About /etc

For those of you who aren't familiar with *nix, /etc a subdirectory of the root directory in the file structure. Technically this is where configuration files are stored, but I'm playing on the abbreviation etc., which is Latin, the language that I have studied. Because et cetera means “and the rest” I figured that it would be a decent name for a place where I can put my random stuff. (Okay, so it wasn't really my idea, it was WMC's.) So on January 7, 2004, I took advantage of 1&1 Internet's “give away three years of service for free” plan, registered the domain, and made this site.

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Q & A

Why are there dotted underlines under some words?
These are acronyms, abbreviations or explanations. Move your mouse over them to see the hover text.
How do you pronounce /etc?
Slash et cetera, or slash ets if you're lazy.
Where did you get the scripts that this site uses?
I wrote all the code for this site except for the basic layout template (i.e. the code that makes the two columns work), which I got from Position Is Everything. The header background was made by Kimberly Barnett.
Is the site supposed to look like that?
This site's design was tested for compatibility with Gecko-based browsers (i.e. Mozilla Firefox) and IE 5.5+. It should display correctly with any standards-compliant browser, and hopefully in the non-compliant ones too. Note: IE is not standards-compliant.
Why don't you have more content?
Because I can't really think of anything else to put here. If you have any idea, please tell me.
What is PGP?
PGP stands for Pretty Good Privacy, and is used for encryption and signing of content. For my encryption, I use software based on GnuPG (aka GPG), which is an OpenPGP-compliant application, and, unlike normal PGP, is free of restricting patents. I use Gpg4win (includes GPG and various frontends) for my standalone program, and Enigmail for my Thunderbird extension. This is all free, open-source software. There are also GPG frontends for other OSes.