Lovely. Okay developers, time to get moving — add public-key code-signing stuff, so that your programs can tell whether they’re getting a legitimate update or not. Don’t know how, and don’t have time to learn? Try the GnuPG Made Easy (GPGME) library. I’m happy to say that Ubuntu Linux isn’t affected by this, because it [...]
Archive of entries posted on 28th July 2008
Wedding Fun
GoddessJ and I attended a friend’s wedding over the weekend, for our friends B and L. It was… interesting. It was held in a very small town. There was only one chain hotel anywhere near, and it was booked solid before the wedding date was even set because there was some other kind of gathering [...]
“NASA uncovers secret of the Northern Lights”
It’s “stressed magnetic field lines that suddenly snap to a new shape, like a rubber band that’s been stretched too far.” Hm… any way to duplicate it in small-scale experiments? Probably not, but it’s an interesting proposition.