How To Install Wine 1.7.42 On Ubuntu 15.04, Ubuntu 14.10, Ubuntu 14.04 And Derivative Systems

The latest version available is Wine 1.7.42, which has been recently released, coming with the below changes:

• Support for dynamic timezone information.
• Initial desktop shell window support.
• Some more Direct2D support.
• Various bug fixes.

To install wine all you have to do is 

1. add the ppa to your system, 
2. update the local repository index and 
3. install the wine1.7 and winetricks packages.

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa

$ sudo apt-get update

$ sudo apt-get install wine1.7 winetricks


Optional, to remove Wine 1.7.42 and winetricks, do:

$ sudo apt-get remove wine1.7 winetricks

Also visit: installing wine in Kali Linux

Repair Grub error: Unknown filesystem. Grub rescue>

Here is my another post on how to solve Grub rescue problem. Here I am going to describe a method of recovering grub without booting from the LiveCD.

How to fully fix the Windows bootloader using a Windows disk

If your system is dual booted with Windows XP/Vista/7/8 and ubuntu and you want to get rid off ubuntu partition. One can simply delete the space allocated to ubuntu from Disk Manager. But this would take away access to windows partition.

When system is restarted, it throws the error!

No Such partition.

Grub rescue>

Killer USB- flash drive that will explod your computer

The Killer USB

Moving far from USB 3.1 and USB Type-C, a Russian researcher described about how he created a USB that will burn down your computer to ashes if you insert it in the USB port.

USBkill- Code that turn USB into PC killer

USBKill

There is another code weapon created for all activists, criminals, activists and whistle blower known as USBkill that save themselves by shutting down the computer before the sensitive information will be examined.

Hephaestos, the programmer who wrote the USBkill script, says « usbkill » is an anti-forensic kill-switch that waits for a change on your USB ports and then immediately shuts down your computer.