…or how I learned to stop Microsofting and love the Linux
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 …
This morning I noticed that Thunderbird (on my new virtual Linux machine) was showing message dates in the confusing 06/10/07 format. I much prefer the ISO standard date format (2007-06-10) — not only does it prevent confusion about which is the day and which is the month, it also comes out in the proper order …
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As mentioned earlier, I’ve been running my Ubuntu Linux test machine in VMware 5.5.4, because I already had a license for that version and I didn’t care to upgrade to VMware 6.0 at that point. However, a few days ago I ran across a description of the new features in VMware 6.0, and they looked …
History is written by the winners –George Orwell (maybe)
Always have a backup plan. —Mila Kunis
…Two OSes diverged in a wood, and I — I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.
In which our brave hero valiantly battles the forces of corrupted hard drives.