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We crave acceptance, therefore criticism and judgement are hard on us mentally and emotionally. The fact is-it hurts. But confronting the criticism and judgement of other people becomes easier when you remember that ultimately it is before your own master you stand or fall. In the end you will answer to God alone.How can we succeed at what God has called us to if we are overly concerned about what other people think?  If you get the idea in your head that everything concerning your life should always be perfect, you are setting yourself up for a fall. This is not to suggest that you should be negative. But you do need to be realistic enough to realize ahead of time that in fact very few things in life are ever perfect. Many people are hurting terribly and are crying out for help, but they aren't willing to receive the help that God has to offer. It is amazing how we often want things our way. When someone hurts you, you may feel they owe you something, yet Jesus w

The holiest of all places on this earth is where an ancient hatred has become a present love. Men had buddies, women had friends. Buddies bonded but friends loved. Buddies faced adversity together but friends faced each other. Buddies seemed to do things together, friends simply were together. You don't show off to a friend, you show need. Buddies try to keep the worst from each other, friends confess it. Buddies seek approval but friends seek acceptance. A buddy is a fine-life companion but friends are that part of the race with which one can be human. Apologies can be hard to make but it takes a spirit of humility to admit our mistake, which may not come naturally for us. But taking responsibility for how we were wrong in a situation can bring healing an restoration to a relationship.. Swallow your pride and make the first move. Even if you can't find a card to help you say it.  Whenever you offen d a friend, apologize and make things right. For if you will ad

It is said that the heart is the center of your soul where you keep all your feelings, goals and even dreams. The heart has a way...more like a door that lets these feelings come out so that people can enter and see what you're about. As a child, we're open, pure and innocent and most of the time we have no real problems to deal with or pain to endure. Well, if there are, they're mostly about things that we have no control over. With maturity, comes confusion on which path to take. We pray that there are no hard decisions to make or disappointments. But with every disappointment, the heartache begins and you start building a door. Each new pain becomes a nail and every scar becomes a board. With the door fully built, you have an easy way out when in doubt or feeling confused. Behind that door, locked in the dark, you may feel safe and secure for a while but then no love can get in and you begin to feel sad and unsure. The road on through life may be rocky

A command line tool for getting information about a movie and comparing two movies. It is written entirely in JavaScript just like the virtual Apple Macintosh that can be installed on Windows, Linux and macOS. To install it run the following command Linux sudo npm i -g movie-cli Install in macOS with: npm i -g movie-cli To get information about a movie type movie Movie Name Example movie Star Wars Information provided includes : Title, year, date released, runtime, genre, director, actors, language and even IMDB rating. To compare two movies, type movie Movie Name1 :: Movie name2 Example movie Star Wars :: Wild Information provided includes: Title, year, date released, runtime, genre and IMDB rating. The project is available on GitHub along with the source code. You can check it out if you wish. It was created by Mayank Chandola .

Astrofox is a motion graphics tool for creating audio-reactive visuals synced to music. You can combine images and text with audio elements like sound waves and spectrum bars that react to music. You can go further by adding one of many effects like blur and glow to enhance your visuals. afterwards, you can save your work as high-definition and share them on social media sites to gain new fans. The main goal of Astrofox is to provide you a tool that lets you quickly and easily create videos of amazing music visualizations. This tool is useful especially to the following groups of people Musicians because nowadays videos are everywhere and your goal is to have as many people as possible to hear your music. Astrofox lets you create eye-catching videos that will play on big social media platforms such as Instagram, Twitter and Facebook. Artists and marketers can quickly and easily generate motion graphics without having to hire or pay a designer or developer. Podcasters

MOC (music on console) is a music player app for linux/unix command line interface designed to be simple and robust enough to run smoothly on your terminal without significantly affecting other I/O operations. "MOC plays smoothly, regardless of system or I/O load because it uses the output buffer in a separate thread. The transition between files is gapless, because the next file to be played is precached while the current file is playing" . as quoted from their website. Top features JACK, ALSA, SNDIO An inbuilt simple equalizer. A mixer that can be connected to an external mixer. Fully customizable keymapping. Playlist and directory search. Support for internet streams. Theme options Character set conversion using iconv() The latest stable release is MOC 2.5.2.  Version 2.6-alpha3 seems to be the one installed although it is still in development according to their page. It has the following improvements. Complete support for all Sndfile fo

It is a free open source and community run platform for sharing digital content.  It is a new protocol with a peer to peer, decentralized file sharing and payment network secured with blockchain technology. You own your data, you control the network. Indeed you are the network. Content creators can use LBRY to share digital content like videos, music, images, e-books and even podcasts.As a user, you can use the platform to watch videos, listen to music and read e-books.  The platform doesn't have ads on its website and does not track you in order to serve you ads like YouTube does. It is ad free if you are logged into the network or using it's app. LBRY app is available for Android, iOS, Windows, Linux and macOS. The mobile apps also show you the value of your LBC in USD. You can browse their website  here . It has both light and dark modes. LBRY is governed by its own cryptocurrency called LBRY Credits or LBC for short. These can be earned in various ways incl

In my opinion, the most important thing to learn as a newbie in the Linux system is navigating the file system. Files in Linux systems are organized in a hierarchical directory structure, that is, a tree-like pattern of directories or folders. The first directory is called the root directory and it contains files and subdirectories which contain even more files and directories. Linux unlike Windows has a single file system tree regardless of how many storage devices or drives are attached or mounted to the computer. Storage devices are mounted at different points of the tree according to the inclination of the system administrator. Windows on the other hand, has a separate file system for each storage device. Current Working Directory   To display the current working directory, we use the  pwd command (print working directory). By default, when we start a terminal session, our home directory is usually our current working directory. Each user account in a Linux system is

The shell is a program that takes keyboard commands and passes them to the operating system to carry out. It is named a shell because it the outermost layer around the operating system. Almost all Linux distributions have a shell program from the GNU project called bash which is an acronym for "Bourne Again SHell". It was founded by Steve Bourne . To gain access to the shell, we use terminal emulators or as commonly known the terminal. We use them to interact with the shell when using a grahical user interface (GUI). Examples are gnome-terminal which is used in GNOME. Starting a Terminal Session There are various ways to launch the terminal emulator or terminal. 1. Use Keyboard shortcut - Ctrl + Alt + T  2. Launch it from applications menu. Type Terminal in the search bar and hit enter. What appears is called a shell prompt and it appears whenever the shell is ready to accept input. It includes your username@computername followed by your current working director

There are 2 tools used for this purpose. Figlet  Toilet Figlet is a simple command line utility for creating large letters out of ordinary text. Toilet is a sub-command under figlet used for creating colourful large characters from ordinary text.Bot utilities are available in the default package manager. So in order to use them, they have to be installed. Ubuntu/Debian sudo apt install figlet toilet CentOS/RHEL sudo yum install figlet toilet Fedora 22+ sudo dnf install figlet toilet How To Use Figlet After installing, all you need to do is provide the text you want to transform as an argument to figlet as shown below. figlet subscribe.com Other modifications that can be made to it include Justification - Align text to the left, right or center To create output at the center, use figlet -c example.com To create output to the right, use figlet -r example.com To create output to the left, use figlet -l example.com Define output