Ubuntu Hacks

I am currently working on an improved laptop-mode/power management hack, so stay tuned.  Really.

Got word from a buddy that Linux Journal put a blurb in the magazine about the release of the book.   That’s just too nifty for me.    He even scanned the blurb for me, so here it is:

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Looks like I’ll be doing a talk on the “encrypted filesystem” hack at the O’Reilly stand at OSCON at the end of July, so if anyone else is going to be there please let me know and we’ll arrange consumption of beverages. It’s a long way for me to come to the US from Australia so I want to make the most of the opportunity and meet up with as many people as I can.

I’m going to cover the basic device-mapper stuff in Ubuntu Hacks but also take it a bit further and show how to do things like layer dm-crypt on top of RAID, and maybe even demo authenticating on Ubuntu using my implanted RFID tag.

In a good way - we’ve had our first review of the book.  Slashdot has given us a 9/10 review.

It’s really great to see all the hard work we put into the book pay off.  Kyle, Jon, Brian — next time we all meet in person, the first round of drinks is on me. 

To paraphrase Yogurt from Spaceballs, “And my favorite, Ubuntu Hacks: The Flamethrower.”

Now that Ubuntu Hacks: The Book is nearing release date, and Dapper Drake is in the wild, I thought this would be a fitting time to pull the cover off the ubuntuhacks.com domain.  We’ll be putting tips, tricks, and other tidbits that didn’t get into the book here.  Hopefully you’ll have as much fun reading the book as we did writing it.