Spike: We got a history, him and me. Fred: What? Spike: It was a long time ago. He was a young Watcher, fresh out of the academy when we crossed paths. It was a, what-you-call battle of wills and blood was spilled. Vendettas were sworn. It was a whole-- Fred: My God you're so full of crap. Spike: Yeah. Okay.

'Unleashed'


Natter 74: Ready or Not  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Laura - Jul 29, 2016 5:09:06 pm PDT #25287 of 30003
Our wings are not tired.

I took a 3 hour nap earlier, during the work day! Staying late every night all week for convention watching wore me out.

Taking a break from hair color, but love seeing the various fun colors. Some day, maybe when I have more gray.


Gudanov - Jul 29, 2016 5:27:14 pm PDT #25288 of 30003
Coding and Sleeping

I am sitting here on Friday night playing with Excel on my iPad

I'm getting back to work to write encryption code for analytics reports. I lost an hour today getting my password reset after it expired despite our webmail telling me I had eight days left to change it. It's very confusing to the IT help desk because not many people at Lowe's know that our office exists and we have a weird network configuration.


Gudanov - Jul 29, 2016 5:36:19 pm PDT #25289 of 30003
Coding and Sleeping

Course it would be easy if we could create the file first and then encrypt it, but that isn't the right way to do it, so it's time for bouncycastle (that's a Java encryption library).


-t - Jul 29, 2016 5:38:47 pm PDT #25290 of 30003
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

"It's time for bouncycastle" probably sounds more fun than the reality.


dcp - Jul 29, 2016 5:49:55 pm PDT #25291 of 30003
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.

playing with Excel on my iPad

I don't remember if linked this here before or not. Stand-up comedy routine about spreadsheets, on Youtube: [link]


-t - Jul 29, 2016 5:50:16 pm PDT #25292 of 30003
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Tep, if you want to engage in a very minor way, you can just say "I'm glad to hear your voting for her. I think she will make an excellent president" and leave it at that.

Or, you know, not responding at all is a perfectly cromulent course of action.


Gudanov - Jul 29, 2016 5:54:58 pm PDT #25293 of 30003
Coding and Sleeping

Yeah, bouncycastle sounds like fun but the reality is like:

try (InputStream is = PGPUtil.getDecoderStream(new FileInputStream(keyFile))) {
  PGPPublicKeyRingCollection keyRingCollection = new PGPPublicKeyRingCollection(is);
  Iterator rings = keyRingCollection.getKeyRings();
  List list = new ArrayList();
  while (rings.hasNext()) {
    Iterator keys = ((PGPPublicKeyRing)rings.next()).getPublicKeys();
    while (keys.hasNext()) {
      PGPPublicKey key = (PGPPublicKey)keys.next();
      if (key.isEncryptionKey()) {
        list.add(key);
      }
    }
  }
  return list.stream();
  } catch (Exception e) {
    throw new RuntimeException("Cannot load public key from: " + keyFile, e);
  }

Huh all the notation for generics went away, but you get the idea.


-t - Jul 29, 2016 6:07:37 pm PDT #25294 of 30003
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I get an idea. Probably not quite the right one.

Thank you for that, dcp, that was delightful.


P.M. Marc - Jul 29, 2016 6:14:38 pm PDT #25295 of 30003
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

Teppy, there's a whole page you can just send people like your FB friend to.

[link]

(It's the "want to like, don't know where to start" page.)


Laura - Jul 29, 2016 6:19:51 pm PDT #25296 of 30003
Our wings are not tired.

Thanks, Plei. I can use that link!