wmp woe

windows media player, that is

Windows Media Player cannot play this DVD because there is a problem with digital copy protection between your DVD drive, decoder, and video card. Try installing an updated driver for your video card.

See my response:

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_vista-hardware/windows-media-player-cannot-play-this-dvd-because/aa68441f-5edd-49fa-8c38-93cd1fec1944?page=3

jruby woe

Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_23-b05)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 19.0-b09, mixed mode, sharing)
Loading Sensible Cinema…C:/dev/ruby/sensible-cinema/sensible-cinema-0.21.5/sensible-cinema/vendor/cache/cache/sane-0.2
3.4/lib/sane/require_relative.rb:11:in `require_relative’: undefined method `rindex’ for nil:NilClass (NoMethodError)
ERROR. Please look for error message, above, and report back the error you see, or fix it
Press any key to continue . . .
meant “you need to use jruby 1.6.0RC2 [complain about this to your distro-er]“

ruby rake woe

D:\dev_d\ruby\downloads\ruby_trunk>make install
./miniruby.exe -I./lib -I. -I.ext/common  ./tool/rbinstall.rb –make=”make” –dest-dir=”" –extout=”.ext” –mflags=”" –make-flags=”" –data-mode=0644 –prog-mode=0755 –installed-list .installed.list –mantype=”man”
installing binary commands:   /installs/ruby_trunk_installed/bin
installing base libraries:    /installs/ruby_trunk_installed/lib
installing arch files:        /installs/ruby_trunk_installed/lib/ruby/1.9.1/i386-mingw32
installing pkgconfig data:    /installs/ruby_trunk_installed/lib/pkgconfig
installing command scripts:   /installs/ruby_trunk_installed/bin
./tool/rbinstall.rb:257:in `initialize’: Permission denied – /installs/ruby_trunk_installed/bin/rake.bat (Errno::EACCES)
from ./tool/rbinstall.rb:257:in `open’
from ./tool/rbinstall.rb:257:in `open_for_install’
from ./tool/rbinstall.rb:461:in `block (2 levels) in <main>’
from ./tool/rbinstall.rb:244:in `block in install_recursive’
from ./tool/rbinstall.rb:238:in `each’
from ./tool/rbinstall.rb:238:in `install_recursive’
from ./tool/rbinstall.rb:443:in `block in <main>’
from ./tool/rbinstall.rb:583:in `call’
from ./tool/rbinstall.rb:583:in `block (2 levels) in <main>’
from ./tool/rbinstall.rb:580:in `each’
from ./tool/rbinstall.rb:580:in `block in <main>’
from ./tool/rbinstall.rb:576:in `each’
from ./tool/rbinstall.rb:576:in `<main>’
make: *** [do-install-nodoc] Error 1
for me this meant “maybe you installed rake as an administrator?” (uninstall, then reinstall ruby fixed it for me…)

ruby woe

io.o: In function `rb_io_s_write_helper’:
D:\dev_d\ruby\downloads\ruby_trunk/io.c:8446: undefined reference to `open_key_args_with_opt’
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [miniruby.exe] Error 1
D:\dev_d\ruby\downloads\ruby_trunk>ack open_key_args_with_opt
meant “do “
D:\dev_d\ruby\downloads\ruby_trunk>rm io.o