Install Flash Player without admin rights on Windows

Follow this blog entry. It worked on Windows XP in a VMware machine under Linux.

Space usage profiling: massif

massif is a valgrind tool, that can be used to profile the space usage of a program:

valgrind --tool=massif ./myprogram

The result is a massiv.out. file. The most important information in it can be visualized using e.g. ms_print:

ms_print massif.out.0000 | less

Install kernel headers in linux using aptitude

sudo aptitude install linux-kernel-headers linux-headers-`uname -r`