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On Ubuntu or Debian, it’s really simple to create an encrypted partition on a newly-purchased USB mass storage device. In my case, I had bought a 1TB hard drive which had very mixed reviews, some people saying their drives had failed very early. I wanted to be able to return the drive under warranty if [...] Update: It is now possible to buy an official subscription to The Guardian and The Observer. The rest of this post is now largely of historical interest if you just want The Guardian on your Kindle, but I’ve left the rest of the content unchanged for people who are interested in how I generated my [...] I used to host my photos with a simple set of CGI scripts that basically worked well enough for my simple requirements. Such web applications are easy and fun to write, but in the end I decided that it wasn’t worth it because: Hosting large amounts of data on a generic shell account is typically [...] LyX is a lovely bit of software for preparing beautiful documents – you get the high quality output of LaTeX and the advantages of logical document description in a usable interface and without having to remember TeX syntax. There are a few aspects of using LyX that puzzled me while writing a certain large document, [...] |
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