If those icons were animated, it's because he put them there himself. Go ahead, name a chat client that sends and receives actual graphical animated emoticons. I'll wait right here.
Done looking? Didn't find one, did you? That's because they're all stored locally as themes. He either picked the theme, created his own, installed a theme, or it was the default theme. The police did not send him any animated icons.
...if there were any animated icons, he put them there himself or picked the theme himself or they were the default theme.
I know of no chat client that sends actual animated graphics over the interbutt. They are all locally stored and used when the chat program successfully greps an ascii smiley and substitutes for it.
Also, just because FTTH and DOCSIS 3.0 are out doesn't mean squat unless they are also upgrading the back end, which the previous link is evidence of.
The back end the customer doesn't see. The end that the user faces is "oh my god that's cool" but it doesn't matter if you have the fastest speed coming out of the DOCSIS cable modem when you're capped at 20GB/month as some Canada Bell customers are currently getting. And the spread of caps is only increasing, not decreasing.
It used to be that the mantra was "too cheap to meter" because the providers always kept abreast of the technology. They are no longer doing so, as the AT&T post shows.
It is now official. Peter Vesterbacka has confirmed: consoles are dying
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered console community when IDC confirmed that console market share has dropped yet again, now down to a fraction of 1 percent of the gaming market. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that consoles have lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. consoles are collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by falling dead last in a self selected online straw poll by Peter Vesterbacka.
You don't need to be the Amazing Kreskin to predict the future of consoles. The hand writing is on the wall: consoles have a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for consoles because consoles are dying. Things are looking very bad for consoles As many of us are already aware, consoles continue to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
Atari consoles are the most endangered of them all, having lost 100% of their core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time console developers Ralph Lippschitz and Betty Jo Underhill only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: consoles are dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
Casual gaming leader Zynga states that there were 125 million new Farmville subscribers last year. How many users of Wii are there? Let's see. The number of Farmville versus Wii posts on Facebook is roughly in ratio of 39,000 to 1. Therefore there are about 125,000,000/39000 = 3205 Wii users. PSP posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of Wii subscriptions. Therefore there are about 1600 users of the sony PSP. A recent article put Atari at about 50 percent of the PSP market. Therefore there are (3200+1600+8000=) 56005 console users. This is consistent with the number of Twitter posts.
Due to the troubles of Id software, abysmal sales and so on, Sega went out of business and was taken over by Nokia who sell another troubled platform. Now Nokia is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that Consoles steadily declined in market share. Consoles are very sick and their long term survival prospects are very dim. If consoles are to survive at all they will be among gaming dilettante dabblers. Consoles continuec to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Consoles are dead.
That crippling bombshell sent console fans into a tailspin of mourning and denial. However, bad news poured in like a river of water.
There is a third answer: The people who supply the pipes keep up with the current state of the art. They are not doing so. They are not reinvesting in their infrastructure and the result is lesser quality and rationing.
Frankly, what the telecoms charge for overages on caps is highway robbery. It has been demonstrated that it's simply cheaper to send a SSD via snail mail and *destroy the drive* after than it is to go over the ridiculous caps that are appearing in Canada. And we're starting to see this in the US as TFA indicates.
We here in the US threw tons of money at the broadband providers during the Clinton administration and all they did was give it out to their shareholders. They continue to refuse to reinvest, and prefer to kill the goose for short term gain. We are falling behind Europe and Asia in terms of broadband, and will soon be a backwater similar to Africa if the telecoms get their way.
This is what you get when you utterly refuse to regulate once the telecoms become regional monopolies or duopolies. There is no more competition, so the raping of the customer goes on.
What part about "we come home in the dark" does not mean sunset time?
The further east you are in the time zone the sooner the sun sets.
I couldn't give two shits about sunrise time because in the winter it's dark outside on the commute and in the summer all that sunlight before the commute is wasted.
Why people in this thread don't understand this boggles my mind.
Yes, I said that we go to work in the dark and come back in the dark. I want to come back in the daylight.
Moving to the Maritime Provinces time zone would do exactly that. Daylight Savings Time also does that. But not enough, in my opinion. If anything, DST should be extended year-round for New England an New York.
Because as it stands, we would go to work in the dark anyway. It would make no difference for the morning drive but a big difference coming back.
