin, or…

The Fujifilm FinePix AX655 is a point and shoot digital camera sold at Walmart. The AX650 is a similar model which is sold much more widely but for some reason the AX655 seems to only be available at Walmart. At the time of my purchasing the camera it cost $69….

If you are upgrading from Windows XP to Windows 8 and you have a FAT 32 partition Windows 8 Installation will fail at 11% without telling you the reason why. The error message you will receive is “Windows 8 Installation has failed.” The solution is to either format your partition…

The default behavior in Xserver in Linux and other *nix systems for window managers used to be that left clicking on a window focused the window without raising it above other windows on the screen. This behavior allows you to work simultaneously with windows on top of each other without…