As my Mac got upgraded to 8 GiB RAM, certain apps like VirtualBox was not able to use more than 4 GiB RAM.The obvious solution was to enable 64 bit kernel. Of-course the downside is, you’ll end up recompiling certain pieces of sofware.
sudo systemsetup -setkernelbootarchitecture x86_64
blog.fpmurphy.com explains how to do it for Firefox.
For Google chrome, assuming you have installed the latest stable version (google-chrome-stable-8.0.xxx.yyy) of Google Chrome, create the plugins directory inside /opt/google/chrome/plugins. Copy/Symlink the libflashplayer.so and restart google chrome with
google-chrome –enable-plugins
In about:plugins, you must be able to see the latest version of flash (square) ( r10.2.x )
Link: installing cisco vpn client on bit linux
In most cases, vpn_install should work fine. If you run into compilation issues, lamnk.com’s patch should work fine.
cd vpnclient/setup/directory/
wget http://www.lamnk.com/download/fixes.patch
patch < ./fixes.patch
sudo ./vpn_install
