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I discovered today that in Karmic there is an option to format encrypted usb disks.
But first of all you need to install the support for this feature; from the terminal:

$ sudo apt-get install cryptsetup

When you plug in your USB disk, and mount it, you'll see an icon on your desktop. Right-clicking on it and selecting [...]

Previously I wrote that suspend/resume was not working in Karmic on my MacBook Pro 5.1, and I posted a solution. Now I found a better solution from the Apple Users forum on Ubuntu. The advantage is that with this fix, the suspend/resume is much faster.
First you need to revert the change I suggested previously.
Then... (copied [...]

I updated today from Jaunty to Karmic and, as effect, I had Suspend/Resume/Hibernate broken. But reboot and shutdown works; before with Jaunty the reboot was frequently crashing.
To fix the Suspend/Resume, I modified /boot/grub/menu.lst to add the kernel option acpi=noirq
Example:

title Ubuntu 9.10, kernel 2.6.31-14-generic
uuid 5daec709-2655-4d7c-9968-969143e31fbd
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-14-generic root=UUID=5daec709-2655-4d7c-9968-969143e31fbd ro quiet splash acpi=noirq
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.31-14-generic
quiet

Other problem I found during the distro upgrade:

sound is [...]