Transferring my Mac OS X partition with Disk Utility and my WinXP bootcamp partition with WinClone went very smoothly, and now I’m finally at the point where I'm going to put a code enlistment back on it. DevDiv for this release is using Team Foundation Server for our source control, and for the Mac side, we’re using the Teamprise client to access the server. It’s churning along in the background considering what files it’ll need to pull down to replace my deleted enlistment.
On the cool side, due to our data-at-rest policies for laptops, I’ve recreated an encrypted sparsebundle disk image for the purpose of storing my source. Historically, I would have just used the
-encryption flag to hdiutil and relied on the security of my local machine’s keychain to keep the secret. However, since Gemalto has released Mac OS X tokend plugins for its .NET v2+ cards, I can use the certificate off of my Microsoft badge as the security, now requiring thieves to either crack the stock encryption or to also steal my badge and my PIN. (Good luck with that.)Building services are going to be replacing the carpet and putting a fresh coat of paint on the walls this evening, so I’m putting all my books and peripherals into boxes. I only hope that my sync is done by the time my office is packed so I can go work in the new commons.
