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Eiciel-GNOME File ACL editor

Posted 05-11-2009 at 07:19 AM by Mr. ameya sathe (Tantra Yantra Swatantrya)
Updated 05-11-2009 at 07:40 AM by Mr. ameya sathe

Tags acl, graphical, gui

ACL( Access Control List) is a great way of managing access rights to files and directories. You can add,manage and delete the entries in the ACL through commands and also with help of GUI utility. Yes; there is indeed a GUI utility.
It is named as eiciel. Pronounciation is simple. Just speak aloud these alphabets. A C L

Yes; thats the pronounciation.
This utility is usable on the GNOME desktop environment. The management of the ACL is integrated inside...

Mr. ameya sathe

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Posted in GNU/Linux, GUI Applications

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Thoughts about the command line

Posted 03-29-2009 at 02:36 AM by bitpicker (Bitpicker's Blog: Random musings and rants)

Tags cli, command line, gui

The following started out as a comment to this blog entry by Carla Schroder on linuxtoday.com. But it quickly became too long so I decided to simply post it here.

Any interface is a metaphor for what you're really doing: shifting zeroes and ones around. Absolutely everything you ever do on the computer is just a metaphor, whether it's using a GUI, the CLI or even programming.

And like language metaphors, different metaphors are useful in different contexts and apply...

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ClipGrab - Download videos from online video sharing websites

Posted 01-19-2009 at 01:26 PM by rbkumaran

Tags clipgrab, flash, flv, gui, linux

ClipGrab is a free GUI Video downloader from the famous online video sharing websites like youtube, veoh, Dailymotion, MyVideo and many other. ClipGrab is very simple (basically just one window to work on). Clipgrab downloads the file and saves it by default to FLV (Flash Video) however can convert the downloaded video on the fly to Windows Video (WMV), MPEG4, MP3 (Audio), OGG Vorbis (Audio).
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