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FuguPass

FuguPass is a Google app script that uses the Blowfish encryption algorithm (implementation from the Barnses Storming blog) to store encrypted passwords in a Google Drive Spreadsheet.

The script requires a Google account and all information is stored within your account's properties and a spreadsheet called 'EncryptedPasswords'.

This is ...

Completely distorted laptop display

I've installed Ubuntu so many times now and seen the process improve so much over the past few years that I thought replacing Windows 7 with Ubuntu 12.10 would be a piece of cake. Sadly I was wrong.

The issues I encountered were related to the discrete NVIDIA ...

Flashing BIOS with FreeDos Live USB

The bios flasher utility for my Acer Aspire laptop requires a windows or dos installation to run.

Having just recently installed Ubuntu 12.10 I wasn't keen to go back so I did some searching and found that the FreeDos USB disk can be used to run the flash ...

SSD optimisations for Ubuntu

With my SSD still working despite the taped up data port it's time to do some tweaks to squeeze out the most performance I can.

Mount Options

First up we modify the mount points to disable access time writes and enable TRIM

Edit /etc/fstab and add noatime,discard ...