Today, I upgraded to Ubuntu 9.10. I want to install Tor. I try this tip.
Here is what happens in the terminal of my computer:
liberty@liberty-desktop:~$ sudo sh -c 'echo deb "http://deb.torproject.org/torproject.org sid main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list'
[sudo] password for liberty:
liberty@liberty-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install tor tor-geoipdb privoxy
I will try later whether Tor works.
Maybe I should try to install Tor. I hope that Tor will be included in Ubuntu 9.10.
I just installed Geany. I need a text editor that is capable to display php files with color highlighting. The editor gedit is capable to do that. But gedit can’t scale the font size like e.g. Notepad++ (only available for Win XP). Komodo is another alternative, but I don’t like it.
I am downloading Linux Mint because I have problems with the playback of DVDs on my main Ubuntu PC.
On my Ubuntu 9.04 computer, Audacity functions with the following settings:
Audio I/O:
Playback Device: “ALSA: ALi M5455: ALi M5455 (hw:0,0)”
Recording Device: “ALSA: AK5370 : USB Audio (hw:1,0)”
Recording Channels: 1 (Mono)
Quality:
Sampling – Default Sample Rate: 22050 Hz
Interface:
Display range minimum: meters and ‘Waveform (dB)’: -60 dB (PCM range of 10 bit samples)
Default View Mode: Waveform (db)
Currently, I am encrypting an external USB drive with TrueCrypt 6.2 under Ubuntu 9.04. First, the outer volume is beeing formatted:
Later, I will have to create the hidden volume. I will use the hidden volume for backup of my KeePassX database. The database has a size of about 100 KB (a traditional floppy disk has 1.44 MB) – so it is pretty small. Since the database itself is encrypted (password and keyfile are needed to decrypt it), I have very high security. In the outer volume of the external USB hard drive that I am momentarily encrypting, a backup of files from an Win XP computer will be stored. I hope that this will work. I am not totally sure because I don’t know the file format TrueCrypt is encrypting the external hard drive with. It might be possible that Win XP doesn’t recognize ext3 if it is used. I will see.
I just created a TrueCrypt file under Ubuntu. It was the first time that I created a hidden container within the outer container. It is a pretty complicated concept. I am using this complicated concept with the hidden container just for backup. It works.
I hope that it will be possible in a future version of TrueCrypt to encrypt the hole Ubuntu system. Under Win XP, this is already possible.
By the way, I just saw that TrueCrypt 6.2 is available. You might want to take a look into the new features.
I am considering to migrate from Thunderbird (Win XP) to Evolution (Ubuntu 9.04). I found an interesting article (haven’t read it completely, just the beginning). And maybe I should read about how to import emails from Thunderbird to Evolution.
Currently, I am downloading and sending my emails via Thunderbird under Win XP using SMTP/POP3. I don’t use IMAP because I find it too complicated. Since I have started to use Ubuntu as my main operating system (dual boot, different hard drives), I have to think about migrating my emails from Win XP to Ubuntu 9.04.
And to be honest: I don’t like Thunderbird because it doesn’t have an explicit export function for emails. Outlook Express does have an export function. It is always the same: Microsoft is better than Linux. That’s the simple truth. Thunderbird needs to be more user-friendly. I don’t need lots of features, but an export function is a sign of user-friendliness.
