Advantages to Using a Graphical User Interface (GUI) Instead of Command Line

Here are advantages to using a GUI (point-and-click interface) instead of command line (typing commands, instead of point-and-clicking).

  1. Saves time editing configuration settings manually.
  2. Helps prevent mistakes that can easily happen when editing config files manually.
  3. Allows for easy memorization of tasks. You remember where you are supposed to point-and-click, instead of having to remember commands to type into a terminal.
  4. Allows average computer users (e.g., my grandma) to easily use a computer, without having to mess with the command line.
  5. Really helps to sell your software. Most people would not buy your software, if it did not have a point-and-click interface for them to use.
  6. This kinda goes along with #5, but having a graphical interface makes your software look professional to people who may be interested in using it.

Posted in Operating Systems

Faster Internet Speed!

 

On Friday, Cox Communications put me on a new IP and a new Internet gateway. I don’t know if it is just me, but the Internet speeds seem to have been improved since the change.

Here is a picture of the results from an Internet speed test I took:

Internet Speed Test Results

Before the change, the Download speed was an average of about 20 Mb/s and the Upload speed was around 6.7 Mb/s.

I thought that was cool!


Posted in Internet and Servers

The Ten Commandments

“God said to the people of Israel:

I am the Lord your God, the one who brought you out of Egypt where you were slaves.

Do not worship any god except me.

Do not make idols that look like anything in the sky or on earth or in the ocean under the earth. Don’t bow down and worship idols. I am the Lord your God, and I demand all your love. If you reject me, I will punish your families for three or four generations. But if you love me and obey my laws, I will be kind to your families for thousands of generations.

Do not misuse my name. I am the Lord your God, and I will punish anyone who misuses my name.

Remember that the Sabbath Day belongs to me. You have six days when you can do your work, 10 but the seventh day of each week belongs to me, your God. No one is to work on that day—not you, your children, your slaves, your animals, or the foreigners who live in your towns. 11 In six days I made the sky, the earth, the oceans, and everything in them, but on the seventh day I rested. That’s why I made the Sabbath a special day that belongs to me.

12 Respect your father and your mother, and you will live a long time in the land I am giving you.

13 Do not murder.

14 Be faithful in marriage.

15 Do not steal.

16 Do not tell lies about others.

17 Do not want anything that belongs to someone else. Don’t want anyone’s house, wife or husband, slaves, oxen, donkeys or anything else.” – Exodus 20:1-17 CEV

 


Posted in Christian

Labor Day 2012

 

Have a great Labor Day 2012!

 


Posted in Holiday