[Vimoutliner] Encrypted outline: was Obvious but don't get it: how do I move outline at N+1 to N

[Peter Princz]

Steve,

please find my comments inline.

On 03/09/06, Steve Litt <slitt at troubleshooters.com> wrote:
>
> I'm wondering if you can find more convenient alternatives to this. Let's
> start with these two questions:
>
> 1) Do all parts of this huge outline concern all other parts, or do some parts
> not concern the others?

Yes, they concern. I call it my BrainDump. It's a huge todo list with
all the projects (be it professional or private life related) running
in parallel. It also contains my Diary. A calendar day is a set of
pointers to tasks in the ToDo list.

>
> 2) Do all parts of this huge outline need to be encrypted, or only some parts?

I feel myself safer if it's only one file and that is encrypted. I
gave a try to :Calendar, but found it dufficult to have the calendar
days in separate files.

>
> If the answer to both parts is "yes", consider making your master outline a
> list of interoutline links (after we bring interoutline linking to Windows).

Good idea, will do that. My understanding is there is no interoutline
linking on Windows. I'll have a new employer in two weeks, maybe I'll
migrate to a linux box. In that case this also will be on my agenda.

> The leaf notes of my master outline are all interoutline links, and it works
> fantastically. Under such a scenario, those suboutlines requiring encryption
> could be left open.

I see! Good!

>
> Better yet, how about doing something so that your entire hard drive is
> incrypted. I think such things exist in Linux, so perhaps they exist in
> Windows too.

Yes, it's even corporate standard here recently, however, my computer
is a bit old, and it hasn't been retrofitted with the hdd-encryption.
I'll leave it as it is for the remaining two weeks.

>
> You mention getting a faster computer. How fast is your current processor, how
> much RAM do you have, and what is your current Windows version?

It has a 2GHz Intel processor with 1 GB RAM and is 3 years old. It was
strong at that time, nowadays would qualify for an office-thingy only,
I bet. :o
The OS is Windows2000 Prof. SP4.

Now I did a real measurement on the decryption time, and it's actually
35 seconds, not 1 minute, as I wrote. Strange, it seems a minute.

Please find a more detailed excerpt from the system info below:
System Information report written at: 2006-09-04 11:02:30
[System Summary]

Item	Value
OS Name	Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional
Version	5.0.2195 Service Pack 4 Build 2195
OS Manufacturer	Microsoft Corporation
System Manufacturer	Compaq
System Model	Evo N610c DD502A
System Type	X86-based PC
Processor	x86 Family 15 Model 2 Stepping 7 GenuineIntel ~1993 Mhz
BIOS Version	EPP runtime BIOS - Version 1.1
Total Physical Memory	1 047 920 KB
Available Physical Memory	521 196 KB
Total Virtual Memory	3 019 588 KB
Available Virtual Memory	2 041 220 KB
Page File Space	1 971 668 KB
Page File	C:\pagefile.sys

>
> SteveT
>

Have a nice day,
  Peter

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