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[QUOTE=kaukassus;45641703]How to make your Email look legit in 2 steps: 1. Add -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- to the top of the email 2. Add -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJT4U/xAAoJEM553pKExN6DY4oH/ihJDmcCSZ0sKqGbyzJqLrFY KWCEXhfiN6hQJBrmeOvrbzlHsMH0LzYfgTVnc1nteAcnUXiBeqkgxwf+S1dmvoFr DZSxC+9tQ68ho0YcLd7rpEMfsnwOQAB9BgX8GxxwMb8q5zZ9Bz3r9NKVF0P2D3cj eeJ8Z3EGaKOteVhwAPVPeuTf7xwhqoqp4ujLgTL7BcaifqvGhi3+uo9/KcavE15d eale3MuhbCIsAQeyB4SwgGwilE/oZTPTos4BNdUrIyxO4nDajbeLb1qsLSHYcirH CA7++bTE9V6TvO1tBLVpeYdSAGcDKKUBHM6N+0UDwkR/Tp4oRyQ115Peo2H34ak= =kFxZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To the bottom of the email. Congratulations, your email is now officially legit. (I have never used PGP before, and I have no idea how it works with email :V)[/QUOTE] It just basically calculates a PGP signature (which is kind of like a hash of the message) and appends it to the email like that. Also, most clients I've seen support some kind of one-click or automatic PGP validation/decrypting. But in the case of signed messages it doesn't really matter, as messages are rarely important enough to actually matter whether they've been "tampered with" on the way.

Signatures aren't really used that much for protection against tampering, it's more important as identify-proof, the technology comes from an age where there wasn't really any proper protections against spoofed emails. Also, there's actually a few different types of signatures. You can do one where the entire message is just one signed block, with no cleartext content at all, so you need GPG to even read the message.

[QUOTE=nikomo;45642096]Also, there's actually a few different types of signatures. You can do one where the entire message is just one signed block, with no cleartext content at all, so you need GPG to even read the message.[/QUOTE] That is encryption, not signing. There are, however, different combinations of encrypting and signing. The first is signing-and-encrypting in one operation which... somehow makes the signing and encrypting related to each other, probably just in a way that makes the PGP signature block not appear in the decrypted message. Second one is signing, then encrypting, which results in the signature block [I]appearing[/I] in the message after decryption. Third is just signing, which sends a plaintext message with the signature block.

[QUOTE=HWECQI;45641899]Giving Linux a try for the first time. Just installed Zorin since my brother recommended it to me. Pretty nice so far, can't wait to play around with this more[/QUOTE] [t]http://zorin-os.com/images/screenshots/7.png[/t] Oh wow, I've never seen this before. I'm going to have to poke this thing in a VM and see what it's like.

I have sent PGP'd emails to myself only, though [editline]10th August 2014[/editline] GDI, merge break [editline]10th August 2014[/editline] Also, I think all of these emails mostly contained a synonym of the word "penis"

[QUOTE=esalaka;45642497]I have sent PGP'd emails to myself only, though [editline]10th August 2014[/editline] GDI, merge break [editline]10th August 2014[/editline] Also, I think all of these emails mostly contained a synonym of the word "penis"[/QUOTE] Is your GPG key from 2011 still valid? [url]http://pgp.mit.edu/pks/lookup?search=esalaka&op=index[/url]

[QUOTE=nikomo;45642936]Is your GPG key from 2011 still valid? [url]http://pgp.mit.edu/pks/lookup?search=esalaka&op=index[/url][/QUOTE] Yeah. The oldest key I lost the revokation cert to, so I can't revoke that. [editline]10th August 2014[/editline] Also, I don't have it on my Windows partition and there is no btrfs driver for Windows that I know of, so I can't open any PGP'd emails right now. I'd drop the key on my Jolla but typing my passphrase in the terminal would be kind of a pain in the ass. I do have an external keyboard, I guess...

