Now you can have GPG encryption of your Gmail. This becomes pretty powerful when combined with portable firefox. Even Google would have a hard time cataloging and data mining your email. It works nicely.
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Was looking into some Growl like apps for linux.
I found mumbles while looking for this howto over here.
Sports a nice list of extras
Update: Geyser at first glance seems similar, well the author of mumbles is offering to work together.
Another Update [4-7-2008]: Found this dbus hackery using python. And the I found specto listed over [...]

This one I pretty much followed what this link said to do. I’m poting it here so it’s easier to find later.
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Recently I wanted to upgrade (plop in a bigger) my hard drive in my laptop. Currently I have Ubuntu 7.10 installed with whole disk encryption. The only change I was making was the size of my hard drive. I wasn’t sure how I’d mount an encrypted partition managed via LVM. But [...]

Since the icendent that happened to the job site Monster.com, I’ve been thinking. Here’s some of the thoughts I’ve been stuck on:

Monster was not hacked
Users of Monster were hacked
Bot networks and phishing works despite all the education and warnings
This possibly, at least in my mind, open the door for a more dangerous attack

I’ll be [...]