Archive for June, 2011

Putty: Get out of full screen mode

By nick | Tech Support

If you’re using Windows 7 and haven’t been able to figure out how to escape fullscreen mode in Putty/putty.exe here’s how to do it: Right click in the absolute top left corner and the putty menu will appear. Depending on your setup and OS version the putty menu may appear when you right click anywhere

Codeblocks “libgcc_s_dw2-d.dll was not found”

By nick | Uncategorized

If you’ve encountered this error whilst trying to launch a compiled application, here’s how to fix it. Open your linker settings and add the following: -static-libgcc Problem solved!

Undefined reference to WSAStartup [Solved]

By nick | Uncategorized

Why am I receiving this error? You’re receiving this error because you have included a winsock header file and are attempting to use it’s functions without linking it. Solution: Add -lwsock32 to your linker options, how to do this will vary depending on which IDE you’re using however the settings will usually be found under

Codeblocks:

Codeblocks: “uses an invalid compiler.”

By nick | Uncategorized

“.. – Debug” uses an invalid compiler. Probably the toolchain path within the compiler options is not setup correctly?! Skipping… What does it mean? This error indicates that Code::Blocks cannot find the location of your compiler. Solution: Go to Settings/Compiler & Debugger and click the Reset defaults button in the top right. If that doesn’t

Linux: Convert WAV to MP3

Linux: Convert WAV to MP3

By nick | Uncategorized

Depending on your operating system you’ll use different ways to install the audio conversion software shown below. Debian:  apt-get install lame Ubuntu: apt-get install lame Freebsd: cd /usr/ports/audio/lame; make install clean Once lame is installed, the script below can be downloaded and placed in a bin directory (or any other suitable place). #!/bin/bash # #