You can easily create an Autorun file on a USB pen drive to mount and dismount the encrypted file systems. This is very useful for carry portable TrueCrypt USB drives.
The only downside is that using TrueCrypt on the move means that you need administrator rights to access the disk.
Once you plug in the USB stick, [...]

After upgrading to Ibex, I found that I couldn’t sync my Palm with my Windows XP guest.
After trudging through different websites with contradictory solutions I stumbled on this, which works a charm:
Open the terminal and type
vbox /etc/group
You should end up with something like
vboxusers:x:124:john
Make a note of the group ID (124 in this case). Now run
sudo [...]

After the recent Feisty kernel update, I found that I couldn’t access a USB drive without using root privileges in the command prompt.
When plugging a USB flash drive in, I’d get the following error:

Cannot mount volume.
You are not privileged to mount the volume ‘drivename’.
The problem is the new way that Ubuntu identifies disk drives on [...]