Because I have an encrypted home folder on an ext4 formatted volume, Dropbox stopped working.
Luckily, Alan Pope has a solution at his popey blog.
He essentially has created a shell script for you to download and run (after
All of a sudden on 18.04 of Xubuntu, my ability to convert image files to PDF has stopped working.
Normally, I could do the following at the terminal:
$ convert image*.jpg NEW.pdf
to convert a series of image files into
VeraCrypt has replaced TrueCrypt as the all-around, essential encryption software everyone should be using.
For instance, any password info for your computer, financial info (account and social security numbers), personal/private encryption keys, and pics of essential documents can be kept
Unix systems have been around for more than half a century. But, with Linux and Mac OS X, Unix systems have now achieved wide-spread success. Mac OS X is extremely well designed, but Apple does not play well when you
Google provides inexpensive cloud storage — google drive — but does not provide a native Linux client for mirroring those cloud files on the local computer.
Into this gap strolls insync, a Mac, Wintel, and Linux client for connecting
A new long-term support release of Xubuntu is out, and I have upgraded to it on my desktop. Make sure to check out the Xubuntu release notes as well as the general Ubuntu release notes before upgrading yourself.
The new
