Archive for March, 2008

TrueCrypt 5.1 now supports Hibernation with encrypted system partitions

One of the biggest issues with Truecrypt 5.0’s System Partition encryption was that it couldn’t hibernate the OS; which was holding me back from deploying it company-wide. Thankfully, this is now fixed in 5.1 :)

Support for hibernation on computers where the system partition is encrypted (previous versions of TrueCrypt prevented the system from hibernating when the system partition was encrypted). (Windows Vista/XP/2008/2003)

Other things of note include faster encryption/decryption using AES, and faster boot times.

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Sysinternals Utility Pack

Sysinternals Utility Pack

Ever wanted to download all of the fantastically useful Sysinternals tools in one go? Well, now you can. Mark Russinovich has created a bundle pack which includes all of the Sysinternals tools in one single Zip file.

Download the Sysinternals Utility Pack

[Found on Desktop-Engineer, when I was looking for something else entirely :) ]

Xbox 360 price cut, chases casual gamers

Microsoft have just reduced the price of the Xbox 360 - only £160 for the basic edition.

What’s kind of spooky is that, just over the weekend, I was saying that I was considering buying a 360 just to casually play mindless shoot-em-ups on.

Good news for chickens

Chicken Photo by hddod

Thanks to a high profile campaign by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and Jamie Oliver, the British public are buying less intensively-farmed chicken:

A new RSPCA poll shows the recent campaign on the plight of meat chickens reared in the UK each year – highlighted in programmes presented by Jamie Oliver and Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall - has changed people’s buying habits.

The poll shows an amazing 73 per cent of consumers said that since recently discovering standard chickens were farmed in poor conditions they now buy chickens that have had a better life.

My vegan sister may have helped me over to the dark side( ;) ), but I’m still very pleased that the public is becoming more aware of where their meat comes from and how it lived. Much kudos to the RSPCA, Hugh, and Jamie!

Manage your MySQL database from Windows

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Manage your MySQL server and databases from Windows using HeidiSQL - a free, MySQL GUI application.

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I used to use NaviCat, but it’s quite expensive; and HeidiSQL does the same job, for free :)

This is also a good alternative to the clunky, web-based, phpMyAdmin!

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