Somehow I managed to install the debian stock GIMP 2.8 and compile the git 2.9. I had the impression that at some point they were both working, but after some upgrade of one and/or another, 2.8 was complaining about an improper version of libgimp.

That would probably have been prevented by doing things right, which may have included creating a debian package for 2.9, among other things. Perhaps the most important "other thing" would have been paying more attention with the...

I very much enjoyed playing with this morning's google doodle. Check it out if you haven't seen it yet, it's a good one.

I'm no musician, but here's my composition:
http://g.co/doodle/35xexe

News 170621 about AndEX 7.1.2
Yesterday I said that AndEX 7.1.2 couldn’t run in VirtualBox and VMware. Actually it can! It just takes about 10 min for the Desktop to show up when running AndEX live. (I mean directly from the ISO file). Watch this screenshot – VirtualBox and this screenshot – VMware. Just give AndEX enough RAM. I gave AndEX 3GB. You can (of course) also install AndEX to a virtual hard drive in VirtualBox and VMware.

NEWS 170619 about AndEX Nougat 7.1.2
My...

INTRODUCTION

Source - ArchLinux Wiki and linoxide.com and Unbound Website

DNSCrypt-Proxy is a tool for securing communications between a client and a DNS resolver. It provides a local service which can be used directly as your local resolver or as a DNS forwarder, encrypting and authenticating requests using the DNSCrypt protocol and passing them to an upstream server. By default dnscrypt-proxy is configured to use OpenDNS' servers.

DNSSEC allows a zone...

SLAAC SECURITY EXTENSIONS

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/IPv6

Privacy extensions

When a client acquires an address through SLAAC its IPv6 address is derived from the advertised prefix and the MAC address of the network interface of the client. This may raise security concerns as the MAC address of the computer can be easily derived by the IPv6 address. In order to tackle this problem the IPv6 Privacy Extensions standard (RFC 4941) has been developed....