For your and the others' safety

I use gmail and I was doing some cleaning to get rid of past things I don't need anymore, until I saw this message:

I am sure that this file (which is a password protected rar archive) is safe and doesn't contain anything dangerous. And by the way I was able to download it in the past. But why is it now blocked? Because now gmail isn't happy with password protected archives. For your safety, of course…

I wanted to check my attachments, too: sometimes I use gmail to send to myself archives of things both in order to transfer them from a computer to another and to keep them in (another) “cloudy” place.

Some of them can't be downloaded neither. Most of them aren't password protected. They are just archives, but it happens they contain other (not password protected) archives. And this is another category now Google isn't happy with. Always for your safety…

Debian Wheezy, GNOME 3 and others small things

When my Ubuntu GNU/Linux distro received the "alert" that it wasn't supported anymore and the upgrade failed, instead of finding out why, first I tried to transform the distro into a LTS one (not totally successful because I had to downgrade too many packages), then I decided to compile what I "needed"; but my final thought is that it is not a good idea mixing automatically installed packages and packages compiled by you (out of the APT world), especially if you begin updating libs which many other programs rely on, or if you compile the last version of a program that needs the last version of a "core" lib. To make it short, the system started to behave inconsistently (maybe since I circumvented some dependency…). Time for a brand new installation.