Tag Archives: ubuntu

Setup encfs on dropbox for boxcryptor with CFEngine

Here is an easy way to con­fig­ure encfs with drop­box that is com­pat­i­ble with box­cryp­tor. Box­cryp­tor makes Win­dows, Mac Android, and IOS appli­ca­tions to assist you in access­ing data that you have stored in encfs. They do require that you cre­ate your encfs with some spe­cific options: Cipher algo­rithm: AES, Plain­text or Stream encrypted file­names,

Replace unity with gnome3 and gnome-shell in ubuntu 11.04

Well I gave unity the old col­lege try in ubuntu 11.04. But last night I just couldn’t take it any more. There were some small ren­der­ing issues occa­sion­ally plus some tray pro­grams like workrave had no place to go, at least that I could find any­way and I really need workrave to remind me to

Ubuntu Server — Fit for Production or a Change in the SA Guard?

I’m curi­ous what any­one who reads this blog thinks. My first reac­tion when some­one men­tions Ubuntu server is to grab the near­est trout and start slap­ping. Don’t get me wrong I like Ubuntu. It’s very nice on a work­sta­tion, and suit­able for my wife, mother, aunt, etc .… But do you really think its good

NetworkManager funkyness (knetworkmanager)

Ok so this is the oppo­site of what I gen­er­ally use but its been annoy­ing me and I just fig­ured out what was caus­ing it so I fig­ured I would share it. I am cur­rently run­ning Kubuntu Hardy Haron but this prob­lem was present when I installed my first Ubuntu vari­ent Gutsy Gibbon.