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Photo Log 4: Jones Loop

Posted on June 9, 2015 by ehurst

The Jones Loop is a rectangle. As you might expect, when virtually every road you take is laid out in a grid, it matters not how you zigzag in between, if you hit the four sides of the rectangle, you’ll … Continue reading →

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Photo Log 3: Watkins Lake Loop

Posted on June 6, 2015 by ehurst

“It’s good training!” That’s what we tell ourselves when something unexpected mars your training exercise. Today’s journey takes us straight east and into Pottawatomie County. The route is mostly a matter of SE 44th one way and SE 59th the … Continue reading →

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Photo Log 2: Biking East OK County

Posted on June 4, 2015 by ehurst

Today’s journey takes us to Harrah (pronounced hair’-uh), but also the spot in Choctaw where the river has already eaten a house and is now threatening a major thoroughfare. The original story of the house, with pictures, is here from … Continue reading →

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Cycling My Way

Posted on June 4, 2015 by ehurst

I felt I should explain the cycling itself that I do. As near as I can recall, I found this just over seven years ago, on sale at Walmart. Using my tax refund that year, I paid a little less … Continue reading →

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Photo Log 1: Biking SE OK County

Posted on June 2, 2015 by ehurst

Background: Oklahoma was surveyed in a square-mile grid. From what I understand, the surveyors simply cut a straight line path between corners, and locals kept using that path they cut, which eventually saw improvements in some places. So most of … Continue reading →

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More Browser Wars: Slimjet

Posted on May 30, 2015 by ehurst

It appears that FlashPeak is making serious progress with their SlimJet browser. This is the first time I’ve seen it work this well on Linux. I’m running Debian 8 (amd64) and I’ve tried both SlimJet and SlimBoat in the past … Continue reading →

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Excerpt from “More Debian 8 for Beginners”

Posted on May 18, 2015 by ehurst

(This is a draft for one of the chapters.) Networking with Windows It’s rather common for computers to share Internet access from within the same living quarters or an office network. If your Debian box is connected to such a … Continue reading →

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Network Privacy Is Dead

Posted on May 10, 2015 by ehurst

Digital privacy is a myth. For example, if you buy any Android device, you must have a Google account to activate it. So long as that device is in use, Google is tracking your every move. If you are running … Continue reading →

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Computer Pastor Message

Posted on May 1, 2015 by ehurst

This is a really good time to make sure you have backups of all your important files. In fact, it’s not a bad idea to back up the whole system every week if you can afford the external storage space. … Continue reading →

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A New NSA Attack on Crypto

Posted on April 26, 2015 by ehurst

Actually, the attackers are unknown in concrete terms, but it requires the kind of networking access and resources possible only with something like the NSA. That means the attack is injected at the backbone server level (the dozen or so … Continue reading →

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