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SD4L is a suite of Linux tools and a graphical user interface (GUI) which allow the creation of, and access to ScramDisk encrypted container files. In particular, SD4L provides a Linux driver which enables mounting ScramDisk containers. ScramDisk for Linux also encrypts partitions on a hard disk or storage media such as USB sticks or floppy disks entirely as devices. Version 2.0, moreover, opens and creates TrueCrypt containers from TrueCrypt version 4.1 to 6.1a.

XPDF is an open source viewer for Portable Document Format (PDF) files. (These are also sometimes also called 'Acrobat' files, from the name of Adobe's PDF software.) The Xpdf project also includes a PDF text extractor, PDF-to-PostScript converter, and various other utilities. Xpdf runs under the X Window System on UNIX, VMS, and OS/2. The non-X components (pdftops, pdftotext, etc.) also run on Win32 systems

'The house that tweets' This 2 minute video interview with Andy Stanford-Clark is much more entertaining than the YouTube interview I bookmarked earlier. Lots of action shots of home telemetry, Andy's Java midlet on his phone, and what I think is a GNOME desktop showing his home's web interface.

"Changes the "Send Later" command (Ctrl+Shift+Return) in the message composition window, so that instead of merely copying the message into your Outbox so that it is sent the next time you go online or do "Send Unsent Messages", a dialog pops up which allows you to specify when the message will be sent. You can specify a specific time and date, or click "15 mins later", "30 mins later" or "2 hours later", or click "Passthrough to Send Later" to get the built-in Thunderbird "Send Later" functionality (i.e., copy to Outbox)."

Grep command is my favorite command in unix and I really like to use it for all searching stuff. unix grep command is both powerful and versatile and in this article I have shared 10 unique ways of using in your day 2 day life.

Click here to see original video.This is Part 1 of 2 video recording from the OSGUI.com Tech Show is of the MLUG Australia October 30th Meeting

OpenSource Red Alert 2 - Westwood lives!

"eXeLearning is an easy to use authoring tool under GPL-2+ to create educational web contents. Installing eXeLearning on Ubuntu: sudo snap install exelearning eXeLearning generates interactive contents in HTML5 and other formats and it allows you to create websites including text, images, interactive activities, image galleries, evaluating rubrics, multimedia clips, games... All the educational materials can be exported in different formats: SCORM, IMS, ePub, responsive HTML website, XLIFF... eXeLearning is available for GNU/Linux, Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. Go to https://exelearning.net/ for more download options."

Are you using Linux platform to download Bittorrent file? If the answer is "Yes", you shall try to use qBittorrent to be your Bittorrent client that is a lightweight Bittorrent client for Linux, and easy to use.

POSIX IO Must Die! POSIX IO is becoming a serious impediment to IO performance and scaling. POSIX is one of the standards that enabled portable programs and POSIX IO is the portion of the standard surrounding IO. But as the world of storage evolves with greatly increasing capacities and greatly increasing performance, it is time for POSIX IO to evolve or die.