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I have been using this little applet called cryptkeeper for a while now, it is a beautifully simple power user application that will help you keep your private information safe and secure. In this simple how to I will assist you in installing and using cryptkeeper. Basically Cryptkeeper is a Linux system tray applet that manages EncFS encrypted folders. Installing it is as easy as running a single command. I nstallation: Open terminal and execute command: sudo apt-get install cryptkeeper That will install all the necessary files. (Alternatively you can install it from synaptic package manager) Now log out and log back in. Once you are logged back in, you can start Cryptkeeper from the menu Applications->System Tools->Cryptkeeper. You should see an icon in your System Tray that looks like a pair of keys. This can vary a bit based on your current icon theme. This is the Cryptkeeper icon. And now H ow to use it. Click on the Cryptkeeper icon and select New encrypted ...

If you choose to dual boot and run both Ubuntu 8.10 and Windows Vista, you run the risk of losing your data when a hard drive dies. To fix this, you can create a RAID10 setup. This tutorial will show you how to perform an Ubuntu and Windows dual boot with a RAID10 setup. Step 1: creating RAID set in BIOS After powering up the system, press CTRL-I to go to the Intel Matrix Storage Manager. Choose create RAID-volume. Choose a name, for example: diskset. Don't use numbers, some installation scripts in Ubuntu check for numbers in the disknames to determine if its a disk or a partition. I made the mistake to choose diskset1 as name. I wasn't able to rename the RAID volume, so I had to start all over! Choose RAID10, 64k stripe-size. Your RAID set is now created. Step 2: install Microsoft Windows This step is pretty straight-forward. Vista recoqnizes the RAID set and displays it as 1 single disk. During the install, create a partition for Windows and leave enough diskspace for ...

Here is the how to install the CentOS 5 Linux distribution on a pen drive (USB) using MS Windows. This will create a CentOS LiveUSB which can be run on any PC that allows booting (boot) from a USB port. That is, a true CentOS Portable. This works just like a LiveCD, the only difference being the boot from a LiveUSB is generally faster than from a LiveCD (if you have USB 2.0). Permanent configuration feature is not taken into account in this tutorial, so the changes you make in shaping the course of using the CentOS LiveUSB will be lost with every boot or reboot. CentOS is a Linux distribution based on RedHat Enterprise Linux and is aimed at businesses. Its use is very popular in web hosting server by its extreme stability. Because CentOS is based on RHEL, you can use the program Fedora LiveUSB Creator to install CentOS on a USB stick. Prerequisites to install CentOS to a USB flash memory: * A computer with Microsoft Windows installed (tested on Windows XP). * A USB pendrive or memory ...

" Dual boot Slitaz and Windows " Follow these steps to dual boot your system with Slitaz and WIndows. 1. First create atleast two partitions on your hd, one for Slitaz and the other for Windows. You may be in need to create a partition for swap,probably if you have less memory. Just partition your HD. 2. Now install the Windows on the first partition. (It may be hda1). 3. Reboot your computer. 4. Now boot Slitaz and install it on the second partition (I may be hda2). 5. Reboot your computer. 6. Now your Slitaz will boot from the hardisk. Now to add the windows partition, add these lines to /boot/grub/menu.lst : title Windows rootnoverify (hd0,0) chainloader +1 makeactive 7. Now open the terminal and type $ grub now a grub terminal will be opened. 1. Now you will need to set the root device. grub> root (hd0,1) 2. Now setup the grub. grub> setup (hd0) 3. Exit grub grub> quit 8. Reboot your system. You will see both the Slitaz and window...