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New issue of Cryptogram. Good stuff on proposed hard-drive-embedded copy protection plans, a semantic attack by URL that I would probably have fallen for, and another good explanation on why he thinks electronic voting is a really bad idea.
Much better. I bought the O'Reilly Horse book ("Running Linux") yesterday, and that was just what I needed. I learned more about unix in one day of reading and poking around the command line than in my almost 2 years of just using a unix system (I mean remotely using somebody else's unix system.) Maybe it's not so hard.
I'm not getting much traction on the server project. Since I really know almost nothing, its hard to pick an approach route. I guess the point is that it doesn't really matter, just jump in, and eventually you'll figure out what the best way would have been to approach the problem. Or another way of saying this is: just pick one small thing and start there, then move on to another small thing, and eventually a bigger picture will emerge. I guess there has to be some wasted motion when you are trying to blindly find your way. But if that's the case, are those motions still wasted?
Actually this sort of thinking is the real problem. Stop writing and fire that beast up.
Those "Real Good Plumbers" have managed to break the heating system. The last 24+ hours have been cold. Like I need an excuse to stay in bed.
Alpine is a file-sharing network getting a lot of mentions.