In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But in practice, there is. Jan L. A. van de Snepscheut As described in part 1 of this entry, I attempted to format a TrueCrypt-encrypted drive to the standard Linux ext3 format. As alluded to there, this turned out to be more difficult than I …

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The last three iterations of my main computer have been notebooks, rather than desktops. Although there are some major disadvantages to that (limited expandability, limited graphics capabilities, much harder to repair or swap parts), there’s one huge advantage — portability. I can literally take my work with me anywhere, even to places that don’t have …

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