Articles by Ed Hurst
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It’s Just a Game
By Ed Hurst | Nov 27, 2006 at 21:49:35
When I was younger, it was the Dungeons and Dragons crowd which ran some small risk of becoming entangled in the fantasy worlds they created, to the point they could lose their grip on reality. At the peak of its popularity, I was in the military in Europe. My wife was a serious hobby seamstress at the time, and a neighbor in the military housing area begged her to make him a complicated full wizard costume to add some reality to his gaming. She declined because he came across entirely too brain-fried. Testimony from others who knew this fellow indicated he had some difficulty keeping his obsession under control, to the point it affected the performance of his military duties. He was over 30, so it was no mere youthful diversion, and his wife complained often of his neglect of family, too.
Reformation Day, 2006
By Ed Hurst | Oct 31, 2006 at 11:25:40
It was October 31, 1517. Despite popular characterizations, it was merely a standard procedure for the young monk to post his debate proposal on the church door. By no means did he intend to start wars and create a permanent rift in the Body of Christ. It was simply the matter he took seriously the words he was being taught in his seminary classes about what really mattered in this world. Business as usual grated on his conscience. Nor was he alone in his complaints, so he hardly expected to become the lightening rod for institutional efforts to crush every dissenting voice.
Hiring FreeBSD
By 2 | Oct 26, 2006 at 23:50:37
It’s nothing personal, you see. Human Resource (HR) directors don’t hire people; actually, they hire skill sets. Naturally, that skill set includes the ability to get along, a skill even the most evil sociopath can learn. It’s not how good someone is, but whether they exhibit a certain ability to perform. It’s strictly dollars for a product, even if that product is a complex of human interaction. If you could get a robot to do the job for less money, the robot would be used.
Desktop FreeBSD: Fully Optimized 6.x Installation
By 2 | Oct 12, 2006 at 7:41:46
You’ve installed FreeBSD, and it works fine, of course. If you are as seriously committed to using it as your desktop as I am, you’ll want to get the most out it. Let’s go hardcore! The key with FreeBSD is optimization — tweaking the compile process so the resulting binary code runs as efficiently as possible.
Desktop FreeBSD: 64-bit Future
By 2 | Oct 4, 2006 at 22:33:30
Consumer grade machines with 64-bit processors have been around for the past three years. At first it meant nothing, since the ones you could buy off the shelf came with 32-bit Windows XP. However, that’s still the case, as 64-bit Windows drivers have lagged for most consumer hardware. Not so in the Open Source world, where the greatest source of complaints — poor or missing drivers for some hardware — is its greatest strength in the 64-bit arena.
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