Not at all. In Secrets & Lies Bruce Schneier actually recommends putting your passwords on paper in some situations. Random passwords that are long enough to withstand brute force attacks by todays computers are also too long to fit into the human brain, unless you start fiddling with Hannibal style memory palaces.
Now Schneier doesnt recommend you to stick the note on your monitor. But in a lot of situations Id say that even that is not such a big deal (No I dont do that myself. Its just too counterintuitive.) The security risk in my workplace is not my ten coworkers or the cleaning lady that comes in once a week. The script kiddies that want to fill my server with warez are the risk and the likelyhood of d00z sneaking into my office or even looking through my waste paper is about as large as that of SÄPO (Swedish secret police) launching a TEMPEST attack against me.
As you might have gathered from the other posts, IDEs is not really the *NIX way of doing things.
If you want to get cozy with some common *NIX programming tools but don't feel like leaving Windows yet you can try out cygwin. It includes bash, ('Command Prompt' replacement) emacs (versatile editor) and tons of other stuff.
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Not at all. In Secrets & Lies Bruce Schneier actually recommends putting your passwords on paper in some situations. Random passwords that are long enough to withstand brute force attacks by todays computers are also too long to fit into the human brain, unless you start fiddling with Hannibal style memory palaces.
Now Schneier doesnt recommend you to stick the note on your monitor. But in a lot of situations Id say that even that is not such a big deal (No I dont do that myself. Its just too counterintuitive.) The security risk in my workplace is not my ten coworkers or the cleaning lady that comes in once a week. The script kiddies that want to fill my server with warez are the risk and the likelyhood of d00z sneaking into my office or even looking through my waste paper is about as large as that of SÄPO (Swedish secret police) launching a TEMPEST attack against me.
Would that be on a running X? What button do I push to invoke this magic?
If you're talking about changing layouts between diffrent logons...
$ startx -- -layout office
$ startx -- -layout home
is the Straight Edge way doing things.
As you might have gathered from the other posts, IDEs is not really the *NIX way of doing things.
If you want to get cozy with some common *NIX programming tools but don't feel like leaving Windows yet you can try out cygwin. It includes bash, ('Command Prompt' replacement) emacs (versatile editor) and tons of other stuff.
And this is a Good Thing I take it?