http://geeksok.com/blog Go Geek, Geeks Making things, Geeks sharing ideas and building a community of innovation. Wed, 31 Dec 2008 05:44:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In order to reduce the amount of Spam comments that are generated on my site from now on you will have to be registered and logged in to post a comment. I apologize if this is a problem for any one, and I hope you will take the time to ... http://geeksok.com/blog/2008/12/trying-to-stop-the-spam/ Here are some pictures of some of my latest projects. I hope to have my stick dulcimer ready for the Oklahoma City Traditional Music Meeting this Saterday. Stack of Tongue Drums for the school Making a Cut Computer controlling the CNC machine. Stick dulcimer getting a polyurethane coat. Picture of where I will glue the ... http://geeksok.com/blog/2008/12/latest-projects-tongue-drums-and-stick-dulcimers/ It has been some time since I have had a functioning ubuntu laptop. I had an EEE 701 with ubuntu on it but I traded up to the 1000. I duel booted Xandros and WinXp for awhile, but now at last I have ubuntu. I loaded the latest Ibex release and ... http://geeksok.com/blog/2008/11/ubuntu-at-last-on-the-eee-1000/ I know it has been awhile since I last blogged but with the school year going I have been a very busy boy. Besides driving the bus, starting an afterschool program and spoonsoring a robotics team I have been busy building a prototype Tongue Drum and researching Dulcimers. The good ... http://geeksok.com/blog/2008/10/been-awhile/ It this time of greening and saving the environment I have come up with a plan. I want to hire an organic farmer to grow local, in season vegetables for our family. I can't afford to hire a farmer alone so what I want to do is get a group ... http://geeksok.com/blog/2008/09/wanted-organic-farmer/ I have over the years become more and more disappointed in books stores in general, now this is not really the fault of the bookstore. My tastes have become very specific and books stores generally cater to what is popular, so I rarely find much in the way of reading ... http://geeksok.com/blog/2008/09/buying-books/ Dear Asus, I have found that the EeePC is an awesome product. I have purchased two of them and helped many other people make the decision to buy one. I also look forward to the release of the EeeTV. As an ASUS consumer and advocate I would like to share ... http://geeksok.com/blog/2008/08/an-open-letter-to-asus/ I have had the responsibility of working a bunch of different operating systems lately, which prompted me to reflect on which operating systems I use and why. For my own use I prefer Linux because it is stable, secure, powerful and free. Linux gives me the ability to work with just ... http://geeksok.com/blog/2008/08/mac-vs-windows-vs-linux/ GeeksOk is always trying out new things, our latest endeavor is a calender called "Orchid Obsession" and was made with twelve unique pictures of orchids. My mom and dad were the first to receive copies of the calendar and they say it is as professional as any that they have ... http://geeksok.com/blog/2008/08/geeksok-publications/ I have put up the structure for the homeschool classroom and will start putting up content and lesson plans this week. I would like to emphasize that GeeksOk is a community and as a community we welcome any suggestions or help that you may want to give. If you are ... http://geeksok.com/blog/2008/08/homeschool-classroom/