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Rememer that crazy project, where I transformed a Moleskine into a fully USB hard drive? In that post, i pointed out, that, to give that final “spy” touch, I’ve created a encrypted image, which I dropped inside the hard drive, for security of my data. Theres is a very simple way to do this in Mac OS X, and it’s a good way to keep your data safe, for example, inside a USB pen drive. So let’s get started!
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In the past few weeks, I have been dreaming with something that I know is not very practical to do or implement, but in fact, it could be a challenge and a fun thing to look into to.
What I propose here in theory is to combine a series of tools, to create a rather unique backup solution. What I suggest, is using tools like RAID, LVM, rsync with incremental backups… OK, you might be thinking: “but this is normal stuff”. Now let’s add the twist! Put these tools to work, using Gmail accounts, and you can begin imagining what I have in mind! Continue reading →

Since I acquired a hosting plan, with the great Dreamhost team, I’ve been creating some websites, experimenting with stuff, login in, login out, via terminal ssh and also using CyberDuck sftp client for Mac. And, even though I use Linux for a while now, sometimes laziness takes his best, and it seems like my brain goes numb! Let me explain… Every time I login on my server space, I type a username (if I’m in the terminal this part is skipped, because local user is the same in the remote server, thereby no need to specify user) and a password. This is cool, if you do it one or two times a day, but if you keep doing this a lot, and have a bunch of servers (working in system administration can do this for you =] ) to login, you will get tired typing all this username/passwords all the time! Believe me… Not to mention the fact that a password scheme, is bad for your security! Why not remove all the need for passwords, and use digital security keys? They are like your normal keys, but one keys does it all! Continue reading →

I have to admit! There are a couple of things, that I miss from Windows: “blue screens of death”, the security and performance (ah feel the irony), but most of all, and this being the import one, some apps. That’s right, there are a couple of apps I really enjoy, that don’t exist in Mac. There’s no good eMule client (and stop yelling about aMule, that’s not the same!) and I miss using my favorite BitTorrent client, uTorrent! Continue reading →

Did my first full clean up to my Macbook… Everything went smoothly, and I can only say, once again Apple has everything going in the right direction!

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