A reinstallation of my laptop at the weekend allowed me to test out an encrypted installation. The point of an encrypted installation is to require a passphrase to be entered at boot-up in order to transparently decrypt the rest of the system. This means that if the laptop is lost or stolen, none of my… (read more)

This week I have been mostly doing the following: Suffering from a Stomach Bug. This has been Unpleasant; Playing tennis, bowling and baseball on the Wii: excellent fun, even though I have acquired one or two Actual Sporting Injuries; Investigating the use of TrueCrypt as a suitable cross-platform solution for encrypting USB memory sticks. It… (read more)