We sometimes find what we are looking for while searching for something completely different. This happened to me recently. I was searching for a way to fix some graphic performance issues being experienced on kubuntu, when I stumbled upon (no pun intended) a packaged named ppa-purge. Continue Reading..
KeePassX: Cross Platform Password Manager for Linux
Someone once told me that any password you can remember off hand, is most likely a weak password. Even though this is by no means fool proof, it is often advised to use passwords made up of combinations of
numbers, letters and special characters. It is also good practice to use different passwords for different accounts i.e your email, PC, Facebook etc should all have different passwords.
Now if you are like me and always find it hard to create a strong enough password. My situation is also made worse by the fact that I work as a System Administrator which means I get to maintain lots of administrative passwords for many mission critical systems at work. throw in my blog, 4 emails address. over 20 forum account, 2 Micro- blogging accounts and 5 IM accounts, and it wont take a genius to know that I would be needing a password manager which would among other things allow me to create strong passwords, and store my passwords in a safe and encrypted format. I did a little research and settled for Continue Reading..
Encode and sync music to your portable music player in linux
Ok so today turned out to be a not so good day for me, and like all not so good days I try do something which would distract me, something i love doing. Hence this post. Nope I don’t want to talk about it.
So some months ago I got me an E71 Nokia phone, among other things I was hoping to use it as a music device so I slammed in an 8gb memory card, and was all set but for one factor: 60% of my music collection are in ogg format and nokia default music player does recognize ogg. Sure there are some 3rd party music apps for E71 which can play ogg files out of the box but they all lack the kind of integration which you get with the Nokia default music player. While in confused mode I decided to call up a friend nucco and he gave me the tip about .is_audio_player.
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