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I recently found myself in a position where I had to run an application requiring Adobe AIR. I’m running a 64-bit install of Ubuntu, and Adobe’s AIR is only for 32-bit computers. Installing Adobe AIR on Ubuntu 64-bit is very easy if you follow this short step-by-step tutorial on how to install Adobe AIR on [...]
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If you’re using the new Ubuntu 10.04, you may have noticed that Sun’s Oracle’s java is not there anymore, it has been replaced by openjdk. This also means that there is no sun-java6-plugin to use with your favorite browser in Ubuntu 10.04. Instead, you must use the openjdk browser plugin, which can be installed like [...]
Some time ago I read about random numbers and the linux kernel. The problem was (and still is) that the linux kernel uses things like network activity and keyboard/mouse interrupts to gather entropy for its random number generator. So.. What is entropy? Entropy is a measure of the uncertainty associated with a random variable. This [...]
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