In this post I’m going to briefly discuss the issues I’ve had getting my new X61 notebook booting with 4 OS’s, (Windows Vista, Windows XP, Ubuntu, Backtrack) encrypted.
Preamble: Our new staff laptops are pretty fantastic. Faculty has an initiative subsidizing the cost of deploying tablet notebooks to all schools in Computing and Health Science. I [...]
So this week is the beginning of the final year project for IT and compsci students: since I’m still an undergraduate in the final throes of my degree I get to participate.
After being divided up by specialty last week (Software Development, Networking, Security) we had a brief meeting with our supervisor whereby several things were [...]
A few weeks ago I was tasked with establishing a *nix based server at work for the purposes of development access (first year Unix and C Students).
Up front this sounds fairly simple (install a distro, openssh, install the dev tools, create accounts, voila) but in practice there are a number of other considerations which makes [...]
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Blindsight by Peter Watts
