Bible Faith Orphanage (BFO) Papua New Guinea

By on March 24, 2011 in Asia Pacific, Faith, MAF

bfo feb11 Bible Faith Orphanage (BFO) Papua New GuineaAfter many months BFO has a means of raising funds for the specific needs of individual children. This can be done by sponsoring a child and paying via paypal through a website. Dave Scheier in America, friend and supporter of BFO has put together a website called OrphanList.org.

Your monthly sponsorship of a child at BFO will cover their monthly living expenses including food and school fees. 100% of all sponsorships donated goes straight to the Orphanage. Please check out OrphanList.org and prayerfully consider sponsoring an Orphan.

Giving them a future in life through Bible Faith Orphanage.

The February 2011 newsletter from Bible Faith Orphanage is available to view or download from here. Please take a look at what God is doing there.

Praise God…

  • A website has been created for BFO.
  • The older children are beginning to understand the importance of cleanliness and to help wash the younger children.
  • The boys’ choir is established and doing well.
  • School feels are being provided for.

Please pray for…

  • Funds to keep widows and deserted wives busy helping with the BFO children.
  • Musical instruments for the children to learn to play.
  • Provision for the remainder of the school fees.
  • Volunteers to assist the kindergarten aged children.
  • Provision of funds to purchase food.
  • Aunty Rosa and helpers that God will continue to enable them in the face of many hardships.
  • Funds and property to purchase a ‘home’ for the BFO children.

Proverbs 3:27-28

 

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Every 6 minutes………

By on March 23, 2011 in MAF

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It’s estimated that an MAF aircraft takes off at least every 6 minutes from some of the remotest airstrips in the world.

May 7th this year marks 60 years of MAF flying inPapua New Guinea and to raise awareness and funds former MAF pilot Ron Watts plans to recreate a typical MAF flying day in an interesting way.

Ron will attempt to set a new Australian record for most flights in one day by one pilot in one aircraft.

He plans on making 100 flights in a 10 hour period - thats one every 6 minutes!

To read more and even sponsor Ron’s flying have a look at the website – www.every6minutes.com

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Training for a Half Marathon

By on March 20, 2011 in Sport

runkeeper logo1 Training for a Half MarathonSo Ive started training for a half marathon – the longest distance I would have run in my life – which is in Townsville in August.  I found this great phone app which tracks where Ive run and records time, pace, speed and location.

Check out my progress so far:

http://runkeeper.com/user/csmythe/

 

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Installing OS X 10.4 Tiger without DVD

By on March 13, 2011 in Technologies

So I had some eMacs given to me, 1GHz PowerPC based, 512MB RAM with only a CD drive installed.  None of the eMacs were operating as the drives had been erased by the guy who gave them to me. The only install disk I had was a DVD of Tiger OSX 10.4 and also iLife ’06 on DVD.

Available to me was a Macbook Pro (Intel) running Snow Leopard (OSX 10.6.6), an external hard drive with Firewire and USB connectivity, eMacs (PowerPC) with CD drive only.  After getting one eMac setup the plan was to use Carbon Copy Cloner to copy the completed, updated eMac disk image to all the other eMacs.

The problem I had to solve was getting the eMacs with only the CD drive, setup on OS X Tiger 10.4. I read plenty of websites with options for creating install drives on iPods and DVD disks and external hard drives. I tried USB sticks, iPod installs with no success – eMac just wouldnt find the disk image, and couldnt boot in Target mode because Macbook Pro didnt have same Firewire connector as eMac. The solution that did work for me is outlined below.

  1. Create a disk image of the Apple OSX 10.4 Tiger install disk
    1. Insert OSX 10.4 Tiger install disk into the Macbook
    2. Open “Disk Utility” (in Applications>Utilities)
    3. Select the Mac OS X Install DVD title from the left menu, then choose New Image from the menu barScreen shot 2011 03 13 at 10.40.06 AM 300x197 Installing OS X 10.4 Tiger without DVD
    4. Before saving, change the Image Format to “read only” then save on Desktop
    5. when finished creating, select the listed “Mac OS X Install DVD.dmg” in the Disk Utility left frame and from the menu bar run “Images>Scan Image for Restore
  2. Prepare the Harddrive
    1. The harddrive I used was formatted as a Mac OS Extended (Journaled) drive and I wanted to create a partition on it just for the OS install disk)
    2. The Macbook Pro didnt have the Firewire connection same as the eMac, so I connected using USB cable (the drive enclosure has both options)
    3. In Disk Utility select the external hard drive, then select Partition
    4. I changed mine to have 2 partitions, one 10GB the other 180GB
    5. I called the 10GB Partition “Mac OS X 10.4 Install”
    6. Click Apply, it erased the drive and created the Partitions
  3. Creating the Bootable image on the Hard drive
    1. Now using Disk Utility (still on the Macbook Pro) I selected the 10 GB External Hard drive Partition ”Mac OS X 10.4 Install” and clicked Restore
    2. Source – drag the dmg file (see 1.5 above, ”Mac OS X Install DVD.dmg”) into the Source field.
    3. Destination – drag the 10GB external hard drive partition here
    4. click Restore, wait till complete
  4. Installing onto eMac using Firewire drive
    1. connect the external drive to the eMac using the firewire cable
    2. turn on the eMac while holding down the “Option” key on the keyboard
    3. On the screen will be the icon for the Mac OS X Install DVD, make sure this is selected (it’ll appear depressed) then click the arrow button
    4. Follow the installation steps from the installer.
  5. Updating OS X 10.4 to OS X 10.4.11 (last version)
    1. Its possible to download a combo update from Apple that updates OS X 10.4 to the final version, 10.4.11.  This update is here: Apple combo update PowerPC 10.4.11
    2. note – after Id installed this there were still updates to Java (and some other apps which I downloaded once the eMac had a working internet connection)
  6. Internet Software Updates
    1. Once everything was installed I connected to the internet (using ethernet to my router) and updated the software using Software Update (from Apple icon menu on top menu bar).
    2. By choosing Install and Save, the updates will be available to access for any other machines rather than download them each again – [saved in Library/Packages]

 

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Free Office 2010 Tutorials….and more!

By on February 24, 2011 in Learning, Technologies

Peter Higham (MAF Learning Technologies Arnhem Land) sent me a link to GCF LearnFree Office tutorials. They have a great site with resources for Office – 2010 back to 2003 AND XP……….but thats not all!

There are topics covering:

  • Office – Powerpoint, Word, Excel, Access, Publisher, Outlook
  • Computers – setup a computer, Internet, Facebook, Windows
  • OpenOffice – a free alternative to Microsoft Office
  • Everyday life – banking help, organisation skills
  • Maths Help – fractions, money
  • Career – planning, applying for jobs, resumes

The lessons they provide have video and some interactive components also.  Easy to use, I really like how they have listed a number of frequently needed lessons which makes learning “just in time” quick and accessible.

Have a look at their introductory video below:

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