# first download & install the free, open-source TrueCrypt program from http://www.truecrypt.org/downloads.php

ls -ld /Applications/TrueCrypt.app
ls -l /Applications/TrueCrypt.app/Contents/MacOS/TrueCrypt

open -a TrueCrypt

1. click "Create Volume"
2. TrueCrypt Volume Creation Wizard: select "Create a file container"
3. click Next
4. Volume Type: select "Standard TrueCrypt volume"
5. click Next
6. Volume Location: click "Select File ..."
7. navigate to ~/Desktop with the file browser, then click "New Folder"
8. enter "Name of new folder": TrueCrypt, then click Create
9. enter in "Save As": MyTrueCrypt, then click Save
10. Volume Location: the "Select File ..." field should contain /PATH/TO/Desktop/TrueCrypt/MyTrueCrypt
11. click Next
12. Encryption Options:
    Encryption Algorithm: AES
    Hash Algorithm: RIPEMD-160
13. click Next
14. Volume Size: 3 MB
15. click Next
16. Volume Password: *********************  (more than 20 characters recommended)
17. click Next
18. Format Options: Filesystem Options: Filesystem type: select FAT
19. click Next
20. Volume Format: Move your mouse as randomly as possible within this window
21. click Format
22. "The TrueCrypt volume has been successfully created."
23. click OK
24. Volume Created
25. click Exit
26. click Close (to quit TrueCrypt)

open -a TrueCrypt

1. click "Select File ..."
2. navigate with the file browser to /PATH/TO/Desktop/TrueCrypt/MyTrueCrypt
3. click Open
4. click Mount and enter your password: *********************
5. double-click: Slot 1 : Volume: /PATH/TO/Desktop/TrueCrypt/MyTrueCrypt  Size: ...

touch '/Volumes/NO NAME/file.txt'    # or copy a text file to '/Volumes/NO NAME'
echo 'This is a test!' >> "$_"
cat '/Volumes/NO NAME/file.txt'
ls -l "$_"
# hdiutil unmount '/Volumes/NO NAME'

6. click Dismount
7. click Close


# References:
# Beginner's Tutorial, http://www.truecrypt.org/docs/?s=tutorial
# http://www.truecrypt.org/faq.php
# http://blogs.oreilly.com/digitalmedia/2008/03/truecrypt-51-open-source-file.html
# http://www.askstudent.com/security/a-step-by-step-guide-on-encrypting-files-using-truecrypt/
# http://techvj.blogspot.com/2007/03/secure-email-attachments-with-truecrypt.html
# http://www.osxcrypt.org

:%s'\(<stuff_to_find>\)'\1<new_stuff>'gc

ln -s /full/dir/path/to_files /full/dir/path/destination

update-rc.d updatedb_start stop 18 6 .

logger This is my message to syslog

sudo passwd root

crontab -e

#alter the regex to suit your needs, each () will return a submatch
my $regex = qr!(\d\d)[-](\d\d)[-](\d\d)[_](\d\d\d\d)!;

while(<*.jpg>) {
	$oldname = $_;
	if ($oldname=~m/$regex/) {

		#$1,$2,etc are submatchs
		rename $oldname,$3.$2.$1.$4.".jpg";
	}
}

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
  RewriteRule ^(.*/)?\.svn/ - [F,L]
  ErrorDocument 403 "Access Forbidden"
</IfModule>

# 1) make yrself a user and stop being root

# 2) main web stack + ruby
sudo aptitude install -y make screen
sudo aptitude install -y apache2 php5 mysql-server
sudo aptitude install -y subversion postfix
sudo aptitude install -y ruby1.8 ruby1.8-dev rubygems irb
sudo aptitude install -y imagemagick librmagick-ruby1.8 librmagick-ruby-doc libfreetype6-dev xml-core

# 3) gemz
# rubygems appears to be broken as hell. 
# gem update --system does squat
# had to manually d/l rubygems 1.0.1, ruby setup.rb
wget http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/29548/rubygems-1.0.1.tgz
tar xzvf rubygems-1.0.1.tgz
cd rubygems-1.0.1
sudo ruby setup.rb
sudo gem install rails mongrel merb map_by_method