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Skype
In issue 98 you have the question “I have heard that Skype is available for Ubuntu. How should I install it?”
Please note that while Skype is technically available for Linux, Skype (or rather Microsoft - since they own it now) has stopped supporting Linux, and a lot of additional features (like screenshare) don't work (in case of a multi-participant call) or have very poor quality (in a one-on-one call) when using Linux (compared to Windows / Mac).
People should look for an alternative (Google Hangouts works nicely). I didn't try Jitsy yet.
Attila
Multiple Passwords Script
I know FCM #91 is not new but I just have read it. I have a few remarks about the article 'HowTo - Multiple Passwords With A Script'.
First of all, I would like to know the principles of publishing articles. I ask it because of my ambivalent feelings about the named article. Although it could have been a good howto for newbies, it can be more dangerous than useful. Let me explain: It makes no sense to write a script to encrypt a text file which contains passwords. There are a lot of other ways to secure our passwords. Eg: password manager.
If we do this anyway, we should not store the encrypted file on our Desktop and the logs of the script in our home directory, I think.
The author of this article mentioned that he uses this homemade encryption script in business, too. The average reader and user might conclude that this encryption method is safe because it was described by an expert. In my opinion using this script can give a false sense of security to the readers and users.
In addition, this script is unchecked, it's from an author who is possibly not known by any reader. Full Circle Magazine is a great place to inform people about IT-security. To download and use a script by an unknown person (which is maybe downloaded from untrusted websites) is not safe. I'm afraid that publishing this howto was not a good idea at all. Maybe I'm wrong but I think that Full Circle Magazine has a task to teach the readers about careful computer usage. Publishing an article with a script to do something that can be done by other, more secure, ways is not logical. There are a lot of useful scripts published by Full Circle Magazine, but this is not one of them.
So, because of my described feelings I wish to know on what basis you decide to accept and publish an article.
Sorry for the long letter, I just wanted to write about my feelings about publishing this howto.
Vivien
Ronnie says: By publishing the articles we have to assume that the writer has checked his or her articles for errors (either grammatical or technical). We're a bunch of volunteers and aren't experts in everything. And, it goes without saying, that if someone runs a script (or tries anything) that we print, then it’s at their own peril.
Download All The Things!
I remember seeing an article about a script to allow downloading of all past issues. Can you tell me how to get that?
Boudi
Ronnie says: Open a terminal and enter these commands one at a time:
cd ~/Downloads
wget www.liedler.at/dl/dl_fcm_gui.py
chmod +x dl_fcm_gui.py
./dl_fcm_gui.py
Up should pop a GUI that will let you choose which issues to download.