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Alien's Slackware packages

Wed, 13 Sep 2017 20:46:01 GMT
ffmpeg: updated to 3.3.4. Note that this package can not ENcode aac audio (although it can DEcode the AAC format just fine). Look here if you need a package with AAC encoder: http://bear.alienbase.nl/mirrors/people/alien/restricted_slackbuilds/ffmpeg/
Wed, 13 Sep 2017 09:19:47 GMT
lumina: updated to 1.3.0-p1.

Alien's unofficial KDE Slackware packages

Sun, 17 Sep 2017 20:19:59 GMT
14.2/latest - current/latest - kde/frameworks/kglobalaccel: update fixes a regression which stopped some keyboard shortcuts from working. kde/kdepim/akonadi: applied the official patch which makes akonadi work properly with mariadb 10.2.8.
Tue, 12 Sep 2017 20:24:18 GMT
14.2/latest - current/latest - kde/applications-extra: kile recompiled against new poppler. kde/kdepim/akonadi: patched to work with mariadb 10.2.8.

Alien's multilib packages

Wed, 20 Sep 2017 17:42:55 GMT
current/glibc-2.26_multilib-x86_64-3alien.txz: Rebuilt. Patched to fix an issue with location shared libraries. current/glibc-i18n-2.26_multilib-x86_64-3alien.txz: Rebuilt. current/glibc-profile-2.26_multilib-x86_64-3alien.txz: Rebuilt. current/glibc-solibs-2.26_multilib-x86_64-3alien.txz: Rebuilt. current/slackware64-compat32: Refreshed the *compat32 packages.
Wed, 20 Sep 2017 17:42:55 GMT
current/slackware64-compat32: Refreshed the *compat32 packages.

Slackware64-current

slackware64 current changes for Tue, 26 Sep 2017 00:39:15 GMT September 26, 2017
a/util-linux-2.30.2-x86_64-2.txz: Rebuilt. Renamed old BSD version of strings to "strings-BSD". ap/cups-filters-1.17.7-x86_64-2.txz: Rebuilt. Recompiled against poppler-0.59.0 and qpdf-7.0.0. ap/qpdf-7.0.0-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. Shared library .so-version bump. d/binutils-2.29.1-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. Shared library .so-version bump. Don't rename strings to "strings-GNU", but provide a symlink from strings-GNU to strings in case any user-created scripts are using the name we gave the GNU […]

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