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I’ve hired you to help me start a war. It’s an prestigious line of work, with a long and glorious tradition. — Vizzini, from The Princess Bride VMware is a great program, and I like it a lot. But there are some things you just can’t do in it… full 3D graphics in Linux, for …
I just saw this on Groklaw (from commenter “PSaltyDS”) and had to grab it: Geek’s Corollary to Clarke’s Law “Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.” Perfect. 🙂
This is the kind of science-fiction-like technology that I love hearing about! I don’t suffer from allergies much, but GoddessJ does, several times a year. This should make her very happy.
As described earlier, I’ve been trying to come up with a way to make the automatically-mounted TrueCrypt-encrypted home directory, on my Ubuntu Linux machine, also automatically unmount when I log off. I’ve finally done so, and I’ve learned some fascinating things about Linux in the process.
Anyone who studies Microsoft quickly figures out that it’s collective corporate personality is paranoid. Anything that even might be competition someday is either bought up or crushed mercilessly. It didn’t make sense to me at the time, but that’s how it viewed the Internet at first, and why it moved to kill off Netscape. It …
The jungle is getting ever more dangerous. If you’re not using Firefox with NoScript, I’d highly recommend that you start doing so NOW!
When I finished part three of this series, I didn’t think there was much left to describe. The only thing that I was still puzzled about was how to automatically unmount the TrueCrypt drive when I logged off (which I haven’t had a chance to work on yet); once I’d finished that, I would be …
As described earlier, I’ve been trying to set up an encrypted home directory for my Ubuntu Linux system on my notebook computer, to protect my data if the hardware is stolen. I finally got my TrueCrypt drive formatted to a proper Linux file system; next up was figuring out how to automatically mount it when …
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 …
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 …