Ubuntu

GCC 4.7.0 on Ubuntu 10.10

Posted by on January 20, 2012 at 1:57 pm

I needed to have gcc 4.6+ on my laptop to compile some c++11 code, which my gcc 4.4.4 from synaptic wasn’t able to handle. Yes, yes ‘update your ubuntu’ is the default warcry in such situations, but I didn’t want that to happen, not yet. So I needed a second gcc in my system. This [...]

Access box.com (box.net) from your Ubuntu

Posted by on December 17, 2011 at 7:55 pm

Several ways found so far, the suggested ‘through the nautilus’ webdav connection approach never worked for me on both 10.10 and 10.04. Maybe it works with a later version, I don’t know. But here is an easy way to set it up. * Open terminal * sudo vim /etc/fstab * append this line to the [...]

Ubuntu 10.10 – How to disable Nouveau kernel driver

Posted by on March 14, 2011 at 11:00 am

Usually I look after this over and over again, each time I set up ubutntu 10.04 or 10.10. So, this time I will post the link to the quick solution: http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=10324779&postcount=8 Just in case the link is unavailable, here is what it says: Re: Disable nouveau Quote: Originally Posted by bmeakings View Post You can [...]

Resurrect NTFS partition after Win XP reinstall

Posted by on June 9, 2010 at 9:19 pm

The system was missing my partition E, or my Storage partition. It was wiped out. Storage manager denoted it as unallocated space. A quick reboot into Ubuntu ended up with same knowledge: Unallocated space.

No space for panic. Google comes, google helps. I found a marvelous little command line tool which was able to revamp my Storage NTFS partition in about 10 seconds. It’s called testdisk.

M-Audio Audiophile 2496 on Ubuntu 9.10 = No sound!?

Posted by on May 15, 2010 at 3:37 pm

You have Ubuntu 9.10. You own M-Audio Audiophile 2496 audio interface. And you can’t hear a thing? I had to deal with this twice. First time it was when I upgraded my Ubuntu 9.04 to 9.10. Everything was fine, except: my 2496 Audiophile stopped playing any sound at all. Daemon.log didn’t show any errors coming [...]