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A marvelous start to the day...
Jun. 8th, 2006 09:29 amA client sent me a reminder a few minutes ago - part of a broader effort aimed at its entire freelance staff (about 100 names), since their names were included in the "From:" field - about the need to maintain confidentiality. There is a sort of quintessential irony there, which could have been avoided via the judicious use of the "bcc:" option, but in any event, the irony brought a smile to my face.
I've just discovered Pixel, an image editor that performs much the same functions as Photoshop, but at a much lower price. It does not use the cookie-cutter functionality (i.e., standard dialogs and controls) available through commercial Windows application frameworks, which gives it a slightly different look and feel, but the plus side is that Pixel is available for a number of platforms (including Linux). The trial version is said to be full-featured, except for a popup window exhorting the user to buy a copy of the program and the fact that processed images have a watermark applied to them.
I ran into a feature of TrueCrypt this morning that at first looked like a bug, which I discovered as follows: My VAIO went into hibernation from a Windows session yesterday, but as I am used to starting the machine by jogging the power switch (I am told one hits the "any key" to revive a hibernating Windows session), the unit came up in boot-ready configuration and booted into Ubuntu Linux.
An attempt to mount the TrueCrypt "partition" failed, which flummoxed me, as I was absolutely sure I had the passphrase right. I put it out of my mind until I rebooted the VAIO into Windows (restoring the "hibernating" session) where, hey, presto! it was apparent that the TrueCrypt "partition" was still mounted. I haven't checked to make sure, but I've since dismounted and remounted the partition using the right passphrase, and suspect my problem lay with the partition's having already been mounted (even if hibernating) when I tried to mount it again under Linux.
I'll verify that later, however. As it is, I'm behind the eight-ball for the day's work: I need to apply some effort now.
Cheers...
I've just discovered Pixel, an image editor that performs much the same functions as Photoshop, but at a much lower price. It does not use the cookie-cutter functionality (i.e., standard dialogs and controls) available through commercial Windows application frameworks, which gives it a slightly different look and feel, but the plus side is that Pixel is available for a number of platforms (including Linux). The trial version is said to be full-featured, except for a popup window exhorting the user to buy a copy of the program and the fact that processed images have a watermark applied to them.
I ran into a feature of TrueCrypt this morning that at first looked like a bug, which I discovered as follows: My VAIO went into hibernation from a Windows session yesterday, but as I am used to starting the machine by jogging the power switch (I am told one hits the "any key" to revive a hibernating Windows session), the unit came up in boot-ready configuration and booted into Ubuntu Linux.
An attempt to mount the TrueCrypt "partition" failed, which flummoxed me, as I was absolutely sure I had the passphrase right. I put it out of my mind until I rebooted the VAIO into Windows (restoring the "hibernating" session) where, hey, presto! it was apparent that the TrueCrypt "partition" was still mounted. I haven't checked to make sure, but I've since dismounted and remounted the partition using the right passphrase, and suspect my problem lay with the partition's having already been mounted (even if hibernating) when I tried to mount it again under Linux.
I'll verify that later, however. As it is, I'm behind the eight-ball for the day's work: I need to apply some effort now.
Cheers...
