Alien Pastures

Sponsoring

Thanks to TekLinks in Birmingham, AL, for providing colocation and bandwidth.

Also appreciated: support me by clicking the ads (costs nothing) :-)

Page Rank

About this blog

I am Eric Hameleers, and this is where I think out loud.
More about me.

Search

My Favourites

Slackware

Calendar

May 2013
M	T	W	T	F	S	S
« Apr
	1	2	3	4	5
6	7	8	9	10	11	12
13	14	15	16	17	18	19
20	21	22	23	24	25	26
27	28	29	30	31

Alien's Slackware packages

Sat, 25 May 2013 22:16:55 GMT
x264: updated to 20130524 snapshot. […]
Sat, 25 May 2013 12:22:29 GMT
hexchat: added v2.9.5 - HexChat is a rebirth of the graphical IRC client XChat. HexChat has evolved from the initial Windows-only port XChat-WDK. XChat development seems to have stalled; HexChat is the logical alternative. […]
Fri, 24 May 2013 10:49:23 GMT
calibre: updated to 0.9.32. For the (unchanged) dependency list, see further down in the ChangeLog.txt. […]
Wed, 22 May 2013 21:46:54 GMT
tigervnc: rebuilt the v1.1.0 package for slackware-current because the old package of Slackware 14 stopped working after the latest -current update, due to a missing library. […]

Alien's unofficial KDE Slackware packages

Wed, 15 May 2013 14:56:21 GMT
14.0/kde/kdelibs: Patched to fix a crash exiting KDE or quitting some apps (KDEBUG 319137) […]
Thu, 9 May 2013 22:11:31 GMT
This is the KDE Software Compilation 4.10.3 for Slackware 14.0. Now that Slackware-current has an official set of KDE 4.10.x packages, provided by Patrick Volkerding, I am offering my own packages for Slackware 14.0 - so that users of this stable release can enjoy the KDE upgrade as well. If you already have my previous KDE 4.10.2 packages installed then the […]

Alien's multilib packages

Wed, 22 May 2013 12:04:54 GMT
14.0/compat32-tools-3.0-noarch-9alien.tgz: See below. current/compat32-tools-3.0-noarch-9alien.tgz: Added l/harfbuzz and l/icu4c to the massconvert32.sh script as new dependencies of l/pango. Added a new option '-n' or '--dry-run' to the massconvert32.sh script which will show missing/outdated packages without actually converting them. cu […]
Mon, 6 May 2013 20:50:39 GMT
13.0/glibc-zoneinfo-2013c_multilib-noarch-3alien.txz: Copied from current. 13.1/glibc-zoneinfo-2013c_multilib-noarch-3alien.txz: Copied from current. 13.37/glibc-zoneinfo-2013c_multilib-noarch-3alien.txz: Copied from current. 14.0/glibc-zoneinfo-2013c_multilib-noarch-3alien.txz: Copied from current. current/glibc-2.17_multilib-x86_64-3alien.txz: Rebuilt. cur […]

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