YWAM IT

Results of the AnyMeeting YWAM Webinar Test

Bill Hutchison — Thu, 17 May 2012 07:55:46 +0000

Two days ago we connected for the test of the AnyMeeting webinar service. There were seven of us that connected, or tried to connect to the service. People were registered from Brasil, Canada, Germany, South Africa, UK and USA. The results of the test were unfortunately, disappointing …

We had quite a few problems with AnyMeeting including:

Raspberry Pi

samwerner — Fri, 11 May 2012 08:40:20 +0000

I don't know if you guys have seen this yet but it's cool. It's a small computer. A very small computer. Here's the features:

Broadcom BCM2835 700MHz ARM1176JZFS processor with FPU and Videocore 4 GPU
GPU is capable of 1Gpixel/s, 1.5Gtexel/s or 24GFLOPs with texture filtering and DMA infrastructure
GPU provides Open GL ES 2.0, hardware-accelerated OpenVG, and 1080p30 H.264 high-profile decode
256MB RAM
Boots from SD card, running the Fedora version of Linux
10/100 BaseT Ethernet socket
HDMI socket

Web Conference Testers Needed

Bill Hutchison — Mon, 07 May 2012 05:24:10 +0000

If you have been following along with the discussions that we have been having on the International YWAMer you will know that there are a lot changes happening with the leadership structure internationally with Youth With A Mission. During this time there have been a lot of questions raised about what the changes mean for the mission.

How secure is your Webspace

BenG — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:31:08 +0000

In the beginning of the year my private webspace got hacked. I'm glad that it wasn't the webspace of our YWAM base for that I am also responsible. But out of this experience I learned some things and wanted to share them with you.

What happened?

Setting up wireless internet access at our YWAM base

doubleedgedpen — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 10:52:35 +0000

I am planning to re-design the wireless network at our YWAM base and need some advice from people with experience and expertise.

We own a two story brick building at the far edge of the city where the only internet service currently available to us is ADSL over our single telephone line. We have a consumer grade D-Link DSL router

TabletPC vs. Laptop

Steve — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 13:57:01 +0000

Tablets are all over the place. More and more apps are developed and the existing ones getting better and better. There are tablets (and phones) with dual core processors available. The platform and raw numbers might not be directly comparable to those of desktop processors. Still, we can see quite some process. It's almost everything one needs on the go.
The question come to mind, do we actually still need a laptop? I think, it's a question worth thinking about. Of course, a tablet can not replace all computing needs. But what is it, we need on the go?

Google+

Steve — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 05:04:40 +0000

After not having used Facebook, let alone any of the earlier expressions of social networking like MySpace, I thought I'll have a look at Google+. So far so good. What can I say, it works. Whether it's good or not so good I cannot tell, since I have nothing to compare it to, besides maybe having looked over the shoulders of those using Facebook.
Who here is using it, what do you think about it? How does it compare to other social platforms? What do you think is missing?

The future of Skype

Steve — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 11:49:50 +0000

About a week ago the FTC (US Federal Trade Commission) has approved for Microsoft to take over Skype. Depending on who you ask, this is either good or bad news. Skype might be available on service where, so far, it's not. Integrated in some Microsoft software, most likely it will work very well with these. Also, added service to XBox will attract some people towards the platform.

Don’t Run Advertisements on your Ministry Web-site

Bill Hutchison — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 05:19:58 +0000

I have seen a few ministry blogs out there running on free services. Some of these services, like Wordpress.com, occasionally put advertisements on these services if you are using the free services. While this might sound like a good deal, it’s not…

Don’t run contextual ads on your ministry web-sites!

maintaining online and network security

Steve — Sun, 12 Jun 2011 14:05:03 +0000

What can we learn from the recent attacks that target big companies like Sony, IMF, Google, Governments, etc. Has that any impact for YWAM, missions, or Christianity in general?
Of course, we could say that these companies, agencies, and even individuals that got attacked are all high-profile targets for cyber criminals. Of what internest could YWAM really be, let alone an email account of someone of a Base Leadership Team somewhere in the world?