Most OpenPGP User IDs look like this:
Jane Q. Public <jane@example.org>
This is clean, clear, and unambiguous.
However, some tools (gpg, enigmail among others) ask the user to
provide a "Comment:" field when they are choosing a new User ID (e.g.
when making a new key). These …
Today i saw a billboard on the side of a bus. It was from a cable TV channel, bragging about how well-connected their viewers are (presumably on the internet, social media, blogs, etc).
It shows a smiling, attractive man, with text next to him saying something like "I told 9000 …
I feel like i've done a lot of blogging recently about failing to do things with proprietary software. That's annoying.
This post is about something i made successfully with free software (and
some non-software crafting): I made a Woolly Mammoth for my
nephew!
I documented the pattern (with pictures!) that …
i have a colleague who is forced by work situations to use Windows. Somehow, I'm the idiot\^W\^W\^W\^W\^Wfriendly guy who gets tapped to fix it when things break.
Well, this time, the power supply broke. As in, dead, no lights, no fan, no nothing. No problem …
Better debugging tools can help us understand what's going on with MIME
messages. A python scrap i wrote a couple years ago named
printmimestructure has been very useful to me, so i thought i'd share
it.
It reads a message from stdin, and prints a visualisation of its structure, like …
I was upset to learn about Aaron Swartz's death last week. I continue to be upset about his loss, and about our loss. He didn't just show promise of great things to come in the future -- he had already done more work for the public good than many of …
A friend wrote me a simple question today. My response turned out to be longer than i expected, but i hope it's useful (and maybe other people will have better suggestions) so i thought i'd share it here too:
Angela Starita wrote:
I'd like to save my work in a …
I run mpd on debian on "igor", an NSLU2 -- a very low-power \~266MHz armel machine, with no FPU and a scanty 32MiB of RAM. This serves nicely to feed my stereo with music that is controllable from anywhere on my LAN. When playing music and talking to a single mpd …
I'm maintaining a lab of debian squeeze machines that run OpenOffice.org (i'm considering upgrading to LibreOffice from squeeze-backports). I'd like to adjust the default page margins for all users of Writer. Most instructions i've found suggest ways to do this as a single user, but not how to make …
Here is a bit of simple (yet subtly-flawed) sql, which produces different answers on different database engines:
0 dkg@pip:~$ cat test.sqldrop table if exists foo;create table foo (x int, y int);insert into foo VALUES (1,3);insert into foo VALUES …