Full Disk Encryption

2008-06-02 2 Comments

I will be redoing the TrueCrypt Benchmarks in the next week on a new PC that is standard spec where I work. It will be Core 2 based with 1GB RAM and SATA drives. I am running TrueCrypt’s FDC on my MacBook Pro under Bootcamp and I haven’t noticed any perceivable performance drop even playing games like COD4 and Company of Heroes.

EDIT: I have started the testing, but things at work just went waaayyyy wrong. These will be out as soon as I can get them done.

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Food Portion Size, 20 Years Ago vs. Today

2008-05-15

A visual representation of what sizes used to be (20 years ago) compared to what they are today.

I really wish some days that I could get a 32ounce cuppa Jo here in “Sunny” South Africa

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Flip your blog

2008-03-10

This is probably one of the strangest ideas I have ever used, try it yourself at http://www.revfad.com/flip.html

Here it is flipped

l????d?l?/?o??p?????????//:d??? ?? ?l?s?no? ?? ??? ‘p?sn ???? ???? ? s??p? ?s??u???s ??? ?o ?uo ?lq?qo?d s? s???

EDIT: OMFG, doesn’t work here. Oh well, I tried :-O

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Change the default search in the Flock Browser

2008-02-23 3 Comments

I really enjoy using the Flock browser, but for one HUGE annoyance. Why oh Why did they have to use Yahoo as the default search engine and then making it stupid to change. You would assume that changing the default under Search preferences that it would change it when using the URL bar to search, but no. I found instructions by aRugus Chang not using Yahoo of course but Google. To do it takes 5 steps

  1. Open a new tab and type “about:config” in the URL bar
  2. Type browser.search.def
  3. Double click the entry and change to “Google”
  4. Type keyword.url
  5. Double click the entry and enter “http://www.google.co.za/search?lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=”

This will change searches to use http://www.google.co.za as this is the url for South Africa, but you could use co.uk for Google UK or what ever the tld is for your Google search. You can also change this to Live search, if you really want seeing is it is better than Yahoo. To do this use “Live” in step 3 and “http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q=”

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