Jul 21 2008

Second hard drive appears as RAW after fresh XP install

Tag: ubuntu — tengo @ 10:37 am

Although this is definetly off-stopic for a linux blog, this strange symptom appeared while reviving an XP box with the SystemRescueCd Linux LiveCD recovery suite.
The story was that the main drive C:\ with Windows XP Pro on it had a few defects and required a fresh XP install. Like certainly many systems these days, the […]

Jul 03 2008

Installing WxWidgets on 64 bit Ubuntu

Tag: ubuntu — tengo @ 5:25 am

Getting a working version of Wx and wxperl running on a amd64 Ubuntu system (mine was 6.06 dapper) can be a bit tricky. Everytime I tried to install Wx via cpan the Alien::wxwidgets module complained and refused to install this required package for Wx.
The problem seemed be that I had no version of Wx on […]