Here is a complete guide to full disk encryption using Cryptsetup, dm_crypt and LUKS, allowing you to tailor the encryption settings to your specification. The title says Ubuntu and the walkthrough happens in Mint but the instructions should generally apply to any distro which gives you either a live session or a shell where you …
Recently I’ve been putting together some Apparmor profiles for default and useful internet facing programs in Ubuntu-based distros. They’re completely custom made and much more restrictive than the default profiles from the repositories. Here’s the catch though—these are base profiles for you to easily build on. These are NOT drop-in solutions for 100% functionality right from the …
I always thought this site may begin dabbling in hardware but I had no idea it would start like this. Summer is around the corner for you northern hemisphere people and that means thunderstorms. Fun stuff, but if a destructive power surge makes its way into your house and kills your computer or worse, you’re …
Seven days after Microsoft kinda stopped supporting Windows XP, the world is (for the most part) no worse than it was last week. Here’s the reality: MANY people and MANY businesses have no intention of changing from Windows XP any time soon. All echo each other with similar reasons: the time involved, the cost, the learning curve, …
This page was originally made to show the differences in several benchmark scores between a totally default Firefox 7.0.1 and FF with the often recommended about:config tweaks for better network performance. A lot has changed since version 7. I re-ran the benchmarks in Firefox 38 and the config changes which once showed a measurable improvement …