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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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Testing Mint 18.2

Posted on June 24, 2017 by ehurst

I’m not a professional reviewer; I know exactly what I want for myself and know generally what most clueless home users will tolerate. I have some vague ideas about what business users like. Mostly this is a matter of testing … Continue reading →

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Tinkering with Glory

Posted on December 11, 2015 by ehurst

All things for the glory of His name. Would you believe some of the Win7 drivers on this laptop broke Windows Update? I tried two different ways of installing Win7 on the Studio 1535 and things were just dandy until … Continue reading →

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The Usual Stupid Nattering about Computers

Posted on April 19, 2015 by ehurst

There is some vague possibility some folks might find this useful… The other day I hauled out my Win7 laptop to complete formatting before submitting my book to the publisher. It had a copy of Word 2003, the last version … Continue reading →

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