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| A blog by Christopher T. Cressman, where Chris writes about work, life, and technology. ... |
Thursday, June 19, 2008 --- 79 days ago http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/christophertcressman/~3/174065761/
| You probably don’t know—since I haven’t written about it here—that I use Ubuntu as my primary OS at home. At work, however, I exclusively use Windows XP. I often need my work data at home and my home data at work, so I use a hard disk rack mount to securely move my data drive between my home and work PCs. This solution works, but is imperfect. This is only one of several elements of my computing experience with which I’m dissatisfied. I am optimistic things will improve with the recent release of Ubuntu 7.10, Gutsy Gibbon. NTFS Write Support Out of the box, Gutsy Gibbon can read and write to NTFS partitions. Currently my portable data partition is formatted with the FAT 32 file system. This has been a problem for me when dealing with large media files, since FAT 32 has a file size limit of approximately 4 GB . Once I upgrade, I can reformat my data partition using NTFS and read and write to the partition from both my home and work PCs. Hard Disk Encryption Gutsy Gibbon supports full disk encryption. Since I move my data between work and home, securing my data with encryption is high on my list of solutions to implement. I’m currently seaking a solution that will support my one-drive, multiple OS environment. I’ll definitely be giving this one a look. Other Improvements Other improvements I’m looking forward to are lower power consumption through hardware management, desktop 3D effects, disk indexing, desktop search, and improved graphi ... |
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