Since my last post on making hosted mode work on Ubuntu, I had upgraded my laptop to Kubuntu Karmic ( in Beta 1 as of this writing ). While most things worked out of the box ( including wireless, mic / webcam, ZTE AC2726 modem ), I got a problem with a GWT 1.5.3 application again.

GWT 1.5.3 hosted mode requires libstdc++5. Kubuntu Karmic doesn’t ship libstdc++ 5 anymore.

Fortunately, the solution was simple.
Download libstdc++5 package for your architecture from Ubuntu Package Archives.
I used i386 version

Install the package

sudo dpkg -i libstdc++5_*.deb

You should now be able to run GWT 1.5.x hosted mode browser running again. ( This might work for GWT 1.6.x as well considering that both use Mozilla 1.7.1x that depends on libstdc++5)

Here is the tip to copy contents from one file to another.

1. Press ‘ESC’.
2. Press Shift+” (double quote).
3. Press ‘a’.
4. Press number of lines you want to copy.
5. Press y followed by another y (yy).
6. Now press : (COLON) to get the vi prompt.
7. Hit e “destination file name’
8. Once you enter the destination file, go to the line where you want the copied lines to be inserted.
9. Press ‘ESC’.
10. Press Shift+”(double quote).
11. Press ‘a’.
12  Press ‘p’.

Happy editing

Want to show your current online status on your blog… Its very simple…!!!

IM Online: A neat little Wordpress plugin will show your current online status. It supports most IM services including AOL, MSN, Yahoo, Jabber (inc. Google Talk), Skype and ICQ.

You can show as many or as few IM network icons as you like and all options are configurable through the control panel.

Download IM Online

Installation instructions

1. Unzip the downloaded package and drop the IM-Online folder in your Wordpress plugins folder
2. Log into your WordPress admin panel
3. Go to Plugins and “Activate” the plugin
4. Go to Presentation, Widgets
5. Drag the IM Online widget onto your sidebar panel
6. Click the Widget-Options button (small blue-topped square)
7. Enter the title for your Widget
8. Return to the Widget panel and click “Save changes »”
9. Go to Options, then IM Online
10. Enter your account details for each service you use
11. Click “Save changes »”
12. Check your blog to see if it’s working!

Visiting your favorite sites using Firefox’s bookmarks is far too much of a chore — do you really want to do all that mousing around? Instead, you can use keywords to instantly jump to any site you’ve bookmarked. To do it, after you bookmark a site, right-click on the bookmark, select Properties, type in a short keyword (or even just a letter or two) in the keyword field and click OK. Now, to visit the site, type in the keyword in Firefox’s address bar, and you’ll jump straight to the site.

Here’s a simple way to speed up Web browsing with Firefox — turn on its hidden pipelining feature. When you turn on pipelining, you send several requests to a Web server at a time, rather than sending them one by one, so you can load multiple items on a page concurrently. By default, pipelining is turned off in Firefox, but it’s easy to turn it on:

1. Type about:config into your address bar and hit Enter.

2. In the Filter text box, at the top of the page, type network.http. A list of settings appears, as you can see in the nearby figure.

3. Double-click the “network.http.pipelining” setting, to change it to true.

4. Double-click the “network.http.proxy.pipelining” setting, to change it to true.

5. Double-click the “network.http.pipelining.maxrequests” setting, and in the text box that appears, type in 8 and click OK.

Note that not all Web servers can handle pipelining. If for some reason, you find that your performance suffers with it turned on, reverse the above steps to turn it off.