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.

After 4 years of using only my laptop to my everyday life and academic use, and now that my laptop is already vulnerable and susceptible to failure (*Thanks to Ubuntu, they diagnosed that my HDD has too many bad sectors already–I think this is because of 24/7 use– and it’s life is already limited*), I’ve decided to buy a new Desktop Computer. Specifically, the purpose of buying of this new computer is to aid higher demands, especially for my brother who needs a fast-rendering/exporting or a high-powered PC for his thesis, of course for future use like animation and not for gaming :D

And now, meet Desky.

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