This is the Skype API Plugin for Pidgin/libpurple/Adium. If you’re already running Skype, you can have your Skype contacts displayed with your Pidgin/libpurple/Adium contacts. It is intended as a complete replacement for the Skype user interface, hopefully everything you can do in Skype you can do with this plugin.

Install Skype API Plugin for Pidgin in Ubuntu

First you need to download the plugin using the following command

wget http://eion.robbmob.com/skype4pidgin.deb

Now you should have skype4pidgin.deb package.Install this .deb package using the following command

sudo dpkg -i skype4pidgin.deb

or you can download the following libskype.so file to the plugins directory, normally /usr/lib/purple-2/ or ~/.purple/plugins

For 32 bit users download this

wget http://eion.robbmob.com/libskype.so

For 64 bit users download this

wget http://eion.robbmob.com/libskype64.so

This will complete the installation.After installation you need to restart Pidgin! You will then have a skype option enabled.

In case you or a friend of yours has forgotten his/her Windows administrator password, there’s no need to panic as you can easily hack it by resetting the password provided you have the right tools. One way to do this is to use Linux as your knight in shining armor.

I’m going to show you how you can smoothly hack a Windows Administrator password using Linux. You will only need a Live CD, and for this example, we will utilize Ubuntu. Also, I assume that you have the basic knowledge on using the Linux command line.

Now let’s start hacking:

The first thing you have to do is of course load your Ubuntu Live CD. You don’t have to install it, just boot straight into the desktop. Then, install a program called ‘chntpw’:

$ sudo apt-get install chntpw

After successfully installing ‘chntpw’, you have to access the Windows NTFS partition by mounting it and allowing read/write support. A good tutorial on how to do this can be found HERE.

After that, use your command line skills by navigating to ‘WINDOWS/system32/config’.

Once inside the ‘config’ directory, issue this command:

$ sudo chntpw SAM

A long display of information will follow. Just ignore them.

Once you are prompted to reset the password, it is recommended to leave the password blank with an asterisk *. Reboot, and you can now login to freakin’ Windows.

If you happen to have .rpm file package that you would like to install on your Ubuntu machine, you will have to convert that file to .deb first for it to be installed. How will you do it? –Use the package converter application called “alien”.

package manager

From the project’s website:

Alien is a program that converts between the rpm, dpkg, stampede slp, and slackware tgz file formats. If you want to use a package from another distribution than the one you have installed on your system, you can use alien to convert it to your preferred package format and install it.

Despite the large version number, alien is still (and will probably always be) rather experimental software. It has been used by many people for many years, but there are still many bugs and limitations.

You can get alien through Synaptic Package Manager or via the command line:

$sudo apt-get install alien

After you have installed alien, you can now start converting your .rpm files.

To convert .rpm file to .deb using the command line, first you have to go to the directory where you saved your .rpm file. Assuming it’s on your desktop:

$cd ~/Desktop

Then, convert the .rpm file to .deb with this command:

$sudo alien –k rpm-file-name.rpm

After that, you can now install the .deb file in Ubuntu using a Debian package installer or with this command:
$sudo dpkg –i deb-file-name.deb

It’s worth noting that “alien” can also convert other kinds of packages, so you may want to check out its mapage for instructions.