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Archive for November, 2009

Move out from godaddy to local webhosting Vertito.com

Sunday, November 22nd, 2009

Finally all my domains are moved to my new host at VERTITO.COM

Hamachi killed after upgrading to Ubuntu 9.10

Wednesday, November 4th, 2009

Hamachi killed after upgrading Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala). This is because hamachi executable is compressed with upx.

Steps in uncompressing Hamachi with upx

1. Install upx-ucl (make sure you have root or sudo privileged)

sudo apt-get install upx-ucl

2. locate hamachi executable (default installation /usr/bin)

cd /usr/bin

3. decompress hamachi

sudo upx -d hamachi

after executing this commands you will see this outputs

Ultimate Packer for eXecutables
  Copyright (C) 1996,1997,1998,1999,2000,2001,2002,2003,2004,2005,2006,2007
UPX 3.01        Markus Oberhumer, Laszlo Molnar & John Reiser   Jul 31st 2007

        File size         Ratio      Format      Name
   --------------------   ------   -----------   -----------
    830676 < -    331144   39.86%    linux/386    hamachi

Unpacked 1 file.

And now you are read to run hamachi... enjoy!

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