Shawn Powers

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Shawn Powers

http://www.brainofshawn.com

Occupation:

Associate Editor

Open Source project(s) I'm involved with or passionate about:

LTSP, community, hardware, penguins. :)

Shawn Powers is an Associate Editor for Linux Journal, the Technology Director for a school in northern Michigan, and a pretty serious coffee addict. He's also quite fond of Gummy Bears.

He can usually be found in the #linuxjournal channel on the freenode IRC server, or on Twitter. You can also drop him an email, but trust us, he's WAY behind on email. :)

Favorites

Lock Firefox 6 Prefs (Also versions 3, 4, & 5)

Build Your Own Arcade Game Player and Relive the '80s!

Guestbook

This is my guestbook. You are my guest. I guess that makes this your book. Hmmm... Just remember, you're sharing it with everyone else, so be nice. :)

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Nagelstudio

Wed, 04/11/2012 - 15:17

We really like to use TrueCrypt in combination with Dropbox, another cross-platform tool, to protect our data in the cloud. Pictured here is the OS X version of TrueCrypt, mounting an encrypted image as a local hard drive. Whether you are storing sensitive data or Grandma's secret recipe, TrueCrypt can keep your data private, even if it's stored on someone else's server.

Nagelstudio

Wed, 04/11/2012 - 15:17

TrueCrypt is a fully open-source tool for encrypting data. That data can be on a completely encrypted hard drive, or just an encrypted image file. Thankfully, the encryption works the same regardless of your platform, so Windows and OS X users can share encrypted files between computers.

Nagelstudio

Wed, 04/11/2012 - 15:16

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Nagelstudio

Wed, 04/11/2012 - 15:15

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Nagelstudio

Wed, 04/11/2012 - 15:15

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Nagelstudio

Wed, 04/11/2012 - 15:15

Nagelstudio

Wed, 04/11/2012 - 15:13

Hey Shawn,

I feel I know you from all your articles, videos and postings. Hope your house is soon rebuilt and the medics find a way to cure your migraines (my wife is an occasional sufferer).

I look forward to reading your articles for many years to come.

Cheers
Smotsie

Nagelstudio

Wed, 04/11/2012 - 15:12

Hi, Shawn :
Good video about Unity.
I just upgraded to 11.04 and am finding Unity to be "interesting". Don't know why I updated on day of release -never done that before. Possibly a midlife crisis or something.
Anyways, there are lots of ways to tweak how it looks by right-clicking on the switch in the top-right corner. However, even the most innocuous-seeming changes can cause major changes to the screen. Even to the point of eliminating both the silly side bar and the top bar ... ie. no way to invoke anything at all! Fortunately I still had a console icon available to me, so could invoke Firefox and search for answers. To sum it up, the command "unity --reset" is your best friend.
Hopefully Unity will grow up into something useful sooner than later.

Regards,

Brian

Nagelstudio

Wed, 04/11/2012 - 15:12

Shawn,

I just wanted to say that I fully support LJ going all digital. I am amazed at how much bitching and moaning the decision has caused. Especially those that would rather not get the content at all if they can't have it in physical print form. It's the content I like, regardless of how it is delivered. I for one love ebooks and emags. I carry a nook and have gigs of books and magazines-even more on my laptop. I often find it hard to decide what to read on the commute!

So for those who drop their subscriptions, I say good riddance. They're fair weather friends who would rather see LJ disappear completely than hit the dang print button to have their precious paper copy.

Feel free to reprint my comment anywhere you like including the magazine!

Sincerely,

a supporter of all digital!

Nagelstudio

Wed, 04/11/2012 - 15:11

I'm a long-time subscriber to LJ and think going digital was a wise move (though I don't have a tablet yet so I miss reading it over morning cereal)...

...but PLEASE restructure the issue announcement emails more like other e-publications like IW and CW with prominent links to major articles as well as the normal login.

This month, the only link in the email that looked appropriate was "Subscriber? Login Now", but this took me to the login page requesting the account number and zipcode instead of the normal username/password login page. I had to hunt around to get logged in so I could read the issue.

Even better would be to include an entire Table of Contents in the email. Clicking on anything takes the reader to the username/password login and then on to the article/column selected. From there, readers will find other articles of interest.

I used to read LJ cover-to-cover every month but now sometimes don't read it at all because it's too cumbersome. Being a retired Unix/Linux systems programmer and a pretty fair writer, I even hoped to submit some articles in the future.

Web publishing is "inside out" compared to magazine publishing. Once the reader saw something of enough interest on the cover to buy the magazine or take the time to read it if already a subscriber, there was a bias to at least skim the publication for more interesting content. With web publishing, the email or Google hit drives readers to the website to read one article but once there, they notice other content of interest.

Please work on adapting LJ to better fit the way busy people read online.

Thank You For a Great Publication,
Robert

Nagelstudio

Wed, 04/11/2012 - 15:11

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Nagelstudio

Wed, 04/11/2012 - 15:11

good postings!

Nagelstudio

Wed, 04/11/2012 - 15:10

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Nagelstudio

Wed, 04/11/2012 - 15:10

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Nagelstudio

Wed, 04/11/2012 - 15:10

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