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Ken Springer wrote:
On 12/9/19 10:41 AM, Ken Blake wrote: On 12/9/2019 10:11 AM, Dan Purgert wrote: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Ken Blake wrote: On 12/9/2019 6:01 AM, Dan Purgert wrote: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 snip -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQEzBAEBCAAdFiEEBcqaUD8uEzVNxUrujhHd8xJ5ooEFAl3uRY wACgkQjhHd8xJ5 ooFuoQf9Gm6+HdDVp5FUcJIlcm8riecPzIq4r6IEZEmfejYII9 uq2WVvxz1E8DC/ qHzoGpJyHmzxKn/JuDwP34y5HxYE/BALC5V52B6ZT6NG+hHLeF7Lj0NE8Ddo2uQS xBLNecuVT2avDjgb9Ang/I9vUXpfd3PaKdHHY6Z7IPcjfYOk3NG7lXPt7Ho2Vm/j CBoni6Q/O7kw9lxzP20AMvGb+jIin7eHrdJU8+SydlhzvaUsiBFsSRFVGO O/Ojkd A2do+2PAn2jcjzJYI4t7e11L0udrqNxglJQ4pc9rBwLdngHuPQ I1M6jY3qBtB/jy ltCCZsUps01BTGZEPXGtY0VVeIUIiQ== =BAg7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- I don't know how anybody else feels about your PGP signatures, but I'll tell you how I feel. I hate them. They add nothing to your posts and just clutters them up. So I'd like to suggest that you stop incorporating them in your messages. Your request has been noted. Please feel free to killfile me if the 12 lines are causing you that much heartache. I already felt free to killfile you. I didn't want to, because your posts are often valuable. And they don't cause me anything like heartache. That's why I tried to ask politely, rather than trying to castigate you. I made a suggestion, rather than insisting. Didn't there used to be a rule, or at least a gentleman's agreement, that sig files shouldn't be more than 4 lines? Bear in mind that the "pgp signature" on my messages is not quite the same thing as the "signature" on a Usenet message. In fact, "my signature" is simply this: |_|O|_| |_|_|O| Github: https://github.com/dpurgert |O|O|O| PGP: 05CA 9A50 3F2E 1335 4DC5 4AEE 8E11 DDF3 1279 A281 The "PGP Signature" is an envelope around my message that is an indicator only I could have sent it (by virtue of me being the only person with access to the key necessary to create said signature). I'm not 100% sure if the error is in your reader (for showing the enveloping), or mine (for making it look like part of the message). Though with the way my luck's gone over the past week ... -- |_|O|_| |_|_|O| Github: https://github.com/dpurgert |O|O|O| PGP: 05CA 9A50 3F2E 1335 4DC5 4AEE 8E11 DDF3 1279 A281 |
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On 10/12/2019 11:25, Dan Purgert wrote:
Though with the way my luck's gone over the past week ... Oh dear! :-( Would you like to share? It may be of help, you never know! -- David |
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Mayayana wrote:
"Dan Purgert" wrote | email program. Yet OE6 is arguably better than current | products despite being 18 years old. The program folder | is 4 MB. TBird is 90 MB, stuffed with dotnet crap, but no | help file in sight. Even the Mozilla people don't seem to | have full docs for things like prefs. | | OK, but how much of the OE stuff is crammed "somewhere else"? I'm only | asking, because I know that it's a little more "deeply integrated" than | Tbird. | | Not that I think ~90MB is hiding out there. | Fair question. It seems to be mostly self-contained, but if I were dealing with HTML email it would be different. Then it uses the IE libraries: shdocvw, mshtml, etc. Not knowing how big those are, I wonder if some of the perceived bloat to Tbird is if Mozilla "has to" include libraries locally in C:\PROGRA~1\Mozilla\Firefox | | It's not difficult to write software that runs on | all Windows versions -- backward and forward. That's | like being able to write a program for current Linux and | have it work on RedHat 4 seamlessly, with no additional | support files or adjustments needed. | | Depends what the software is written in. I mean, as long as you're not | relying on some library that isn't available in RHEL4, it's quite likely | to work. Same with Windows, of course -- I mean, if I write something | that relies on whatever the current dotnet is, it's probably not going | to work in winXP. | No. But you can stick with the API and in that case it might run on Win95 if you