Archive for the ‘Network’ Category

Steam Connection Error (“you must first connect to the Internet”)

Monday, July 5th, 2010

I was able to download and install Valve's Steam client on my Windows 7 64-bit machine, but when I tried to run the client I would instantly receive this error: Steam.exe (main exception): To run Steam, you must first connect to the Internet I tried changing port-forwarding rules in my router, ...

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Publishing GPG Public Key in DNS Records

Tuesday, February 9th, 2010

Publishing GPG/PGP keys to public keyservers has one glaring fault: once you commit something, you can never remove it. I made the mistake of adding my email address at an employer's domain. Now it is permanently tied to my public key and email address. Assuming that you own ...

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