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By Bob Jones, on March 9th, 2010
I now have 9 FREE “Scroll Saw” woodworking patterns ready for you to download and use. I created these patterns or made enough changes to the original that I feel they are different enough for me to make them available to you. They are copyrighted by me only to keep people from taking my patterns and selling them. You are free to make items from them to give away or sell as you see fit. You are not free to sell the pattern itself.
My wife and I cut items from these patterns and took them them to craft sales. We always got a lot of comments and, more importantly, sales 
Consider making some of the smaller items from red cedar. They make great natural air fresheners and to make the linen and handkerchief drawers smell great.
You can find the patterns on the Woodworking page.
I hope you enjoy the patterns. I will post more from time to time so stop back and check them out.
Bob Jones
By Bob Jones, on March 8th, 2010
Sometimes Ubuntu / Kubuntu seem think that my external NTFS drives are only for the “Root” user. These are the external drives that have been used by my Windows system and if I’m dual booted they are used by both Windows and Linux.
I have tried the "NTFS Configuration Tool". I have found that in some cases I still had some problems accessing my external hard drive. In some cases when I start the computer the external drive mounts as "root" and wouldn’t allow me to access it. I know there are ways to force the issue using fstab but I don’t use this drive often and choose not to do that. This led me to find something else and I located "Disk Manager". You can find "Disk Manager" in either "Synaptic" or "Add/Remove" Applications in Ubuntu. Once you have it installed you can locate it at System > Administration > Disk Manager.
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By Bob Jones, on March 8th, 2010
I have been attempting Genealogy (notice I said attempting not doing) for a number of years. One thing I noticed when looking at information other people had put together was the differences from one to the other for the same family member. I think this must be due to records that other people created from word of mouth information or inaccurate records in things like family Bibles and note books. I’m sure that the people compiling the data did the best they could with the information they had to work with.
A few years ago I was trying to think of a way I could help others get the correct information for people that had lived in this area. One of the requirements would be to supply them with a copy of the actual records. You know how things go, the important ones get put off and the fun stuff gets done. I’m no different, until about three years ago. About three year ago I decided to locate the records for the cemeteries in Le Claire, Iowa (the town I live in) and put them on the internet along with documenting photographs. That was a lot easier said than done, let me tell you.
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By Bob Jones, on March 8th, 2010
This is another one of the post that I lost when I crashed my site. The information is still as good as it was when I wrote it so I will post it as is. One thing to note is I now use Windows 7 not XP or Vista. I see no reason this won’t work on Windows 7 the same as it did when I wrote this post.
I believe this will work with any versions of Windows but since I only have a XP box up and running and I have tried it in Vista in the past I can’t say for sure about other versions.
Why would I want to install Ubuntu Linux 9.04 Inside Vista instead of doing a normal dual boot install? No special reason other than I want to see how it’s done and prepare this post. So let’s get on with it and see how this whole thing progresses.
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By Bob Jones, on March 8th, 2010
This post was also created before I crashed me site. The information is still good but I have reworked RobertsAdventure and no longer have the /Blog portion of the site. I have included it all in www.RobertsAdventure.com.
I’m going to create a page in my Wordpress Blog that will link to my website. After I set that up when someone clicks on that page tab it will take them to my website instead of a page in my Blog.
This will actually take 6 steps to accomplish.
First I need a website and I have just created one at www.RobertsAdventure.com
Second I need a Blog and I have just setup one at www.RobertsAdventure.com/Blog using Wordpress.
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By Bob Jones, on March 7th, 2010
This post was originally written about 2 years ago. I have updated it to express my current opinion of Linux.
In my last post I asked the question “Linux – Is it really for me?”. Now I have the answer to that question. It is a very firm “YES”. I really like Linux. Please remember that I am not a highly experienced Linux user, even though I have been playing with for years, but I have used Windows since Microsoft put out its first version. Therefore my description of Linux is from a new user point of view and the terminology may be not the same as a long time Linux user would use.
I am using Kubuntu Linux version 9.10 with Ubuntu Linux also installed. Kubuntu is from the same people that make Ubuntu but instead of using the Gnome desktop it uses the KDE desktop. The internal working of their version of Linux is the same in both, it is just a matter of how it is displayed and what tools and software is available for use. I much prefer Kubuntu but there are a few things that I like to use in Ubuntu. Since it takes less than a minute to switch from one to the other it’s very nice to have both installed.
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By Bob Jones, on March 7th, 2010
This was originally written about two years ago so I have updated it to be more current with my opinion of Linux.
