Howto: Install MariaDB on Debian 7/Wheezy

MariaDB is a fork of MySQL, which is true open source and community maintained. MariaDB is a binary drop in replacement for MySQL. It includes the XtraDB storage engine as a replacement for InnoDB. Its lead developer is Michael Widenius (also known as “Monty”), the founder of MySQL. Recently, many popular Linux distributions replaced MySQL with MariaDB as default database server. Fedora version => 19, Archlinux and OpenSuse. Moreover Wikipedia moved to MariaDB and Mozilla also uses MariaDB....

May 5, 2013

Howto: Install Adobe Air on Ubuntu

For some reason Adobe only supported Linux until Adobe AIR 2.6. Download Adobe Air Download Latest Version Air 2.6.0 For Linux http://airdownload.adobe.com/air/lin/download/2.6/AdobeAIRInstaller.bin (16,1 MB) wget http://airdownload.adobe.com/air/lin/download/2.6/AdobeAIRInstaller.bin Install ia32-libs The ia32-libs 32bit crap is needed if you want to run this in 64-bit Ubuntu. sudo apt-get install ia32-libs Install Adobe Air chmod +x AdobeAIRInstaller.bin sudo ./AdobeAIRInstaller.bin You might get an error saying: “Sorry, an error has occured. Adobe AIR could not be installed....

October 22, 2012

Howto: Mount Bin/Cue in Linux

Mounting a bin/cue image isn’t possible straight away. It requires a simple convertion using bchunk to convert a bin/cue file set into an ISO file. binchunker converts a CD image in a “.bin / .cue” format (sometimes “.raw / .cue”) to a set of .iso and .cdr tracks. The bin/cue format is used by some popular non-Unix cd-writing software, but is not supported on most other CD burning programs. A lot of CD/VCD images distributed on the Internet are in BIN/CUE format, I’ve been told....

October 16, 2012