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Alien's Slackware packages

Fri, 7 Mar 2014 08:38:38 GMT
calibre: updated to 1.27.0. For the full list of Slackware 14.0/14.1/current dependencies for calibre: see the 'Fri Jan 31 21:12:42 UTC 2014' entry in this ChangeLog.txt. […]
Wed, 5 Mar 2014 23:25:14 GMT
libconfig: added v1.4.9 - this is a library for parsing configurationn files, specifically meant to be used on low-memory machines. telegram-cli: added 20140305 git snapshot. This is a commandline client for the Telegram messenger service - an open source and secure alternative to WhatsApp. This depends on libconfig and lua packages. […]
Wed, 5 Mar 2014 09:22:38 GMT
chromium: updated to 33.0.1750.146. This new stable release addresses several security issues, see also http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.nl/2014/03/stable-channel-update.html […]
Tue, 4 Mar 2014 11:01:39 GMT
scribus: updated to 1.4.3 (new dependency: podofo). […]

Alien's unofficial KDE Slackware packages

Wed, 5 Mar 2014 20:49:43 GMT
current/4.12.3/kde: added the missing kwalletmanager package. For KDE 4.12.3, the old 'kwallet' package had been renamed to 'kwalletmanager' and I had not spotted that. Upgrade using "upgradepkg kwallet%/path/to/kwalletmanager-4.12.3-*.txz". […]
Sun, 2 Mar 2014 22:14:58 GMT
This is the KDE Software Compilation 4.12.3 for Slackware-current (it was actually compiled on Slackware 14.1 for maximum compatibility). This release does not include a version 4.12.x of the Plasma Workspaces, since it was feature-frozen in 4.11. The work done in KDE 4.12 will be mainly about improving and polishing KDE Applications. I ship kde-workspace-4. […]

Alien's multilib packages

Tue, 4 Mar 2014 23:35:35 GMT
13.37/slackware64-compat32: Refreshed the *compat32 packages. 14.0/slackware64-compat32: Refreshed the *compat32 packages. 14.1/slackware64-compat32: Refreshed the *compat32 packages. current/slackware64-compat32: Refreshed the *compat32 packages. […]
Thu, 16 Jan 2014 17:19:23 GMT
13.37/compat32-tools-3.2-noarch-1alien.tgz: See below. 14.0/compat32-tools-3.2-noarch-1alien.tgz: See below. 14.1/compat32-tools-3.2-noarch-1alien.tgz: See below. current/compat32-tools-3.2-noarch-1alien.tgz: Add support for using the fortran compiler in 32-bit mode. […]

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