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Abby - Jan 05, 2006 11:45:56 am PST #6301 of 10003

Thank you Daniel, that looks interesting. The things you learn here.


Jessica - Jan 05, 2006 11:58:10 am PST #6302 of 10003
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Any ideas why the VLC sound quality is incredibly awful for me? I know so many people who swear by it, but it sounds to me like a mis-tuned radio station.

VLC always sounds awful to me too. I'm not sure I can blame the software though, since I only use it to play things that were so badly encoded I can't play them on anything else.


Dana - Jan 05, 2006 12:22:18 pm PST #6303 of 10003
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

My home computer just downloaded a Windows update to fix that most recent large and horrible flaw. Guess they decided to rush.


evil jimi - Jan 05, 2006 2:31:41 pm PST #6304 of 10003
Lurching from one disaster to the next.

VLC works perfectly fine for me on 99.99999% of files I run through it.


DXMachina - Jan 05, 2006 2:38:27 pm PST #6305 of 10003
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

I could not find this. Hmmm.

Turns out it's only in the very old version of WMM I have on my office machine.


§ ita § - Jan 05, 2006 4:49:15 pm PST #6306 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Is anyone up to talking me through Ubuntu dependencies? Man, whoever told me that .debs were easier than .RPMs lied like the cheapest of rugs. Or perhaps, nah, it must be Debian's fault.

When I run vnc4server, it barfs at me. Starts vnc, but with no x server. Says:

Xvnc: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
xsetroot: unable to open display 'ororo:1'
vncconfig: unable to open display "ororo:1"
Window manager error: Unable to open X display ororo:1
(gnome-terminal:26135): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:

xstartup was automatically generated. It reads:

#!/bin/sh

[ -r $HOME/.Xresources ] && xrdb $HOME/.Xresources
xsetroot -solid grey
vncconfig -iconic &
x-terminal-emulator -geometry 80x24+10+10 -ls -title "$VNCDESKTOP Desktop" &
x-window-manager &

I know gnome's properly installed, because I'm running it right now.

Versions: vnc4server=4.0-8, gnome 2.6


Eddie - Jan 05, 2006 6:54:08 pm PST #6307 of 10003
Your tag here.

ita:

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and some other links Google knows about

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§ ita § - Jan 05, 2006 7:09:24 pm PST #6308 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Thanks, but I'm not running vncserver. When I yank that out of the search term, I don't get anything useful. Also not running anything with RPMs. That I'd know how to fix. It's the deb dependency thing that's got me flummoxed.


Eddie - Jan 05, 2006 7:31:20 pm PST #6309 of 10003
Your tag here.

This seems to be similar issue and the following in that link seems to have resolved it:

You can try installing the libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 package from the current stable branch ("apt-get install libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2"), but you still may need to create a symlink ("ln -s /usr/lib/libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3 /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.3"). You may also want to see if there is a newer version of whatever binary you are running, perhaps something linked against a more modern version of the library.


§ ita § - Jan 06, 2006 4:14:27 am PST #6310 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Thanks Eddie! This is just a pile of hassle, but I guess otherwise it wouldn't be a learning experience. Off to fix default font 'fixed.'