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I’ve started a new job recently and with it came a new, very nice, laptop. And of course my whole “workflow” is changing so that’s pushed me to look at some new tools for doing my job. I like to tinker with new tools and utilities from time to time. tmux First up is tmux. […]
Linux with encrypted root and swap with working hibernate to disk
Closed Published by scotth September 17th, 2009 in Computers, Internet, Linux, OS, Security, TipsI recently installed Linux Mint (ubuntu with some goodies) on a laptop and wanted an encrypted whole disk. In order for this to be truly secure, you need encrypted swap. Well most of the HOWTOs for encrypting swap use a randomized key. This breaks hibernate to disk for laptops because the linux kernel has no […]
Writing up the procedure I use to stream music got me thinking about problems with it and alternatives. One problem that it has is that I must be logged in on the console, in X, running xmms. A power-outage forced reboot could end my musical bliss at work ;). Someone else pointed out that I […]
I’d done this a long time ago and pretty much forgotton all about it. I’ve used procmail for a long time to pre-sort all my mailing list mail among other tasks. I also use it as a mechanism to distribute my gpg public key. If you send me a message with the subject “get key”, […]
If you’re like me, you’ve taken the time to rip your entire music collection to mp3. I have a huge collection of CDs and like to listen to them in the car with my portable mp3 player. I also like to listen to them at work. Since I have a PC and net access, I […]
Using Knoppix and Partimage to “Ghost” whole systems.
Closed Published by scotth February 21st, 2003 in TipsRecently at work I needed a way to quickly recover systems from bare metal to a known-good state. These were, of course, Windows2000 boxes. Now there are several commercial solutions to “ghost” a system, but I didn’t have funds available to do that. Enter knoppix. Knoppix is a bootable CDROM distribution of Linux. It has […]
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