We received a couple of ducks from friends. Here is a vidlet of their first day in their kiddie pool.
20090830_ducksfirstdayatthefarm
Archive for August, 2009
Sandboxie process isolation, an alternative to virtualization
Sandboxie.com offers a download that allows Windows users to perform process isolation and confine application execution environments to ad-hoc “sandboxes” within the native OS instance. For quick testing of potentially harmful applications, this may be a more efficient alternative in lieu of a fully virtualized machine. The cost savings can be appreciated once you take [...]
Using Truecrypt from the Linux command line
Command TrueCrypt commandline commands:
$ truecrypt –help for complete list of commands
$ truecrypt –mount for text-based interactive mounting script
$ truecrypt -d <FullPathToTruecrypVolume> umounts Truecrypt volume
See a great article here, or download this saved copy.
VirtualBox in full screen mode
After you’ve booted your virtual machine, you can use RIGHT-CTRL-F to put the virtual machine in full screen mode. Windows clients will more than likely auto-adjust to the optimum resolution. RIGHT-CTRL-F will also exit full screen mode.
This works on dual displays, allowing you to run your virtual machine on it’s own display in its [...]
