I have whole-disk encryption on my laptop, so I’ve been frustrated that my backups were going to an unencrypted disk that sits in a shared office. The chance of that disk wandering off is low, but still: I wanted encryption. My first strategy was to make an 11GB .img file with dd and losetup, but [...]
Tagged backups, encfs, rsync, ubuntuMost of you get this via planet TriLUG or feedburner, but for those of you that actually visit the site, you’ll notice that I’ve made a bunch of changes to the sidebar recently. The most recent and most important is that I made a page for the COSI calendar. I’m going to get off my [...]
Awesome. (Also, redhat are running Lyceum. Woot.)
Quesionable Content is often good for the lulz:
Perhaps my google-fu is failing. I can’t seem to find an equivalent to debian’s apticron in Fedora. My specific requirements are for a tool that:
shows what packages have updates available
shows what kind (eg. critical security, moderate security, bugfix) of update each package is
checks at user-configurable intervals
sends mail at user-configurable intervals
includes changelog or similar info in [...]
Horrible videography, but very good brief explanation of why the Novell & MS deal is so bad:
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