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That’s interesting. Today I installed Google Desktop Search cause I thought it might come handy when searching those thousand mails I stored on my computer as well as the literature for my thesis. I patiently waited until the program was done with indexing my drive. To my dismay it does not know how to search OpenOffice-documents and Trillian-Chatlogs. But maybe there is an plug-in for those.
The real surprise was, when I started to search for the term “indefinable knowledge” which I knew was somewhere in the book “Democratizing Innovation“. GDS didn’t found a single hit. So while fearing that I somehow misquoted the term I started the Acrobat Reader and used the internal search. Well, there it was, right on page 67. So I googled my desktop for democratizing and surely got a result. A closer examination brought the reason for GDS blind spot to the light: Only the first few pages were stored in the cache. I wonder if this is a single fault within the pDF oder the search engine or if the program somehow fails to mention that everything above a certain filesize will simply not be searched.
Also, when googling my emails I finally felt one of the major drawbacks of mail encryption. The mails are stored encrypted. Anyone here who’ll write a thunderburd plug-in that somehow adds decrypt-and-store-capabilities to enigmail?
Besides planning an druid only WoW-party for the time after I’m finished I distract myself these days with the fabulous Konfabulator. Amongst other things I have found this neat little widget that counts down to the second when I have to turn in my thesis.
Another great way to drive myself crazy. Yay!
Go and get Gizmo. For the usual geeky reasons it seems to be better than skype.
Well, yes you two, I was talking to you… =)
Edited on Jul 23rd 2005, 16:20 by jeck
… sein EyeToy unter Xp zum laufen zubringen: Hier ist ein Forenthread in dem Links zu den wichtigsten Treibern enthalten sind.
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Vielen Dank.
Ich habe heute einen Artikel über Ubuntu auf heute.de gelesen. Ich habe mich darüber gefreut, daß solche Themen dort Erwähnung finden. Zwei Ungenauigkeiten hat der Artikel aber:
“Ubuntu ist nicht das einzige Linux-Betriebssystem, das sich einfach bedienen lässt. Etwa Kubuntu vom in Deutschland beheimateten KDE-projekt kann sich durchaus mit Ubuntu messen und vertreibt seine CDs ebenfalls kostenlos.”
Kubuntu ist Teil des Ubuntu-projekts. Siehe Ubuntu-Wiki.
“Ubuntu basiert auf der Desktop-Oberfläche Gnome und Debian.”
Debian ist mal eher keine Desktop-Oberfläche, sondern eine Linux-Distribution.
Macht das wirklich einen Unterschied? Oder bin ich nur ein elendiger Erbsenzähler?
From time to time I feel the urge to buy some technical gadget. When the mood arrives it doesn’t seem to matter what exactly it is, the main thing seems to be spending money on some thing one doesn’t really need. Must be some kind of genetic influence coming from a sequence within the x-chromosome.
Well, I learned to live with it and even seem to be able to - no, not avoid it - divert the urge on a more appropriate and hopefully cheaper thing than the one which starts the whole thing yet again.
So I had another fit today and went shopping. Now guess what I have as a new plaything…
Some clues: It’s not very expensive, I’m using it right now and - god forbid - it’s from Apple.
pS: For iBuG-people this little quiz is off limits, cause I already told enough for you to know… ^^
…that Apple computers are built in Fisher price factories? What? You didn’t? Well, see for yourself.
priceless… =)
Edited on Jun 8th 2005, 12:47 by jeck
… where I think: “Wow. If anyone else had tried this, there’d be a internet wide shitstorm by now..” Witness yourself:
[Quote] Tiger comes on DVD-ROM media only. This is a first for Mac OS X. For customers without DVD-capable optical drives, Apple offers a $9.95 “Media Exchange program.” To take advantage of the program, customers must purchase Tiger, fill out a form, then mail it back to Apple along with their original Tiger DVD and a $9.95 payment (plus any applicable sales tax). [Quote]
[ found at ars technica ]
Xp users!
Check out Stardock! They have all kind of nifty programs which make your OS better, shinier and if you wish so more OSX-like. Ist just downloaded the Objectdock and already love it. I always liked the dock for launching apps, but missed the taskbar for switching between several instances of the same program. Now I can have both!
Of course I am aware that these things already where there for some time. But since I’m not up to date anymore I had to wait until I could read it in a magazine. And it was printed on paper too!
Am I oldschool, or what?
Update: Dockzone is fansite about docks for windows and features a weather docklet which works for europeans too.
Edited on Apr 13th 2005, 11:29 by jeck
“SHA-1 has been broken. Not a reduced-round version. Not a simplified version. The real thing. [...] It pretty much puts a bullet into SHA-1 as a hash function for digital signatures (although it doesn’t affect applications such as HMAC where collisions aren’t important).”
[Schneier on Security via /. ]
Does anyone now if RIpEMD160 is secure?
Edit: I asked that question cause my GnupG has three hash-functions and this is the only one not compromised. Of course wikipedia knows it all:
“It is an improved version of RIpEMD, which in turn was based upon the design principles used in MD4, and is similar in both strength and performance to the more popular SHA-1.”
However: “RIpEMD-160 was designed in the open academic community, in contrast to the NSA-designed algorithm, SHA-1. On the other hand, RIpEMD-160 is a less popular and correspondingly less well-studied design.”
Edit2: Hmm. I’m not really sure how to use RIpEMD-160 with Enigmail end if other OSes are capable to work with that. I’ll keep you posted.
[source]
I think there should be a [security] category.
Edit2: Changed category [coding] to [security] cause Gossip heeded my request. Thx!
Edit3: For all Enigmail-users:
“GnupG hash algorithm (currently only 1 supported!)
user_pref(”extensions.enigmail.mimeHashAlgorithm”,1) ;
UI: Enigmail > preferences > pGp/MIME; Hash algorithm
Default set to SHA1.
MD5 and RIpEMD160 are available for selection but will not work currently“
[Source]
Also heise.de says, that this is not practicable usable. Also the results one would get are far from resembling a systematic manipulation.
Edit4: All is well, at least for know. Arccording to another article at heise.de even a cluster of specialized overclocked machines would compute for “some” years before finding a collision (two texts which would have the same hash). A counterfeit of a real signature would require a ‘preimage’-attack which would take even longer.
I’ll close this post with Bruce Schneiers conclusion: “For the average Internet user, this news is not a cause for panic. No one is going to be breaking digital signatures or reading encrypted messages anytime soon. The electronic world is no less secure after these announcements than it was before. [...] Jon Callas, pGp’s CTO, put it best: “It’s time to walk, but not run, to the fire exits. You don’t see smoke, but the fire alarms have gone off.” [...] The Chinese cryptographers deserve a lot of credit for their work, and we need to get to work replacing SHA.”
Edited on Feb 21st 2005, 13:12 by jeck
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