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Xubuntu upgrade to 13.10 with troubles

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: , , , , , — admin @ 2014-03-18 19:15

New (X)Ubuntu switched to systemd and it brought new challenges with upgrading. I use Xubuntu fork but this might affect others as well. I can’t turn off or hibernate the computer. Even after logout there are no buttons for powering off. And I can’t access NetworkManager. (more…)

Ubuntu encrypted home

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: , , , , , , — admin @ 2011-03-18 19:04

I played with my new toy – HP Mini 5103 WT211ES. eCryptfs is not as enterprise as they say. It started to fail on Ubuntu 10.10. And also it is terribly slow especially for seeking. So I was looking for a better solution. I didn’t want the full disk encryption which the alternative CD offers during the installation because the disk is very fast and the CPU is not so fast 🙂 I decided to make a separate partition to host my home directory and other private data. (more…)