May 7th, 2010 — 12:35pm
I updated to Ubuntu 10.04 this week, and now I’m listening to Nightwish, I suddenly felt the need to get the volume up. My mouse started on it’s way to the place the volume control-applet used to be, but it seemed to have disappeared. Luckily, this problem too is easy to fix: start the program “gnome-volume-control-applet” by pressing alt + f2. If that works, you might want to go to “System” > “Preferences” > “Startup applications”, and see if volume control is there and checked. If it’s not there, you can add it, and if it’s there and it’s not checked… well, then check it.
Problem easily fixed. Nightwish: you just started to sound a lot louder. 
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May 4th, 2010 — 12:09pm
Well, actually, Netbeans did, sun-java6-bin didn’t. I could no longer start Netbeans after my upgrade from Ubuntu 9.10 to 10.04, because of the following error message. You can see that by trying to start Netbeans from terminal: Cannot find java. Please use the –jdkhome switch. It turns out that java went missing, must’ve missed it when the upgrade started. I’ve tried simply reinstalling sun-java6-bin, but that didn’t really work either: it appears that no longer exists. After a while, I found out I had to the following:
sudo add-apt-repository “deb http://archive.canonical.com/ lucid partner”
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jre sun-java6-plugin sun-java6-fonts
After that, Netbeans works like a charm, just like it did under Ubuntu 9.10. Hope this might help anyone.
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