"A long and winding road for IT women"

Hi All, This article [1] covers some ground that we've discussed here before, namely the diverse routes by which women end up in a career in IT. I find it heartening to see this stuff written about in yet another publication, though the figures suggesting that there is an overall decrease in the p

Re: Cycle has entered sid

--- martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can it call hooks? As a service to 4 of my female > friends, I am > currently using remind and a 3 Kb config file (!) to > have a daily > SMS sent to them as a reminder. I'd love to get rid > of all the > remind voodoo syntax and just call 'cycle --

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also sprach Miriam Ruiz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.04.16.1455 +0200]: > I can forward your idea upstream, or think more deeply > about it, but I cannot find an elegant solution right > now. Any ideas? I would appreciate it. It's really low priority thought, since remind is cumbersome but works. Ur

Re: Cycle has entered sid

also sprach martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.04.16.1509 +0200]: > Urks, a GUI programme. Why don't people create command line tools > and put GUIs on top anymore??? What I actually meant is: why don't people create UI-agnostic cores anymore and make the UI a "dumb client"?... thanks for R

Re: Cycle has entered sid

martin f krafft wrote: Urks, a GUI programme. Why don't people create command line tools and put GUIs on top anymore??? My thoughts, exactly! And I suppose the ~/.cycle/username data file is in a form that you can't read or manually edit because of the password protection, but it is annoying. If I

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Hi, ~/.cycle/username can be easily retrieved just using a python's module and knowing the password. I wouldn't like such sensitive data to be stored in plain text in a file. Maybe adding some export/import script? Greetings, Miry --- Avery Ke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > martin f krafft wrote:

Re: Cycle has entered sid

also sprach Miriam Ruiz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.04.16.1610 +0200]: > ~/.cycle/username can be easily retrieved just using a > python's module and knowing the password. I wouldn't > like such sensitive data to be stored in plain text in > a file. Why the heck is it password protected anyway? It's

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--- martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > also sprach Miriam Ruiz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > [2005.04.16.1610 +0200]: > > ~/.cycle/username can be easily retrieved just > using a > > python's module and knowing the password. I > wouldn't > > like such sensitive data to be stored in plain > text

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also sprach Miriam Ruiz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.04.16.1626 +0200]: > Keep in mind that the program is multiplatform and it > is also developed for windows and other OSes. Also, > data for more than one user can be stored. All modern OSs have multiple user accounts and protected areas to store da

Re: "A long and winding road for IT women"

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Helen Faulkner wrote: > Hi All, > > This article [1] covers some ground that we've discussed here before, > namely the diverse routes by which women end up in a career in IT. I > find it heartening to see this stuff written about in yet another > pub

Re: Cycle has entered sid

Hello Miriam, Am 2005-04-16 16:10:58, schrieb Miriam Ruiz: > Hi, > > ~/.cycle/username can be easily retrieved just using a > python's module and knowing the password. I wouldn't > like such sensitive data to be stored in plain text in > a file. I do not understand, what you mean :-) I have so

Re: Cycle has entered sid

Hi Martin, Am 2005-04-16 16:17:13, schrieb martin f krafft: > Why the heck is it password protected anyway? It's already in the > home directory, so ~/.cycle should be permission 700. And root can > get at the data with or without password (just wait until you enter > it, then get the data from m

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Am 2005-04-16 16:26:33, schrieb Miriam Ruiz: > Hi again :) > > Keep in mind that the program is multiplatform and it > is also developed for windows and other OSes. Also, > data for more than one user can be stored. Sorry Miriam, But under Windows each $USER has a home directory which can have

Re: Cycle has entered sid

also sprach Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.04.17.0036 +0200]: > > I understand it's somewhat personal data, but not really much more > > than your email and the like. > > Ssee the ~/.fetchmailrc which contain the $USER passwords for his/her > E-Mail accounts. fetchmail refuse to work,

Re: Cycle has entered sid

Am 2005-04-17 00:33:17, schrieb martin f krafft: > also sprach Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.04.17.0036 +0200]: > > Ssee the ~/.fetchmailrc which contain the $USER passwords for his/her > > E-Mail accounts. fetchmail refuse to work, if it is world or group > > readable. > > Do you k

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On Sun, 17 Apr 2005, Michelle Konzack wrote: > Since I have curenly no working Macintosh (IIvx + iMac premiere > generation) running, I do not know with it, but MacOS X on eMac has > protected $USER directories too. OS 9 and earlier MacOSes do not have a real concept of multiple users, however the

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also sprach Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.04.17.0241 +0200]: > Violating privacy of $USER ? If you cannot trust your admin, don't use the system. So why encrypt? > ROOT $USERS, which look in users $HOME should be killed. Just don't use their systems. -- Please do not send copies o