25
Dec
In 35 Durchgängen
Wie kommen sie genau auf 7 und 35?
12
Dec
Giving up on email encryption
I thought it would be pretty clever to automatically encrypt emails in my Gnus installation whenever all the addressees have a corresponding PGP key in my keyring. Defaulting to encryption whenever possible is the right thing ™ … theoretically. The practice:
[Encrypted data not shown.]
that couldn’t be decrypted by my mail client - Error in my PGP setup? Can you send it again without encryption, please?
that couldn’t be decrypted by my mail client - Error in my PGP setup? Can you send it again without encryption, please?
Content-Type: application/pgp-encrypted
Wie ich Dir bereits letztes Mal mitteilte, bin ich nicht mehr im Besitz meines Schluessels bzw meines Passwortes. Ich kann daher Deine verschluesselten Mails nicht lesen.
Wie ich Dir bereits letztes Mal mitteilte, bin ich nicht mehr im Besitz meines Schluessels bzw meines Passwortes. Ich kann daher Deine verschluesselten Mails nicht lesen.
And some more of the same kind. Of course people who use webmail frequently are unable to decrypt in general. And even the others seem to avoid the trouble to setup encryption again in their mail setup and feel unconfortable when receiving encrypted mails. So I won’t bother them anymore and give up on email encryption.
06
Dec
Senseless disclaimers
No comment. If people care about who gets their mails, encrypt them. But don’t fill 80% of the mail with this crap.
“The information contained in this e-mail and any attachment thereto is confidential and may contain information which is protected by intellectual property rights.
This information is intended for the exclusive use of the recipient(s) named above.
This e-mail does not constitute any binding relationship or offer toward any of the addressees.
If you are not one of the addressees , one of their employees or a proxy holder entitled to hand over this message to the addressee(s), any use of the information contained herein (e.g. reproduction, divulgation, communication or distribution,…) is prohibited.
If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender and destroy it immediately after.
The integrity and security of this message cannot be guaranteed and it may be subject to data corruption, interception and unauthorized amendment, for which we accept no liability.”
This information is intended for the exclusive use of the recipient(s) named above.
This e-mail does not constitute any binding relationship or offer toward any of the addressees.
If you are not one of the addressees , one of their employees or a proxy holder entitled to hand over this message to the addressee(s), any use of the information contained herein (e.g. reproduction, divulgation, communication or distribution,…) is prohibited.
If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender and destroy it immediately after.
The integrity and security of this message cannot be guaranteed and it may be subject to data corruption, interception and unauthorized amendment, for which we accept no liability.”
27
Nov
Amazon and Browsers
Here I reported about this strange reason Amazon is giving not to show the price. Told a friend about it who exclusively uses Opera and he got something completely different:
Why Don’t We Show the Price?
The “click for price” message indicates an additional discount is in effect, and this discount is calculated in the Shopping Cart. You can see this price by clicking the product name and then selecting the Add to Cart button on the product information page. Please be assured that simply adding an item to your cart does not obligate you to buy it–you can always delete the item from your cart if you decide not to purchase it.
The “click for price” message indicates an additional discount is in effect, and this discount is calculated in the Shopping Cart. You can see this price by clicking the product name and then selecting the Add to Cart button on the product information page. Please be assured that simply adding an item to your cart does not obligate you to buy it–you can always delete the item from your cart if you decide not to purchase it.
Here how it looks like in both browser (IE is like Firefox):
Firefox/IE
Opera
<paranoia>Do Opera users get different offers than those using Firefox or IE?</paranoia>
16
Nov
Sure?
lll.tex changed on disk; really edit the buffer? (y, n, r or C-h) y File on disk now will become a backup file if you save these changes. Save file lll.tex? (y, n, !, ., q, C-r, d or C-h) ? y lll.tex has changed since visited or saved. Save anyway? (yes or no) yes lll.tex changed on disk; really edit the buffer? (y, n, r or C-h) y File on disk now will become a backup file if you save these changes. Wrote /home/sts/arbeit/thesis/lll.tex
Thanks!
10
Oct
Since when does Google sort results according to language?!
I have noticed this for quite some time now that I get a lot of German sites in Google searches although “Das Web” instead of “Seiten auf Deutsch” is selected. Wondering if that was different a year ago or so.
To compare I tried to search “1stein” on google.de?q=1stein and on google.com?q=1stein. On the former even pages from some strange forums with somebody called “1stein” are listed before my site (not that I think mine is so important, but a search to “1stein” maybe also should show the corresponding domains early). In fact it only appears at the end of the last page. On the international site my page appears at position 5 though!
I am wondering whether it’s not often the case that you miss good (non-local) results because of this stupid localization. When looking at http://www.google.de I wouldn’t expect this at all compared to http://www.google.com. At least they should clarify on this. But we all know anyway about the position of Google today to lead people to sites they want to. Today it’s the language, who knows which criteria they follow otherwise. Just because I have paranoia it doesn’t mean nobody is after me 
Just noticed: MSN is the same. Searching for “search” gives results in Germany and Switzerland first. Yahoo.com first shows the American sites, interestingly their own site on position 2 (only CNET search is better). Google though finds itself on position 3 after MSN and search.com. Wondering if there is research done to identify search result manipulation. Might be an interesting research topic.
