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:
February 28, 2011
February 25, 2011
autoload ruby rubygems woe (ruby hits a defined constant and throws a LoadError)
.. #<LoadError: no such file to load — rspec/matchers>
meant “RSpec::Matchers is set as an autoload constant, then when you’re doing an eval and first hit it, it think it hasn’t been loaded yet, or the load path to get it right isn’t set up for it”
February 24, 2011
free bible
Get yours here 
(comes delivered personally by the Mormons I believe)
February 23, 2011
February 22, 2011
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]“
February 21, 2011
oracle woe
NativeException: java.sql.SQLException: ORA-01555: snapshot too old: rollback segment number 10 with name “_SYSSMU10_1221203537$” too small
May mean (google it for one), you can introduce an incosistent query perhaps with this method:
http://oracle-randolf.blogspot.com/2009/04/read-consistency-ora-01555-snapshot-too.html
text mate in browser (javascript) clone
http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/167392
February 17, 2011
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
February 16, 2011
ruby woe
awol.rb:8:in `<main>’: undefined method `+@’ for #<Array:0x198ca38> (NoMethodError)
meant “you can’t have an array plus an array, where the plus sign is on the next line [it's looking for unary +]“