Use encrypted filesystems with Linux Logical Volume Manager

This week's TechMail is Use encrypted filesystems with Linux Logical Volume Manager which discusses how to setup LVM with encryption right at install-time. I'm finding for myself that having information, particularly on laptops, encrypted is becoming increasingly important to me. The nice thing with LVM and having the entire drive …

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Tattoo #11

Well, this past Thursday I got my 11th tattoo (although it only looks like I have 9 in total, two were to extend earlier tattoos). Every other tattoo was pretty good pain-wise... no big deal. This one wasn't too bad either, except in a few tender spots... base of the …

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The return of Annvix

Well, sort of.

Annvix is not coming back as an operating system like it used to be, but rather a repository of packages for RHEL/CentOS (currently just version 5). There is very little there right now: a new version of openssh and a new version of logwatch. It will …

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