[QUOTE=esalaka;45642973]Yeah. The oldest key I lost the revokation cert to, so I can't revoke that. [editline]10th August 2014[/editline] Also, I don't have it on my Windows partition and there is no btrfs driver for Windows that I know of, so I can't open any PGP'd emails right now. I'd drop the key on my Jolla but typing my passphrase in the terminal would be kind of a pain in the ass. I do have an external keyboard, I guess...[/QUOTE] I was going to send you an email, but your key expired back when the Soviet Union was still a thing. Generate some new keys.

Damn, I thougth that might've happened. I'll generate another some day.

When you surf with expired GPG keys, you surf with communism.

Is there any way I can have just text to display in the Taskbar instead of the icons in open box? I tried going through the guy configuration but when I change it it just changes back.

Is it just me or does linux look crisper than windows? It seems so much smoother and the font looks better.

[QUOTE=isnipeu;45656771]Is it just me or does linux look crisper than windows? It seems so much smoother and the font looks better.[/QUOTE] Not sure how a kernel looks like, but there's some pretty nice looking software you can put on top of it. [editline]11th August 2014[/editline] But yeah most distributions provide some sane font smoothing.

[QUOTE=isnipeu;45656771]Is it just me or does linux look crisper than windows? It seems so much smoother and the font looks better.[/QUOTE] Mostly just windows using shit outdated technology and renderers (especially their font renderer).

[url]https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Infinality-bundle[/url] I'm using it, loving it.

[QUOTE=Mega1mpact;45656864]Mostly just windows using shit outdated technology and renderers (especially their font renderer).[/QUOTE] I'm amazed by the fact that one of the worlds largest companies is unable to provide decent looking fonts on their main product. [editline]11th August 2014[/editline] I have now moved to Infinality again, and it's amazing.

I recently took ownership of mingw-w64-sfml in the AUR, which might have been presumptuous because I have no idea what's going on with it. It depends on mingw-w64-libjpeg-turbo which is built with --with-jpeg8 so it produces libjpeg-8.dll. This is the library version without a backwards-compatible API. The problem is that the SFML DLL doesn't look for this version: [code]$ x86_64-w64-mingw32-objdump -x /usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/bin/sfml-graphics-2.dll | grep 'libjpeg.*\.dll' DLL Name: libjpeg-62.dll [/code] It's looking for the older 6.2 version. Everything compiles fine, and if I copy libjpeg-8.dll to libjpeg-62.dll they also run fine. How do you change the dll that a library looks for?

Alright, so anyone have any knowledge about lighttpd? I hope so, because this issue has been bothering me for WAY too fucking long (like 2 days), and I couldn't get any help whatsoever from the #lighttpd channel on freenode. So here goes. I've got a lighttpd web server running, which hosts my main website. However, I am also working with fossil repositories, and I'd like to show them off using my website, so that users can visit http://example.com/repo/$REPO and see the fossil web servers HTTP output. So far I've gotten it to "sort of" work, except that it also sends /repo/$REPO to the server. The fossil server(s) run on a port range of ex 8081-8090, and the idea is to have an internal proxy device thing in lighttpd. I've tried the following [code] $HTTP["url"] =~ "^/repo/somerepo/" { proxy.server = ( "" => ( ( "host" = "127.0.0.1", "port" = 8081 ))) } [/code] Which works to some extend, but not fully. How do I send anything AFTER /repo/$REPO/ to the internal fossil server, but nothing BEFORE and nothing INCLUDING that? Ideally I'd go to, for instance, /repo/$REPO/timeline, and the fossil server would see only /timeline.

So I'm looking into switching over from Windows 8 to Linux. What's a good distro to use, and are there any good tutorials on converting?

[QUOTE=Exigent;45680776]So I'm looking into switching over from Windows 8 to Linux. What's a good distro to use, and are there any good tutorials on converting?[/QUOTE] There aren't any "tutorials" on "converting" or anything. Really, you should just start out with Ubuntu, maybe Linux Mint, see how it feels for ya. If it doesn't work out, you can always come back here and complain about what didn't work, and we can advise you on what would probably fit your needs more.