In case some of you may not know what Linux is; Linux is an operating system for computers. It is an up and growing competition for Windows. There are many reasons to use Linux instead of Windows. Just to mention a few; Linux is “FREE” and always will be since it is “open source” software, it is more secure from virus attacks than Windows but as the user base grows that may change and last but not least in this short list, most of the software for Linux is also Free. There are many more reasons to use Linux but this is a start.
Now for the question; Is Linux really for me? I think the answer will be “Yes, Someday, Maybe Now”. There are many different “Flavors” of Linux. Linux is the base system that other people and companies modify to fit their own requirements and idea of what it should be. I have tried about a dozen different “Flavors” to include Mandrake, Red Hat, Debian, SUSe, Mandiva, Mepis, Gentoo, Freespire, Linspire, Knopix and Ubuntu. If you would like to know more about any of these a good place to start is http://distrowatch.com/ which has a little information about each one and a link where you can get more information and download them. Some “Flavors” even have a bootable disk that you can run to try them out without installing them on your computer or even changing anything on your hard drive. Three that come to mind that can be run from the disk is Knopix , Ubuntu and Kubuntu. If I remember right Knopix is always run from the disk while Ubuntu, Kubuntu and many others allow disk operation or installation.
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By Bob Jones, on March 7th, 2010
About 5 miles North of Princeton, Scott County, Iowa is an ancient cemetery. It’s known as the "Nowlin" Cemetery and it is kind of hidden away down a dirt, one lane road. I knew exactly where to find this cemetery since I went to a one room school right across the road from it way back about 1952. I was the smartest kid in my class. I was the only kid in my class.
This is another one of the "I’ll do it someday" projects that finally came to pass. This one however was a problem from the very start. A young lady named Darlene had volunteered to assist me and on her day off we went out to clean and photo the thirty one headstones. The first thing that happened was a BIG Black Lab from the house across the road decided he wanted to say "Hi" and jumped on the side of my new Dodge Grand Caravan. He was so friendly I couldn’t get him to stay down. He left one or two scratches on the side of my door. I didn’t even have 2000 miles on it yet. Not a good way to start a day. No sooner did we get started and a light rain began. We stood under a tree and waited for it to clear up and every time it stopped we got one or two more stones done. After about three tries we gave it up and I would have to come back later.
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By Bob Jones, on March 7th, 2010
About 5 miles North of Princeton, Scott County, Iowa is an ancient cemetery. It is known as the "Fessler" Cemetery and it isn’t easy to find. When I first heard of it I looked it up on the USGenWeb Project for Scott County, Iowa. This is located at www.celticcousins.net/scott/. I located it on their Driving Instructions/maps for Scott Co Cemeteries and knew just where it was. After about two hours of searching I went back to my computer and started searching for it on Google. After a while I located the coordinates for it. Yes, right where I thought it was. Why can’t I find it? I located a site that shows the area from the air and allowed me to enter the coordinates. OK, back to the search. At last I found it. The cemetery is behind a farm house that is a long distance from the road. It is very small and I’ll come back to it later.
Later turned out to be two years later. My Beautiful and Usually Charming Wife and I returned to take a closer look. Fessler Cemetery has twelve headstones. The stone with the earliest date of death was Norman Morgan who died on August 5, 1853. The headstone with the last date of death was Magdalena M. Faessler (Rudolf) who was born on August 22, 1823 and died on September 10, 1884. Notice that her name is spelled "Faessler" and the cemetery name is spelled "Fessler". This was not a typo.
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By Bob Jones, on March 7th, 2010
Cabin Fever is setting in pretty bad and geocaching is on my mind. I thought you might like to read about “The Tin Star Sheriff” so here is the tale. Enjoy.
A couple of years ago while out Geocaching we found a Travel Bug named the Tin Star Sheriff. Let me tell you about his visit here in Le Claire, Iowa.
For the younger people that may be reading this, I want you to know that this is just a story I made up to try to entertain you. Jesse James hasn’t been seen for a long long time.
The Tin Star Sheriff and I met just North of town on a pretty nice day for this time of year. It was nice and sunny with just a chill in the air. I was traveling down the road when I found him sitting under a tree waiting for someone to stop in and give him a ride. It seems that the last person that he had visited with got him just as far as Le Claire on his search for the infamous bandit Jesse James. So far he has traveled 8557 miles trailing Jesse every step of the way. I had to admire the old Sheriff for his determination. I doubt if I would still be on the trail after a trip like that. Anyway, back to the story. The Sheriff and I had a nice long visit and my lovely wife, Veronika, (known in the Geocaching circles as Pulltabs) spent her entire day trying to make our guest comfortable.
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