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

sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras

Eliminate Irritating Update Notifier Pop-Unders

This from Joseph Sinclair

In Ubuntu 9.04, update-notifier doesn’t display an icon, it actually runs update-manager full-screen as a “pop-under”. It’s easy to miss, and there’s no way to make it NOT run (so on a laptop, for instance, where stupid useless no-change updates are pending, you’ll get the blasted thing running every time you boot, and quite often multiple times in a session).

There is a “magic” command to make it stop and go back to how it used to run (which you may have to run regularly since some updates seem to overwrite it), but it must be run for every user who can run updates:

gconftool -s --type bool /apps/update-notifier/auto_launch false

Adding that to /etc/bash.bashrc seems to be a quick-and-dirty fix that restores it for every user, and resets it if it gets overwritten. There’s no guarantee this will work after the 9.10 update, but at least it works for now.

./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 not too helpful. Apparently the package name isn’t the same as the file the loader is complaining about. How do we find it?  Try this to search the package database:

# apt-get install apt-file
# apt-file update

and then you will be able to do a search which returns useful results:

# apt-file search  libSDL_mixer-1.2.so.0
libsdl-mixer1.2: /usr/lib/libSDL_mixer-1.2.so.0
libsdl-mixer1.2: /usr/lib/libSDL_mixer-1.2.so.0.2.6

Aha! What we want is libsdl-mixer1.2 (Different capitalization and a hyphen instead of an underline, with the “-1.2″ replaced by just “1.2″… who thinks these things up?)

Finally we do:

# apt-get install libsdl-mixer1.2

and… success!

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 all but Quicken contains my business data for the past 10+ years and transitioning that to something else would be a pain.  Why I can’t buy Quicken Linux for Business is incredibly frustrating.

Anyway, next frustration:

yum upgrade vmware

does nothing.  Indeed, yum doesn’t know there is a package called “vmware” installed though of course it’s running.  After much hair-pulling, this command works and tells us what’s really going on:

# rpm -qa | grep -i vmware
VMware-server-2.0.0-110949
#

Aaaagh… it’s mixed-case, then a dash, then “server” — but don’t give yum anything past the second dash or it will get all confused again.  Just as brain-damaged as ‘man’ telling you:

SEE ALSO
apropos(1), whatis(1), less(1), groff(1), man.config(5).

but when you try to ask for one of those pages you are greeted with the obnoxious:

$ man less(1)
bash: syntax error near unexpected token `(‘

and you actually would have to type:

$ man 1 less

which is NOT what the manpage told you at all.   It should have said:  See also:  1 man, 1 less, …etc…

Anyway back to the issue… after downloading the new .rpm, do an rpm -Uvh on it… then

/etc/rc.d/init.d/vmware stop
/usr/bin/vmware-config.pl
/etc/rc.d/init.d/vmware stop

Yes, you must reconfigure the vmware server… things may have changed, let it do its magic.

Finally as to the problem of arrow keys not working: see this post: VMWare and the fubar keyboard effect

Basically, vmware gets confused by trying to remap the X keyboard.   In your /etc/vmware/config, add the line:

xkeymap.nokeycodeMap = true

and that should restore the arrow keys. If not, you can always turn NumLock off and use the arrow keys on the numeric pad. (A bit of a pain when using accounting software!)

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 and the respective vendors as a service to Ubuntu
## users.
deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu intrepid partner
deb-src http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu intrepid partner
[...]

Then save the file.

To enable the Medibuntu repository, please do the following:

Import the repository:

sudo wget http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/intrepid.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list

Import the gpg-key and update your package-list:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install medibuntu-keyring && sudo apt-get update

Install software

Yes this all goes on one big long line –

sudo apt-get install amarok flashplugin-nonfree audacity azureus \
banshee bluefish dvdrip filezilla msttcorefonts gnucash gstreamer* gtkpod-aac \
sun-java6-bin sun-java6-javadb sun-java6-jdk sun-java6-jre sun-java6-plugin \
k3b kino mplayer mozilla-mplayer quanta kompozer scribus xchat-gnome \
bittornado bittornado-gui sound-juicer helix-player mozilla-helix-player \
googleearth acroread mozilla-acroread non-free-codecs ubuntu-restricted-extras \
libdvdcss2 opera xine-ui xine-plugin xmms2 xmms2tray xmms2-plugin-airplay \
xmms2-plugin-alsa xmms2-plugin-ao xmms2-plugin-asf xmms2-plugin-asx \
xmms2-plugin-avcodec xmms2-plugin-cdda xmms2-plugin-cue \
xmms2-plugin-curl xmms2-plugin-daap xmms2-plugin-faad xmms2-plugin-flac \
xmms2-plugin-gme xmms2-plugin-gvfs xmms2-plugin-ices \
xmms2-plugin-icymetaint xmms2-plugin-id3v2 xmms2-plugin-jack \
xmms2-plugin-karaoke xmms2-plugin-lastfm xmms2-plugin-m3u \
xmms2-plugin-mad xmms2-plugin-mms xmms2-plugin-modplug \
xmms2-plugin-mp4 xmms2-plugin-musepack xmms2-plugin-normalize \
xmms2-plugin-ofa xmms2-plugin-oss xmms2-plugin-pls xmms2-plugin-pulse \
xmms2-plugin-rss xmms2-plugin-sid xmms2-plugin-smb xmms2-plugin-speex \
xmms2-plugin-vocoder xmms2-plugin-vorbis xmms2-plugin-wma \
xmms2-plugin-xml xmms2-plugin-xspf vlc vlc-data vlc-dbg vlc-nox \
vlc-plugin-arts vlc-plugin-esd vlc-plugin-ggi vlc-plugin-jack vlc-plugin-pulse \
vlc-plugin-sdl vlc-plugin-svgalib thunderbird skype

You could also include

amule

A more detailed explanation is on HowtoForge.

mount -o -P 192.168.1.100:/home /mnt

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