![]() ![]() ![]() (SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR. KeePassXC is for people with extremely high demands of secure personal data management. You can run KeePassXC on Windows, macOS, and Linux systems. Lou Ottens died over the weekend in his native country, the Netherlands. KeePassXC is a modern, secure, and open-source password manager that stores and manages your most sensitive information. KELLY: Zack Taylor talking about the man who dreamed up the audio cassette. It took him 50 years, but when he left us, he finally understood. TAYLOR: Lou finally started to understand the emotional quotient, the sentimentality, the power that cassettes have to the individual. Still, filmmaker Zack Taylor says Ottens did eventually see what the cassette had brought to others. Later, he turned his attention to developing compact disc technology. He described them as primitive and prone to noise and distortion. This feature deserves a paragraph on its own, although its not available for all the versions (only mono-based in v2. While some Linux distributions do make the official KeePass easier to install, it also appears to run slower than KeePassX. But Ottens himself was never satisfied with the low fidelity of audiocassettes. And KeePassX works better on Linux and Mac. KeePass 2.23: KeePass2.23.zip Installation: Install Mono 3.0 ( ). Visit the official website for the latest file. SHAPIRO: For a generation of people who grew up making their own mixtapes on cassettes, the invention was nothing short of genius. Downloads The files below are possibly outdated. LOU OTTENS: I can be credited for the idea and a number of ideas in it, but the draftsmen, the electrical designers and the industrial designer, they have done the work. (SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "CASSETTE: A DOCUMENTARY MIXTAPE") Ottens told Time magazine it was a sensation from the start, but he was humble about his contribution. KELLY: The compact cassette was unveiled in Berlin in 1963. TAYLOR: Lou's thing was he wanted it to be easy, and he wanted it to fit in his jacket pocket. KELLY: And that very clever man led to a revolution in how we listen to music and share it. Also, KeePassX/XC doesn't support plugins (there are. And, KeePassX's version 0.4.x & 2.x display issues. The legend of the cassette is that the cassette was born from the clumsiness of a very clever man. Currently, the biggest difference between KeePass & KeePassX seems to be the appearance and 'feel' of each program, especially on Linux or Mac OS X where KeePassX doesn't rely on Mono, so matches the look of other native programs closer. He towered over me even when he was in his 90s. TAYLOR: I swear in his prime, he must have been 7 feet tall. SHAPIRO: Zack Taylor met Ottens while making his film, "Cassette: A Documentary Mixtape." SHAPIRO: Well, in the early 1960s, Lou Ottens was head of product development for the electronics company Philips. No wonder the average consumer never fancied it. ![]() It was recorded and played on open reels of spinning quarter-inch tape, tape that would have to be threaded ever so carefully through an array of little cylinders. Let's rewind to the days before Ottens' creation. ![]()
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