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Turning off FileVault

Paul Westbrook | 06 May, 2005 21:47

I have decided to turn off FileVault on my PowerBook.  When FileVault is enabled, your home directory is copied into an encrypted disk image, which is mounted when you log in.  This disk image is supposed to be a sparse disk image, which is supposed to increase in size to fit the contents of the image.  The size of the disk images is supposed to decrease when files are deleted.

It looks like Apple's implementation is not that good.  When you create a new file, the disk image size is increased.  This happens, even though a larger file was just deleted.  The only time that the disk image is compressed is when the computer is shut down, and I hardly ever shutdown my laptop, but instead I just put it to sleep.

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ecto 2.3

Paul Westbrook | 06 May, 2005 14:46

There is a new version of ecto, and it is pretty cool.  Now ecto has explicit support for tags from Technorati, del.icio.us, and Flickr.  This version allows you create and add tags from directly in the draft window.

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Waiting for Mac OS X 10.4

Paul Westbrook | 06 May, 2005 13:52

Tiger ReitalboxI am waiting before installing Mac OS X 10.4.  The main thing that I need before installing it support for Cisco's VPN client.  This is needed for logging into the network at my job.

Maybe, I will try getting the built-in VPN client to to work with my companies VPN server.  If that would work, then I can install 10.4

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