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Contents 0.1 The Ingredients: 0.2 Secret Magic Scripts: 0.3 Letting the Penguins talk to the Fruit: 0.4 Convince the Mac its right at home: 0.5 Location, Location, Location: <li> <a href="#Share_this"><span class="toc_number toc_depth_1">1</span> Share this:</a> </li> With the purchase of the Apple Thunderbolt Display my Air now has a jumbo-frame enabled ethernet port at its disposal. My current backup strategy is to utilize an encrypted external USB laptop drive while on the road and to just rsync the latest backup when I get home. This has been working great for a year straight (saved my greasy bacon when the airlines forgot my bag) but I figured it was time to reevaluate with my fancy monitor in the mix. ...

I am in the midst of testing some of the latest Linux kernels and realized that my old kernel config was wiped. In my desire to finish the build I forgot to select a VERY important option if you are using dm-crypt and LUKS. If you cannot access your /boot then there is no way to upgrade your kernel. Chicken and egg issue. Another issue maybe that you lost your /dev/sda1 or other nodes due to udev overtaking. Here is the fix in the situation: ...

Shameless exploit of meme I know... I can’t take it anymore! I lurk on irc.freenode.net and /r/netsec and have seen a few too many mornings now that some person is safe, they used Tor. There is a big misunderstanding in what Tor actually does and protects. Here is my log in the fire to help explain the technology. Lets start with the basics… ...

I have covered just about everything possible for drive encryption in OpenBSD. My last post is on using the least recommended option for encrypted volumes. It is slower, unsupported, and unfortunately the best option for seamless operations :) The best way to think about svnd is if you have used truecrypt, it is very similar in that you create an image rather than actually encrypting the entire partition. Using some fancy linking and auto mounts you can use it for hosting your /home /tmp and others. The instructions are below, but unlike the last howto it assumes your system is already installed. This is because svnd does not require you to modify the system prior to /install and can be a good security implementation to use if you are already up and running: ...

Ubuntu 9.10 is the last usable version of Linux for use with the GMA500 craptasic video card. As it stands today I cannot recommend using Linux full-time on the laptop. As a hardcore linux geek that saddens me in my heart. Hopefully with the release of the “new” drivers we will be good to all switchback to a big boy OS. Thanks to Jakob Westhoff for his notes on the Vaio X which helped a good bit here. Notes below: Install Windows 7 to active Verizon Gobi Modem and Firmware Install GMA 500 Graphics driver wget http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1338581/Gma500/scripts/poulsbo.sh && sh ./poulsbo.sh add mem=2000 /etc/default/grub update-grub After reboot dpkg-reconfigure psb-kernel-source Edit /etc/apt/sources.list to include universe and multiverse sudo apt-get dist-upgrade reboot Update system to include SSD optimizations Install sony-laptop-zseries module http://www.logic.at/people/preining/software/ sudo -i mkdir -p /usr/share/sony-laptop Extract np5 into directory ln -sf ../share/sony-laptop/sony-laptop-zseries-0.9np5 /usr/src/sony-laptop-zseries-0.9np5 dkms add -m sony-laptop-zseries -v 0.9np5 /etc/init.d/dkms_autoinstaller start vi /etc/modules Turn on WWAN hardware mkdir /lib/firmware/gobi Copy files from: C:\Program Files\Qualcomm\Images\Sony\1\AMSS.mbn C:\Program Files\Qualcomm\Images\Sony\1\Apps.mbn C:\Program Files\Qualcomm\Images\Sony\1\UQCN.mbn to /lib/firmware/gobi <li dir="ltr"> Download qcserial and extract to <a href="file:///usr/src/">/usr/src/</a> <ul> <li dir="ltr"> <a href="http://westhoffswelt.de/data/blog/vaiox_gobi2000/qcserial_with_gobi2000_support.tar.gz">http://westhoffswelt.de/data/blog/vaiox_gobi2000/qcserial_with_gobi2000_support.tar.gz</a> </li> <li dir="ltr"> cd <a href="file:///usr/src/qcserial">/usr/src/qcserial</a> </li> <li dir="ltr"> make </li> <li dir="ltr"> make install </li> <li dir="ltr"> echo &#8220;qcserial&#8221; >>/etc/modules </li> </ul> </li> <li dir="ltr"> Download gobi loader for Linux and extract to <a href="file:///usr/src">/usr/src</a> <ul> <li dir="ltr"> <a href="http://westhoffswelt.de/data/blog/vaiox_gobi2000/gobi_loader_with_gobi2000_support.tar.gz">http://westhoffswelt.de/data/blog/vaiox_gobi2000/gobi_loader_with_gobi2000_support.tar.gz</a> </li> <li dir="ltr"> make </li> <li dir="ltr"> make install </li> </ul> </li> Enable Suspend Install PSB fix in /etc/pm/sleep.d/99_psb_fix Touch /etc/pm/sleep.d/98smart-kernel-video Install USB Wakeup fix for QCSerial Gobi issue in /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/00usbsleep Enable console framebuffer Edit /etc/default/grub set gfxmode=1024×768 You can do the full 1600×768, but on the console I prefer larger fonts <li dir="ltr"> Edit <a href="file:///etc/grub.d/00_header">/etc/grub.d/00_header</a> <ul> <li> <ul> <li dir="ltr"> if loadfont `make_system_path_relative_to_its_root ${GRUB_FONT_PATH}` ; then </li> <li dir="ltr"> set gfxmode=${GRUB_GFXMODE} </li> <li dir="ltr"> set gfxpayload=keep </li> </ul> </li> <li dir="ltr"> IT HAS TO GO UNDER &#8220;set gfxmode&#8230;&#8221; </li> </ul> </li> Enable scroll trackpoint sudo vi /etc/hal/fdi/policy/mouse-wheel.fdi Install RFkill Applet to disable radios http://www.logic.at/people/preining/software/rfkill-applet-0.6.tar.gz Execute with the following installer: rfkill install.sh Reboot and add to panel Internal Mic Fix sudo apt-get install linux-backports-modules-alsa-2.6.31-20-generic sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ricotz/unstable sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade Edit /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf Add at the bottom of the file options snd-hda-intel model=toshiba-s06 power_save=10 power_save_controller=N <li dir="ltr"> On Sound Preferences change Profile to Analog Stereo Duplex </li> <li dir="ltr"> Turn speaker volume up HIGH </li> ...