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Building a skin on frame canoe  
Making a Real Estate Survey for the Non-professional  
Installing the Maslow CNC WebControl software on a Rock64  
How to Build an Affordable RTK GPS Base/Rover Survey Tool  
Waterfalls, efts, and more.  
Old and New photos  
An Old Photo Shoot at Alfalfa  
Pretty Things Au Natural  
Naturals  
More Critturs   
Rock Stories  
Fun Guys  
Why Kentucky Legislators should not repeal current waste disposal requirements for nuclear power plants in the Commonwealth, 2017.  
Shorewall-lite v5 on Openwrt Routers (2015+)  
John Deere 350 Steering Clutch Installation  
How to Pull the Steering Clutch from a John Deere 350 Bulldozer, with photos.  
How to collect unpaid county garbage bills in rural Kentucky  
Nice Sights  
Mostly Rocks  
Life Cycles  
How To Setup Secure VNC with Shorewall and SSHD  
How To Setup a Shorewall Netfilter Firewall on OpenWRT Wireless Routers.  
How To Setup a Firewalled DMZ running Exim4 (MTA), Dovecot (IMAP), and using Thunderbird as a client (2014)  
A robust Point to Point array of radios to deliver wireless internet over long distances.  
Script to make an Asterisk+FreePBX VOIP/Telco switch under Debian Linux (2013)  
How To Migrate a Linux Formatted Virtualbox .vdi Image to Linux Filesystem  
IGCC News Clippings From Around 2002  
HOWTO Setup a Multi-User Graphic Desktop Server With Linux (2005)  
How to make a simple Biquad Wifi Antenna  
Trus-Joist MacMillan 1993 Air Quality Hearing  
A Long Fixed Security Hole  
My Back Yard   
Photos From Kentucky  
Some Old Photos  
House Bill 1 Poster Campaign 2000  
Letter re: Trapp, 2002  
Comments on UST Contaminated Soil Landfarm Permit Request  
My Friend Walter  
Local Treasures  
WAIT & the Medwaste Incinerator  
Photo Fun  
Mostly Monoliths  
Critturs  
Fungi  
Assorted Docs on Child Services in Florida  
HUD's Renewal Community Program (This is Not an official HUD site)  
Tax Advantages and Issues in Renewal Communities  
HUD's CoRA-the Committee of Responsible Authority  
The Eastern Kentucky Renewal Community: Breathitt, Owsley, Wolfe, & Lee Counties  
Renaissence Communities, Main Street Programs and Renewal Communities  
The Mill  
Unfinished Bylaws of the BOWL RC  
KRADD Historic Trends and Geographic Patterns: UKAC  
2000 Census Reports for the BOWL RC  
Linda Schakel's RC Tax Incentives Seminar: May 14th, 2002  
Copyrighted Material  
BOWL Renewal Community Application Narrative  
Renewal Community and Empowerment Zone ApplicantsHHS Administration for Children and Families  
Renewal Community Information Sheet: City of Rochester  
RC Tax Incentives Chart from the City of Memphis  

Copyrighted Material     Posted: May 16, 2002
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Waterfalls, efts, and more.     Posted: June 11, 2021

Click Here to see waterfalls, efts, ladyslippers, and a woodpecker.


Old and New photos     Posted: June 11, 2021
Click Here to browse some 1968 photos and some 2021 photos.


An Old Photo Shoot at Alfalfa     Posted: March 12, 2020
Click Here to see 25+ year old photos from a restaurant's anniversary photo shoot.


Pretty Things Au Natural     Posted: April 12, 2019
Click Here for A Small Gallery of Pretty Things Au Natural .


Naturals     Posted: April 11, 2019
Click Here for A Small Gallery of Natural Beauties .


More Critturs     Posted: April 11, 2019
Click Here for A Gallery (mostly) of Critturs .


Rock Stories     Posted: April 11, 2019
Click Here for A Gallery of Rocks .


Fun Guys     Posted: April 11, 2019
Click Here for Yet Another Gallery of Mushrooms .


