The problem is that so few people are set up to read encrypted email, that it isn't useful in day to day work.
Wrong. Anyone who uses Microsoft Outlook or Mozilla Thunderbird is more than set up to read encrypted email. Personally I use Claws Mail, but using something that's not made by an über-corp certainly isn't a step people need to take.
If you want to give up your personal information, you can go to Thawte and start sending signed emails right away, which will enable anyone with Outlook or Thunderbird to begin encrypting emails to you. Some people may find cacert an option, but all-in-all if I needed to ask my friends to install a CA, I figured I'd just roll my own.
You might find these commands handy if you were so-inclined to set up your own personal CA for friends and family to whom you can give the CA in person (and to whom you're probably communicating personal information you want to keep private):
Generate a key:
openssl genrsa -out client.key 2048
Generate a CSR:
openssl req -new -key client.key -out client.csr
Generate a certificate from the CSR with the CA:
openssl x509 -req -in client.csr -CA ca.crt -CAkey ca.key -CAcreateserial \
-days 3650 -out client.crt
Generate a PKCS12 key from the key and certificate:
openssl pkcs12 -export -in client.crt -inkey client.key -certfile ca.crt \
-name "client" -out client.p12
While it's too bad that PGP didn't catch on at all (no money in it for big CAs I guess), it's not correct to say that most people are not set up to read encrypted email. Your point about unencrypted email being a postcard is absolutely correct, though. It's a shame, however, that people think that encryption is difficult. It's not difficult; it's just that ISPs don't install a personal key and turn on encryption for you when they set up your hardware.
(Personally, I wouldn't want to use a 3rd-party issued key anyway.)
The Mooose,
I'm considering opening an account at First Community Federal Credit Union in the near future. Is this something I should avoild? My current bank is Fifth Third, and their security has holes. Will there be no difference, or am I taking a risk?
Any kid of log is fine with me as long as it's there and it gives me some kind of insight into what's going wrong, e.g. "can't open this file," "that file's corrupt," "null pointer." Of course, text files are nice, because you can actually search through them.
Sadly, most applications for M$ operating systems usually just leave things like, "Error #543892157893421 occured." When you go to look up what error 84901257893423 is, no one in the world seems to have had it. Tech support proceeds to blame your hardware vendor, who blames your software vendor, ad nauseum. Seems like most applications for m$ operating systems just pull error numbers out of their asses.
Re:Argh! The girl gamer topic again!
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Oh, I'm sorry, you must not be from West Michigan.
I guess you're right. There was one girl at the last lan I went to. She served food and handled the registration.
Argh! The girl gamer topic again!
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Why is everyone obsessed with wether girls want to play games? Who the hell cares?
Take football for an example, either one. You don't see girls painting their faces and helping empty the keg, now do you? And does anybody care? No!
Why the hell should we care if girls want to participate in games? Ever been to a lan party? It's a guy thing.
Girls have makeovers and whatever else they do for fun. If they don't like it, last I checked, it's not like they check your ID to make sure you're male at Babbages.
To get professional experience, get a good internship.
Companies who are looking for interns are looking for people with no experience they can pay sub-par wage to, which is fair, since they're taking a risk. Technical skill is only a small part, almost a side consideration, to being a professional.
If you do well, the company that gave you an internship may offer you a real job when you graduate.
Could you possibly talk more of these "sikrit APIs"? What Microsoft products use them? Where are they located? You DO realise that the _ENTIRE_ Windows source code is avaible to akademia as well as goverment entities?
Yeah, I suppose when you're living with your parents you don't need to worry about getting paid, but it really does suck when you get out of college and you get a job as a developer for just about less than a living wage.
I'm fully aware of the liscensing issues and the whole PITA that doing that for them would involve, but here's the thing:
Right now, I have to "dual-boot" my X depending on whether I want good RENDER performance or want to run OpenGL stuff. My webpage has a theme I really like that my boyfriend made. The background is an animated GIF of rain falling. I'll get 100% CPU usage on my Athlon XP 1400+ and my browser will become practically unresponsive using the "nvidia" driver, but when I switch over to the open source "nv" driver, it does maybe 15% CPU usage -- just like in Windows.
Mesa as absolutely unacceptable for doing 3D graphics. Even a simple shooter I'm working on called "Blammo" for the time being will chug to about 5 fps under "nv."
Now, if only we could bring the features of the "nv" driver and the "nvidia" driver together.
I think the main problem with "linux being ready for the desktop" (as though it isn't -- all that linux really lacks is the ability to twist the arms of OEMs) is that if you want to use certain hardware, you can't get optimal drivers. This is, of course, a vicious circle, because NVidia could fix the problem I have in the "nvidia" driver tomorrow if they wanted, but they won't, because the target market is too small to waste their time.
