Eric Law has an interesting piece on HTTPS. Short version: it’s not a panacæa.
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Eric Law has an interesting piece on HTTPS. Short version: it’s not a panacæa.
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Noöne runs Linux, right? Well, not quite: here’s a list of fifty Linux users you might not expect. From our own government, to foreign states, to aircraft, to some of your favourite websites, Linux is everywhere.
Why not give Ubuntu a spin today?
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No-one runs Linux, right? Well, not quite: here’s a list of fifty Linux users you might not expect. From our own government, to foreign states, to aircraft, to some of your favourite websites, Linux is everywhere.
Why not give Ubuntu a spin today?
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I just discovered Lightweight Portable Security, a Linux distribution released by the US Air Force. The idea is that it’s a system which boots from a CD or flash drive and works entirely in volatile memory — thus any malware is unable to survive a reboot.
They even have an LPS-Remote Access which is the only way to access government systems without government-furnished equipment. That’s pretty cool!
It’s a nifty idea, particularly for folks who have to travel and use unknown hardware a lot.
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I just discovered Lightweight Portable Security, a Linux distribution released by the US Air Force. The idea is that it’s a system which boots from a CD or flash drive and works entirely in volatile memory — thus any malware is unable to survive a reboot.
They even have an LPS-Remote Access which is the only way to access government systems without government-furnished equipment. That’s pretty cool!
It’s a nifty idea, particularly for folks who have to travel and use unknown hardware a lot.
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How to install Linux Mint on an encrypted volume
One of the few things I miss about Fedora when using Ubuntu and related GNU/Linux distributions is the ease of setting up fairly complex disk partitioning schemes. I’m a big believer in disk mirroring (to protect against hard drive failure) and in encryption (to protect against data loss due to hardware theft), and Ubuntu requires use of an alternate, text-based installer while Linux Mint doesn’t even do that much.
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One of the few things I miss about Fedora when using Ubuntu and related GNU/Linux distributions is the ease of setting up fairly complex disk partitioning schemes. I’m a big believer in disk mirroring (to protect against hard drive failure) and in encryption (to protect against data loss due to hardware theft), and Ubuntu requires use of an alternate, text-based installer while Linux Mint doesn’t even do that much.
Fortunately, this is Linux, which means I have all the tools I need to get this to work.
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Here’s a list of 97 essays for programmers, each written by a different author. They look pretty interesting, and the ones I’ve read seem pretty smart.
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Here’s a list of 97 essays for programmers, each written by a different author. They look pretty interesting, and the ones I’ve read seem pretty smart.
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My acquaintances know that I work in computers; my friends may know that I’m a Unix developer & sysadmin; my close friends might actually know that Unix is a computer operating system. What few if any of them know is why I use Unix, why I love using it and why I will not own a computing device without it. It boils down to the fact that I do not merely use computers; I wield them to some end — and there has not been an OS which has combined mainstream success and wieldability like Unix has.
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My acquaintances know that I work in computers; my friends may know that I’m a Unix developer & sysadmin; my close friends might actually know that Unix is a computer operating system. What few if any of them know is why I use Unix, why I love using it and why I will not own a computing device without it. It boils down to the fact that I do not merely use computers; I wield them to some end — and there has not been an OS which has combined mainstream success and wieldability like Unix has.
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