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How to break into and avoid a break in from LifeHacker

Ice on Rappahannock River, Falmouth, VA

These links are to articles that were posted in LifeHacker. The first gives tips for breaking into a computer and ways to avoid it. The article addresses both PCs and Macs. The second gives some specific instructions for safeguarding a Mac.

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2014 10 21 ernie computing and programming
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Obituary average age. October 14, 2014: 68.82

Ice on Rappahannock river, Falmouth VirginiaThe average age of those listed in the nine obituaries in the October 14, 2014 Free Lance-Star was 68.82. The median was 72 with a sample standard deviation of 14.21 The ages ranged from 35 to 84. Eleven names were listed.

This is the tenth day I’ve been collecting this data.
 The mean of  obituary average ages  using {77.375,64,74.143, 62.5, 55,66.8333, 74.11,71.27,68.82} at Wolfram alpha is 68.23.

One of the obituaries mentioned that memorial donations may be made to an organization I did not know about, that “Hunters for the Hungry, Box 304, Big Island, VA 24526.” Their website states “We are a 501 (c) (3) charity that operates statewide. Through the generosity of Virginia hunters and many financial contributors we have been able to provide over 22 million quarter pound servings of venison since our program began in 1991. Our goal for this year is to provide 370,000 pounds of venison to people in need in Virginia. If we are successful this will allow us to provide 1.48 million quarter pound servings of lean nutritious meat.”, http://www.h4hungry.org/

Another included the sentence “Known for her penchant for caring for others as well as with her warped sense of humor, Janis spoke to all and made friends wherever she went.”

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Obituary average age: October 13, 2014 : 64.43

Play horse, Falmouth VirginiaThe average age of those listed in the nine obituaries in the October 13, 2014 Free Lance-Star was 64.43. The median was 57 with a sample standard deviation of 16.2 The ages ranged from 47 to 89. Seven names were listed.

This is the ninth day I’ve been collecting this data.
 The mean of  obituary average ages  using {77.375,64,74.143, 62.5, 55,66.8333, 74.11,71.27} at Wolfram alpha is 67.74.

Hmm .. the mean of the means is decreasing, just like the stock market.

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Obituary average age. October 10, 2014: 71.27

Play horse, Falmouth VirginiaThe average age of those listed in the nine obituaries in the October 10, 2014 Free Lance-Star was 71.27. The median was 79 with a sample standard deviation of 18.49 The ages ranged from 32 to 90. This is the eight day I’ve been collecting this data.
 The mean of  obituary average ages  using {77.375,64,74.143, 62.5, 55,66.8333, 74.11,71.27} at Wolfram alpha is 68.15

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Obituary average age. October 8, 2014: 74.11

Alhambra, sunset, Granada, SpainThe average age of those listed in the nine obituaries in the October 8, 2014 Free Lance-Star was 74.11. The ages ranged from 55 to 87. This is the seventh day I’ve been collecting this data.
Statistics on the  obituary average ages  using {77.375,64,74.143, 62.5, 55,66.8333, 74.11} at Wolfram alpha.

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Obituary average age: October 7, 2014: 66.8333.

Alhambra, sunset, Granada, SpainThe average age of those listed in the six obituaries in the October 7, 2014 Free Lance-Star was 66.8333. The ages ranged from 84 to 49. This is the sixth day I’ve been collecting this data.
Mean 66.64, median 65.42. l Statistics on the data  using list(77.375,64,74.143, 62.5, 55,66.8333) at Wolfram alpha.

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Obituary average age. October 6, 2014: 55

pier on Eastern Shore, WinterThe average age of those listed in the four obituaries in the October 6, 2014 Free Lance-Star was 55. I definitely am beating the average.

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Obituary average age. October 5, 2014 : 62.5

pier on Eastern Shore, WinterThe average age of those listed in the obituaries in the October 5, 2014 Free Lance-Star was 62.5. Only two were listed today.

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Obituary average age. October 4, 2014 : 74.143

pier on Eastern Shore, Winter The average of age of those listed in the Obituary Section of October 4, 2014 Free Lance-Star is 74.143. My age is 69.42. So I guess I’m below average.

It has been a  beautiful day today. I spent a couple of hours this morning in Hurkamp Park buying some food at the farmers’ market, listening to the Marenje Marimba group, and watching people in the park. Just a wonderful morning.

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Brief Review: In the Beginning …was the Command Line by Neal Spephenson

In the Beginning…was the Command Line

A short, interesting book that is a related series of essays about the relationship between Unix or Linux with a way to understand a computer. This is overlaid with a discussion of the superiority of Unix/Linux to the major windowed operating systems, OsX and Windows.

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