From Bits to Bites &
Windshields to Worship

Computers, Cooking, Cars, Christianity, and More …

About

Life is a fusion of interests and energies, a crossroads of many different pathways of thought. This is an attempt at living into that messiness.

Archive for the tag 'encryption'

Setting up LUKS encryption on USB drives

Monday, September 21st, 2009

Part of the “Upgraded Linux Backup” series.

After obtaining (and assembling) my new backup hardware my first order of business was to get the external hard drives formatted and set up with drive encryption. In Ubuntu, the easiest way to encrypt a whole drive is using LUKS – it is easily readable by most Linux computers and can even be set up on a Windows PC, if absolutely necessary. This post will walk through the (remarkably simple) process of setting up encryption and formatting for most any USB flash or hard drive

View entire post »

Upgraded Linux Backup

Tuesday, August 4th, 2009

After taking a couple weeks to upgrade my home network backup system I feel I’ve learned some lessons that some other folks might benefit from. So many lessons, in fact, that one blog post seems inadequate to contain them all. With that in mind, I’m going to be authoring a series on all the steps along the way.

View entire post »

Search

Site

Recent Comments

Latest Tweets

  • @TerraLJ Also, be careful not to overcook! Quinoa only takes about 10-15 minutes tops. It's done as soon as all the liquid is gone. in reply to TerraLJ 1 hr ago
  • @TerraLJ Often you can just swap quinoa and rice in a recipe you already like. Texture is slightly different, but same 2-1 liquid-dry ratio. in reply to TerraLJ 1 hr ago
  • Anybody out there interested in buying my old Verizon Blackberry Curve 8330? I'll make a good deal for friends ... 1 day ago
  • More updates...