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TrueCrypt Full System Encryption on a Netbook
January 2nd, 2010For the uninitiated, TrueCrypt is a Free, Open Source, on-the-fly disk encryption software. You can do many things with it, from Encrypting flash drive, to creating Encrypted file containers, to Full System Encryption. I had done all except the latter and I have been wanting to try it out. For various reasons though I had [...]
Make Firefox More Secure, Disable Java
November 13th, 2009No, not Javascript. Java.
Despite similar names, Javascript and Java are 2 entirely different things.
Java, or Java applets are programs that can be embedded in to websites. They are generally poorly written, and hardly ever function right. Most people will probably never even need java, and in fact the only website I can think of that [...]
Changing Antivirus Programs, so long NOD32
August 5th, 2009For the last couple years I have relied on NOD32 to protect my systems from the nastiness of malware, viruses, and all the like.
For most of that time it was a good program. It had it’s little hiccups along the way, but they always seemed to be resolved by Eset rather quickly.
That was until Vista [...]
Clean up old files after installing Vista’s SP2
May 28th, 2009Around a year ago I wrote about getting 800mb of space back after installing SP1, and I come to you today with a similar tip for SP2!
This one is not as dramatic as 800mb, but I did gain back around 400mb of disk space.
Just as with SP1, this works by removing backup files made during [...]
Install IPCop from a USB Drive
May 1st, 2009IPCop is a really neat open source project that can basically transform any old computer with 2 NIC’s in it in to a hardware firewall, VPN server, and Web Filter, among many other useful things.
We use it quite a lot where I work and we’re always looking for the smaller, better IPCop box.
The most recent [...]
Messing with Script Kiddies
January 15th, 2009Starting the first week in January, I started noticing my personal server getting pounded with requests looking for roundcube or mantis installs on my system. After doing a bit of research at the Internet Storm Center I realized it was a new vulneribility in these programs and these script kiddies were just scanning servers [...]
iPhone 2.2 Jailbreakers, free up space from previous Jailbreaks!
November 26th, 2008I noticed that after my upgrade and reinstalling my apps I was missing a huge chunk of my free space.
I got to investigating and noticed that every folder in /private/var/stash was duplicated! It appeared as though it still had my old folder from the first upgrade on there… as well as the newly made folders.
Some [...]
So Long iGoogle!
October 22nd, 2008It’s been almost a week now and iGoogle still has no option of reverting. It is still loading slow and the new way their “widgets” load is fucking terrible.
As of today I am changing my home page on all of my machines at work and home. I refuse to use a home page that looks [...]
