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Jeg står nå ansikt til ansikt med folkeviljen.

Dere er folkeviljen.

Tusener på tusener av nordmenn, i Oslo og over hele landet, gjør det samme i kveld.

Erobrer gatene, torgene – det offentlige rom med samme trassige budskap:

Vi er sønderknust, men vi gir oss ikke.

Med fakler og roser gir vi verden beskjed.

Vi lar ikke frykten knekke oss.

Og vi lar ikke frykten for frykt kneble oss.-

Sandy Smith - Reproduced from The Transverse Myelitis Association Journal

Having had TM for almost 22 years, I still find it very difficult to accept what happened to me 6 months ago. I feel as though I experienced a miracle. I hope that my story will give hope to other TM sufferers.

Courtesy of Douglas Adams

A couple of years or so ago I was a guest on Start The Week, and I was authoritatively informed by a very distinguished journalist that the whole Internet thing was just a silly fad like ham radio in the fifties, and that if I thought any different I was really a bit naïve. It is a very British trait – natural, perhaps, for a country which has lost an empire and found Mr Blobby – to be so suspicious of change.

I've previously documented the process "Building Enigmail for SeaMonkey in Ubuntu 8.10" and the problems which I had to solve to get a working system.

I then went on to build an AMD64 build of the Enigmail plugin as I'm using the AMD64 install of Ubuntu 8.10. And, of course, I started off by following my earlier recipe to build the i686 32-bit version.

This went well, until I installed Enigmail, where I encountered an error that indicated the enigmime modules was unavailable.

I like SeaMonkey - I've used it for years (since the days of Netscape Communicator), but I also like using GnuPG signing and encryption of my mail. There's no enigmail package for Ubuntu 8.10 so I had to go and roll my own.

Here's the procedure I followed to build my own Enigmail package for Ubuntu :

I like the Mozilla suite but missed having a working EnigMail. As I'm running Debian on an AMD64 and there's no working EnigMail for i386 I figured I had a snowball's chance in hell.

I tried working from the Debian packages for IceDove and from the packages from the previous release for Mozilla-EnigMail without success.

I then found a link to a page with info on how to achieve this, so I've reproduced it here along with downloadable configuration files and an installable .XPI for Debian Etch AMD64.

I've been trying to install a PGP keyserver for some time, then found sks.
It's in the Ubuntu repositories, so actually installing it is a breeze :

# sudo apt-get install sks

However, configuring it is a little more complicated, here are the steps I took :

There's no 64-bit download for SeaMonkey on the official Mozilla site. I've built versions for x86_64 on Ubuntu 9.10.
Also available is the OpenPGP extension.

My daughter got a Lenovo netbook for school use, and I realised that there were no instructions on how best to keep it updated and secure, so I wrote this for other parents.
Of course it's pretty much general advice on how to keep a Windows XP machine updated, so applies to just about everybody.
It's also available as a downloadable pdf, download it here.
I hope this is of some use.

Daniele Raffo has produced a superb handbook for users of Enigmail. Rainydayz are pleased to announce that an online version is now available on our site.

Whilst all attempts at maintaining consistency have been made, in cases of inconsistency between the pdf and the online versions it is the pdf version that is the definitive version.