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Alien's Slackware packages

Sun, 8 Feb 2015 16:51:04 GMT

libreoffice: updated to 4.4.0. Note that these packages are compiled on Slackware 14.1 (and work fine on -current). These packages will not work on Slackware 14.0 (I have libreoffice-4.1.6 packages for that). Recommended: if you work with MS Office documents a lot, you may want to install the two open source font packages google-caladea-font-ttf and […]

Fri, 6 Feb 2015 20:02:11 GMT

chromium: updated to 40.0.2214.111 with working support for Widevine CDM (you will need to install chromium-widevine-plugin for that) chromium-widevine-plugin: upgraded to 40.0.2214.111 (needs chromium of the same version)

Thu, 5 Feb 2015 22:52:04 GMT

chromium-pepperflash-plugin: updated to 16.0.0.305. Security fix, see http://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb15-04.html flashplayer-plugin: updated to 11.2.202.442. Security fix, see http://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb15-04.html Verify that you are running the latest version on: http://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/

Thu, 29 Jan 2015 10:43:39 GMT

chromium-pepperflash-plugin: updated to 16.0.0.296. Security fix, see http://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb15-03.html flashplayer-plugin: updated to 11.2.202.440. Security fix, see http://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb15-03.html Verify that you are running the latest version on: http://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/

Alien's unofficial KDE Slackware packages

Wed, 25 Feb 2015 19:52:26 GMT

This is KDE 5_15.02_2 for Slackware, consisting of the KDE Frameworks 5.7.0, Plasma 5.2.1 and Applications 14.12.2. This is meant only to be installed on top of Slackware -current and it will *replace* any version of KDE 4 you migh thave installed! New & changed since my KDE 5_15.02 release: - deps/libssh version 0.6.4 was […]

Tue, 17 Feb 2015 20:54:27 GMT

This is KDE 5_15.02 for Slackware, consisting of the KDE Frameworks 5.7.0, Plasma 5.2.0 and Applications 14.12.2. This is meant only to be installed on top of Slackware -current and it will *replace* any version of KDE 4 you migh thave installed! New & changed since my 15.01 release of KDE 5: - all "extragear" […]

Alien's multilib packages

Tue, 17 Feb 2015 21:22:18 GMT

14.0/slackware64-compat32: Refreshed the *compat32 packages. 14.1/slackware64-compat32: Refreshed the *compat32 packages.

Fri, 13 Feb 2015 14:14:02 GMT

current/glibc-2.21_multilib-x86_64-1alien.txz: Upgraded. current/glibc-i18n-2.21_multilib-x86_64-1alien.txz: Upgraded. current/glibc-profile-2.21_multilib-x86_64-1alien.txz: Upgraded. current/glibc-solibs-2.21_multilib-x86_64-1alien.txz: Upgraded. current/glibc-zoneinfo-2015a_multilib-noarch-1alien.txz: Upgraded. current/slackware64-compat32: Refreshed the *compat32 packages.

Archive for the tag "socks"

Securely browsing the net – using SOCKS

If you are using a public/open wireless access point (like, in an Internet Cafe), or if you live in a country where people are not all that happy or concerned about it’s citizens’ freedom, you sometimes find yourself in the position that you want to hide your browsing behaviour from others. I will describe a […]

Posted: 10 April, 2010 in Software.
Tags: browsing, encryption, socks, tunnel
Comments: 11

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