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Entries from July 2007

GPG: adding an expiration date

July 29th, 2007 · No Comments

I you have read my previous post, GPG Best Practices, you will know that I am a fan of setting expiration dates on my GPG keys.
This has not always been the case. As with many computer users I tend towards the lazy, and if I can keep from having to re-learn a password by [...]

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Tags: Computers · Cyberspeech · Privacy · Security

GPG Best Practices

July 29th, 2007 · 1 Comment

Like many people who have some concerns over security on the Internet, I have started to use digital signatures for all of my mail sent from my regular e-mail client on my Mac.
While there are several avenues for this, I chose to use GPG. While I know that this means jumping through a couple [...]

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Tags: Computers · Cyberspeech · Privacy · Security

Gone but never forgotten

July 25th, 2007 · 1 Comment

Sad news came to me today by way of another member of the Yahoo! Group I am a member of. For those of you who may not know this, I lost my wife, Patricia Grace Fore, on August 16, 2004.
After Pattie died I joined a Yahoo! support group for young widows. They [...]

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Updating to Contribute 4.x breaks the cthub XML

July 20th, 2007 · No Comments

When trying to sort my cthub XML file recently I found out that my code from the post on sorting the role listing had stopped working.
Turns out that there was an error introduced into the format of this file when upgrading from Contribute 3.11.
As you are no doubt aware, when at least one admin [...]

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Tags: Adobe Contribute · Adobe Contribute Publishing Server · Software

Changing Harddrive name breaks Contribute

July 3rd, 2007 · No Comments

While changing some things on my computer setup today I decided to change the name of my harddrive and computer to match my local DNS entry.
Having done this many times before I knew that there would be certain applications that would be looking for an absolute path that would have issues, such as Dreamweaver sites [...]

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Tags: Adobe Contribute · Software