rants and (hopefully) useful info
Most articles on the topic start off by showing you HowTo-CREATE keys, and this is usually followed by some examples on HowTo-USE keys. The result for those of us that ain’t so clever, is utter bewilderment. Hopefully this short explanation will alleviate a little of that confusion. This article will cover the basics of GnuPG…
The content below is an almost exact copy of this (brilliant) article/tutorial by Eric Severance. In hindsite, it feels like the steps followed are obvious. As a n00b13 it was confusing, since I did not grasp the underlying foundation adequately. I can/will not add anything to it – I will only change the layout to…
If you’re currently a WinX user, and would like to run BASH/ZSH type commands, BUT, you are NOT keen to go the w10 route with its built in ubuntu-shell….. There are a few options available to you: msys2 gitbash this was initially my preferred choice, but I had some compatibility issues with SSH/GPG, so I…
On the topic of minimalist… I like a small footprint…and I stumbled upon some numbers and according to the “internet”… Plain Openbox only: 58 MB XFCE: 89 MB (with default configuration of Debian) LXDE (gtk+ 2 version): 78 MB (add 20 MB to openbox) On my “fully loaded” desktop station, including/running LibreOffice and a bunch…
Unless you think it would be wise to actually create a TXT file that lists all of your logins/usernames/passwords, and post it on a public forum or social media site like FB, you really SHOULD be using a password manager. For a brief moment (back then), I actually believed that the slight scramble on my…
There are literally hundreds of HOWTO’s on the net – each having good points and bad, each showing “better” ways to do things. They are incredibly useful…IF/ONCE you know what it is you’d like to achieve. What I have found though, is that by the time I know for sure what I want to achieve,…