Weblog for dkg – HOWTO prep for migration off of SHA-1 in OpenPGP

In a nutshell: Either, enter the following into a terminal…, …or open gpg.conf in any text editor of your choice. And then…, Tada, and Bob’s your uncle. 🙂 via Weblog for dkg – HOWTO prep for migration off of SHA-1 in OpenPGP. Better late, than never. 😉

IpTables — Netfilter. (Yet another fine tutorial.)

IpTables : Target : Self. The Basic iptables tutorial 1 — from the  UCHW. 2 Has been very helpful in the past, to me, in getting up to speed with IpT. 3 Now, that I’m somewhat “ older, ” I may be “ ready, ” to take the plunge — into the deeper waters of netfilter’s innerworkings. 😉 😀 Nuh, not really, I’m just kidding ! …

Beating the crap out of your ISP’s DNS filtering & redirection

Originally posted on Out Here In The Field : New Frontier!:
So recently, my home ISP decided to jump the shark and join the line of  Indonesian ISP enforcing the use of their DNS server to their customer, by way of redirecting queries made to 3rd parties DNS such as google and OpenDNS, to their own…

Stop Trying to Clean Your Infected Computer! Just Nuke it and Reinstall Windows

The key to securing your computer is ensuring it doesn’t get infected in the first place. ← Agreed ! 😉 via Stop Trying to Clean Your Infected Computer! Just Nuke it and Reinstall Windows. Well … I’d like to add : Never to use an operating system, which defaults to have everything set to “ executable. ” Which is one …

Sometimes I love to rant too … :-)

Ok, so this post actually belongs on this blog ! But since it’s about the focus on format — and style — instead of content. As opposed to focusing on what I wish to convey … And seeing as I’m the author of both blogs, I’ll simply ‘ reblog ’ it again here. 🙂

Gedit’s little annoying “Untitled Document” feature, which apparently isn’t a bug ?

While I’m pretty much used to use gedit for all my text-editing needs. One of it’s most annoying, and therefore distracting “ features, ” is : When you wish to use alt+f2 — which pops up a ‘ run command window ’ akin to win+run. To run for example : kdesudo gedit /etc/fstab in kde, and gksudo gedit /etc/fstab in gnome. Then gedit …