I might be willing to pay $300 for a brand-spanking-new ubervideocard once the X drivers get fixed, but there are also about 300 other people willing to do the same so long as the Windows drivers stay working.
Perhaps the solution therefore is to change the liscense on the "nv" driver so that NVidia can use the code that's already out there. It makes the authors of the "nv" driver saints, and NVidia stays an evil corporation, and I get Windows-like performance out of my hardware in X, and everyone's happy.
Well, ok, if you want to argue cause and effect, then sure. My parents said that they were accepting of my gender identity and gave me the impression that everything was ok. Until I just got randomly kicked out. Don't believe me? Fine, no skin off my back.
Here's why I reply, though. I didn't have a boyfriend when I got kicked out. Apparently, my straight A's and sophomore standing in college wasn't enough.
You'll need to think harder. Yes, illogical things happen in this world, and that's why I'm resentful of people who have enough resources to cope with those illogical things.
Alrighty, then. Instead of buying some hardware, I guess I should have bought Windows Server 2003. Then I could have meditated at the CDROMS since I wouldn't have anything to run it on!
I'm posting from a Linux from Scratch box that I use as my primary boot.
Of course, I didn't follow half the directions, since I hate the LFS and I wanted package managerment to be inherent in the filesystem, but that's just me.
Hey thanks. Any other ideas? 'Cause we already do those.
God, I'd love to eat out once and a while.
Oh, and it's kind of hard to not carry a balance. I maxed out one card when I got shafted for hours while my boyfriend was unemployed.
Sorry, but middle class jackasses like you have no business telling someone who absolutely has no money how to live frugally.
I haven't bought anything I didn't need to survive in over two years since my parents kicked me out.
My boyfriend and I are barely living about the poverty line. Some really good months when I get extra hours at my day job, and the fast food place I work at on the side needs me to cover an extra shift, and his customers feel like actually tipping him for delivering their pizzas, sure, we can squeeze into the very lower middle class, but usually we're scrambling to just pay bills and eat well. And even for the breif moment we are in the lower middle class, all that usually means is buying new black pants and white undershirts and socks because they're ripped and have holes.
What does that mean? It means that neither of us have $150 per class to even work on our gen eds at the community college (I could hardly even fit a class into my two job schedule right now.) We certainly don't have $500-$1000 to pull out of our asses to get MCSEs, MSCDs, and whatever else wants to be the cool certification this week, even though both of us could certainly pass if we bought a book and bought the software. Spending just $300 each last summer to get A+ certified about broke the bank!
But there's the other trick to breaking into the IT "industry." We need to keep our software current. An MCSE and MSCD would do both of us some good, but how can we do that when all I own is a Windows 98 SE liscense and all he owns is a Windows XP Home liscense? Neither of us can certainly afford to shell out the money to get Windows Server 2003 so that we can get experience.
It's a vicious cycle. Both of us are trapped in crap jobs because we don't make enough to educate ourselves to even get considered for interviews for better jobs that would pay enough that we could keep current. A lot of good both of our excellent GPAs from high school did us. Employers won't even give me a chance to show them my coding skill, and they won't give my boyfriend a chance to show his administration skill.
In the end, it's a plug for free software. I could kick some ass as a developer if an employer needed someone to code QT, but no one uses QT. Somehow people got on the bandwagon of shit that is Win32. Now, if you want MySQL skills, sure. SQL Server 2000? Dream on. Even at my day job, my boss refuses to upgrade from 6.5 since it costs too much. Visual Basic.NET. I'd love to. They all tell me it's finally become a real programming language. Too bad. I'm stuck in Visual Basic 6 at my day job for the same reason.
It really doesn't matter to employers that I have the methods and attitudes that produce good products. All that matters is that I threw money at some college to give me one piece of paper, and then I threw money at some other business to get more pieces of paper.
Go and read "Iron John: A Book about Men." A little offtopic, but it does tell you a lot of things about men that feminist try to viciously, rabidly hide from you.
It made me realize how much I lost, and what I have to do to get it, because my dad thought I'd be better off if he got a job that paid ten thousand more per year, but was located in a city an hour away from where we lived.
Hahaha.. nerds rule everything. That's why I not only had my social life destroyed because I was smart, but I'm now working at a fast food job. Hahahahaha. That's a good one.
There are people defending the Matrix as a good movie getting modded up. On slashdot! What the hell happened? Have I woken up in a different matrix or something?!
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The problem is that so few people are set up to read encrypted email, that it isn't useful in day to day work.
Wrong. Anyone who uses Microsoft Outlook or Mozilla Thunderbird is more than set up to read encrypted email. Personally I use Claws Mail, but using something that's not made by an über-corp certainly isn't a step people need to take.