need it to. Dotnet is a mess all its own. Sure, and you can do the same with targeting the Linux Kernel as well. Although, I do know that between major versions (2 - 3 , 3 - 4, etc.) the Linux API has changed in big ways. That being said, I don't think it's "broken" much. | Linux support is typically 18 months. When I want | to install anything it needs numerous updates of system | files. Ridiculous stuff like 6.143.213.77 isn't good enough. | It has to be 6.143.213.88. | | That sounds very much like your only experience is with either "rolling | release" distros, or the "testing" releases of otherwise "stable" | distros (such as the three "short-term" releases Ubuntu puts out between | their 5-year-support "LTS" ones). | Mandrake/Mandriva and Suse. I used to try them periodically to see if they were usable yet. I've never used Mandrake/Mandriva; but I know that SUSE is ... weird. They remind me of like IBM or HP -- "release 1.2.3.1 is to be released on January 13, 2020; our standard lifecycle will apply to this release. Long-term contract holders can obtain 1.2.3.1.LT on January 20." I think the whole gimmick with them is that you buy a SUSE support contract. My test was whether I could set it up without having to use a console window or rummage around in /etc, and whether I could get a good, easy firewall that would allow me to block all in/out traffic by process. It always fails on all counts. (No, iptables is not a usable, easy firewall.) Sounds like you really wanted Ubuntu (or these days, maybe Mint?). iptables is certainly usable ... definitely not "easy" though -- but it's been (is being) replaced with nftables; which I believe has better graphical tools. That being said, I'm not entirely sure linux firewalls necessarily care about "per application" in the same way that Windows does. Then again, I always hated that approach. | ha, that sounds like my dad. Always disparaging what I did in my free | time, regardless of how good my grades were, or how little "free time" I | actually had between school / work / after-school stuff. "Oh, you're | playing on the computer ~again~" (as I'm trying to learn to program, or | whatever ... or yes, sometimes playing games). | I suppose it always looks like unhealthy obsession to the outside observer. When I first discovered I could Yeah, what always got me was that he was the purchaser of the games. Well, until highschool. Not that I didn't blow a friday or saturday night playing something. The other side of it was we grew up with "the internet", and so it wasn't exactly uncommon to just sit on ICQ / AIM and chat with everyone for a couple of hours... | down into /etc to change a program setting? Or maybe you | just regard that as simple? In Windows it's been almost | | As opposed to C:/PROGRA~1 ? Ultimately they're both the start of | hierarchies where you find config files. | No one has to do that. You just go to Tools- Options. Except with things like Firefox. Most Windows software has a UI for all available settings. Sure, and you do the same in most (all) user-controlled programs. /etc is either global defaults (e.g. /etc/skel for a default new user profile), or config file storage for what would be considered "system services" in windows. As I recall, one would have to use msc.exe to edit those settings. | Never was part of that -- the oldest I remember interacting with (and by | proxy of "hey what's this thing?") is a mimeograph machine. Though I do | know of the old photo-sensitive typeset machines. | Ah. That word recalls to me the sweet smell of that ink. I don't recall it being "sweet". Kind of sharp smelling like oil-based paints. -- |_|O|_| |_|_|O| Github: https://github.com/dpurgert |O|O|O| PGP: 05CA 9A50 3F2E 1335 4DC5 4AEE 8E11 DDF3 1279 A281 |
