Follow the Path of Emacs, grasshopper, and you shall go far. Venture not down the false road of ‘vi’ and shun the evil ‘notepad.exe’
- Click start
- Type: regedit
- Press enter
- In the left, expand these folders:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\
- In the left, click on the folder named:
Lsa
- In the right, double-click “LmCompatibilityLevel”
- Type the number 1 and press enter
- Restart your computer
If you want support for MP3 files, Youtube video, and Java on your webpages, you could hunt down several packages – or just install the ubuntu-restricted-extras package install all the codecs and other files in one step. This also includes Microsoft core fonts.
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras
Eliminate Irritating Update Notifier Pop-Unders
This from Joseph Sinclair
In Ubuntu 9.04, [...]
So I tried to install simutrans on Ubuntu 8.10 and get this error message:
./simutrans/simutrans: error while loading shared libraries:
libSDL_mixer-1.2.so.0: cannot open shared object file:
No such file or directory
Note the filename I put in bold — apt-get rejects commands like:
# apt-get install libSDL_mixer
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
E: Couldn’t find package libSDL_mixer
Well, that’s [...]
So today when I tried to start my XP machine, I’m greeted with VMware 2 telling me that it has expired.
Frustration: Why should I use a program that’s going to decide to quit working for no reason? I’m moving off this as soon as I can find a viable alternative. I wouldn’t use it at [...]
Additional Repositories
We are going to add the Ubuntu Partner and Medibuntu repositories which contain a number of apps.
From a terminal window, edit /etc/apt/sources.list…
sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
… and enable the intrepid partner repository:
[...]
## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from Canonical’s
## ‘partner’ repository. This software is not part of Ubuntu, but is
## offered by Canonical [...]
If you have an NFS mount called /home on host 192.168.1.100 — first make the directory /mnt and then, as root:
mount -o -P 192.168.1.100:/home /mnt
By default, OSX doesn’t use privileged ports for NFS connections; when you try to connect to an NFS share from a Linux server, you’ll get
Could not connect to the server because the name or password is incorrect.
So try (as root from the OSX command-line)
mount -o -P servername:/sharename /mountpoint
Up… up is the direction exactly opposite the net gravitational influence at a point in space — relative to the observer.
