Bright Hub Page Redesign

With the amount of articles steadily growing a redesign of the Bright Hub page was eminent.  I decided to redesign this page before the blog redesign.  I will be redesigning the blog first before re-branding it.

How To Manage Passwords In Linux

Let’s face it we all live an Online life we visit many websites in a day, most of which have a login. We need to remember these different passwords and usernames, we know using the same credentials on several website is not save. You wouldn’t want a malicious person to gain access to all of your online account.

There are ways to save a password and username, no I don’t mean write them down on a piece of paper or in a spreadsheet, password managers are keepers of sensitive information. All of them use some sort of encryption to keep data save. We have several option to choose from some are even cross-platform compatible, for those ninjas that also need to work in Windows or Mac sometimes.

(K)Ubuntu 10.04 Filezilla 3.3.1 Crashes

After updating my HTPC / general use computer to 10.04,  I noticed Filezilla crashing every time I tried to scroll or go into a remote folder.

After some research using Google, which resulted in nothing, I decided to look into this problem a little deeper.  I started by looking through the logs which yielded nothing either.  I removed Filezilla with and without purge(purge should delete all of the files used by Filezilla) this also didn’t fix my problem.

Next I deleted the ~/.filezilla folder, a hidden folder in my home directory also know as ~, this fixed the problem.  If you would like to keep the folder then just rename the folder:
mv ~/.filezilla ~/filezilla_OLD

Kubuntu 10.04 LTS Released Today

As I’m writing this my laptop is upgrading from 9.10 to the new 10.o4 LTS version of Kubuntu. Kubuntu released the new version today.(this also goes for Ubuntu and Edubuntu as well as Xubuntu).

Go here to download the new version or use the update manager to upgrade. Make sure you do all the updates on your current version of Kubuntu or Ubuntu first. This goed for 8.04 & 9.04 LTS releases and any other release in between.

Why Netflix Sucks

In February I decided to act on a free trial offer.  This offer was for a free trial for a month.  I have always wondered if Netflix would be for me.

During this trial I found out it isn’t.  I opted to use the $8.99 a month subscription.  Two DVD’s out at a time and unlimited streaming of movies and TV shows.  I was kinda exited to see I could stream movies to all of my PC’s.  Especially because I have a HTPC(Home Theater PC) hooked up to our TV.  So this should work just like movies on-demand right?