You can get from a few of my last posts that I like Electrum – a light Bitcoin client that does not download its own blockchain (1,2 GB of data, thank you very much). Instead it uses a server (the Electrum server, obviously) for that, and it only holds the keys. Add to this deterministic wallets and a easy to understand Python code => love it.
I love live CD/USB distributions. Tiny Core, System Rescue CD, BitDefender Live… I use them all. I even created a tool for Android rooting and unlocking: Freedom 4 Android. So it only made sense that I’d love a live CD with Bitcoin, too.
What’s a passcard? It’s simple: a password card – a physical card that can store your passwords in a safe way. You keep it in your wallet and you use if when you need it. And because a picture is worth 1000 words, take a look at this:
The following is a simple trick that is useful when you fork a project and at some point in the future you want/need to merge the changes from the upstream (original) repository. My usage scenario was this:
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I don’t like to recompile software. I also laugh my ass off when some Gentoo “god” tells me how much faster their system became after they tweaked their compile flags. But (because there’s always a “but”) once in a while I do compile software. And in some of those cases, I really want the best optimization possible.
