Papendick.us

For some unknown reason I was looking up random domain names when I came across something interesting.  The Papendick.us domain was still available.  I guess I knew this as I've looked up numerous Papendick domains in the past.  Apparently today was the day that it became important for me as I now own it!  Nothing too exciting at this point as it's currently parked to the PolarLava site.  Maybe at some point I'll do something useful with it.

—2/5/2007—
OK, it's no longer parked here.  But then again, it's still nothing special.  Over the weekend I built it into its own site, that is basically a clone of my wife's site.  I'm still not sure what I'm going to do with it, although I have considered splitting off the personal aspects of this site and putting them there.

—10/23/2007—
Part of me still wants to split my site, but I just don't have the time to dedicate to it as I have a lot of other things I'd also like to do.  So it's either going to expire and get gobbled up by a squatter, wallow in it's current sad state, or I may keep it and point it to PolarLava.  I guess I'm leaning toward the first or possibly the third option if I feel like paying for it again.

— 2/2/2008—
Alright, I couldn't let it go.  I've opted to switch registrars which allowed me to get 2 years for what it would have cost me for one at the previous one.  And being I don't see doing much with this for the foreseeable future I've now parked it to point to PolarLava.

MyClient V3.1.3 Released

MyClient V3.1.3 has been released.  This is strictly a bug fix release so you only need to update your files.  There are not configuration changes to be made.

Enhancements

  • None
Bug Fixes
  • Saving query results in any manner now functions.
  • HTML entities in the query window are now properly handled on page reload.
  • Two new language strings were added for text translations that were previously missed.
  • Database class files have been updated with several miscellaneous bug fixes.
Configuration Changes
  • None
New Language Tags
These new tags that have been added to the language files were machine translated —with the exception of the Japanese files.  If you are utilizing a language other than English, your feedback and corrections are most welcome. (kevinp ~AT~ polarlava.com)
  • ERROR_O_NOWRITE
  • ERROR_O_NOSAVEFILE
  • EMAIL_BODY_RESULTS
See the MyClient History file for more information.  Please see the MyClient Upgrading documentation for information on upgrading your installation.

Using TrueCrypt

For quite a while now I've been going to look into so way of encrypting the data I store on my USB Flash Drive.  At one point I had looked at using GPG, but never really got very far with making easy and work able.  Thus I did the appropriate thing and gave up.

Earlier this week I came across a "data swiped from a flash drive horror story" which got me thinking about it again.  So after a few minutes of searching I came up with TrueCrypt.

After a couple of missteps I successfully configured "Traveller Mode" on my 256MB flash drive.  At this point I have a 230MB encrypted drive with the remainder unencrypted.  This allows space to store the application and also functions as some portable scratch space if I need it.  Very easy, very convenient.  Now all I need to do is buy a 1GB drive and life will be good.  Then I will probably convert the 256MB back to an unencrypted scratch drive.