Kubuntu and USB audio devices

I've been setting up remote stations using USB devices but fucking Pulse Audio won't detect them correctly.

First, wipe out your pulse configuration files in .config/pulsle and volume/.config/pulse

Then edit /etc/pulse/default.pa and add the following lines, hw:1,0 is my USB card. You can see this using aplay -l

load-module module-alsa-source device=hw:1,0
.ifexists module-udev-detect.so

Reboot and have fun.

Ubuntu 14.04 and Oracle 12c

I followed this as much as possible although the way he documents it is a bit cumbersome, although it's OK if you want to find out exactly why he's done things.

Additional packages:
apt-get install lib32z1-dev libc6-dev-i386 elfutils libaio1 libaio-dev libstdc++6-4.4-dev numactl pdksh sysstat unixODBC-dev unixODBC build-essential libaio1 gawk ksh libmotif3 alien libtool

Instead of pages long doc, here's a quick diff between the files modified:

diff ins_net_server.mk  $ORACLE_HOME/network/lib/ins_net_server.mk
29c29
<       $(TNSLSNR_LINKLINE)
---
>       $(TNSLSNR_LINKLINE) -lnnz12 -lons

diff ins_rdbms.mk $ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/lib/ins_rdbms.mk
865c865
<       $(ORAPWD_LINKLINE)
---
>       $(ORAPWD_LINKLINE) -lnnz12
883c883
<       $(PLSHPROF_LINKLINE)
---
>       $(PLSHPROF_LINKLINE) -lons
901c901
<       $(RMAN_LINKLINE)
---
>       $(RMAN_LINKLINE) -lons
914c914
<       $(EXTPROC_LINKLINE)
---
>       $(EXTPROC_LINKLINE) -lagtsh
941c941
<       $(HSOTS_LINKLINE)
---
>       $(HSOTS_LINKLINE) -lagtsh
1067c1067
<       $(TG4PWD_LINKLINE)
---
>       $(TG4PWD_LINKLINE) -lnnz12


diff env_rdbms.mk $ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/lib/env_rdbms.mk
2922c2922
< ORACLE_LINKLINE=$(ORACLE_LINKER) $(PL_FLAGS) $(ORAMAI) $(SSORED) $(TTCSOI) \
---
> ORACLE_LINKLINE=$(ORACLE_LINKER) -Wl,--no-as-needed $(PL_FLAGS) $(ORAMAI) $(SSORED) $(TTCSOI) \
2943c2943
< DBV_LINKLINE=$(LINK) $(OPT) $(DBVMAI) $(SSDBED) $(LLIBDBTOOLS) \
---
> DBV_LINKLINE=$(LINK) $(OPT)  -Wl,--no-as-needed $(DBVMAI) $(SSDBED) $(LLIBDBTOOLS) \
2987c2987
<       $(LLIBSLAX) $(LLIBPLSQL) $(LIBPLCN) $(LINKTTLIBS)
---
>       $(LLIBSLAX) $(LLIBPLSQL) $(LIBPLCN) $(LINKTTLIBS) -lons
2994c2994
< EXTPROC_LINKLINE=$(LINK) $(OPT) $(EXTPMAI) $(PROD_EXTPROC_OPT) \
---
> EXTPROC_LINKLINE=$(LINK) $(OPT) -Wl,--no-as-needed $(EXTPMAI) $(PROD_EXTPROC_OPT) \
3001c3001
< HSDEPXA_LINKLINE=$(LINK) $(OPT) $(HSDEPMAI) $(HSALIB_SUBSET1) \
---
> HSDEPXA_LINKLINE=$(LINK) $(OPT)  -Wl,--no-as-needed $(HSDEPMAI) $(HSALIB_SUBSET1) \
3004c3004
< HSOTS_LINKLINE=$(LINK) $(OPT) $(HSOTSMAI) $(HSALIB_SUBSET1) \
---
> HSOTS_LINKLINE=$(LINK) $(OPT) -Wl,--no-as-needed  $(HSOTSMAI) $(HSALIB_SUBSET1) \
3071c3071
< KFED_LINKLINE=$(LINK) $(S0MAIN) $(SSKFEDED) $(SKFEDPT)  \
---
> KFED_LINKLINE=$(LINK) -Wl,--no-as-needed $(S0MAIN) $(SSKFEDED) $(SKFEDPT)  \
3075c3075
< KFOD_LINKLINE=$(LINK) $(S0MAIN) $(SSKFODED) $(SKFODPT) $(KFODOBJ) \
---
> KFOD_LINKLINE=$(LINK) $(S0MAIN) -Wl,--no-as-needed $(SSKFODED) $(SKFODPT) $(KFODOBJ) \
3084c3084
< AMDU_LINKLINE=$(LINK) $(S0MAIN) $(SSKFMUED) $(SKFMUPT) \
---
> AMDU_LINKLINE=$(LINK) $(S0MAIN) -Wl,--no-as-needed $(SSKFMUED) $(SKFMUPT) \

And here's the symlinked files for my case, I didn't have to do all of the symlinks he had done. Weird.
root@fubar:/usr/lib64# ls -la
total 8
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 Jul  1 16:02 .
drwxr-xr-x 13 root root 4096 Jul  1 15:41 ..
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   42 Jun 30 16:46 libc_nonshared.a -> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc_nonshared.a
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   48 Jun 30 16:43 libpthread_nonshared.a -> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread_nonshared.a

oracle@hakan-work:~$ ls -la /bin/awk
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 Jul  1 10:45 /bin/awk -> /usr/bin/awk