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2011 Seasons Greetings

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To all site visitors: Have A Cool Yule!

2011 has been a challenging year for me and mine…

We’ve had to deal with the Magnitude 9 quake in March – which was a bit of an adventure, I can assure you ;) Then the radiation threat from the Fukushima

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Light blogging

I always find these “blogging is light” posts dull, but, I feel they’re necessary…

I’ve had a stinker of a cold the past week or so, which is why there’s been nothing new.

Suffice to say the cold has still got a hold of me, but, at the same time in the background I am

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How to install and multi-boot between Windows, and Debian Testing with full disk encryption

 

 

Lets say you have a laptop or a netbook which you take with you everywhere, and on which you keep sensitive information. (Lets even say you have a home computer with sensitive information.)

You don’t have to be a secret agent or a crook to have sensitive information. Everyone has sensitive information!

Sensitive

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Customize Xterm, the original and best terminal…

There’s all sorts of terminal emulators available these days.

Most of the “modern” ones, like gnome-terminal for example, have lots of whiz-bang features like menu-driven customization, background picture or transparency, setting the font used, and so on.

The thing is, all these nice features introduce their own problems, the biggest one for me is BLOAT.

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