Category Archives: computers

CompSec and Surveillance

Posted on December 19, 2024 by ehurst

Let’s talk about practicalities: What should you do about online surveillance? Notice that I didn’t say, “What could you do…” The starting point is to discern what your convictions require of you. Should you fight it? How hard? Only you … Continue reading →

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Linux Mint on HP 15t-dw300

Posted on December 18, 2024 by ehurst

Okay, so I tested an iPad for a while, but I just can’t get used to the Apple way of things. They don’t make it easy to handle documents; it’s all about media — every medium except text. The iPad … Continue reading →

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Kubuntu 24.04 on Dell Latitude 3540

Posted on August 21, 2024 by ehurst

Everything works out of the box, though it does require some effort to configure a couple of things. The biggest item: I got my laptop to hibernate on Kubuntu 24.04. A few years ago I wrote a long blog post … Continue reading →

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Kubuntu: Still the Shortest Path to Linux

Posted on August 19, 2024 by ehurst

Some years ago, I published an ebook: The Shortest Path to Linux featuring Kubuntu Linux. The contents are long out of date, as is typical of the fast moving field of computer technology. Still, regardless of what you may think … Continue reading →

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Epson LQ-590ii on CUPS/Linux

Posted on August 15, 2024 by ehurst

I got it to work. After hours of searching on the Net using multiple search engines, I never saw anyone explain how to make this work, so I invested some time, lots of wasted paper and no end of frustration … Continue reading →

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A System Recovery

Posted on August 7, 2024 by ehurst

This is shop talk; you can skip this post. The new laptop was doing something inappropriate, so I tried to recover my Win11 installation from backup just so I could see if the problem persisted. The warranty would not be … Continue reading →

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Cyber Threats Increasing

Posted on July 21, 2024 by ehurst

Well, we had an outage on Friday from a large number of services. Their Windows computers were all crashed because they were using a security package from Crowdstrike. It conflicted with Windows and caused the “blue screen of death”. Keep … Continue reading →

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Uncensored Search Engines?

Posted on June 9, 2024 by ehurst

You’d have to wonder if such thing as “uncensored search engine” is an oxymoron these days. If they are very effective in the first place, they are biased. And if they are uncensored, they lack investment. It’s easy to prove … Continue reading →

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Ask Me Why

Posted on July 31, 2023 by ehurst

The subsystem in Linux called systemd is okay… until it’s not. From what I read in the commentary online, the kernel itself is less complicated and Byzantine than systemd. Yet, systemd is controlled by a tiny few people who are … Continue reading →

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Faith Puzzle

Posted on July 27, 2023 by ehurst

There’s a Java game you can get for free: jShisen. There’s an installer for Windows and a zipped file for everyone else. For Windows, you’ll need to be sure and get Java installed. I recommend you get it here. It’s … Continue reading →

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