Thank you for ignoring everything I said and being a pedantic putz and *still* getting it wrong. -- BMO
I have a PhD in Digital Music Conservation from the University of Florida. I have to stress that the phenomenon known as "digital dust" is the real problem regarding conservation of music, and any other type of digital file. Digital files are stored in digital filing cabinets called "directories" which are prone to "digital dust" - slight bit alterations that happen now or then. Now, admittedly, in its ideal, pristine condition, a piece of musical work encoded in FLAC format contains more information than the same piece encoded in MP3, however, as the FLAC file is bigger, it accumulates, in fact, MORE digital dust than the MP3 file. Now you might say that the density of dust is the same. That would be a naive view. Since MP3 files are smaller, they can be much more easily stacked together and held in "drawers" called archive files (Zip, Rar, Lha, etc.) ; in such a configuration, their surface-to-volume ratio is minimized. Thus, they accumulate LESS digital dust and thus decay at a much slower rate than FLACs. All this is well-known in academia, alas the ignorant hordes just think that because it's bigger, it must be better.
My name is BMO and I live in Rhode Island. We here in the Northeast US are far enough east that during the winter, we go to work in the dark and we come home in the dark. Unless you have windows in your office or stock room or machine shop, or whatever, you never see the sun except on weekends. It's like being divorced and having partial custody - of sunlight.
The Eastern time zone is so wide that it stretches all the way to the Eastern border of Illinois. This is just nuts. When DST finally shows up in March, suddenly the sun sets at a reasonable hour.
New England and NY should secede from the Union and join the Maritime Provinces simply to get a sane time zone.
I'm sorry for ranting, but I'm tired of my Seasonal Affective Disorder and I can't wait for DST to get here. See? My SAD is showing!
That attitude is only alive and well in a vocal minority, and I go out of my way to shout at such people "YOU ARE WHAT IS WRONG WITH THE COMMUNITY" as loud as I can.
The other 90 percent of the Linux community is just ducky with Ubuntu, Redhat, and SuSE, all "noob friendly" distributions.
It's only when you get into the Arch and Gentoo fanatics that you wind up scraping the bottom of the barrel. They seem to attract a disproportionate amount of trolls.
I tell people "learning how to build a linux distribution from scratch only teaches you how to build a distro. It doesn't teach you how to use the tools of that distro"
Which is true and I will go to my grave defending that argument.
But to paint the community with the broad brush of having a "for nerds only" attitude is unfair and uncalled for. And using Slashdot as a basis for that argument is ill-informed at best because the only people who come here are nerds, almost by definition.
Oh hey everybody, he's using an argument from the 1990s!
Tell me, what is so nerdy about Ubuntu, Mint, SuSE, or Pardus (to blatantly plug that distro)? You don't ever have to drop to a command line anymore if you really don't want to. What the hell more do you want? Sex? You're going to have to find your own.
There are a few traitors when it comes to Linux and Open Source in general. I'd put Florian Mueller in the same bucket as Miguel, although Florian is quite a bit more transparent about it.
>Linux is supposed to be open, yes? What's *wrong* with taking something Microsoft invented and using it in Linux?
According to Microsoft, EVERYTHING.
Microsoft does not play well with its competitors. It doesn't even play well with its partners. Where the hell have you been for the past 20 years? Eh?
Seriously. Did you not notice any of the threats from Microsoft about patents over the last decade? Did you not notice Microsoft funding its lawsuit-by-proxy against IBM through SCO?
Incorporating Microsoft IP into Linux is the most dangerous thing anyone could do to Linux and Miguel has been shoving it in as hard as he possibly can with Mono.. And Miguel wants us to believe it's all rainbows, unicorns, and blue skies dealing with Microsoft.
No. Not in a million years. Microsoft cannot be trusted. Ever. To trust Microsoft as a competitor means you are denying history and just being stupid. The lions always go after the weak ones. You can't ever be weak in front of Microsoft. Not even as a partner.
You are either grossly naive or truly disingenuous and a troll. You pick.
Customizable and everything - the icons were actually drawings that had properties. You could draw them and make your own within the program - gcd.
MGED is like using a pen knife to chop down a tree. Oh sure, you can gang up a lot of pen knives to chop the tree all at once and make lumber, but man, it's a horrible thing to deal with
The manual for MGED is excellent and I wish all documentation was like it, but it's a lot of stuff to slog through.
I downloaded BRL-CAD when it was first released for Linux, but I had no idea what to do with it. It was just an engine. No UI to speak of at all. I would love to see a decent UI for BRL-CAD. BRL-CAD with one would be spectacular.
