Check this video out. Could be an eye opener.

The Story of Stuff, with Annie Leonard.

Well, to be honest, TrueCrypt 5 was released the day before yesterday, officially still February 5th.

So, we now have two TrueCrypts (counting OSXCrypt) for MacOS. And system disk encryption on the fly (for Windows).

Nice.

The new TrueCrypt version, 5, is due to be released today. Or so they say…

What to expect from this new version? Well, some of the promised features:

• Whole partition encryption;
• System partition encryption on Windows;
• GUI for Linux versions of TrueCrypt;
• MacOS version.

Now, today is here, and TrueCrypt 5 is still not available. The day is not over yet, so let’s see.

Meanwhile, the people at OSXCrypt released a working version of TrueCrypt for MacOS, compatible with volumes created by TrueCrypt up to versions 4.3a.

And why are the TrueCrypt forums so conveniently closed? I wouldn’t mind if they just came out and said they weren’t able to deliver the new version. If they would just admit that… But well, let’s see if the new version comes out until the end of the day.

Life’s been pretty hectic lately. Lot’s of work, but interesting stuff that may give something to write about later (Sun Grid Engine, Data Center infrastructure, enterprise VoIP, enterprise wireless security, project management, OpenUP).

As soon as I stabilize a little, I’ll return here.

Oh, and 100% cigarette-free since last Sunday (7 days and counting).

Finally, after a couple of months, the new Gmail interface was ported to Google Apps.

Right now, it’s not that great of a deal for me, since I was using Gmail through IMAP almost exclusively. And worst of all, with this “upgrade”, IMAP access is gone. I hope it’s just for a while.

Trying to quit smoking once again…

This time I’ll try to do it with the help of Nicotinell Fruit 2mg chewing gums.

Let’s see if this is it.

Going offline (in various senses) until 2008.

This blog has been kind of slow since its recent begin, but I hope to change that a bit in the next year.

Happy new year!

Today I renewed, once again, my smux.net domain.

I registered it in December 27th, 2000. Seven years. That’s a long time in Internet years.

Launchy is one of the first programs I install on a fresh Windows system.

Google Desktop is nice, but for program launching I really think Launchy is more usable and fast.

So, that being said, Lauchy 2.0 was just released. It looks prettier, more polished and more easily configurable.

The only problem I detected so far was that, after a while, it ends up eating lot of memory (130 MB right now, on my laptop). It’s not really a problem for me, since I have 2 GB of RAM and I avoid bloatware, but it’s not normal for a small program like Launchy.

But hey, it’s a point zero release.

July 10th, 2008.