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More On The Virtues Of VirtualBox – ACID (or AICD) Under Ubuntu 14.04 (By Way Of OpenSuse 11.2)

“Stop that!” – George Carlin If you’ve obtained source code from an academic lab that was last developed some time ago and you spent a whole day installing libraries and symbolic links and redefining variables in your .bashrc and downgrading libraries and redefining paths and have 20 tabs open in your browser that all go …

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OrthoDB 1.6 Installation On Ubuntu 14.04 (And Related) – Build Errors And The Simple Fixes

UPDATE: 20 May 2016 – With thanks to OrthoDB’s very own Fredrik Tegenfeldt, here’s a more distro-complete fix for the Makefile.rules file. # BRH flags ifeq ($(USE_BRH),1) BRH_DIR = $(BASE_DIR) CPPFLAGS += -I$(BRH_DIR)/src ifeq ($(WITH_RPATH),1) LDFLAGS += -L$(LIB_DIR) -Wl,-rpath,$(LIB_INSTDIR) else LDFLAGS += -L$(LIB_DIR) endif LDLIBS += -lbrh endif ifeq ($(USE_BOOST_THREAD),1) CPPFLAGS += -pthread -DHAS_BOOST_THREADS LDFLAGS …

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Private Internet Access, OpenVPN (2.3.2), and Ubuntu 14.04 (.2 LTS) – Yet Another Reported Way To Get Them Working (And The Only One That Works For Me)

Update: 17 May 2016 – Doesn’t happen often and is always nice to see. Thanks to Lucas Nell (on 26 April – that’s my bad) for taking one additional step out of the whole process with the script below. Simply replace “[put-your-password-here]” with your actual password (and no brackets), same the below as some_name.script (or …

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