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: The Last Skate on the Rideau Canal for this Year
: Skiing to Shilly Shally Cabin in Gatineau Park
: Skiing to Keogan Cabin in Gatineau Park
: Snowshoeing in Andrew Haydon Park
: Snowshoeing in the Greenbelt
: Skiing to Renaud Cabin in Gatineau Park
: New Video: Snowfall in Ottawa
: Video Editing With Kdenlive 17.12.3
: New Video: The Girl With The Pink Rucksack Skis Gatineau Park
: New Video: The Girl With The Pink Rucksack Skates The Rideau Canal
: New page posted for 2019 photos
: The Canadian Private Fleet Growth Drops in 2018
: New Video: Ice Skating in the dark on the Rink of Dreams
: New Recipe – Sweet Potato & Carrot Soup
: New Video: Ice Skating on the Rink of Dreams on Boxing Day
: New Recipe – Coconut Chocolate Macaroons
: A Hike in Gatineau Park to Huron
: New Video: Indoor Ice Skating
: Sailing Season Comes to an End
: New Video: Last Sail of 2018
: The Falkon 3.0.0 Web Browser
: Is Mozilla Planning to Charge for Firefox?
Stories
- Ruth's eulogy
(36 kB download) - Ruth Denounces Parking Lot Midways, story & cartoons (170 kB download)
- Are you going to give a High School Valedictory Speech? Why not save yourself all that time writing a new one and use my Valedictory Speech instead? (60 kB download)
Social Networking
We are on Diaspora, the free, disbursed social network that is community run on free software, advertising free and you own your data.
Diaspora runs on many different pods, all networked together. Posts on one pod are synchonized to the other ones, making a seamless social network.
Find a pod, sign up and join me!
Linux
Since Adam has been using Linux-based computer operating systems and you could be too, for free!
We use the Lubuntu operating system. Linux is free, very stable, has tens of thousands of free applications to do everything you need and doesn't run Windows viruses or spyware. If you want to read about Adam's experiences switching from Windows to Linux, have a look at The Ubuntu Diaries Part I, Part II and Part III. I also supply Linux DVDs.
These two websites have some very useful background for people new to Linux:
For information on free and open source software for Windows have a look at the Windows Open Source/ Freeware Project. Adam also has a Best of Free Windows Software DVD for users on dial-up who can't download huge files themselves.
For a list of recommended free software for all operating systems see the Free Software List.
Worthwhile free software that we use
- APT - package manager
- Audacious - music player
- Audacity - audio editor and recorder
- ClamAV - anti-virus
- Evince - PDF reader
- Exiv2 - metadata manager
- FeatherPad - text editor
- File Roller - archive manager
- FileZilla - file transfer protocol
- Firefox - web browser
- GIMP - image editor
- GParted - partition editor
- GPicView - image viewer
- GPRename - bulk file renamer
- Gufw - firewall
- Guvcview - webcam
- Kdenlive - video editor
- Leafpad - text editor
- LibreOffice - office suite
- LXDE - desktop environment
- Lubuntu - operating system
- PCManFM - file manager
- Simple Scan - scanning
- Scrot - screenshot tool
- Startup Disk Creator - USB boot utlity
- Tesseract - optical character reader
- Transmission - bit torrent client
- uBlock Origin - web browser wide-spectrum blocker extension
- UNetbootin - USB ISO maker
- VLC - media player
- Wget - web page downloader
- Wicd - wifi manager
- WhoIs - domain system tool
- XFburn - CD/DVD creator
- Youtube-DL - video downloader
- Zimbra Collaboration - webmail