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Never Too Late To Be Safe

Just a heads up, that GPG encryption framework for your mail has gone Universal (as of March). Sorry for the delay, but if anyone out there still hasn’t, now’s a good time to upgrade your GPG and encrypt your mail.
MacUpdate - GPG framework 1.4.7
MacUpdate - GPG Preferences 1.2.2

Posted by rdas7 on July 24th, 2007

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the secret to a good 802.11n

The secret to using the new Airport Extreme 802.11n base station seems to be choosing a good channel.
I’ve got 3 802.11n machines on my local network, unfortunately one of them is a US-chipset, which only works on channels 1-11. The ‘n’ draft spec goes up to channel 15(?) so if I set the network to […]

Posted by rdas7 on April 2nd, 2007

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Touch-Screen Mini

Well, I’ve been hunting around for a good Mac Mini on the cheap on ebay for a while… mainly to tinker with, and to get used to running some server environment/apps. If you ask me, once the software gets transparent enough, in The Future every house will have a server/network setup, so I like to […]

Posted by rdas7 on February 4th, 2007

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Sharing/Finding PGP Keys

Ok, so you’ve got PGP authentication on your mail, and you’ve uploaded your key to the keyserver. Now you want to communicate with someone, and you need their key to do so securely. How do I find someone’s key? “How do they send it to me?” I hear you ask.
The answer is simple. If they’ve […]

Posted by rdas7 on November 6th, 2006

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it’s time to authenticate your mails

1.) install GnuGPG on your machine. basically just run the installer, fire and forget
click to go and download GnuPG

2.) add the bundle to mail. This installer does it with an applescript
click to go and download GPGMail
Now you have gpg enabled on your machine and Mail supporting it:

new preferences pane
new options in compose window

3.) GPG Keychain […]

Posted by rdas7 on June 15th, 2006

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