dammIT

A rantbox by Michiel Scholten

Sysadmin appreciation day

Fiddling with gpg keys

I'm currently playing with GPG tools [like enigmail for mozilla-thunderbird - just do an "apt-get install mozilla-thunderbird-enigmail"!] and gpg frontend [seahorse] to finally get a GPG key of my own. What is a software developing geek in this world without GPG key? ;)

Software that lasts 200 years

Interesting piece about the throw-away-thinking of the current software. Where paper is readable as far as over a thousand years, current electronical documents tend to be unreadable after as much as 20 or 25 years [think Word Perfect and older word processors]. Of course there are filters for the most …