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA256 Carlos E.R. wrote: Any recipient then needs to add the Enigmail plugin (unconfigured) to their copy of Thunderbird, for Enigmail to detect the signing section, download the public key, and put up an indicator that the message is genuine. If Dans private key is stolen (someone hacks into Dans machine), then the value of signing is lost. Dan can possibly void the key. I can. There is another caveat: Anyone can create another key and put Dan name and email on it, and post away freely. People just notice a new key, but have no way to know which is the true one, unless you have some means of verification (chain of trust and all that). Yeah, the "web of trust" does rely on multiple people you trust also trusting that I am who I say I am (so you can verify it). Personally, I prefer that model over "well, Verisign says he's OK" (or comodo or thawte or any of the other signing agencies). For that usage PKCS keys are possibly better (there is an authentication agency). "It depends". x.509/pkcs keys are somewhat more difficult to deal with in general terms. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQEzBAEBCAAdFiEEBcqaUD8uEzVNxUrujhHd8xJ5ooEFAl3viH gACgkQjhHd8xJ5 ooHm0wf+KCVbvC2wNhq+FcWQNs4PiZxYjdw3LeK8IX6AzekINX VO7rUEkqImS5EO vCXY2+qpl2LvlgITS4UaT8/TaYWqNsq5yxlY/y6nAuZJyF7U6lp3BTHCw0zHmsPw +Vi0D+skwxQUZ7b5OsYuiDlgWWJl3If09xn7/9NIb8oeGTjVffCt6l0OKJl06BwG RdX9sdw7mUqNoa0vUIYuHcbWpm2vA+wFlfwPDH1lQHMvGW4iJD 6mzWJCbqp5of0X lKsfC0sdKVpGWqx2p5CtfY58QdQ4Qcm8DshOcvGiTrzSYIrT/H1vLtgEMPWjV5cQ cjgSnKz2YWafr2XveXfo03ooc843+w== =WKg5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- |_|O|_| |_|_|O| Github: https://github.com/dpurgert |O|O|O| PGP: 05CA 9A50 3F2E 1335 4DC5 4AEE 8E11 DDF3 1279 A281 |
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On 10/12/2019 00.05, Mayayana wrote:
"Carlos E.R." wrote | Here meant "usenet". | | If you look above to the quotes, do you see "the ? (euro)" string? The | '?' was an ? symbol I typed, his system changed it to '?'. | Who's he? Me? I see a Euro character. But some won't if it's not the same number in their codepage. Also, fonts come into it. I discovered that when I added UTF-8 support to my coding editor. It works fine, but only a unicode font can show it. I normally use Verdana for scripting and HTML. With that I get what seem to be codepage characters for the UTF-8 non-ASCII characters. But if I change the font to MS Arial unicode it works fine. So it could be that some fonts don't have a Euro character. Then there's the possibility that someone's reader has done a UTF-8 switch somewhere, resulting in an invalid UTF-8 character. Which is yet another reason for English speakers to skip UTF-8 unless they need to share files with non- English speakers. Lots of unnecessary complications. On the contrary. You refusing to use unicode is what is causing the problem. -- Cheers, Carlos. |
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Hash: SHA256 Carlos E.R. wrote: On 09/12/2019 22.04, Paul wrote: And to top it off, the plugin arch of Thunderbird is changing soon, and Enigmail is going to get rolled into Thunderbird (using something other than openpgp), so any solution you might boil in a pot today, will be "blown away soon" and you'd have to design another plugin. Enigmail for Thunderbird is a .xpi and those won't be supported past TB68. Enigmail is currently broken, at least for me and others. I can not sign using MIME, it claims the key is not found. gpg2 made a bit of a mess of how enigmail works for me as well. although that one sounds like a new problem. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQEzBAEBCAAdFiEEBcqaUD8uEzVNxUrujhHd8xJ5ooEFAl3viK MACgkQjhHd8xJ5 ooHRMQf8C6q2B4dXEi5un8fl+y/Z8GO87+1rG/ivfVw2DtGJ8KXMA5EvlpQBvs0t wwOc9WW2iCbiinsrnJ+SSeSKCV/06wfZNknB9daMIiTSmfeMdgeKxqfCBFDu250l 1NFlQTvf/XTPCeXP7oC76aU5t0aSUmTxsBWJ7SzR7K8K2yc1xYmTCGuiWPY +HCll M5NbmL+8gXNR/sRW487/TNYlkwTgwmJtMHEa8FFDNccCDfCIFVioP9q3LyzEaCt7 BaTmpq1USIx17GvD+b8PCitohV4WD4yZuUo2pIvjfGhjku1A3j 7YZFkV00ouqd9K 5FWRZRpNZpsTL4aIPLIttI62npkYHg== =52nH -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- |_|O|_| |_|_|O| Github: https://github.com/dpurgert |O|O|O| PGP: 05CA 9A50 3F2E 1335 4DC5 4AEE 8E11 DDF3 1279 A281 |
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On 09/12/2019 23.33, Ken Blake wrote:
