Hugin 2010.2 on Ubuntu

Ubuntu users have to use an one-year-old version of Hugin (the one in the official repository), but if they have some time, they can uninstall it through building from sources.
On the Panotools wiki there's a step-by-step guide http://wiki.panotools.org/Hugin_Compiling_Ubuntu

Each program has similar steps:
-Make a folder in /home/[user]/src
-clone the mercurial repository (thus creating a folder [program].hg
-then create a folder [program].hg.build and launch building

-When choosing branches make sure to use the last one with only numbers (eg Hugin 2010.2)

One note: if occours this error while launching hugin

hugin: error while loading shared libraries: libhuginbase.so.0.0:
cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

execute this command in the Terminal

ldconfig -v

XAMPP and Google Chrome

This tip is for web developers who need to work on their websites while being offline and are using Chrome as debugging browser.
Chrome hasn't yet an offline mode as Firefox and can't show localhost location while disconnected from a network, so here's a workaround: we create a fake wireless network from the new connection menu (on Ubuntu click on the network icon in the Panel and choose "Create new wireless network") giving it a name and a password -so that people around us cannot connect to our computer-. Chrome will be deceived and we'll can work again on our site.