Mac OS X: How to secure an external hard drive.

Apple’s FileVault is great if you want or need to secure your entire home folder. Unfortunately, FileVault does not encrypt your data on a second hard-drive or a removable drive. If, like me, you use an external portable firewire hard-drive when traveling, you can you Apple’s Disk Image Encryption to securely encrypt the data on your removable media.

To create a new “Disk Image” with Encryption

Open the Disk Utility under \applications\utilities.

Click on New Image

Type in the new image name,

Set the encryption to AES-128 bit

Pick an image size appropriate for your removable hard-drive

The image will show up as a volume on your desktop.

Now drag the new image to your portable hard-drive and you are done. All file placed inside the new volume will be automatically encrypted and secured.

You can move files to or from an encrypted disk image as easily as you can from a non-encrypted disk image.

Cristiano Pierry

Mac OS X: How to secure an external hard drive.

Originally from Applepie by Cris

Change or Modify the Drive Letter and Paths in Windows Vista

In Windows Vista, if for whatever reason the drive letter or paths assignment to a disk drive, CD or DVD drive, flash memory disk drive, or external hard disk drive needed to be changed or modified, users can use Disk Management console to manage the volumes and drives on the computer just like in Windows [...]

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Did it ever happen to you that your computer was unbelievably slow because your hard disk was so busy? I am sure it did. Sometimes you know the culprit keeping the light of your disk drive blinking like wild. But most of the time you probably wonder what the heck could have a higher priority for Windows other than loading the application you just launched.

There are tools that can help you track down the program that keeps your hard disk busy, but usually you don’t have them to hand when needed.

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Assign Drive Letters to Folders

This tip is really great if you have some folders on your computer that you are working very often with. Instead of navigating to the folder on the hard drive you assign a drive letter to that folder and can access it like it was a own partition or hard drive on your computer. It is very easy to assign a drive letter to a folder, do the following:

Assign Drive Letters to Folders

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Howto: Recover lost files after you accidentally wipe your hard drive

Shawn Hermans show us how to How to recover lost files after you accidentally wipe your hard drive.

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How to boot with grub off a floppy and into your hard drive

Having a problem with grub on your Linux box can really ruin your computing experience. That’s why it’s always handy to make a bootable grub floppy and stick it in a drawer somewhere, just in case.

Here’s how you do it in Ubuntu, although these instructions will be pretty much the same in any distro.

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Quick tip: Tell what hardware is connected via USB to my Linux desktop

USB devices are quite common these days. I’ve digital cam, Pen drive, external hard disk, mouse and other stuff. So how do I tell what hardware is connected via USB to my Linux desktop?
lsusb is a utility for displaying information about USB buses in the system and the devices connected to them. To make use [...]

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How-to Secure Your IRC Connection

This is a follow-up post to my first post about how to secure your mIRC client. Securing your IRC connection is important in order for you to stay anonymous.
One way of securing your IRC connection is by encryption using SSL.
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How-to Secure Your IRC Connection

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How to clone your bootable Ubuntu install to another drive

If you’ve ever wanted to completely clone your Ubuntu install, with all of the tweaks, files you’ve downloaded and changes you’ve made to it, there’s a fairly simple way to do this. This is great if you want a complete backup, or if you’re looking to move your system to a newer (read: bigger, faster, stronger) hard drive or even just to clone your install to other machines with the same hardware.

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Remove Microsoft Word Manual Formatting or Copied Formatting from External Source

When you copy and paste a block of text into Microsoft Office Word document from external source or third party documents such as web browser or another documents, the existing hidden formatting from the external documents on the pasted text block will also be pasted into the existing Word document, thus affecting the size or [...]

Remove Microsoft Word Manual Formatting or Copied Formatting from External Source

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