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PGP Keysigning

by Charles R. Anderson

To complete the PGP Keysigning process: 1. Sign All The Verified IDs On The Verified Keys gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys <Key_ID> gpg --sign-key <Key_ID> [ Verify the fingerprint against your sheet. You probably want to select (3) I have done very careful checking in this case, since we met in person and verified physical photo ID's. ] 2. Send The Signed Keys Back Up To The Designated Keyserver gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --send-key <Key_ID> Finally, once everyone has signed everyone else's keys and sent them to the keyserver, you will want to download the signed versions once more from the keyserver. You can do this at any time without fear of overwritting keys--GnuPG will always merge the changes into your local keyring (--recv-keys) or the remote keyserver (--send-keys) as necessary. 3. Download the Signed Keys from The Designated Keyserver gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-key <Key_ID> It is a good idea to periodically re-download keys to receive new signatures, learn of revoked keys, etc. You can tell a signature was added by the output of --recv-keys. You can list key signatures with: gpg --list-sigs [<Key_ID>] where <Key_ID> is optional. You may notice some keys signed by unknown user ids. If you receive those keys from the keyserver(s) you can build your Web Of Trust to include people you don't know. This gets into how much you trust people with whom you have verified keys directly to sign *other* people's keys properly/securely. More on this later....

April 23, 2004

Re: [Wlug] Free systems to good home...

by Walt Sawyer

I'll take the mini towers if they haven't gone to some yet. Bring them to the May meeting. Thanks, Walt On Wed, 2004-04-21 at 18:58, Theo Van Dinter wrote: > I thought I'd throw this out and see if anyone was interested... > > I've got 3 machines just sitting around collecting dust that I'd like to > give away. They're pretty much base-bones (case, ps, mb, cpu) although > I may have some memory for the P120 and the P200 (have to check when I > get home): > > P120, Mini-Tower > P166, Full Tower > P200 Overdrive, Mini-Tower > > > If you're interested in grabbing one of these, let me know and I'll > bring it along to the meeting tomorrow night. :) [image] [image] [image] Walt Sawyer wsawyer(a)norfolk-county.com

April 23, 2004

Summer Intern Job

by Karl Hiramoto

For anyone that is interested in a programming job.. http://jobs.accusense.com/programmer-analyist-intern.html -- -- Karl Hiramoto karl at hiramoto dot org http://karl.hiramoto.org/ Mobile: 508.517.4819 Work: 978-425-2090

April 22, 2004

Free systems to good home...

by Theo Van Dinter

I thought I'd throw this out and see if anyone was interested... I've got 3 machines just sitting around collecting dust that I'd like to give away. They're pretty much base-bones (case, ps, mb, cpu) although I may have some memory for the P120 and the P200 (have to check when I get home): P120, Mini-Tower P166, Full Tower P200 Overdrive, Mini-Tower If you're interested in grabbing one of these, let me know and I'll bring it along to the meeting tomorrow night. :) -- Randomly Generated Tagline: "To his dog, every man is Napoleon, hence the constant popularity of dogs." - Susan Vick

April 21, 2004

Re: [Wlug] Reminder: WLUG Meeting

by Charles R. Anderson

On Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 10:01:46PM -0400, Andy Stewart wrote: > This is a reminder about the upcoming WLUG meeting, to be held on Thursday, > April 22, at 7:00 PM at the usual place (the Access Grid room at WPI). > > At this meeting, we'll be having a PGP keysigning party, as described by Chuck > Anderson in an email earlier this week. I hope a few people will be there to > share how they make this work from their favorite email program. I haven't > been entirely successful with Kmail, but I'll share just the same. I've only received a few PGP keys, but there's still time left to get your key created and submitted for Thursday's keysigning party! Thursday night you'll need: 3.2 What participants should bring to the party 1. Themselves - you cannot participate virtually 2. Two forms of positive picture ID - a driver's license and passport are good 3. Key ID, Key Type, Hex Fingerprint and Key Size info (NOTE: please print out your own copy of your key to compare against my copy when you arrive.) 4. A Pen/Pencil 3.3 What Participants Should Not Bring to the Party 1. A Computer

