This tutorial will demonstrate how to encrypt an entire partition on a hard drive.  You can use this to encrypt an entire drive, or a particular partition.  I use the Ubuntu Linux version of Truecrypt in this tutorial.  Depending on your operating system, you could have different options to choose from when it comes to
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UNetbootin allows you to create bootable Live USB drives for a variety of Linux distributions from Windows or Linux, without requiring you to burn a CD. Take you favorite flavor of Linux, and create a bootable USB drive that you can take with you.  You can select from the list of pre-defined distributions, or point
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This is a short tutorial on how to use Clonezilla to make a backup copy of your hard drive.  Having the backup copy will allow you to restore your drive back to this point in time in case of a hardware failure or data corruption.

Clonezilla is an open-source clone system solution capable of both unicasting and multicasting. Clonezilla is a free alternative to other cloning systems like Norton Ghost and Symantec Ghost Corporate Edition.  This software comes in two editions, a live CD for backing up and restoring a single machine at a time and  the server edition which
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“Free open-source disk encryption software for Windows Vista/XP, Mac OS X, and Linux” Truecrypt has been my favorite encryption software by far for both Windows and Linux. I discovered it a few years ago and haven’t stopped using it since. It was the first encryption software I found, and after trying some others, there was
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Ever been working on your laptop and needed something that you left at home on your desktop? I do it all the time. I think I have found my solution. Dropbox is a internet “cloud” service that allows you to set a folder on your workstation as your “dropbox”. Anything in that folder will sync
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