I've tried QCAD. I really just can't go back to pure 2D CAD anymore. Drawing the part and generating the views from the part makes so much more sense. I remember in school doing a 6 view isometric block rotation on paper (turning it 15 degrees each time). What a pain in the ass. After learning how to draw in 3D, there is no going back, honestly.
It does do everything. It's not as polished as ProE or SolidWorks, and definitely not UG/NX, but it's something you can use if you're a small one-person shop.
If we're doing slashvertisement for Dassault, we may as well mention alternatives, no?
Have/home on its own partition. Mine is only 25GB - and really, only 5GB are being used. Everything else is offloaded to other partitions and that stuff doesn't need encryption. It's all music and video.
Tar up/home Save it somewhere. You should already have an external USB, firewire, or esata external drive. Repartition the drive with gparted and make space at the end of the drive for a/home partition. Create an encrypted volume for/home Copy your stuff back to/home Delete the stuff on the external drive. Make the external drive an encrypted volume and use it for backups.
Then clean all free space with bcwipe. It's free for download if you download the source tarball and build it yourself. Don't be silly, do only one or two passes, not the default.
I see no reason for whole drive encryption. Zero. Zilch. The OS doesn't need to be encrypted, your multimedia doesn't need encrypting. Only your important files need it.
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I stand corrected.
This is the stupidest thing I have ever heard of.
It never used to be that way, though. Must have been for the later versions of MSN.
I looked and pidgin supports this too.
Why.jpg
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BMO
The jury was not misled.
If those icons were animated, it's because he put them there himself. Go ahead, name a chat client that sends and receives actual graphical animated emoticons. I'll wait right here.
Done looking? Didn't find one, did you? That's because they're all stored locally as themes. He either picked the theme, created his own, installed a theme, or it was the default theme. The police did not send him any animated icons.
He's lying.
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BMO
...if there were any animated icons, he put them there himself or picked the theme himself or they were the default theme.
I know of no chat client that sends actual animated graphics over the interbutt. They are all locally stored and used when the chat program successfully greps an ascii smiley and substitutes for it.
They are *his* *own* *emoticons*
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BMO
There are no women on the internet and every underage girl is an FBI agent.
While these are not always true, it's a good idea to assume they are.
And on the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog.
http://chrisabraham.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/nobodyknowsyoureadogontheinternet.jpg
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BMO
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7A4HeawmE6A
Not knowing what an Illudium Pu-36 Explosive Space Modulator means you had a deprived childhood.
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BMO
This is late but:
I should refer you to this:
http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/03/14/2014234/How-ATampT-Totally-Flubbed-4G
Also, just because FTTH and DOCSIS 3.0 are out doesn't mean squat unless they are also upgrading the back end, which the previous link is evidence of.
The back end the customer doesn't see. The end that the user faces is "oh my god that's cool" but it doesn't matter if you have the fastest speed coming out of the DOCSIS cable modem when you're capped at 20GB/month as some Canada Bell customers are currently getting. And the spread of caps is only increasing, not decreasing.
It used to be that the mantra was "too cheap to meter" because the providers always kept abreast of the technology. They are no longer doing so, as the AT&T post shows.
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BMO
It is now official. Peter Vesterbacka has confirmed: consoles are dying
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered console community when IDC confirmed that console market share has dropped yet again, now down to a fraction of 1 percent of the gaming market. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that consoles have lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. consoles are collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by falling dead last in a self selected online straw poll by Peter Vesterbacka.
You don't need to be the Amazing Kreskin to predict the future of consoles. The hand writing is on the wall: consoles have a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for consoles because consoles are dying. Things are looking very bad for consoles As many of us are already aware, consoles continue to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
Atari consoles are the most endangered of them all, having lost 100% of their core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time console developers Ralph Lippschitz and Betty Jo Underhill only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: consoles are dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
Casual gaming leader Zynga states that there were 125 million new Farmville subscribers last year. How many users of Wii are there? Let's see. The number of Farmville versus Wii posts on Facebook is roughly in ratio of 39,000 to 1. Therefore there are about 125,000,000/39000 = 3205 Wii users. PSP posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of Wii subscriptions. Therefore there are about 1600 users of the sony PSP. A recent article put Atari at about 50 percent of the PSP market. Therefore there are (3200+1600+8000=) 56005 console users. This is consistent with the number of Twitter posts.
Due to the troubles of Id software, abysmal sales and so on, Sega went out of business and was taken over by Nokia who sell another troubled platform. Now Nokia is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that Consoles steadily declined in market share. Consoles are very sick and their long term survival prospects are very dim. If consoles are to survive at all they will be among gaming dilettante dabblers. Consoles continuec to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Consoles are dead.
