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Full disk encryption with Arch Linux footnotes
Pavel Kogan has an excellent guide to install Arch Linux with full disk encryption. I've taken the liberty of copying the instructions, adding a couple tweaks:
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Shell scripting dos and don’ts
Shell scripting is like a room full of power tools: handy but dangerous.
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Save your bookmarks on Pinboard!
Why? Check this out:
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Why I still contribute to Stack Overflow
This is in response to Michael T. Richter's excellent critique of Stack Overflow (Update: sorry, the link is dead). While I share some of the concerns for the problems mentioned there, I don't believe they are quite as detrimental to the quality of the site as he appears to.
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How good is your unsubscribe?
How far down the list do you get? These are all real issues with real newsletters or mailing lists I have at some time had the misfortune to subscribe to. Some of them are still filling up my spam box after multiple attempts at getting rid of them.
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UK technology fail
Since moving to the UK after living in Norway, France and Switzerland, it seems that this country, more than any other I know of in the Western world, is stuck in the 20th century. Here are some examples encountered in the last few months:
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Bug #1: Home directory is not version controlled
How to reproduce: Modify dotfiles and scripts in the home directory on multiple machines without keeping track of the changes.
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SMS authentication on wordpress.com fail
wordpress.com recently added two step authentication. Hooray for taking security seriously! Unfortunately the setup page is full of fail:
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BT VDSL modem linkjacking HTTP URLs
Yet another reason to install HTTPS Everywhere and NoScript: It looks like our BT Hub 4 is linkjacking all HTTP URLs:
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Precycling phone directories, Oxford style
Quick guide to reducing paper waste by precycling phone directories in Oxford, UK: