Have you ever tried to burn your collection of digital photos or mp3 files to DVD? Sure you have, how did you accomplish it? By sorting files into groups of 4.6gb and burning one dvd at the time? Most people do it this way, you could also use winrar or other and create compressed files with a size of 4.6gb (one per dvd) – however that is not optimal if you later wish to extract just that ONE file you deleted by accident or if one DVD gets corrupted…
What to do!? Well I stumbled across this blog post;
http://www.jonnysblog.com/2009/04/12/how-to-split-directories-to-span-dvd%E2%80%99s/
Where several utilities are mentioned;
SizeMove (see above link for screenshot)
SizeMe
I also stumbled across;
LargeBackup2DVD (a full featured backup solution)
UPDATE;
A related product Dirsplit has come to my attention, this appear to be more related to sorting than size, but may still be interesting to you;
http://code.google.com/p/dirsplit/
Need to repartition your harddisk? Don’t want to pay hundreds of dollars for Partition Magic?
Well you may be in luck by visiting;
http://gparted.sourceforge.net/
Here you will find a linux iso of a utility called Gparted, maybe its worth a look before you order Partition Magic 🙂
So I just received my YubiKey II in the mail yesterday, it’s quite nice not as pretty as the original YubiKey but way more robust.
What is a Yubikey you ask, well that is complicated to explain, but basically it’s a token that will generate one time passwords – you can hence use it to login to websites and services (that of cause need to support the Yubikey), the cool thing here is that with “One time passwords” you do not need to fear that someone steals your password (malware, virus or keylogger) as you get a new password every time you use the key to login..
It’s way cool, and quite easy to implement on your own website or in your own software as there are numerous public API’s available..
The company behind and their description of the key
http://www.yubico.com
http://www.yubico.com/products/description/
Various videos on the Yubikey
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=yubikey&search_type=&aq=f
A technical walk through of the Yubikey
Security Now – Episode #143 – 08 May 2008 – 84 min.
http://media.grc.com/sn/sn-143-lq.mp3
Developers look here
http://www.yubico.com/developers/clients/
Update; 2010 January
Coupon/discount code available here;
http://www.ghacks.net/2010/01/12/yubico-usb-key-provides-extra-login-protection-security/