k9copy on Ubuntu 13.10

k9copy is no longer available after Ubuntu 12.10, simply because the author does not believe in Linux anymore due to the war between different desktop & distro :-(
http://k9copy.sourceforge.net/web/index.php/en/nouveautes/12-theend
Thank you Jean-Michel for this wonderful program!

If you want to use k9copy, you can use the deb from 12.10:
64-bit:
sudo wget http://launchpadlibrarian.net/103736674/k9copy_2.3.8-3_amd64.deb

32-bit:
sudo wget http://launchpadlibrarian.net/103714201/k9copy_2.3.8-3_i386.deb

sudo apt-get -f install

Enjoy!

Picasa for Linux

Picasa for Linux was no longer supported by Google since years ago, I'm sure there are still a few people on Linux using it but they don't even provide the download files for the older version anymore. 

You can find them here:
http://packages.linuxmint.com/pool/import/p/picasa/

If the above link is no longer available, try google for the following files:

picasa_3.0.5724-01_amd64.deb	2008-Oct-27 12:21:39	29.7M	application/x-debian-package
picasa_3.0.5724-01_i386.deb	2008-Oct-27 12:20:12	29.8M	application/x-debian-package
picasa_3.0.5744-02_amd64.deb	2011-Jan-24 08:59:33	30.3M	application/x-debian-package
picasa_3.0.5744-02_i386.deb	2011-Jan-24 09:00:16	30.3M	application/x-debian-package

picasa on linux cannot gmail

first of all, I don't know why Google doesn't offer picasa linux version download anymore! it's really annoying.  Good that I kept a .deb file downloaded somewhere from the past.  With picasa installed on Ubuntu 11.10, I had problems sending out pictures through my gmail!

looking at the logs, it doesn't tell you much...
[173601742] id 1: Attempting connection type 0 (attempt 0)
[173601765] InternetQueryOption failed (87)
[173601775] Proxy information for connection: LAN Connection
Using direct connection
[173601777] InternetQueryOption failed (87)
[173601779] Proxy information for default connection:
Using direct connection
[173601786] id 1: Stream summary:
POST request: https://www.google.com/accounts/ClientAuth (0)
Modified request headers:
 Added header: Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=utf-8
Added header: Accept-Encoding: gzip

BindStatus messages received: 70,
Request made via proxy
Post data size: 112
[173601788] id 1: Error: HttpOpenRequest failed (12157)
[173601789] id 1: Failed to establish connection.  will retry if possible
[173601791] id 1: Attempting connection type 1 (attempt 1)
[173601796] id 1: Stream summary:
POST request: https://www.google.com/accounts/ClientAuth (0)

It turns out on my Ubuntu11 it's got libssl1.0.0 installed, but picasa is looking for
libssl0.9.8, so just install it picasa would work again through gmail!

apt-get install libssl0.9.8

UPDATE:
on 64-bit Ubuntu 13.10 , install the 32-bit
apt-get install libssl0.9.8:i386
also install:
apt-get install lib32nss-mdns

IBM Installation Manager record & silent install

to record:
./IBMIM -record was8-install.xml

to install:

./IBMIM --launcher.ini silent-install.ini -input ./was8-install.xml -acceptLicense

VNC on SuSE and openSuSE

wanted to have VNC server installed on SUSE10 and openSUSE12
but it looks like both vino and Xvnc doesn't support copy & paste between local and remote...
found x11vnc works out of the box with copy & paste, to have to up running by default after server boots up:

cat /etc/SuSE-release 

openSUSE 12.1 (x86_64)

VERSION = 12.1

CODENAME = Asparagus

- x11vnc is in the repo of openSUSE12

zypper install x11vnc

x11vnc -storepasswd /etc/x11vnc.passwd

- get rclocal running under /etc/rc.d/rclocal

- add the following line to rclocal:

/usr/bin/x11vnc -sleepin 30 -o /var/log/x11vnc.log -forever -noncache -noxfixes -noxdamage -rfbauth /etc/x11vnc.passwd -display :0 -auth `ps -eaf | grep Xorg | awk {'print $15'}` &

cat /etc/SuSE-release 

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 (x86_64)

VERSION = 10

- find x11vnc-0.9.2-1.guru.suse101.x86_64.rpm and install it

- get rclocal running under /etc/rc.d/rclocal

- add the following line to rclocal:

/usr/bin/x11vnc -sleepin 30 -o /var/log/x11vnc.log -forever -noncache -noxfixes -noxdamage -rfbauth /etc/x11vnc.passwd -display :0 -auth /var/lib/gdm/:0.Xauth &

rc.local on SuSE and openSuSE

create a file under:
/etc/rc.d/rclocal

--- USE the following header in the file content ---

#! /bin/sh

# Copyright (c) 1995-2000 SuSE GmbH Nuernberg, Germany.

#

# Author: Felix Wu

#

# /etc/init.d/rclocal

#

### BEGIN INIT INFO

# Provides: rclocal

# Required-Start: $network $remote_fs

# Required-Stop: $network $remote_fs

# Default-Start: 5

# Default-Stop: 0 1 2 3 6

# Description: Felix's rclocal

### END INIT INFO

--- EOF ---

to make it effective:

chmod 755 rclocal
chkconfig rclocal on

# of threads in a process under Linux

How to check number of threads in a process under Linux? top doesn't show it, but option "m" in ps will.
I put a space in front and after PID so it doesn't grep longer PID that contains the shorter PID in same sequence.

ps -elm | grep " $PID " | grep -v grep | wc -l
e.g.

ps -elm | grep " 9919 " | grep -v grep | wc -l