October 28, 2011

Boot-Repair

Boot-Repair is a small graphical tool to restore access to Ubuntu and other OS (Windows..).
  • One "Recommended repair" button to repair most frequent boot problems. (generally repair filesystems and reinstall Grub2)
  • Another button to create a Boot-Info-Script summary in 1 click
  • Options to reinstall Grub2 easily (OS by default, purge, unhide, kernel options..), and other advanced options (MBR restore...).
Boot-Repair is a free software, licensed under GNU-GPL. Boot-Repair is not officially supported by Canonical, use it at your own risks.

Links

help.ubuntu.com/community/Boot-Repair
help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2#Reinstalling_GRUB2
help.ubuntu.com/community/WindowsDualBoot

October 25, 2011

MinGW

Install MinGW
Windows 7 does not have a built-in command line program to extract from zip. Install MinGW using GUI.

sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/Automated MinGW Installer/mingw-get

:: for Windows
:: C Compiler
mingw-get install base

:: MSYS Basic System
mingw-get install msys-base

:: MinGW Developer Toolkit
mingw-get install mingw-developer-toolkit

:: Mount installation
sh mount c:/mingw /mingw

Links

mingw.org/wiki/Getting_Started
mingw.org/wiki/Large_executables
stackoverflow.com/questions/2826029/passing-additional-variables-from-command-line-to-make
superuser.com/questions/110991/can-you-zip-a-file-from-command-prompt
wiki.openttd.org/Compiling_on_MinGW

GNU Make

wget 'http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw-w64/files/External binary packages (Win64 hosted)/make/make-3.82-20100827.zip'
unzip make-3.82-20100827.zip
cd make-3.82-20100827
cp bin_amd64/* /mingw64/bin

October 24, 2011

cURL for Windows

Use
curl -O http://msft-dnl.digitalrivercontent.net/msvista/pub/X15-65805/X15-65805.iso

Links

oss.m-click.ws/index.php?area=build_mapserver_win32&page=MsMingw
solutious.com/blog/2009/07/13/bash-twitter