We’ve been encrypting our Ubuntu laptops for a while now, but there hasn’t been a good whole disk encryption option for the Mac until today. RSA is a little behind schedule in the release, but it’s out today.
Installation was a snap. Encrypting the boot drive was easy as well. 5 mins of your time and the takes care of the business in the background while you work. Reboot when it’s done (about 90 mins later for me) and your drive is secure.
Sweet.
Mongrel has served us well for the past year or so, but the simplicity of deployment in passenger along with the ever reliable apache has lured us into extensive testing. We’re getting slightly better performance numbers from passenger over mongrel with about 2/3 of the memory footprint. Please let us know at support@imapenguin.com if you see any wonkyness with any of our services. As we migrate over night.
We’ve been working on a super simplified sales tool for small and agile sales teams. It currently uses Highrise by 37signals as the contact manager.
Here’s a quick screenshot prior to a designer getting her hands on it (and proof that we need a good designer):
It’s currently in invitation only Beta. You can sign up for the waiting list here.
We’re looking for Linux Admins and Rails developers for:
- Interesting problems to solve
For the past week, my main multi-paged mindmap has been held hostage by my NovaMind mindmapping software. It contains project tracking details I’ve been working on for weeks. It worked great until earlier in the week when an update to the Novamind software was released. Now it crashes on open. Emails with tech support have been exchanged, nothing. It looks like my data is lost. The cost to me is considerably more than the $129 I paid for this software.
This brings me to today’s thought we should all pause and consider. How much of your data is locked up in a format you don’t have any control over? Is it in a web service that could close their doors tomorrow without a data export option? Do yourself a favor and give it a thought for a second or two.
From now on, all of my critical data stays in Open Source software (even wordpress is open source) and Open Data formats. I know better, and I’ve been bitten. Shame on me.