If you want to try something different, Ubuntu is good thing to try. If you want a Windows-ish environment, Linux Mint with Cinnamon or XFCE is a good bet.

I'm trying to get F.lux to work with Mint - Cinnamon but I'm having a slight issue. I have it installed, it appears at the bottom and I've entered my location etc, but the screen never changes unless I hit the preview button, and that is only tempoary. What am I doing wrong? Thank you.

[img_thumb]http://i.imgur.com/rPPYJHo.png[/img_thumb] I don't care too much about boot times, but that 10s of firmware/bios/efi time is really annoying me.

The UEFI firmware is basically another kernel by itself, that's one of the reasons it takes so damn long.

[QUOTE=Leestons;45683178]I'm trying to get F.lux to work with Mint - Cinnamon but I'm having a slight issue. I have it installed, it appears at the bottom and I've entered my location etc, but the screen never changes unless I hit the preview button, and that is only tempoary. What am I doing wrong? Thank you.[/QUOTE] F. lux is kind of shitty and unstable on Linux. I recommend you to try Redshift instead, it's the same thing just made for Linux.

[QUOTE=Anderen2;45685634]F. lux is kind of shitty and unstable on Linux. I recommend you to try Redshift instead, it's the same thing just made for Linux.[/QUOTE] Seems to work alright. Thanks Anderen

ironically, while doing system maintenance, my arch install broke. now I'm kind of stuck all I recall doing before rebooting was installing gnome-keyring, modifying the gdm login screen and disabling dhcpd for an interface which didn't exist. I can't recall if I did pacman -Syu, but I usually do it once a day so it's fully possible that an update broke everything. when I boot now, the screen is entirely black when gdm should pop up. the cursor is still there though. I'd try restarting gdm, but now none of the tty's work. if I try to switch to another tty, it gives me a blank screen with the blinking line. from what I've read, apparently that's an issue with uvesafb, but I've tried reverting back to 800x600 @ 24bit colors and still no go. apparently .../uvesafb.0/vbe_modes doesn't exist so I can't check for any compatible resolutions, but I'd assume 800x600 should be supported. I can get PekWM to launch in maintenance mode, so that works at least. I've read about issues with gnome-keyring messing up gdm, but those were bugs from 2010-2012. I tried uninstalling it anyway, but still no go. also read about issues with tty's being blank with people who use nvidia, but yet again, those bugs were from 2010-2012. is that still around? I have the latest stable drivers for my 780ti. I'd really appreciate some help on this one. this is the first time my arch install has failed miserably like this, so this is fairly new to me. to think I posted a few days ago that I've never had any major issues with arch \:v:/

[QUOTE=PredGD;45686914]I'd really appreciate some help on this one. this is the first time my arch install has failed miserably like this, so this is fairly new to me. to think I posted a few days ago that I've never had any major issues with arch \:v:/[/QUOTE] Does disabling gnome/gdm and reverting to non-graphical login work?

[QUOTE=Larikang;45687426]Does disabling gnome/gdm and reverting to non-graphical login work?[/QUOTE] disabling gdm doesn't seem to work. if I try to do systemctl disable gdm, it gives me no "removed symlink" message which should say it worked or not, then when I check its status by systemctl status gdm, I get an error saying "Failed to connect to D-Bus: No such file or directory". trying to reboot from maintenance mode throws me back into gdm, so it doesn't seem to want to cooperate

[QUOTE=PredGD;45687597]disabling gdm doesn't seem to work. if I try to do systemctl disable gdm, it gives me no "removed symlink" message which should say it worked or not, then when I check its status by systemctl status gdm, I get an error saying "Failed to connect to D-Bus: No such file or directory". trying to reboot from maintenance mode throws me back into gdm, so it doesn't seem to want to cooperate[/QUOTE] I had this issue a long time ago, and I ended up completely removing gdm and just going with lightdm instead. If you figure this out, please do post it.