Archive for October, 2009

Data encryption and signing with The GNU Privacy Guard (GPG)

Privacy is being threatened.
The answer to this is to use software, that can

confirm, that messages is in fact from the expected sender,
confirm, that messages are authentic, and,
encrypt and decrypt messages, documents and files.

In terms of software, this is referred to as signed and encrypted messages. In order to do this, a pair of keys are [...]

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Support privacy and internet freedom

IT-Political Association of Denmark (IT-Pol) is an organization, that advocate privacy, openness, and internet freedom.
IT-Pol engage politicians in dialouges on IT, gives presentations on conferences, schools etc. IT-Pol answer hearing, produce position papers and press statements.
IT-Pol made a strong speech about privacy at Open Source Days Community Day 2009.
We recommend, that this association is supported [...]

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Updating the FreeBSD ports collection

here has been different ways to update the FreeBSD ports collection over time.
However, this is the recommended, simple, network friendly and firewall friendly procedure for updating the FreeBSD ports collection using the portsnap utility, which updates via internet from a FreeBSD mirror.
This procedure assumes, that the ports collection has been installed prior to updating, [...]

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Preparing internal and external storage for FreeBSD

Internal and external storage has to be prepared and formatted for the operating system FreeBSD to be able to use it. FreeBSD supports different ways to prepare storage. However, this is the recommended procedure for preparing and formatting internal or external storage for use with FreeBSD in a way, that is supported and compatible.
Create a [...]

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Open Source Days Community Day 2009

On Saturday, October 24th, Open Source Days will host the Community Day 2009 conference at Symbion in Copenhagen, which will include a number of simultanious talks on open source subjects.
The program has been published on the website.
The price is 145 DKK per guest and includes T-shirt and lunch.

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