There's no Place Like ::1

I will spend this week on the ETAPS conference (website).

So far it is a great experience. All the people are very social and you get the opportunity of talking to great minds in computer science.

Looking at the database, there are more than 700 people registered on this conference. During this week, the conferences are held in Theatro Circo in Braga.

When I find my code in tons of trouble, Friends and colleagues come to me, Speaking words of wisdom: "Write in C."

As the deadline fast approaches, And bugs are all that I can see, Somewhere, someone whispers" "Write in C."

Write in C, write in C, Write in C, write in C. LISP is dead and buried, Write in C.

I used to write a lot of FORTRAN, for science it worked flawlessly. Try using it for graphics! Write in C.

If you've just spent nearly 30 hours Debugging some assembly, Soon you will be glad to Write in C.

Write in C, write in C, Write In C, yeah, write in C. Only wimps use BASIC. Write in C.

Write in C, write in C, Write in C, oh, write in C. Pascal won't quite cut it. Write in C.

I’ve got a new 2Gb pen drive. It will mostly be used on Linux, but on different machines. So I wanted a filesystem that is better than FAT.

This is not too difficult, but I’ve found that because of the UNIX permissions on filesystems like EXT2 or ReiserFS, it makes the use of the filesystem on multiple systems useless.

I’ve tried to Google about this, but came without any answer…. I really don’t want to go back to FAT. So my solution (for now) is to chmod -R 777 /mnt/pen. This (seems) to work, but more testing needed.

Anyone got a better solution?

Today I spent all the morning changing the encryption of my laptop’s home directory. Lately I’ve been trying Blowfish with blocks of 256bits, but found that it lags a lot my system under heavy load.

I used AES-256 before, and hadn’t such slowdowns. So today I decided to go from Blowfish back to AES.

I used a friend’s laptop to transfer my home directory. Then I format my /home partition with the new cipher and pulled back my personal files :)

(of course I shreded the files on my friend’s laptop ;-))

Now by beautiful beast is running back with AES-256 and HMAC-SHA1.