Student's Outlet

Adobe Air is a must-have cross-platform runtime environment a user needs in order to install *.air application such as Tweetdeck and other stuff.

All you need to do is just follow, and copy-paste everything:

1. Open a terminal. Applications-> Accessories -> Terminal
2. Download the latest .bin file using any terminal based network downloader from this site:
   wget http://airdownload.adobe.com/air/lin/download/latest/AdobeAIRInstaller.bin
   chmod +x AdobeAIRInstaller.bin
   sudo ./AdobeAIRInstaller.bin

It will just ask for your password. The normal installer will open, install it. From now whenever you download a .air file, just double click it and it will be installed.

A while ago I was updating my system (Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat) with the current Linux Kernel when I accidentally rebooted my laptop carelessly while it was installing. Upon restart, I got this error message

udevadm trigger is not permitted while udev is unconfigured
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[initramfs]

I panicked because I can’t boot my system. So, what I did.. I Google-d my problem, read some forums and luckily someone already encountered the same kind of problem.. And I just followed what they did. Here are the things I did that worked:

First of all you’ll be needing a Live USB/Live CD. You’ll be booting your system to either of the two.

1. Boot Live CD/Live USB
2. Open terminal and type: “sudo fdisk -l” (without the quotes) to find your boot disk – most likely it will have an asterisk in the ‘Boot’ column, in my case it is /dev/sda1
3. “sudo mkdir /media/newroot“
4. “sudo mount /dev/sda1 /media/newroot“, change sda1 to whatever your boot disk is.
5. “sudo chroot /media/newroot“

Now, the important part:

1. “ls /boot” to find your latest kernel. Mine has 2.6.35-22-generic
2. “sudo update-initramfs -u -k 2.6.35-22-generic“
3. “sudo reboot” and smile :)

Well, it only produced these lines:
sudo: unable to resolve host ubuntu
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.35-22-generic

No need to worry about anything. I’m glad Ubuntuforums is out there for 24/7 support :)

The idea is, there is a special ram-based file system used during the bootup process (ramfs) that is a special image attached to the kernel. If it’s not created properly, this error occurs.

Two weeks ago, our family PC (running Windows 7 Professional) won’t turn on. So, what I did, I unplugged it’s power cord, and plugged it back and *poof*.. Power’s back!

After waiting for it to reach it’s desktop page, my monitor suddenly gets refreshed every three seconds, and when it got stable I got this error message “Displaying driver NVIDIA Windows kernel mode driver, version 197.45 stopped responding and has successfully recovered“. Since i don’t know what does the error means (and since it is Windows), I did some troubleshooting. I Google-d the error message and did whatever solution is available out there. Display is refreshing continuously whenever I look at pictures, and whenever i watched videos. By the way, my video card is 8600 GT512 MB Inno3d. So here’s a list of solution i found and did:

• I reinstalled my video card’s default driver – it’s back up CD when we bought video card. #didntworkout Still the same error after rebooting.
• I did a Windows Update, and Windows found an update for the video card (since I installed the old one) but suddenly things got worse. After restarting Windows, which in case it (always) needs before the updated drivers could be used, my monitor suddenly displayed something like this (but not exactly like that) – screen got frozen, and colors got mixed up:



• So what I did again, I looked for the latest driver of my video card at NVIDIA’s Site and installed it in my system. #stilldidn’tworkout
• So, the last troubleshoot i did was to look inside my tower, and take a closer look at my video card. After disassembling my PC, I saw this:



Here’s a closer look of its capacitors:





It erupted. Tsktsk

• So, i just concluded that it’s a hardware limitation already. I think the fan of my video card isn’t anymore working, and too much heat causes the eruption of the capacitors.

So, i learned that fan is really important to every computer. So, always clean it and have a good power supply that could distribute power well to every part of your PC.

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