how to install mingw-utils:
$ mingw-get install mingw32-mingw-utils
September 21, 2010
September 20, 2010
September 18, 2010
program that will play pdf sheet music
looks like there’s some listed here (well, scan it first…):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_OCR#Free.2FOpen_Source_Software
September 15, 2010
jruby package woe
irb(main):015:0> import “org.familysearch.digitalarchive.tapeingestreader”
NameError: cannot load Java class org.familysearch.digitalarchive.tapeingestreader
from (irb):15
meant “if you want to import a package worth, you need to do that in a module, search for include_package in http://kenai.com/projects/jruby/pages/CallingJavaFromJRuby“
September 13, 2010
vmware server how to see the guest with google chrome
Turns out you can’t
that’s what this message means:
The VMware Remote Console Plug-in is not installed or could not be found.Please install the VMware Remote Console Plug-in to access this virtual machine’s console.Install plug-in
Fix: use firefox or IE, or some other program http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/archive/1183830
faster_rubygems woe
D:/installs/ruby-1.9.2-p0-i386-mingw32/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/faster_rubygems/prelude_cached_load.rb:6: stack level too deep (SystemStackError)
D:/installs/ruby-1.9.2-p0-i386-mingw32/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/faster_rubygems/prelude_cached_load.rb:6: stack level too deep (SystemStackError)
meant “you can’t use it with faster_require yet”
September 9, 2010
September 8, 2010
vlc Multiple blocks per frame in ADTS not supported
this meant “vlc creates AAC audio that it, itself, as client, cannot hear–set it to mp3″