On 12/9/2019 3:04 PM, Carlos E.R. wrote: On 09/12/2019 22.12, Ken Blake wrote: On 12/9/2019 1:53 PM, Carlos E.R. wrote: On 09/12/2019 20.43, Mayayana wrote: "Carlos E.R." wrote | | Thar "basic English codepage" does not include the ? (euro) symbol, for | | instance. | | | | Chr 128. | | You can see that it got back as a question mark. Problem proved :-p | Â*Â* Works for me. I don't know what all this talk is about IBM. I think I have code page 1252. But you can not write the euro symbol in here, it doesn't work. I'm not sure what you mean by "in here," but I can write it here in this message: € Whether or not you can see it is another matter. I can see yours perfectly "here" :-D Here meant "usenet". Sorry, I'm confused. What do you mean? I typed it in usenet and we can both see it in usenet. Of course I can see what you type correctly. But we can not see what /he/ types correctly, because he insists on using an 8 bit codepage, because it is good enough for English. If you look above to the quotes, do you see "the ? (euro)" string? The '?' was an € symbol I typed, his system changed it to '?'. That has to do with what newsreader he uses and how it's set, not with its being usenet. Of course. Thunderbird's being able to send and display many more characters than Agent is the main reason I switched to it recently. -- Cheers, Carlos. |
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On 10/12/2019 12.25, Dan Purgert wrote:
I'm not 100% sure if the error is in your reader (for showing the enveloping), or mine (for making it look like part of the message). Though with the way my luck's gone over the past week ... It is not an error, it is intentional. Normally clients show the entire text, including the PGP "signature". This is correct. Only when the client is told to decode PGP (can be automatic) they hide it and instead tell if the signature is right, wrong, or unkown. -- Cheers, Carlos. |
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Hash: SHA256 Diesel wrote: David Sun, 08 Dec 2019 23:10:47 GMT in alt.computer.workshop, wrote: [...] Spreading malware, are you? Do you have any evidence that supports your accusation? Well, if it wasn't for you, I wouldn't have to read his drivel Does that count? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQEzBAEBCAAdFiEEBcqaUD8uEzVNxUrujhHd8xJ5ooEFAl3viy QACgkQjhHd8xJ5 ooFUKwf8CK8hMeN6DI6wbP103N0hIAe3RvUpzUDT6LZ6P8tOFO xaVFAwdu6o7Ip6 XimUyVFFvOqa92e0fMotos1BIqD0LZzBvz+tJ7/bboMrc21Kx01VijRyRejPumWM lmgIA4Dl8LZsSzHMOfcvpuxRn8/3ZgjTKPiPO5bJVj3MbsUGHbmzUP9TkUmHBmlw EQTXge2E4xpO0nr2+6TFCQoLggbvGu9MgZCdgnUKIgY22cBW4V w7UZfjLzsu+X8n 6bJjwgB6JNvgRgZA6QzAd7YQd3qUfOUQuxbOXvaz0bbm5Gei+l yoUtOqU/SMGU84 J/b/NW16MUICYeKck3+DkjRTxu+uQA== =tX4x -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- |_|O|_| |_|_|O| Github: https://github.com/dpurgert |O|O|O| PGP: 05CA 9A50 3F2E 1335 4DC5 4AEE 8E11 DDF3 1279 A281 |
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On 10/12/2019 12.59, Dan Purgert wrote:
Carlos E.R. wrote: On 09/12/2019 22.04, Paul wrote: And to top it off, the plugin arch of Thunderbird is changing soon, and Enigmail is going to get rolled into Thunderbird (using something other than openpgp), so any solution you might boil in a pot today, will be "blown away soon" and you'd have to design another plugin. Enigmail for Thunderbird is a .xpi and those won't be supported past TB68. Enigmail is currently broken, at least for me and others. I can not sign using MIME, it claims the key is not found. gpg2 made a bit of a mess of how enigmail works for me as well. although that one sounds like a new problem. It is new in that it affects me and others now, and before it did not, but the bug is old: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=531073 -- Cheers, Carlos. |
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Hash: SHA256 Carlos E.R. wrote: On 10/12/2019 12.25, Dan Purgert wrote: I'm not 100% sure if the error is in your reader (for showing the enveloping), or mine (for making it look like part of the message). Though with the way my luck's gone over the past week ... It is not an error, it is intentional. What I meant by "error" was that it isn't displaying as an "obvious envelope" to another participant in Usenet. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQEzBAEBCAAdFiEEBcqaUD8uEzVNxUrujhHd8xJ5ooEFAl3vkJ YACgkQjhHd8xJ5 ooGIPQf5AVnoAdifACENFmoAys6hvDSWN9yduWMekmSE6nhaQr vh2dSDnMdey8Gl z4Z/EXTgZ02sDro8megyx8qqGlUsJbM/+s+QIrL6wkIS7QMIpSRlQA1q0TYAKtlG uzD+ABePqrqg/1YYT1GR9Isivyp0lsXGEBsJk/eiRJB6e7hBJw5RzbXlimUZ15sC peQJcLPOb4CMMY3DRrPpn4GksyM8GT0jErRER/OkMIh5j3zFm/mMPFOsZ0x6pmzy y0oglhrFJo9K9qKlhJx641PfWyFUytzF06FZlIkgS6wlrsEX4/xxYaLCmJoFi/za mo++j8AA37rq0MGNQK19L+VAwq6Anw== =H1IJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- |_|O|_| |_|_|O| Github: https://github.com/dpurgert |O|O|O| PGP: 05CA 9A50 3F2E 1335 4DC5 4AEE 8E11 DDF3 1279 A281 |
