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There is no Mozilla Thunderbird package in CrunchBang Linux. So if you try

sudo apt-get install thunderbird

it won't work. The Thunderbird is rebranded to Icedove in Debian. As CrunchBang is using Debian as upstream, it is Icedove in CrunchBang Linux also.

Below given is the steps to install BCM43142 wireless drivers  in CrunchBang Linux.

sudo apt-get install linux-headers$(uname -r | grep -Po "\-[a-z].*")

sudo apt-get install build-essential dkms

I have been using skype 4.2 version in my crunchbang 64 bit. Recently Microsoft has stopped supporting this version and users are showing an error "server failed to connect" while logging in to skype.

So I have to update skype to 4.3 to fix the issue. I'm using 64 bit crunchbang and Microsoft has only 32 it deb package for debain (which is what crunchbang is based on). So I have downloaded the deb file and when installing I was getting the below error :

I have a centos server acting as router. It has two ethernet ports eth0 and eth1. eth0 is configured with the public static ip got from my ISP. I have my internal machines connected to this centos os router machine using LAN in eth1.

For example, assume that my public static ip given by my ISP is 123.45.567.89 and it is configured in eth0. In eth1 my internal machines are connected through LAN. Internal machines are in the ip range of 192.168.1.0 to 192.168.1.100

I have a web application running on one of my internal machines with IP 192.168.1.10 on port 8080. I can access this web app from my internal network by typing http://192.168.1.10:8080/ in a web browser. But I want to get this application from my public static ip given by ISP by simply typing http://123.45.567.89/ in the web browser. How can I achieve this? By port forwarding. Follow the below steps to achieve this.

I had recently got MTS 3GPLUS dongle. It is made ZTE and really good news about it is that it supports Linux and it is mentioned in their website (you can view the supported os list in "tech spec"). I have tried it in Windows 8, OSX Mavericks and Ubuntu 13.04 and it works really well on all these platforms.

In mac and windows, it will auto configure everything for you. But in Linux, you need to install it manually. When I plugged it into my ubuntu, it was detected as USB drive but there was no auto configure for it. Even I was not able to load the installation files in Ubuntu. Then I have to plug it into another Windows and was able to see it includes the files for installing it in Linux too.