As a Canadian, I have never been able to figure this out. People living outside the USA tend to label any American a Yankee, but when you travel within the country, opinions seem to vary. Some say it's anyone from New England, but within New England, they say no, it's someone from this state or other. I have a feeling that by the time you get to the bottom of it, the only true Yankee is some guy who lived in a small village several hundred years ago. (Well, or a member of a certain baseball team, I suppose.)
I grew up in Canada and still live there, but my dad and wife are both from the States, and I maintain a dual citizenship. What I have noticed is that Americans tend to express strong opinions on various issues and are frank and open about most things. Canadians tend to be a little more reserved and fearful of offending others.
America was founded by people who broke away from an oppressive regime, which makes Americans tend to explore their opportunities to their fullest potential and seek to change the world. Canada was founded by two groups who had been at each others throats throughout history, which makes us a nation of diplomats, all trying to smoothe over our differences and find common ground and compromise.
I remember attending a debate in Toronto between an evolutionist and a creationist. At the end, when the audience was encouraged to speak up, people kept saying things like "must evolution exclude the hand of God" or "couldn't evolution be a part of God's creation plan"? The evolutionist (who was American) looked at them like they were from another planet, but this is how Canadians tend to think.
That's why this Iraq war was so hard on the national psyche. It's not so much that we were opposed to the war as it was that we couldn't stomach the rift that was forming between the US and its allies. We spent all our energies trying to find a position that would placate the US, France, and others which was, of course, futile.
Anyway, that's just my spin on things as a Canadian, but if you all have different views on the subject, I'm sure I can find some way to accomodate them.:-)
Just making sure this one gets mentioned. The whole movie revolved around Griffin Dunne desperate attempts to get home from New York's Soho district. It's a bit like Adventures in Babysitting (another classic...especially the blues club scene) for grownups.
Some of my other favorites: Big Trouble in Little China, Repo Man, Duel (low budget Speilberg kicked ass), Das Boot, Deathtrap (makes your head spin), The Fifth Element, and yes, just about anything with Rutger Hauer in it.
I think I remember reading someplace that you can enable WebDAV server functions in OS X through some module in Apache. Oh, here it is. The article is rather dated, as it refers to the public beta, but does anybody know if this hack still works? I guess I'll give it a shot when I get into work.
As others have mentioned, Disk Copy is definitely the way to go for creating a password-encrypted volume in Mac OS X. You can make the disk images as large as you want, they are functionally pretty much indistinguishable from normal volumes, and there's no reformatting involved.
I just wanted to add one point about storing your passwords that makes life even simpler. Try using Keychain Access to create a second keychain you call "secure" or something to that effect. Make this temporarily the default keychain so that when you create your disk images, you can store the passwords to this new keychain. Configure the keychain so that it will relock itself after a short period of time (say 15 minutes), then set the default back to your regular keychain.
That way, you need only enter the password once to have access to every encrypted disk image, and in my experience, by the time you're done and you unmount the volumes, everything will be locked again!
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As a Canadian, I have never been able to figure this out. People living outside the USA tend to label any American a Yankee, but when you travel within the country, opinions seem to vary. Some say it's anyone from New England, but within New England, they say no, it's someone from this state or other. I have a feeling that by the time you get to the bottom of it, the only true Yankee is some guy who lived in a small village several hundred years ago. (Well, or a member of a certain baseball team, I suppose.)
I grew up in Canada and still live there, but my dad and wife are both from the States, and I maintain a dual citizenship. What I have noticed is that Americans tend to express strong opinions on various issues and are frank and open about most things. Canadians tend to be a little more reserved and fearful of offending others.
:-)
America was founded by people who broke away from an oppressive regime, which makes Americans tend to explore their opportunities to their fullest potential and seek to change the world. Canada was founded by two groups who had been at each others throats throughout history, which makes us a nation of diplomats, all trying to smoothe over our differences and find common ground and compromise.
I remember attending a debate in Toronto between an evolutionist and a creationist. At the end, when the audience was encouraged to speak up, people kept saying things like "must evolution exclude the hand of God" or "couldn't evolution be a part of God's creation plan"? The evolutionist (who was American) looked at them like they were from another planet, but this is how Canadians tend to think.
That's why this Iraq war was so hard on the national psyche. It's not so much that we were opposed to the war as it was that we couldn't stomach the rift that was forming between the US and its allies. We spent all our energies trying to find a position that would placate the US, France, and others which was, of course, futile.
Anyway, that's just my spin on things as a Canadian, but if you all have different views on the subject, I'm sure I can find some way to accomodate them.
Just making sure this one gets mentioned. The whole movie revolved around Griffin Dunne desperate attempts to get home from New York's Soho district. It's a bit like Adventures in Babysitting (another classic...especially the blues club scene) for grownups.
Some of my other favorites: Big Trouble in Little China, Repo Man, Duel (low budget Speilberg kicked ass), Das Boot, Deathtrap (makes your head spin), The Fifth Element, and yes, just about anything with Rutger Hauer in it.
I think I remember reading someplace that you can enable WebDAV server functions in OS X through some module in Apache. Oh, here it is. The article is rather dated, as it refers to the public beta, but does anybody know if this hack still works? I guess I'll give it a shot when I get into work.
As others have mentioned, Disk Copy is definitely the way to go for creating a password-encrypted volume in Mac OS X. You can make the disk images as large as you want, they are functionally pretty much indistinguishable from normal volumes, and there's no reformatting involved.
I just wanted to add one point about storing your passwords that makes life even simpler. Try using Keychain Access to create a second keychain you call "secure" or something to that effect. Make this temporarily the default keychain so that when you create your disk images, you can store the passwords to this new keychain. Configure the keychain so that it will relock itself after a short period of time (say 15 minutes), then set the default back to your regular keychain.
That way, you need only enter the password once to have access to every encrypted disk image, and in my experience, by the time you're done and you unmount the volumes, everything will be locked again!