24 May 2002 redhog   » (Journeyer)

mpr: There's anoher reason to use ssh (instaed of say telnet) in addition to cryptated communication - secure authentification. And the latter is indeed something with a use in the Free Softtware/Open Source society - to know for sure who modifies what is crucial. And OpenSSH and GNU Privacy Gard provides just that! But I agree with you that the cryptography part of those packages is not at all as needed in this society (although in the real world)...
Ouch, nixPoll() is still resisting all my atempts to debug it!
I also polished my new font, Times Gothic (an antiqua with a handdrawn look and thicker left-legs than ight ones) a bit more, and added some currency symbols, ligatures and other special symbols. It is quite OK as a text-font, but still needs some polishing before code can be printed with it... And of course, I still havn't figured out how to change the vertical advancement of a font in pfaedit...

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