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Pinentry confusion

Posted by: fitheach in Tech 6 years, 2 months ago

Signing email messages is a requirement that I have several times a day. Claws Mail handles this requirement very nicely with the GPG Plugin. The plugin provides a configuration option to set a time period for the pinentry passphrase to be stored. For example, I have set the passphrase to be stored for 600 minutes. This means that when I enter the passphrase in the morning it is being cached for the rest of the working day, i.e. for 10 hours. If I need to sign an email after this period, the pinentry dialog will appear again and I re-enter the passphrase. Once entered the passphrase is stored for a further ten hours.

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From Hot Space to 32GB

Posted by: fitheach in Music, Tech 6 years, 2 months ago

I decided recently to dig out some of my old cassette tape music albums. Most of them are pre-recorded tapes of albums purchased in the 1980s, but there are also many home recordings of vinyl LPs . I wanted to make digital copies of the albums and include them in my collection, which I carry with me on my mobile 'phone. I had a quaint notion that with a bit of work the music on the tapes could be of acceptable quality. Boy, was I wrong.

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Green capsicums

Posted by: fitheach in Food 6 years, 3 months ago

Call them what you like: capsicums, peppers, bell peppers, peperone, poivron, paprika or whatever, they are very popular in every shade except green. I have never conducted blind taste tests nor have a I seen any capsicum market research but I just know that the green ones are less popular. All the evidence I need is there on the supermarket shelves.

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