I have a bunch of Dell Inspiron netbooks here and I need to find out their mac adresses for lan and wifi. My first idea was to use a ubuntu live usb stick but this needs like 2 minutes for booting.
Is there an alternative way to boot into a shell from the ubuntu liveCd (usb) or do you know another tiny distribution to allow me that?
I've been trying to get my ubuntu restart without having to edit the sudoers. This has been possible before (in lucid I think) using a dbus command:
dbus-send –system –print-reply –dest=org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit /org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Manager org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit.Manager.Restart
But this gives me an error. Looks like things have changed.
In KDE (which I don't use) one has something similar (see this answer)
Could anyone show me an alternative way to make my machine reboot from a script (without adjusting rights)
is there a way to adjust the system volume via commandline so that the default volume popup (the one that pops up when pressing the media keys on notebooks) is still shown.
I need this for my remote control. It'll be run using a lircrc file and irexec.
I need to get a scientific software running but it requires older libs and I don't want to screw my current system. I thought about using an old ubuntu version in a VM. But which would I need?
The software can be obtained here
The Readme says:
The Makefile assumes you are using wxWindows 2.4.2, and that it is installed in /usr (/usr/lib/, /usr/include/wx, etc...). It may, however, be in /usr/local instead; in this case modify line 18 of the Makefile appropriately.
Also, wxWindows 2.4.2 has conflicts with very recent versions of GTK, so you are welcome to use the most recent version of wxWindows (2.6.0). However, this would also require changing the Makefile, namely lines 16-18. Also, this new version of wxWindows splits the libraries up into different parts; base, core, and gl. You would need to link to all these libraries.
If you email me at [email protected], I can send you a Makefile customized to 2.6.
UPDATE: My code doesn't work with 2.6. 2.4.2 doesn't compile with newer versions of g++. So, this is a problem that I haven't had time to fix. Sorry. You're only hope is to use an older g++.