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Using Filezilla with passwordstorage protected

Monday, April 4th, 2011

I have for a long time used FileZilla for FTP-client but have been worried that the password files is not protected. Just open it in a texteditor and grab the passwords. Doesn’t feel very secure ;)

So I have installed TruCrypt, created a volume and installed the portable version of FileZilla. Fastest solution for me when I did not want to switch FTP-client on Windows. Sure, the passwords for normal FTP-account is still sent as text but at least now the storagefile is protected. On OS X I switched client to Cyberduck.

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Subversion on Windows 7

Wednesday, October 13th, 2010

I wanted to use subversion on Windows 7 since I purchased a Vaio-laptop (I’m going dual-boot with Ubuntu). I installed Collabnets Subversion Edge and RapidSVN. Started to checkout repos from external drive. I got into a lot of problems with errors, for exmpple “can’t move” files and so on. It turned out to be the Windows Indexing service. I needed to shut it off, and things started to work better. So if you have troubles with svn on Windoes 7, try disabling the indexing for the working copies and repositories.

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Fix Pidgins “Waiting for network connection”

Tuesday, August 24th, 2010

I have had some problem with Pidgins “Waiting for network connection” (on my Linux-machine). Apparently the problem involved Gnomes NetworkManager. After a lot of searching I found an easy solution that worked for me. I use the -f option when starting Pidgin which tells it to ignore NetworkManager. You can add it in your Shortcut/Launcher if you don’t want to use commandline. If it doesnt work you might found a solution here.

If you are a Windows user I guess that the problem could be related to your networkconnection somehow.

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Freemind 0.9 on Xubuntu

Thursday, January 28th, 2010

Now you can get Freemind 0.9 on Xubuntu Linux (and OS X and Windows). Freemind is the free mindmapping software. I think it is great for planning and thinking sometimes. There is an old version in the Ubuntu repositories, but I had a hard time getting it to work and it couldn’t open the maps I made on my Mac or Windows (since they had later versions of the software).

I just downloaded freemind-bin-max-0.9.0_RC_6.zip and extracted, made freemind.sh executable and now I got a new version of this great little program :)

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