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Hash: SHA256 Carlos E.R. wrote: On 10/12/2019 12.59, Dan Purgert wrote: [...] gpg2 made a bit of a mess of how enigmail works for me as well. although that one sounds like a new problem. It is new in that it affects me and others now, and before it did not, but the bug is old: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=531073 I'm probably misreading it, but that one seems to be against the builtin processing of s/mime messages rather than pgp processing via enigmail. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQEzBAEBCAAdFiEEBcqaUD8uEzVNxUrujhHd8xJ5ooEFAl3vkV MACgkQjhHd8xJ5 ooFNyQf5ARFuwg5poPQDov1J/gKJFQC+57LGw42P5KXgQHsjkN7IQWDb37+kaZWY Yoh4Ir1BIcmtvgqL7i5VFpDSaC5+wBwCwME2Hsb7KRvLT9IrBZ 8uvoLdAS+kyVCi ZtDejdh5jt5Qz7xf7/HUW41G7QTJ5my86Q6P1v+TeM971PMHN4ejBArcUJ0fwhLn uPv4BbKbcRBVxyab33lTr3CG5TTXbPQplWowOkPnqTOQGM5CE5 obdMo9rA5KxHlQ GEpyuoB0HHmL2KSKpZj3Y/EbMF90b8eSvAsXkBSk4ru0gJAlnVtCKoo63prNqea+ LWlBux3AOarspFhGE2Um4nhgKiH5jg== =qfSz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- |_|O|_| |_|_|O| Github: https://github.com/dpurgert |O|O|O| PGP: 05CA 9A50 3F2E 1335 4DC5 4AEE 8E11 DDF3 1279 A281 |
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On 10/12/2019 12.50, Dan Purgert wrote:
Mayayana wrote: "Dan Purgert" wrote | email program. Yet OE6 is arguably better than current | products despite being 18 years old. The program folder | is 4 MB. TBird is 90 MB, stuffed with dotnet crap, but no | help file in sight. Even the Mozilla people don't seem to | have full docs for things like prefs. | | OK, but how much of the OE stuff is crammed "somewhere else"? I'm only | asking, because I know that it's a little more "deeply integrated" than | Tbird. | | Not that I think ~90MB is hiding out there. | Fair question. It seems to be mostly self-contained, but if I were dealing with HTML email it would be different. Then it uses the IE libraries: shdocvw, mshtml, etc. Not knowing how big those are, I wonder if some of the perceived bloat to Tbird is if Mozilla "has to" include libraries locally in C:\PROGRA~1\Mozilla\Firefox | | It's not difficult to write software that runs on | all Windows versions -- backward and forward. That's | like being able to write a program for current Linux and | have it work on RedHat 4 seamlessly, with no additional | support files or adjustments needed. | | Depends what the software is written in. I mean, as long as you're not | relying on some library that isn't available in RHEL4, it's quite likely | to work. Same with Windows, of course -- I mean, if I write something | that relies on whatever the current dotnet is, it's probably not going | to work in winXP. | No. But you can stick with the API and in that case it might run on Win95 if you need it to. Dotnet is a mess all its own. Sure, and you can do the same with targeting the Linux Kernel as well. Although, I do know that between major versions (2 - 3 , 3 - 4, etc.) the Linux API has changed in big ways. That being said, I don't think it's "broken" much. | Linux support is typically 18 months. When I want | to install anything it needs numerous updates of system | files. Ridiculous stuff like 6.143.213.77 isn't good enough. | It has to be 6.143.213.88. | | That sounds very much like your only experience is with either "rolling | release" distros, or the "testing" releases of otherwise "stable" | distros (such as the three "short-term" releases Ubuntu puts out between | their 5-year-support "LTS" ones). | Mandrake/Mandriva and Suse. I used to try them periodically to see if they were usable yet. I've never used Mandrake/Mandriva; but