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Booting the Linux Kernel from Grub2
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: Boot from the CD (we had Internet connection) Mount the Linux partition…
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Recovering encrypted home directory under Ubuntu
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 solution nevertheless and very easy…
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Fixing a dead Asus WL-500g