There’s a great tool to master control over your harddrives, and it’s called hdparm. It has many options but this article will only cover those relevant to power saving. Read the rest of this entry »
There’s a great tool to master control over your harddrives, and it’s called hdparm. It has many options but this article will only cover those relevant to power saving. Read the rest of this entry »
Met berichten die zo ontzettend overduidelijk afkomstig zijn van spammers vraag ik me af hoe het nog rendabel kan zijn om zo’n internet scam te doen. Waarschijnlijk zijn het met name oudere, goed-gelovige mensen die er in trappen, omdat ze de instantie die de spammer nadoet vertrouwen. Read the rest of this entry »
Een paar jaar terug kocht ik op een beurs drijfkaarsjes (“Schwimm leuchter”), zie drijfkaarsjes.nl. Dit zijn geen kaarsjes van was, maar plastic schaaltjes die blijven drijven. Het concept is tegelijkertijd elegant, efficient en geniaal.
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I’m using Thunderbird and Enigmail on Kubuntu, signing all my email and encrypting correspondence whenever possible. Lately (probably due to an update) the password-entry window does not appear. In stead, it complains immediately about:
openpgpg alert - error bad passphrase
I have set the preferences to remember my password for several minutes, so I figured there’s some problem there. I am not using gpg-agent, so EnigMail should fall back to the default.
Checking OpenPGP > Debugging Options > View Console shows what Enigmail is doing. I type my message (signing option checked) and click Send. The console shows:
gpg: gpg-agent is not available in this session
gpg: can't query passphrase in batch mode
Which makes sense, I am not using gpg-agent. Finally, it complains:
gpg; [stdin]: clearsign failed: bad passphrase
And gives up. Googling around I find similar problems, but no solution. Then I noted the following line in the console:
gpg: NOTE: old default options file '~/.gnupg/options' ignored
The ‘options’ file has been obsoleted, gnupg uses gpg.conf now. I checked, indeed the contents of ‘options’ are also present in gpg.conf. Moving ‘options’ away and restarting Thunderbird solved the problem.
Moreover, it also solved my password problem, I now get the password prompt and can happily sign my email.
With the advent and wide-spread use of body armour came a new type of shirt: the Under Body Armour Clothing. The idea is simple; if you’ll be wearing a vest it may not always be comfortable to wear it overtop your normal shirt or jacket. So the solution is simple: an undershirt with sturdy sleeves.
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