Recently a good friend of mine managed to uninstall all the kernels from his Ubuntu machine (what can I say - Monday morning and no coffee is a deadly combination). Luckily he had the install CD on hand so we did the following:

1. Boot from the CD (we had Internet connection ...

While the home-folder encryption in Ubuntu is far from a perfect solution (there is considerable data leakage from the swap file and the temp directory - for example once I’ve observed the flash videos from Chromium ~~porn~~ private browsing mode being present in the /tmp directory), it is a partial ...

A short story with a happy ending: my Asus WL-500g locked up and it wasn’t starting, even after I hard-reset it (removed the power and plugged it back in). All the LEDs were constantly on (normally, when you plug in the power, they should light up for a ...