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Showing posts with label database. Show all posts

KeePassX crash when auto-typing special characters


KeePassX 0.3.4 has been released which fixes a crash when auto-typing special characters.
Very frequent with the '@' when your user name is your email address.

Just download the corresponding package from the download section install it with GDebi or whatever and the problem is gone.

Read more about KeePass in a previous post about it.

Last.fm Player

Last.fm Player

Last.fm is a service that keeps track of what music you listen to, and then produces a large number of features personalized to you.

You can use Last.fm to listen to music, find out about artists you may like, other people with similar music taste, gigs in your local area, charts and quilts for your personal site, as well as much more.

Ubuntu Install Instructions


The following commands will add the repositories for Last.FM player, add an authentication key and finally install it.
sudo -i
echo 'deb http://apt.last.fm/ debian stable # Last.FM Player' | tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list
wget -O- http://apt.last.fm/last.fm.repo.gpg | apt-key add -
apt-get update
apt-get install lastfm

More info about these steps can be found here.

As examples, here you can see the webmasters top artists he listened so far or you can listen to similar music of his tastes:









KeePass Password Safe

KeePass is a free/open-source password manager or safe which helps you to manage your passwords in a secure way. You can put all your passwords in one database, which is locked with one master key or a key-disk. So you only have to remember one single master password or insert the key-disk to unlock the whole database. The databases are encrypted using the best and most secure encryption algorithms currently known (AES and Twofish).



The database (*.kbd file) can be access from Windows and Linux systems.

Get KeePass

Installation on Ubuntu


The Linux port is named KeePassX and has its own webpage.
Unfortunately, the version that will be installed from the applications main menu isn't the newest, so you should add the following repository to get the latest version:

sudo -i
echo "deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/sniperbeamer/ubuntu/ hardy main #SniperBeamer (KeepassX, ...)" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/sniperbeamer.list
apt-get update
apt-get install keepassx