If you want to give up your personal information, you can go to Thawte and start sending signed emails right away, which will enable anyone with Outlook or Thunderbird to begin encrypting emails to you. Some people may find cacert an option, but all-in-all if I needed to ask my friends to install a CA, I figured I'd just roll my own.
You might find these commands handy if you were so-inclined to set up your own personal CA for friends and family to whom you can give the CA in person (and to whom you're probably communicating personal information you want to keep private):
Generate a self-signed CA:
openssl req -x509 -newkey rsa:2048 -days 3650 -keyout ca.key -out ca.crt
Generate a key:
openssl genrsa -out client.key 2048
Generate a CSR:
openssl req -new -key client.key -out client.csr
Generate a certificate from the CSR with the CA:
openssl x509 -req -in client.csr -CA ca.crt -CAkey ca.key -CAcreateserial \
-days 3650 -out client.crt
Generate a PKCS12 key from the key and certificate:
openssl pkcs12 -export -in client.crt -inkey client.key -certfile ca.crt \
-name "client" -out client.p12
While it's too bad that PGP didn't catch on at all (no money in it for big CAs I guess), it's not correct to say that most people are not set up to read encrypted email. Your point about unencrypted email being a postcard is absolutely correct, though. It's a shame, however, that people think that encryption is difficult. It's not difficult; it's just that ISPs don't install a personal key and turn on encryption for you when they set up your hardware.
(Personally, I wouldn't want to use a 3rd-party issued key anyway.)
The Mooose, I'm considering opening an account at First Community Federal Credit Union in the near future. Is this something I should avoild? My current bank is Fifth Third, and their security has holes. Will there be no difference, or am I taking a risk?
So you have \frenchspacing on by default? Usually I have to write Drs. names as Dr.\ Blarg.
Move to Canada.
+1, informative
Any kid of log is fine with me as long as it's there and it gives me some kind of insight into what's going wrong, e.g. "can't open this file," "that file's corrupt," "null pointer." Of course, text files are nice, because you can actually search through them.
Sadly, most applications for M$ operating systems usually just leave things like, "Error #543892157893421 occured." When you go to look up what error 84901257893423 is, no one in the world seems to have had it. Tech support proceeds to blame your hardware vendor, who blames your software vendor, ad nauseum. Seems like most applications for m$ operating systems just pull error numbers out of their asses.
Oh, I'm sorry, you must not be from West Michigan. I guess you're right. There was one girl at the last lan I went to. She served food and handled the registration.
Why is everyone obsessed with wether girls want to play games? Who the hell cares? Take football for an example, either one. You don't see girls painting their faces and helping empty the keg, now do you? And does anybody care? No! Why the hell should we care if girls want to participate in games? Ever been to a lan party? It's a guy thing. Girls have makeovers and whatever else they do for fun. If they don't like it, last I checked, it's not like they check your ID to make sure you're male at Babbages.
See here, Windows ME was a piece of trash and Windows 98 was useful as an arcade machine before many games were made for 2000/XP.
To get professional experience, get a good internship. Companies who are looking for interns are looking for people with no experience they can pay sub-par wage to, which is fair, since they're taking a risk. Technical skill is only a small part, almost a side consideration, to being a professional. If you do well, the company that gave you an internship may offer you a real job when you graduate.
Could you possibly talk more of these "sikrit APIs"? What Microsoft products use them? Where are they located? You DO realise that the _ENTIRE_ Windows source code is avaible to akademia as well as goverment entities?
I think you forget the NDA.
Yeah, I suppose when you're living with your parents you don't need to worry about getting paid, but it really does suck when you get out of college and you get a job as a developer for just about less than a living wage.
I'm fully aware of the liscensing issues and the whole PITA that doing that for them would involve, but here's the thing:
Right now, I have to "dual-boot" my X depending on whether I want good RENDER performance or want to run OpenGL stuff. My webpage has a theme I really like that my boyfriend made. The background is an animated GIF of rain falling. I'll get 100% CPU usage on my Athlon XP 1400+ and my browser will become practically unresponsive using the "nvidia" driver, but when I switch over to the open source "nv" driver, it does maybe 15% CPU usage -- just like in Windows.
Mesa as absolutely unacceptable for doing 3D graphics. Even a simple shooter I'm working on called "Blammo" for the time being will chug to about 5 fps under "nv."
Now, if only we could bring the features of the "nv" driver and the "nvidia" driver together.
I think the main problem with "linux being ready for the desktop" (as though it isn't -- all that linux really lacks is the ability to twist the arms of OEMs) is that if you want to use certain hardware, you can't get optimal drivers. This is, of course, a vicious circle, because NVidia could fix the problem I have in the "nvidia" driver tomorrow if they wanted, but they won't, because the target market is too small to waste their time.
