I made videos in the past like this, and earlier this year I found myself wanting to do something for the Lord. So I prayed to God and asked him what he wanted me to do. I felt that he wanted me to make another video, so I did. The video "How Great Is Our God" was started September 12th of this year and finished on the 14th, just two days later. "I Can Only Imagine" was started November 8th and finished November 10th. I decided that each month I wanted to make a video. Ofcourse I didn't make one this month of December. I think I'll start by making two in the month of January, one for December and one for the new year. Below is from YouTube, I'll post links to my videos from youtube and google video just below so you can take a look at them all.



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It's the age old debate, closed ports verses stealthed ports. First, what is a port? A port is the door to your computer, there's different ports for different things. The three-way handshake takes place, and the information is then delivered to your computer to a certain port, and the information is then received. But we can save that for another topic. Now, the age old question is would you like your ports to show up as being closed, or as being stealthed? My own opinion is that I prefer stealthed over closed. If someone probes your computer would you rather them see ALL of your ports as being "CLOSED"? Or would you rather them probe and see nothing? I prefer stealthed just because if someone probes me I'd rather them see nothing, it makes it as if I don't exist, it's like someone knocking on the door and me not answering or even acknowledging. But then again if they see "CLOSED" they know you exist but they know your ports are closed and there really isn't much they can do. The fact they now know you exist though means they can not only probe you, but they can do more malicious damage by knowing your internet protocol exists like knocking you offline with a denial of service or anything else. Although really the only difference between stealthed or closed is that when 'so and so' application taps your firewall and hits a closed port it will stop. If it sees it's 'stealthed' it'll continue to try and try and try to connect to a port that isn't there, which is wasting bandwidth(although small) and taking up connections overhead.In summary, users should be much less worried about how they "look" to the evil outside, because it is irrelevant. The real differences occur in problems to their own internet activities directly caused by a misguided belief in "stealth at all costs". This is just a summary and the article could be very much larger but this is just a small summary of closed and stealthed ports.

You know as humans I think we can get greedy. We want things, I mean as we live here we are called to be servants of Jesus Christ but we also want. And becuase we have so much faith in our Lord and savior we pray to Him and ask Him of these things. And sometimes what we have to come to understand is that we pray for what we thought would come true didn't come true in our hearts of what we thought what we wanted, God knew best. And when we didn't see what we wanted to see, we should walk by faith. And even when we understand things or don't understand things we should still walk by faith because faith is not when you see you're like "Oh okay well I'll walk by faith now because I see". That's not faith. Faith is when you can't see, and something that you've been praying for, and that you've been wanting and you have been praying for that and it didn't come true in your own heart. And when you don't see what you wanted to see, you need to walk by faith. That's faith! When you walk and you don't see.

Those are the words echoed by Jeremy Camp before singing the song he wrote on his honeymoon called "I Will Walk By Faith". He was praying for His wife to be healed. And she ultimately was, she's with Jesus. But she passed away evidently. So what he may have wanted in His own heart didn't come true, but that's because God knows best. God knows exactly what we need and when we need it and why we need it. He is truly our map in this world. And when you are praying for something like that, and you cannot see, you continue to walk by faith, not by sight. Because if we were to walk by sight we'd be doing things that cause us to become spiritually dead. But if we walk by faith, faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and His plan for our lives, we will only grow that much stronger. But everybody wants something. Whether it be that new job, or perhaps that guy or girl. And you were just praying for something that you really wanted, and it didn't come true in your own heart. But you still continue to walk by faith and you don't let anything interrupt your walk and your focus on the Lord.

Because only God knows what is best for you, and if something doesn't work out, it was for a reason. But realize this, what God wants for you is only the absolute best. So if something doesn't go according to how your heart had planned, then don't fret about it. Because what will be put in place of that will be so gloriously better than what you wanted that you won't even remember it anymore. Nobody can script your life any better than our Lord Jesus Christ. And perhaps you couldn't believe it, how he just spoke to you and it just hit you so hard that this is something you've wanted for so long, and now that it didn't work out, look at what happened? Look at what this really is and why it wouldn't have worked out. And now you understand why it is so important to walk by faith and through walking by faith it makes it so much easier to put things and experiences past you. Because you know what the Lord has planned out for you is going to be so incredibly great that nothing else would come close. Who better to decide your life than the one who granted it to you? And after that experience of what you may have had your heart set on for the past few months didn't work in the way you had expected, you just had to ask the Lord to help take it off your mind now that it is over so you may regain my focus towards Him. And that He did and will do. This is the gift you may receive from walking by your faith.


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Last article I covered the smart ways of backing up data. We learned that we should backup every 4 weeks atleast. And that we should use smart ways of backing up our information such as thumb drives, hard drives(external and internal), or even using free alternatives such as email accounts(gmail comes to mind), or free online file managing accounts. Bad habits users pickup is when their data actually is gone they try to recover it.

This is obviously a no-brainer since you would like to recover as much of the lost data as possible, but to avoid this you can back it up before hand. Running off and trying different methods and paying hundreds if not thousands to try and get as much data recovered as possible is not a smart user.

If you were to backup your data in the first place you would not be worried about this problem. So basically there really is no "bad" way of backing up data. Anyway an individual makes an attempt to backup any sort of information is a good thing. Unless obviously they just store it on another computer as that can obviously crash or lose data just as easily. And yes, even Macs.

So remember, we have CD's/DVD's, HDD's(hard drives), thumb/usb drives, large email accounts, free online file manager accounts, and perhaps the built in windows option to backup data.

However, those are all great ways to backup data,  I would rather recommend hardware rather than online accounts. Because anything can happen to an account somewhere online, a glitch, a flaw of some sort. Atleast if your information is stored on hard copy there isn't much that can happen to it other than perhaps an unfortunate event or natural disaster that would destroy it. I hope some of you have learned something new from the article, I plan to write more about security related topics in the future.

Who can say that you can plan the future and get it exactly the way you want? Who are you to say that because this happened that will definitely happen so if that does happen this will also happen? It isn't practicle to say to yourself and/or others that oh this will definitely happen because I just know it. Well how do you know it? Some may say "well I just do." Well how can you just happen to know something that has not happened yet? The answer is simple, you can't. Only Christ can tell what will happen tomorrow or tell of your death and even elaborate on how or why. Not you. Don't you think it might be an insult to predict something without knowledge? How do you think Christ feels when his creation are saying things are going to happen without knowing? We cannot stand by ourselves, and we cannot plan the future.