Step 17 failed simple with “Killed” message when I put the command

$ sudo hamachi-init -c /etc/hamachi

After googling around, I found out this posts, it solved my problem, so I put it here for those who are struggling with the Hamachi installation on Karmic. Sum it up, you need to do these before proceeding to step 17:

sudo apt-get install upx-ucl
cd /usr/bin
sudo upx -d hamachi

You will get like this

Ultimate Packer for eXecutables
Copyright (C) 1996,1997,1998,1999,2000,2001,2002,2003,2004,2005,2006,2007
UPX 3.01 Markus Oberhumer, Laszlo Molnar & John Reiser Jul 31st 2007

File size Ratio Format Name
——————– —— ———– ———–
830676 <- 331144 39.86% linux/386 hamachi

Unpacked 1 file.

Now continue your installation with step 17, everything will be fine!

1. In Address bar type about:config . A warning is displayed, just proceed with the button “I’ll be careful, I promise”
2. In the Filter, type network.http

3. Now, locate the row named network.http.pipelining and double click it to change the value from false to true

4. Do the same to network.http.proxy.pipelining

5. Locate the row named network.http.pipelining.maxrequests – double click and change the value to 30 or higher (I’m using 40)

6. Restart your Flock and see
Hopefully that works for you too

1. GNOME

- Goto System->Preferences->Keyboard
- Choose Layout tab, then click “Layout Options” button
- Select “Key sequence to kill the X server”and tick the option Alt+Ctrl+Backspace

2. KDE

- From your terminal, launch “systemsettings”
- Select “Regional & Language” -> “Keyboard Layout”
- In “Layout” tab, click on “Enable keyboard layouts”
- Choose “Advanced” tab, select “Key sequence to kill the X server” and tick on “Control + Alt + Backspace”

What about on Linux? Well, you have another alternative powerful option: using wget

- To mirror your website:

wget --convert-links -r http://www.yoursite.com



- To download specific file types:

wget –accept=.html,.doc,.docx,.pdf,.xls,.xlsx,.ppt,.pptx –recursive –no-clobber –page-requisites –convert-links –restrict-file-names=windows –domains yoursite.com –no-parent http://yoursite.com/path

Is there any better alternatives? Please share with me.

Freemind is the first one that came up on my Ubuntu Jaunty 9.04 system, it satisfied my needs but the graphics seem to be plain & poor compare to the windows counterpart. Here is the screenshot of Freemind.

And today I found out XMind, another great Mind Map software, it comes out as Free and Pro version and available on all platforms. I registered and downloaded the free XMind Ubuntu/Debian package and installed on my Ubuntu laptop. It works great, and the graphics are beautiful

Have a look at the screenshot (It’s sexy, right?) and try yourself
Download: http://www.xmind.net/

2. Make the file executable

sudo chmod +x ~/Desktop/AdobeAIRInstaller.bin

<font face="tahoma">
<big>3. Execute</big>

</font>

~/Desktop/./AdobeAIRInstaller.bin

1. Add ubuntu-mozilla ppa

sudo sh -c “echo ‘deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-mozilla-daily/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main’ >> /etc/apt/sources.list”

sudo sh -c “echo ‘deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-mozilla-daily/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main’ >> /etc/apt/sources.list”

2. Add the Launchpad PPA GPG key

sudo apt-key adv –keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com –recv-keys 247510BE

3. Install Firefox 3.5 or Firefox 3.6

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install firefox-3.5

or

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install firefox-3.6

sudo cat /proc/sys/vm/swappiness

Change it

sudo sysctl -w vm.swappiness=10

or edit

gksudo gedit /etc/sysctl.conf

look for vm.swappiness

vm.swappiness=10

or add it if it doesn’t exist

2.

gksudo gedit /etc/init.d/ondemand

Change

echo -n ondemand > $CPUFREQ

to

echo -n performance > $CPUFREQ

1. Add medibuntu to sources.lists
sudo wget http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/`lsb_release -cs`.list –output-document=/etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list; sudo apt-get -q update; sudo apt-get –yes -q –allow-unauthenticated install medibuntu-keyring; sudo apt-get -q update

2. Install Skype
sudo apt-get install skype

After that, you might have problem when making a call, it was “Call failed: Problem with audio playback” After playing around with the Sound Devices settings in Options, I found the setting which works with my Dell Inspiron

Sound In: HDA Intel (hw:Intel,0)
Sound Out: pulse
Ringing: pulse

Restart Skype and everything is fine

gs -dSAFER -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=png16m -r300 -sOutputFile=output_file.png input_file.pdf

You can change “png16m” with the devices from

gs -h