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  • A review of Apples latest high end headphone offering, from a non-audiophile point of view.

    While Google Voice is not truly even a “beta” yet, developers have already written native iPhone apps to interface with the service, and users are already finding ways to make it more useful. Push notifications are absent from all of the iPhone apps so far, but there are solutions available.

    Internet service in the U.S. has become a non-competitive landscape of slow line speeds and lately, blatant abuse of power. We may need to start treating internet service like a regulated utility if it is to remain the open engine for innovation we’ve come to know and love

    It is now possible to encrypt an entire Linux system, including root, the boot partition, and even the kernel itself. I’ll detail how it works, and what it means for users of future Linux distributions.

    A common problem in the IT world, upgrades sometimes break things. However by combining some excellent tools together the problem can be solved entirely.

    Dual boot encryption

    A tutorial on dual booting an encrypted Windows XP or Vista system alongside an encrypted Ubuntu system

    Linux, not GNU/Linux

    We get it, a lot of the software on a “Linux” distribution came from GNU. We appreciate it, it is good software, but please stop trying to force this horrible “GNU/Linux” brand name on the community.

    Because of the way FileVault on OS X works, only a users home folder is encrypted. Anyone who has worked with a complex Unix based system can tell you that sensitive information can be written outside a users home folder. I decided to try and mitigate the problem by using built-in OS X tools and some clever scripting.

    Commandline secure delete on OS X

    You may know you can secure erase the OS X trash can, but did you know also OS X comes with a terminal command that can wipe and rename files before deleting them?

    A quick but useful tip to make OS X always boot in verbose mode, where startup messages are displayed on the screen instead of the grey apple logo, as well as boot into single user mode first before continuing the boot process to graphical login.