I might be willing to pay $300 for a brand-spanking-new ubervideocard once the X drivers get fixed, but there are also about 300 other people willing to do the same so long as the Windows drivers stay working.
Perhaps the solution therefore is to change the liscense on the "nv" driver so that NVidia can use the code that's already out there. It makes the authors of the "nv" driver saints, and NVidia stays an evil corporation, and I get Windows-like performance out of my hardware in X, and everyone's happy.
Well, ok, if you want to argue cause and effect, then sure. My parents said that they were accepting of my gender identity and gave me the impression that everything was ok. Until I just got randomly kicked out. Don't believe me? Fine, no skin off my back.
Here's why I reply, though. I didn't have a boyfriend when I got kicked out. Apparently, my straight A's and sophomore standing in college wasn't enough.
You'll need to think harder. Yes, illogical things happen in this world, and that's why I'm resentful of people who have enough resources to cope with those illogical things.
You people actually read that thing? I figured most PHBs couldn't even get past the part where my address isn't prefixed with "www."
Alrighty, then. Instead of buying some hardware, I guess I should have bought Windows Server 2003. Then I could have meditated at the CDROMS since I wouldn't have anything to run it on!
I'm posting from a Linux from Scratch box that I use as my primary boot. Of course, I didn't follow half the directions, since I hate the LFS and I wanted package managerment to be inherent in the filesystem, but that's just me.
Hey thanks. Any other ideas? 'Cause we already do those. God, I'd love to eat out once and a while. Oh, and it's kind of hard to not carry a balance. I maxed out one card when I got shafted for hours while my boyfriend was unemployed. Sorry, but middle class jackasses like you have no business telling someone who absolutely has no money how to live frugally. I haven't bought anything I didn't need to survive in over two years since my parents kicked me out.
My boyfriend and I are barely living about the poverty line. Some really good months when I get extra hours at my day job, and the fast food place I work at on the side needs me to cover an extra shift, and his customers feel like actually tipping him for delivering their pizzas, sure, we can squeeze into the very lower middle class, but usually we're scrambling to just pay bills and eat well. And even for the breif moment we are in the lower middle class, all that usually means is buying new black pants and white undershirts and socks because they're ripped and have holes.
What does that mean? It means that neither of us have $150 per class to even work on our gen eds at the community college (I could hardly even fit a class into my two job schedule right now.) We certainly don't have $500-$1000 to pull out of our asses to get MCSEs, MSCDs, and whatever else wants to be the cool certification this week, even though both of us could certainly pass if we bought a book and bought the software. Spending just $300 each last summer to get A+ certified about broke the bank!
But there's the other trick to breaking into the IT "industry." We need to keep our software current. An MCSE and MSCD would do both of us some good, but how can we do that when all I own is a Windows 98 SE liscense and all he owns is a Windows XP Home liscense? Neither of us can certainly afford to shell out the money to get Windows Server 2003 so that we can get experience.
It's a vicious cycle. Both of us are trapped in crap jobs because we don't make enough to educate ourselves to even get considered for interviews for better jobs that would pay enough that we could keep current. A lot of good both of our excellent GPAs from high school did us. Employers won't even give me a chance to show them my coding skill, and they won't give my boyfriend a chance to show his administration skill.
In the end, it's a plug for free software. I could kick some ass as a developer if an employer needed someone to code QT, but no one uses QT. Somehow people got on the bandwagon of shit that is Win32. Now, if you want MySQL skills, sure. SQL Server 2000? Dream on. Even at my day job, my boss refuses to upgrade from 6.5 since it costs too much. Visual Basic .NET. I'd love to. They all tell me it's finally become a real programming language. Too bad. I'm stuck in Visual Basic 6 at my day job for the same reason.
It really doesn't matter to employers that I have the methods and attitudes that produce good products. All that matters is that I threw money at some college to give me one piece of paper, and then I threw money at some other business to get more pieces of paper.
Go and read "Iron John: A Book about Men." A little offtopic, but it does tell you a lot of things about men that feminist try to viciously, rabidly hide from you. It made me realize how much I lost, and what I have to do to get it, because my dad thought I'd be better off if he got a job that paid ten thousand more per year, but was located in a city an hour away from where we lived.
Hahaha.. nerds rule everything. That's why I not only had my social life destroyed because I was smart, but I'm now working at a fast food job. Hahahahaha. That's a good one.
5. The transports crash every 24 hours, requiring manual restarting.
There are people defending the Matrix as a good movie getting modded up. On slashdot! What the hell happened? Have I woken up in a different matrix or something?!
And lookie which one of you has the most +1s.
You've got to admit, though, it's pretty nifty how she can just change the size of her boobs like that. I wish I could do that.