Nice Sights     Posted: April 18, 2014

Mostly Rocks     Posted: April 17, 2014
Flying Rocks
Life Cycles     Posted: April 17, 2014
Cold Claws

My Back Yard     Posted: July 29, 2006
Wind Carved Sandstone
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Photos From Kentucky     Posted: July 29, 2006
I nearly walked on this fawn. It never moved a bit while I was taking the picture.
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Some Old Photos     Posted: July 28, 2006
These are some photos taken in California and Colorado.
Upper Bidwell Park, Chico CA
Deer in Bidwell Park


My Friend Walter     Posted: July 23, 2006
Walter Oller

My friend Walter died in 2003. These are some pictures and written works friends have gathered to honor & recall him. Click Here
Local Treasures     Posted: July 22, 2006
Forest and Field Photos

Photo Fun     Posted: July 21, 2006



Mostly Monoliths     Posted: July 21, 2006




Critturs     Posted: July 21, 2006
I'm pretty fond of the fauna.

Fungi     Posted: July 21, 2006
Mushrooms Abound Around


 

 
 

Building a skin on frame canoe     Posted: July 9, 2023

SOF Canoe

This is a photo essay about building a skin on frame canoe. The 12 foot boat weighs less than 15 lbs.


Making a Real Estate Survey for the Non-professional     Posted: January 21, 2023
Making a Real Estate Survey for the Non-professional.

Installing the Maslow CNC WebControl software on a Rock64     Posted: August 15, 2021
How to Install the Maslow CNC WebControl software on a Rock64 single board computer.

How to Build an Affordable RTK GPS Base/Rover Survey Tool     Posted: June 11, 2021
How to Build an RTK Base/Rover GPS survey system, accurate to less than 4 cm for about $1100 (20210611).


Why Kentucky Legislators should not repeal current waste disposal requirements for nuclear power plants in the Commonwealth, 2017.     Posted: January 31, 2017
The 2017 Kentucky legislature finds itself without the historical checks on the construction and consideration of statute. Senator Carrol has introduced SB11 in the Senate and Representatives Watkins and Richards introduced HB90 in the House. These short bills would repeal the extant policy in the Commonwealth to require a means of disposing of waste ere one makes it. The bills change the statutory requirement that a nuclear power plant have a plan and a means to dispose of the spent fuel rods it generates. The bills would permit a nuclear power plant to store spent fuel on site indefinitely.
Shorewall-lite v5 on Openwrt Routers (2015+)     Posted: May 3, 2016
Installing Shorewall-lite on OpenWRT 20160503 This document details installing Shorewall-lite (https://shorewall.net/Shorewall-Lite.html) on recent (2015+) OpenWRT (https://wiki.openwrt.org/) routers. While this procedure is unlike the standard OpenWRT opkg method, the Shorewall-lite installation is very lightweight and easy. However, the task may be made difficult by the limited resources on a given router. Shorewall-lite can run on an OpenWRT router using the stripped IP tool that is the default, but using opkg to install the ip-full and tc modules on the router offers a more proven Linux solution.
John Deere 350 Steering Clutch Installation     Posted: October 7, 2014
This is the follow on to the "How To Remove The Steering Clutch" How To. There are pictures here
How to Pull the Steering Clutch from a John Deere 350 Bulldozer, with photos.     Posted: August 28, 2014
A bulldozer that steers and stops is much more useful than one that doesn't. Repairing a contaminated or broken steering clutch is not as daunting as it might sound. Click on the headline for photos and more information.
How to collect unpaid county garbage bills in rural Kentucky     Posted: April 22, 2014
For Earth Day 2014, I am releasing my solid waste billing and collection program, ACT, as Free and Open Source.

