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Showing edited chat messages on Skype for Linux

Saturday, September 1st, 2007

Recent version of Skype for Windows allow to edit already sent chat messages. Unfortunately, Skype for Linux 1.4 won’t show the edited version unless you reload the chat history.
I have added to my Skype command-line tools a little script, which will warn you when someone edited a message by showing a message window. Then you […]

Linux: Slow encfs on USB drives

Tuesday, August 7th, 2007

I recently purchased an external USB hard drive to backup my data. I want to encrypt some of the data I put and I decided to use encfs for this. It’s a very easy way to set up an encrypted file system, a 5 minutes setup under Ubuntu Feisty. Compared to a loopback encrypted file […]