RIM doesn’t provide updates as often as I would like, so I went out looking for custom OS builds or unofficial updates.  What I cam across was BBHybrids.net.  Here you can download official Blackberry software releases and custom Blackberry Hybrids of leaked OS builds. In my case I used a Blackberry Storm 9530.  I first
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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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This is a short tutorial on how to create a bootable USB drive using the free tool Unetbootin.  This will allow you to plug the USB drive into your computer and boot your operating system directly off the USB drive.   This can be used for data recovery, computer forensics, virus cleaning (if you happen 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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