Kentucky statute allows a county government to include unpaid fees to be added to property tax bills. Countys can place liens and auction land belonging to those unwilling to pay their garbage bill. This method has proven to be a very effective means to collect late solid waste debt.
How To Setup Secure VNC with Shorewall and SSHD     Posted: April 10, 2014
Many methods for securing VNC on Windows machines use Putty (https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/) to manage the VPN as a SSH session with port forwarding. The method shown here simplifies the Windows 7 setup and does not use Putty on the workstation. Instead, a ssh port on the firewall is forwarded to an internal Linux SSHD server, and that server manages the secure tunnel. The Linux server redirects the forwarded VNC ports using Shorewall and DNAT. VNC clients need an SSH login on the Linux SSHD box. When they make the SSH connection to the SSH server, a local port is served on their machine to access the VNC hosted session on the Windows 7 machine.
How To Setup a Shorewall Netfilter Firewall on OpenWRT Wireless Routers.     Posted: March 29, 2014
Many common 802.11abgn wifi access point routers can support OpenWRT firmware. Replacing the factory programs with OpenWRT often adds features and security, and will offer a uniform body of operating systems and software across a disparate array of different wireless access points. Having a common operating systems and software makes it much easier to secure and manage.
How To Setup a Firewalled DMZ running Exim4 (MTA), Dovecot (IMAP), and using Thunderbird as a client (2014)     Posted: March 29, 2014
This is a work in progress detailing the installation and setup of a Debian Stable (Wheezy, March 23, 2014) server in a Firewalled DMZ running Exim4 (MTA), Dovecot (IMAP), and using Thunderbird as a client. Preliminary testing has all components working, with one issue with outbound to the net email-that issue may be the ISP blocking or delaying port 25 outbound, as all the local parts work (according to testing and the logs).
A robust Point to Point array of radios to deliver wireless internet over long distances.     Posted: March 27, 2014
Wireless internet can provide Last Mile internet with good reliability and decent bandwidth. This PDF details a robust Point to Point array of radios to deliver internet in hard hill country without DSL, or Fiber services.
Script to make an Asterisk+FreePBX VOIP/Telco switch under Debian Linux (2013)     Posted: March 27, 2014
This script will make a Debian Stable Linux server that runs Asterisk and FreePBX. Before you run the script, edit it to set the Asterisk, Asterisk Addons, DAHDI, LibPRI and FreePBX versions (e.g.: VER_ASTERISK) to install. It may need some other adjustments, as it was last updated in 2013, (YMMV).

Installer for Asterisk + FreePBX on a Debian machine

Usage: dfreepbx [ -x --xpedite \| -s --setup \| -f --fetch \| -i --install \| -p --passwords \| -h --help]

Example: dfreepbx -x -f -i -p


How To Migrate a Linux Formatted Virtualbox .vdi Image to Linux Filesystem     Posted: March 27, 2014
This example shows the migration of a VirtualBox .vdi image of a Linux based installation to a bootable disk. In this example the bootable destination disk is an 8GB USB3 wear-leveling thumb drive, suitable for use as a main file system. While 8GB is relatively small, the OS will fit in a fraction of that space. Additional storage can be mounted like any other Linux system.
IGCC News Clippings From Around 2002     Posted: March 25, 2014
A proposed Garbage to Energy IGCC power plant was proposed to site in Trapp, Kentucky. These turn of the Millenium records are a contemporaneous education in IGCC technology, profitablitiy, and Kentucky statutes regarding waste to energy power plant permits
HOWTO Setup a Multi-User Graphic Desktop Server With Linux (2005)     Posted: March 25, 2014
This document describes the steps to add remote desktops via VNC as a system service to Linux. The service can support remote users that you define and provide them a Linux GUI/desktop from the server. This service is available to any VNC client: Winx, Linux, or Mac.
How to make a simple Biquad Wifi Antenna     Posted: March 24, 2014
This HowTo details the construction of a simple Biquad Wifi antenna. Using the antenna as a feed to a parabolic dish can yield a directional antenna with 15-20+ db gain. A template for laying out the parts and assembling them is included.
Trus-Joist MacMillan 1993 Air Quality Hearing     Posted: February 1, 2010
In 1993, a very large wood mill and glued strand fabrication facility was invited into East Kentucky and given $50 million by the state to sweeten the deal. The company had existing facilities of the same design in operation, and one of them had a well documented problem with chemical sensitization to the glue. The only venue for public comment was an Air Quality permit hearing. These are my comments. History has shown that the design changes made in the Hazard plant reduced the chemical sensitization problem. There were some fire problems though.
A Long Fixed Security Hole     Posted: January 1, 2010
In 1994 I encountered a security hole in the Kentucky Administrative Office of the Courts computer network. It was a mortal flaw that allowed me a Novell Supervisor level privilege, the highest security privilege available on the system. I could view, alter or delete state court records. The flaw has long since been repaired. This is my letter to the Governor reporting my find.

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