I’m tired of waiting for a cross-platform whole disk encryption solution that isn’t garbage and/or highly proprietary.The Truecrypt people have been talking about and promising it for years. It’s been used by lots and lots of alpha-nerds on Windows and Linux.Perhaps these guys that seem like they’re scamming on FD will get it done.
Daily Archives: October 16, 2007
FreeBSD 6.2 rootdisk mirroring
October 16, 2007 – 6:47 am
If you’re a little rusty on software raid, as I have been spoiled by hardware raid for some time, good documentation on newer methods can be a little hard to find.For a simple whole root disk mirroring walkthrough, this is a very good guide…. I’m sure you’ve been there before.A novel example of some of the rampant plagiarism in blogs can be seen here, though they do correct the clobbering line to /boot/loader.conf that, for the uninitiated, will clobber (as in erase the contents and replace it with the echoed text) any previous configuration you had there.All I have to do now is order some spare SATA drives for when Bad Things Happen, and I won’t have to think about it for a while besides occasional updates and when I’m actually being productive.Getting more done.
Thunderbird and Google Calendar
October 16, 2007 – 6:21 am
As I mentioned earlier, the Lightning and Provider extensions are handy for getting meeting information flowing with non-Microsoft software.My entry was a bit light on screen captures and detail, so if you were having trouble following it, check out this step by step guide.
