October 2012 – Random Hacks / σX

smbfs stops working after upgrading from ubuntu 12.04 to 12.10

November 28, 2012October 23, 2012 by james

Just has another little problem while upgrading from Ubuntu 12.04 to Ubuntu 12.10. It seems that smbfs no longers works in Ubuntu 12.10. Once again, why don’t the developers make a webpage or a popup application which tells you these changes? It would save hours of time for lots of users. Anyhow, here is how … Read more

Unity freezing after upgrade from Ubuntu 12.04 to 12.10

November 28, 2012October 22, 2012 by james

I just upgraded my desktop from Ubuntu 12.04 to 12.10. Everything looked good until I tried to launch an application – then Unity frooze. I thought it might be nvidia driver issues and tried: However, this didn’t fixed the problem. After some searching around it appears that reseting Unity to default fixed the issue. I … Read more

How to extract a “tar.bz2” file?

November 28, 2012October 2, 2012 by james

Using the tar (the Tape Archiver) command: The options used are: