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: Skiing P9 to the Champlain Lookout
: Skiing P7 to the Stone Bridge
: Skiing Trail 55 at the North End
: Skiing to the Champlain Lookout in a Snowstorm
: More Skating on the Rideau Canal
: New Video: Skating in Trapper's Park
: Snowshoeing on the Greenbelt Pathway
: A new COVID-19 Pandemic Photo Gallery for 2021
: We finally get some snow in Ottawa
: New page of photos for 2021!
: Canadian Private Fleet Returns to Slow Growth in 2020
: New Recipe – Helen's Pumpkin Muffins
: New Recipe – Thai Carrot Soup with Coconut Milk
: New Video: Gatineau Park - The soothing sounds of a stream
: New page: Ubuntu Diaries Part IV
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 us!
Linux

I have been using Linux-based computer operating systems since 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 my experiences switching from Windows to Linux, have a look at The Ubuntu Diaries Part I, Part II, Part III and Part IV.
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.
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
- Ark - archive manager
- Audacity - audio editor and recorder
- ClamTk - anti-virus
- FeatherPad - text editor
- FileZilla - file transfer protocol
- Firefox - web browser
- Gnome Disks - storage device manager
- GParted - partition manager
- Gufw - firewall
- Imgp - command line image resizer and rotator
- K3b - CD/DVD writer
- Kcalc - calculator
- Kdenlive - video editor
- LibreOffice - office suite
- LXQt - desktop environment
- LXImage-Qt - image viewer and screenshot tool
- Lubuntu - operating system
- Lubuntu Update Notifier - software updater
- mtPaint - image editor
- Muon - package manager
- MPV - video player
- nwipe - disk blanking utility
- PCManFM-Qt - file manager
- qPDFview - PDF reader
- Simple Scan - scanning utility
- Skanlite - scanning utility
- Startup Disk Creator - live USB boot writer
- Tesseract - optical character reader
- Transmission - bit torrent client
- UNetbootin - live USB boot writer
- VLC - media player
- Wget - web page downloader
- WhoIs - domain system tool
- XScreenSaver - display locker
- Youtube-DL - video downloader
- Zimbra Collaboration - webmail