Dirk.Net

Accessing files located on a Windows Active Directory network share from your Linux machine is easy via Samba (and probably NFS, which I’ve never tried). However, trying to use Open Office applications such as Writer or Calc to open these files will likely fail. OO apps will start up and then die silently. That’s why it’s usually necessary to mount the shared drive with a command such as this: 
sudo mkdir /media/mynetworkserverc
sudo mount -t cifs //mynetworkserver/c /media/mynetworkserverc -o username=myusername,password=mypassword

I ran ./configure to install Postgresql-8.3.0 on Linux Mint 4.0 (Daryna)/Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon and got the error
checking for C compiler default output file name… configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
To fix it simply do an
apt-get install build-essential
as recommended here or, as minimal fix:
apt-get install libc6-dev
as recommended here (in the comments).
Btw., this is my first post using flock as a blog editor on Linux. It’s not Windows Live Writer but it works fine.