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Fix Linux Kernel 2.6.32 and VMWare Workstation 7 issue

After you upgraded to Ubuntu Lucid, you might have noticed that VMWare has stopped working and can’t compile one of it’s modules. The solution to this is simple: download this patch and this script in the sam[...]


Install older .RUN and .BIN archives in Linux

When running older .RUN and .BIN archives in Linux, you might get the following (or a similar) error: Verifying archive integrity…tail: cannot open `+6′ for reading: No such file or directoryError in check su[...]


Find out details about your system’s temperature

To find out more about your system’s temperature, install acpi. Then do a simple acpi -V to get a listing similar to this one: Battery 0: Full, 100%Battery 0: design capacity 7800 mAh, last full capacity 4988 mAh =[...]


Quickly reinstall your favourite applications in Ubuntu

So you want to wipe your hard drive clean and reinstall a fresh Ubuntu copy. Before you do that, it might be wise to make a list of currently installed packages and reinstall them in a jiffy afterwards on the new OS: sud[...]