March 2018

Even if you are not worried about government, ISP’s and hackers trying to spy on you, there is still a good reason to encrypt your disks …

My first application to add to the default of LinuxMint is of course a password manager. Under Windows I have trusted KeePass for years

As mentioned in my previous post, I am moving to Linux as my primary OS. Today I will summarize my choices in applications to solve a multitude of tasks which I have taken on over the years. Some may fit you too or give you other ideas and options …

Well, not really a switch to be honest. However, due to my recent dead HDD I decided to switch to Linux as my primary OS. Find out why …

Well, if you have watched Person of Interest (too bad is was discontinued) you know that everyone spies on you (your ISP, government, google, yahoo, FACEBOOK etc.). ALL collect your activities, even perfectly legal activities can be held against you. My sister likes German TV series and often they are geo blocked and can not

2 days since my HDD on the Laptop died a sudden death … (2 TB Seagate, 70% full, less than 7000 hrs of operation and <9TB written and <10 TB read … NOT as expected …) It died while I was attempting to make back-up copies (without knowing it was about to die). Now it