That crippling bombshell sent console fans into a tailspin of mourning and denial. However, bad news poured in like a river of water.
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BMO
False dichotomy.
There is a third answer: The people who supply the pipes keep up with the current state of the art. They are not doing so. They are not reinvesting in their infrastructure and the result is lesser quality and rationing.
Frankly, what the telecoms charge for overages on caps is highway robbery. It has been demonstrated that it's simply cheaper to send a SSD via snail mail and *destroy the drive* after than it is to go over the ridiculous caps that are appearing in Canada. And we're starting to see this in the US as TFA indicates.
We here in the US threw tons of money at the broadband providers during the Clinton administration and all they did was give it out to their shareholders. They continue to refuse to reinvest, and prefer to kill the goose for short term gain. We are falling behind Europe and Asia in terms of broadband, and will soon be a backwater similar to Africa if the telecoms get their way.
This is what you get when you utterly refuse to regulate once the telecoms become regional monopolies or duopolies. There is no more competition, so the raping of the customer goes on.
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BM
What part about "we come home in the dark" does not mean sunset time?
The further east you are in the time zone the sooner the sun sets.
I couldn't give two shits about sunrise time because in the winter it's dark outside on the commute and in the summer all that sunlight before the commute is wasted.
Why people in this thread don't understand this boggles my mind.
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BMO
Yes, I said that we go to work in the dark and come back in the dark. I want to come back in the daylight.
Moving to the Maritime Provinces time zone would do exactly that. Daylight Savings Time also does that. But not enough, in my opinion. If anything, DST should be extended year-round for New England an New York.
Because as it stands, we would go to work in the dark anyway. It would make no difference for the morning drive but a big difference coming back.
Thank you for ignoring everything I said and being a pedantic putz and *still* getting it wrong.
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BMO
I have a PhD in Digital Music Conservation from the University of Florida. I have to stress that the phenomenon known as "digital dust" is the real problem regarding conservation of music, and any other type of digital file. Digital files are stored in digital filing cabinets called "directories" which are prone to "digital dust" - slight bit alterations that happen now or then. Now, admittedly, in its ideal, pristine condition, a piece of musical work encoded in FLAC format contains more information than the same piece encoded in MP3, however, as the FLAC file is bigger, it accumulates, in fact, MORE digital dust than the MP3 file. Now you might say that the density of dust is the same. That would be a naive view. Since MP3 files are smaller, they can be much more easily stacked together and held in "drawers" called archive files (Zip, Rar, Lha, etc.) ; in such a configuration, their surface-to-volume ratio is minimized. Thus, they accumulate LESS digital dust and thus decay at a much slower rate than FLACs. All this is well-known in academia, alas the ignorant hordes just think that because it's bigger, it must be better.
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BMO
And you fail at spherical geometry.
Sunset *is* dependent on how far east or west you are in the time zone. That is if you believe the earth is a sphere and rotates.
Derp.
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BMO
What a buncha retahds.
There is no excuse for this. None. Trying to downplay it with a lame excuse only makes it look like they're covering something up.
I'll bet the TSA is doing exactly that.
"It all depends on what your definition of "is" is"
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BMO
I do not have any mod points, but if I had them, I would give them all to you. This is epic.
http://operatorchan.org/n/src/n121391_citizen%20kane%20clap.gif
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BMO
My name is BMO and I live in Rhode Island. We here in the Northeast US are far enough east that during the winter, we go to work in the dark and we come home in the dark. Unless you have windows in your office or stock room or machine shop, or whatever, you never see the sun except on weekends. It's like being divorced and having partial custody - of sunlight.
The Eastern time zone is so wide that it stretches all the way to the Eastern border of Illinois. This is just nuts. When DST finally shows up in March, suddenly the sun sets at a reasonable hour.
New England and NY should secede from the Union and join the Maritime Provinces simply to get a sane time zone.
I'm sorry for ranting, but I'm tired of my Seasonal Affective Disorder and I can't wait for DST to get here. See? My SAD is showing!
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BMO
That attitude is only alive and well in a vocal minority, and I go out of my way to shout at such people "YOU ARE WHAT IS WRONG WITH THE COMMUNITY" as loud as I can.
The other 90 percent of the Linux community is just ducky with Ubuntu, Redhat, and SuSE, all "noob friendly" distributions.
It's only when you get into the Arch and Gentoo fanatics that you wind up scraping the bottom of the barrel. They seem to attract a disproportionate amount of trolls.
