Re:Lion Is a Quitter
by mark_l_watson on Tuesday August 09, 2011 @08:11PM
(#2866097)
I mostly use my MBP for Java, Lisp, and Ruby development and I like Lion, after about 10 days with it. Reopening applications where they were before seemed lame at first, now I like it. Same for showing the last bit of text in Terminal windows.
One thing that I really like is FileVault 2. I have a lot of sensitive data for several clients on my laptop (SSH keys set up for their servers, AWS credentials, proprietary materials, etc.) and I used to go through a tortuous process of having encrypted file volumes that I had symbolic links to files on the volumes. I wasted a good 3 or 4 minutes a day with this. I set up FileVault 2 and encrypted all of the external disks that I rotate for TimeMachine backups (I tend to use one for a few days, switch to another, keep rotating), and now I just keep everything on my permanent disk partition. One hassle: I lost my time Machine "history" because the conversion process to encrypted external disks requires a reformat; I thought that it was worth it.
One thing that I really like is FileVault 2. I have a lot of sensitive data for several clients on my laptop (SSH keys set up for their servers, AWS credentials, proprietary materials, etc.) and I used to go through a tortuous process of having encrypted file volumes that I had symbolic links to files on the volumes. I wasted a good 3 or 4 minutes a day with this. I set up FileVault 2 and encrypted all of the external disks that I rotate for TimeMachine backups (I tend to use one for a few days, switch to another, keep rotating), and now I just keep everything on my permanent disk partition. One hassle: I lost my time Machine "history" because the conversion process to encrypted external disks requires a reformat; I thought that it was worth it.