I know that SUSE is ... weird. They remind me of like IBM or HP -- "release 1.2.3.1 is to be released on January 13, 2020; our standard lifecycle will apply to this release. Long-term contract holders can obtain 1.2.3.1.LT on January 20." I think the whole gimmick with them is that you buy a SUSE support contract. If you have SUSE, then yes, you need a support contract to obtain the updates to the commercial product. But if you have openSUSE you don't need any contract or payment. Just click update and it takes care of everything. So, if I want to install anything, I just select it in YaST and click to install. It will take care of any other thing it needs automatically. My test was whether I could set it up without having to use a console window or rummage around in /etc, and whether I could get a good, easy firewall that would allow me to block all in/out traffic by process. It always fails on all counts. (No, iptables is not a usable, easy firewall.) Linux doesn't firewall by processes, and this is intentional. Wrong expectations from user :-P Sounds like you really wanted Ubuntu (or these days, maybe Mint?). iptables is certainly usable ... definitely not "easy" though -- but it's been (is being) replaced with nftables; which I believe has better graphical tools. I never had to use iptables directly. We use higher level applications that handle the firewalling for us. That being said, I'm not entirely sure linux firewalls necessarily care about "per application" in the same way that Windows does. Then again, I always hated that approach. .... -- Cheers, Carlos. |
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On 10/12/2019 13.36, Dan Purgert wrote:
Carlos E.R. wrote: On 10/12/2019 12.59, Dan Purgert wrote: [...] gpg2 made a bit of a mess of how enigmail works for me as well. although that one sounds like a new problem. It is new in that it affects me and others now, and before it did not, but the bug is old: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=531073 I'm probably misreading it, but that one seems to be against the builtin processing of s/mime messages rather than pgp processing via enigmail. It affects both. Not simple reading :-( -- Cheers, Carlos. |
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7 Best Alternatives To Microsoft Office Suite - 2019 Edition
On 10/12/2019 13.37, Carlos E.R. wrote:
On 10/12/2019 12.50, Dan Purgert wrote: Mayayana wrote: "Dan Purgert" wrote .... | Linux support is typically 18 months. When I want | to install anything it needs numerous updates of system | files. Ridiculous stuff like 6.143.213.77 isn't good enough. | It has to be 6.143.213.88. | | That sounds very much like your only experience is with either "rolling | release" distros, or the "testing" releases of otherwise "stable" | distros (such as the three "short-term" releases Ubuntu puts out between | their 5-year-support "LTS" ones). | Mandrake/Mandriva and Suse. I used to try them periodically to see if they were usable yet. I've never used Mandrake/Mandriva; but I know that SUSE is ... weird. They remind me of like IBM or HP -- "release 1.2.3.1 is to be released on January 13, 2020; our standard lifecycle will apply to this release. Long-term contract holders can obtain 1.2.3.1.LT on January 20." I think the whole gimmick with them is that you buy a SUSE support contract. If you have SUSE, then yes, you need a support contract to obtain the updates to the commercial product. But if you have openSUSE you don't need any contract or payment. Just click update and it takes care of everything. I forgot to mention that the current support cycle of openSUSE Leap is several years long (exact number not fixed in stone). There is a major version release, tied to the commercial version release (currently 15), and then several minor versions, about once per year, also linked to the commercial version service packs. Those minor versions (we are currently on .1, so 15.1, with 15.2 coming next spring) are mostly trivial to apply. Perhaps OT here, but as it was mentioned I thought I could add some extra info :-) -- Cheers, Carlos. |
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