Author Archives: ehurst

You Never Know

Posted on May 13, 2010 by ehurst

When it comes to survival skills and preparedness, there are some things you can never anticipate. Sure, you probably already know it’s getting where police are worse than the crooks. But unless you have access to something like an M2, … Continue reading →

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Data Mining on You

Posted on May 12, 2010 by ehurst

You should visit Spokeo. Type in your legal name, or the one you use most online. Lots of people are getting the creeps about this. They don’t dig up the information so much as aggregate what is publicly available, mostly … Continue reading →

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Traveling the Internet, Speaking Computerese

Posted on May 11, 2010 by ehurst

Computer ministry requires a vision. In my case, the computers are hardly the point. It’s just a way to get close to people. I travel the region of human space called the Internet. I’m not all that interested in the … Continue reading →

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Oklahoma Prisons Break(down)

Posted on May 10, 2010 by ehurst

I live in Oklahoma, and my son works in one of the numerous prison facilities in this state. It’s not that I have an interest, so much as I know intricately the details of this idiocy. What we have here … Continue reading →

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Just What We Need, a Regional Oil Spill

Posted on May 9, 2010 by ehurst

It’s not as if there is something inherently evil about off-shore drilling for oil. What is evil is the choice to underplay the risks for the sake of profit. It’s cheaper to lie, and pay others to lie, about what … Continue reading →

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Lucid Lynx: Many Small Breakages

Posted on May 8, 2010 by ehurst

After a couple of days playing again with Lucid, I discovered auto-mounting removable media is broken. It takes two or three tries just for a simple USB memory stick. Music CDs are not properly handled by any of a number … Continue reading →

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Thunderbird: Another Good Idea Trashed

Posted on May 8, 2010 by ehurst

Decided to test drive Thunderbird on my Lucid Lynx system. Big, big mistake. Upon trying to configure my first account, the application grabbed my details and aggressively ran off with an automatic configuration. But it got things wrong. When I … Continue reading →

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RHEL 6.0 Beta Catastrophic X-server Crash

Posted on May 6, 2010 by ehurst

I’m giving it a rest. When I tried to open my PySolFC game — compiled on the system — it took down the X server and the system froze. I’ve seen this behavior before in Ubuntu a couple of releases … Continue reading →

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Getting a Real Whois Client on RHEL 6

Posted on May 6, 2010 by ehurst

It may not be broken, but the default Jwhois package on RHEL and friends is not easy to use, and the results aren’t satisfactory. Why it is they dropped the original stand-alone client is beyond me. I can’t find anything … Continue reading →

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RHEL 6.0-Beta: Replace That Glacial OpenJDK

Posted on May 5, 2010 by ehurst

Java on RHEL 6.0 is in dire need of assistance. I understand the issues of patent encumbrance, but for the average desktop user, it’s just not that important. If something better is available, we use it. The bundled OpenJDK on … Continue reading →

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