Just lost my flash drive...

[Baked]

There's a necklace that comes w/ the flash drive, use it.

 

[Rubycon]

Get a transponding shock collar and attach the slave unit to your flash drive. This way if you get up and walk away you will be reminded via a subtle shock - that you've left your treasured possession behind!

 

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: GeekDrew
So much whining in this thread.

Buy another flash drive. Create a TrueCrypt volume on it. If you need to save something personal, mount the volume, do whatever you need to, and then dismount it. Non-confidential stuff goes directly on the flash drive. Then have a script that backs up your flash drive to your hard drive. Either run it manually periodically, or schedule a script (nightly or some such) to check to see if the drive is present, and if it is, copy it all to the hard drive, compress the contents into a single file, and then rename the compressed file with the timestamp of the backup for future reference.

It's not that hard, folks.

Which is great, unless you lack administrative access at your campus or workplace.
No admin access = no Truecrypt install.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Just make yourself a VPN drive that has all the stuff you need to VPN into your home network, (exept for the password). Plug it in, install vpn client, establish vpn session, and you have full access to your home network. Only issue is you might need admin rights to do that, but you can always use a linux live CD.

 

[theflyingpig]

(exept for the password)

 

[GeekDrew]

Originally posted by: Jeff7

Originally posted by: GeekDrew
So much whining in this thread.

Buy another flash drive. Create a TrueCrypt volume on it. If you need to save something personal, mount the volume, do whatever you need to, and then dismount it. Non-confidential stuff goes directly on the flash drive. Then have a script that backs up your flash drive to your hard drive. Either run it manually periodically, or schedule a script (nightly or some such) to check to see if the drive is present, and if it is, copy it all to the hard drive, compress the contents into a single file, and then rename the compressed file with the timestamp of the backup for future reference.

It's not that hard, folks.

Which is great, unless you lack administrative access at your campus or workplace.
No admin access = no Truecrypt install.

Correct... but if you just put your personal confidential information in the TrueCrypt volume, chances are lesser that you would need to access it on a computer where you don't have admin access (or that doesn't already have TrueCrypt installed on it).