I tell people "learning how to build a linux distribution from scratch only teaches you how to build a distro. It doesn't teach you how to use the tools of that distro"
Which is true and I will go to my grave defending that argument.
But to paint the community with the broad brush of having a "for nerds only" attitude is unfair and uncalled for. And using Slashdot as a basis for that argument is ill-informed at best because the only people who come here are nerds, almost by definition.
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BMO
And what happens when someone implements part of .net (ado and asp) that is not part of the promise?
Eh? Do you mono cheerleaders ever think about that? No, you skip right over that as if it doesn't matter.
It matters.
Mono is a poisoned apple. Do *not* bite into it.
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BMO
>The "by nerds for nerds" attitude
Oh hey everybody, he's using an argument from the 1990s!
Tell me, what is so nerdy about Ubuntu, Mint, SuSE, or Pardus (to blatantly plug that distro)? You don't ever have to drop to a command line anymore if you really don't want to. What the hell more do you want? Sex? You're going to have to find your own.
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BMO
There are a few traitors when it comes to Linux and Open Source in general. I'd put Florian Mueller in the same bucket as Miguel, although Florian is quite a bit more transparent about it.
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BMO
>It never fails here on slashdot, someone comments nicely and then at the end they call me an asshole in a roundabout way
Says TROLLertron3000
I call shenanigans.
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BMO
>Linux is supposed to be open, yes? What's *wrong* with taking something Microsoft invented and using it in Linux?
According to Microsoft, EVERYTHING.
Microsoft does not play well with its competitors. It doesn't even play well with its partners. Where the hell have you been for the past 20 years? Eh?
Seriously. Did you not notice any of the threats from Microsoft about patents over the last decade? Did you not notice Microsoft funding its lawsuit-by-proxy against IBM through SCO?
Incorporating Microsoft IP into Linux is the most dangerous thing anyone could do to Linux and Miguel has been shoving it in as hard as he possibly can with Mono.. And Miguel wants us to believe it's all rainbows, unicorns, and blue skies dealing with Microsoft.
No. Not in a million years. Microsoft cannot be trusted. Ever. To trust Microsoft as a competitor means you are denying history and just being stupid. The lions always go after the weak ones. You can't ever be weak in front of Microsoft. Not even as a partner.
You are either grossly naive or truly disingenuous and a troll. You pick.
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BMO
Dude, I had a GUI in CAD back in friggin 1992.
Customizable and everything - the icons were actually drawings that had properties. You could draw them and make your own within the program - gcd.
MGED is like using a pen knife to chop down a tree. Oh sure, you can gang up a lot of pen knives to chop the tree all at once and make lumber, but man, it's a horrible thing to deal with
The manual for MGED is excellent and I wish all documentation was like it, but it's a lot of stuff to slog through.
Too sparse indeed.
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bmo
I downloaded BRL-CAD when it was first released for Linux, but I had no idea what to do with it. It was just an engine. No UI to speak of at all. I would love to see a decent UI for BRL-CAD. BRL-CAD with one would be spectacular.
I've tried QCAD. I really just can't go back to pure 2D CAD anymore. Drawing the part and generating the views from the part makes so much more sense. I remember in school doing a 6 view isometric block rotation on paper (turning it 15 degrees each time). What a pain in the ass. After learning how to draw in 3D, there is no going back, honestly.
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BMO
... for "mere human" price.
VariCAD.
It does do everything. It's not as polished as ProE or SolidWorks, and definitely not UG/NX, but it's something you can use if you're a small one-person shop.
If we're doing slashvertisement for Dassault, we may as well mention alternatives, no?
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BMO
You only really need to encrypt /home
Have /home on its own partition. Mine is only 25GB - and really, only 5GB are being used. Everything else is offloaded to other partitions and that stuff doesn't need encryption. It's all music and video.
Tar up /home /home partition. /home /home
Save it somewhere. You should already have an external USB, firewire, or esata external drive.
Repartition the drive with gparted and make space at the end of the drive for a
Create an encrypted volume for
Copy your stuff back to
Delete the stuff on the external drive.
Make the external drive an encrypted volume and use it for backups.
Then clean all free space with bcwipe. It's free for download if you download the source tarball and build it yourself. Don't be silly, do only one or two passes, not the default.
I see no reason for whole drive encryption. Zero. Zilch. The OS doesn't need to be encrypted, your multimedia doesn't need encrypting. Only your important files need it.
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BMO