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

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

I could not find this. Hmmm.

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

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

ita:

[link]

and some other links Google knows about

[link]

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.

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.

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.'

Google will sell vidio online (competing with iTunes): [link]

Like Apple's offering, Google's features just a couple partners (CBS and the NBA, in this case), further fragmenting the market.

eta: slashdot:

Tivo unveiled their new Series3 unit at CES yesterday. The Series3 is a digital cable ready box, capable of recording two programs simultaneously. It supports cable and antenna input, and it can handle digital or analog cable, digital ATSC, or analog NTSC broadcasts. CableCARD is used for digital cable, and it can utilize a single multi-stream card, or two single-stream cards. The system also sports 2 USB ports, 10/100baseT Ethernet, and an E-SATA port for external storage expansion. Video output is HDMI, component, S-Video, and composite, and audio is optical digital or RCA stereo.

That's hot.