Adobe AIR on Ubuntu 12.10 64-bit

Somehow I always run into this, as much as I would like to avoid this kind of software platforms. There are a lot of posts out there on how to get Adobe AIR working on your linux installation, but I find them overly complicated. I will however refer to this post which gives some useful information.

My addition is that it is enough to do this

• LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu ./AdobeAIRInstaller.bin  

You can safely ignore most of the advanced solutions you will find in your google results.

All I can say now is:
Pretty please, stop developing for Adobe AIR!

Broken mount.cifs after upgrade to ubuntu 12.10

After upgrading to Ubuntu 12.10 (Quantal Quetzal) my samba mounts stopped working and the mount commands only gave me this

mount error(22): Invalid argument
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs)

I did spend some time figuring this out, many google hits didn't give any hints whatsoever other than how to enable more verbose logging. And the solution was ridiculously simple.

In your fstab you probably have something like

/// cifs    user,noauto,noexec,noatime,uid=1000,file_mode=0644,dir_mode=0755

 Just remove noatime and you are good to go!