April 21, 2004

Reminder: WLUG Meeting

by Andy Stewart

HI everybody, This is a reminder about the upcoming WLUG meeting, to be held on Thursday, April 22, at 7:00 PM at the usual place (the Access Grid room at WPI). At this meeting, we'll be having a PGP keysigning party, as described by Chuck Anderson in an email earlier this week. I hope a few people will be there to share how they make this work from their favorite email program. I haven't been entirely successful with Kmail, but I'll share just the same. Even if you don't have a PGP key, come over anyway to learn about this technology and to chat with others. I'd also be happy to relate to you the results of the "Introduction to Linux" class which I've recently finished teaching for the Chelmsford Community Education program. I'll be teaching this class again in September, and we're currently planning a much more advanced class. Also, bring along your ideas for future meetings! Afterwards, we'll venture out for pizza and beer at the newly renovated Boynton Restaurant - you won't recognize the place! See ya later, Andy -- Andy Stewart, Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA USA http://www.wlug.org

April 20, 2004

Re: [Wlug] Linux From Scratch??

by Keith Wright

> From: Ken Jones <kjones(a)ziplink.net> > > Have any us tried to build a Linux From Scratch? I bought the book. I was disappointed in it. Its general form was: download all this stuff, type this, type this, now type this. There was not much discussion of why. > How did it go? A few minutes of excitement that I had a new book. A couple hours of paging through the book with growing disappointment at how little could be learned by reading it. Probably you could learn more by actually doing it, and more importantly, by reading the documentation and code of the various packages as you build them. I began to think that I should go through the process in order to write a couple of chapters that would explain the overall plan, but maybe somebody else is already doing that. In any case it's not my high priority project. So the book sits quietly on my shelf. > Does anyone know of a college level course which uses this as part > of its lab.? No, I don't. I don't think such a lab would be worth much unless the professor had something specific to demonstrate by assigning a problem to make some changes, e.g. run on special hardware, boot into a special purpose program. Even then, there would probably be a better way to make the point than to build everything from scratch. There's not a lot to be learned by spending days watching compiler output scroll past. -- Keith

April 19, 2004

Re: [Wlug] Linux From Scratch??

by gboyce＠badbelly.com

On Mon, 19 Apr 2004, Karl Hiramoto wrote: > just for kicks, try putting a "hello world" program in /sbin/init > sometime. make sure you have a backup & boot disk/CD though. Most bootloaders allow you to append to the kernel commandline (at least grub and lilo both do). You could run your test by doing "init=/sbin/myinit", or safe a backup copy of /sbin/init as /sbin/init.real, and booting with "init=/sbin/init.real" to recover. Of course, backups and boot disks are always a good idea.

April 19, 2004

Re: [Wlug] Linux From Scratch??

by Karl Hiramoto

Yes, I did it as some research into an embedded linux system. I setup the kernel and used busybox for base system. I also messed around with making my own /sbin/init for the embedded system that was only to have one process running. just for kicks, try putting a "hello world" program in /sbin/init sometime. make sure you have a backup & boot disk/CD though. > Have any us tried to build a Linux From Scratch? > > <http://lfs.oregonstate.edu/lfs/news.html> > > How did it go? Is there a thread on the subject? Does anyone know of a > college level course which uses this as part of its lab.? > > Ken Jones > Fitchburg, MA > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug > -- Karl Hiramoto <karl(a)hiramoto.org> Work: 978-425-2090 ext 25 Cell: 508-517-4819 Personal web page: http://karl.hiramoto.org/ AOL IM ID = KarlH420 Yahoo_IM = karl_hiramoto

April 19, 2004

RE: [Wlug] Linux From Scratch??

by Skip Gaede

Ken, I used the modules and instructions on the web site back in the 2.x - 3.x days. In the process of building all the modules, you learn a lot. I even built a Linux distro that ran on a PPC Macintosh. There's also a couple of additional projects: ALFS (automated LFS) and BLFS (Beyond LFS) that cover modules you might need after getting the base system working. Good luck, Skip -----Original Message----- From: wlug-bounces(a)mail.wlug.org [mailto:wlug-bounces@mail.wlug.org]On Behalf Of Ken Jones Sent: Saturday, April 17, 2004 9:38 AM To: wlug(a)mail.wlug.org Cc: kjones(a)ziplink.net Subject: [Wlug] Linux From Scratch?? Have any us tried to build a Linux From Scratch? <http://lfs.oregonstate.edu/lfs/news.html> How did it go? Is there a thread on the subject? Does anyone know of a college level course which uses this as part of its lab.? Ken Jones Fitchburg, MA _______________________________________________ Wlug mailing list Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug

April 19, 2004