No work so far this year...
...but I'm not complaining, not yet.
The place looks like a hurricane hit it, but I managed to get the desk and monitors and computer out of my office and set up in the adjacent "family room" without too much of a problem.
I also managed to get emacs configured on my Ubuntu laptop so I can do use org-mode on that machine.
Which is how I found out that there's a nearly un-uninstallable part of Ubuntu (the so-called gnome-keyring) that thinks its doing me a favor by, in effect, popping up a dialog box, prompting me for my GPG passphrase, so that the passphrase can be reused repeatedly until I log out of the system.
This kind of convenience I don't need. In fact, the whole idea of the setup I deliberately use is that, should I lose physical possession of my computer while it's on and I'm logged in, the machine isn't going to just start encrypting and decrypting stuff because I entered my passphrase earlier on during my login session. Instead, it will keep asking me to re-enter the passphrase every time it's needed. Sometimes, that will turn out to be a royal pain (as when I spent time moving information and setups from one hosting account to another), but better that than working with a potentially 100% vulnerable network-connected computer.
According to what I found on the 'net, in Ubuntu, uninstalling gnome-keyring via the Software Center guts your system, removing the Software Center as well, and if you try to repair the damage, the program gets reinstalled. It has no control interface and there are entirely too many dead ends on the 'net attempting to explain how to at least disable or limit the operation of the program, and none of them appear to be consistently successful.
Cooking smells from downstairs impel me to quit the keyboard. More later, maybe.
Cheers...
The place looks like a hurricane hit it, but I managed to get the desk and monitors and computer out of my office and set up in the adjacent "family room" without too much of a problem.
I also managed to get emacs configured on my Ubuntu laptop so I can do use org-mode on that machine.
Which is how I found out that there's a nearly un-uninstallable part of Ubuntu (the so-called gnome-keyring) that thinks its doing me a favor by, in effect, popping up a dialog box, prompting me for my GPG passphrase, so that the passphrase can be reused repeatedly until I log out of the system.
This kind of convenience I don't need. In fact, the whole idea of the setup I deliberately use is that, should I lose physical possession of my computer while it's on and I'm logged in, the machine isn't going to just start encrypting and decrypting stuff because I entered my passphrase earlier on during my login session. Instead, it will keep asking me to re-enter the passphrase every time it's needed. Sometimes, that will turn out to be a royal pain (as when I spent time moving information and setups from one hosting account to another), but better that than working with a potentially 100% vulnerable network-connected computer.
According to what I found on the 'net, in Ubuntu, uninstalling gnome-keyring via the Software Center guts your system, removing the Software Center as well, and if you try to repair the damage, the program gets reinstalled. It has no control interface and there are entirely too many dead ends on the 'net attempting to explain how to at least disable or limit the operation of the program, and none of them appear to be consistently successful.
Cooking smells from downstairs impel me to quit the keyboard. More later, maybe.
Cheers...