and other things that don’t matter
I’ll probably play around with Perl today. I was using Cygwin and trying to build the ParaTools module but I found out that I dont have Module::Build installed. Using CPAN to install it game me an error
– NOT OK
Running make test
Can’t test without successful make
Running make install
make had returned bad status, install seems impossible
Solution is given below
$cpan
cpan> o conf make /usr/bin/make.exe
cpan> install Module::Build
Best collection that I’ve seen so far.
I still have to upgrade from Feisty to Gutsy but since I am already low on diskspace, it will have to wait!
Although my XP is working again, I couldnt resist the urge to install a linux distro too. Since I already have a ‘cool’ machine which has no CD drive, no floppy drive, and its not even bootable from a USB, I needed a way to install an OS without any booting involved. Thankfully, there’s something called Wubi which allows you to install ubuntu (or kubuntu in my case) from inside Windows. Ok, so it doesnt install it in a new partition, so what? I’ll work on it for a while and convert my installation to a real partition later using LVPM.
I have a IBM T30 and kubuntu seems to have installed all the harware support thankfully. It took me about anhour to configure things to ‘my’ settings and install some extras like flashplayer and firefox. Btw, while installing flash, i ran into a problem. Firfox refused to start. A quick fix is tomanually copy the .so file to the ~/.mozilla /plugins directory and you can youtube your ngiht away. I’ve also played around with the urdu lang pack but still havent had any luck with fonts of bbcurdu.com
Guess what. After the malware attack, my windows media player 11 refused to start. And since I am already short on diskspace, I had conveniently deleted the uninstall files. Even a reinstall didn’t cure things. While I was almost on the verge of switching to linux no matter how my backup conditions are, I luckily found the reason. And yes, it was what the title of this post is about. The malware removal conveniently unregistered one of these dlls that WMP11 desperately needs to start. It doesn’t even leave a message in the event log!As they say, فٹے منھ. Thanks to these two lines and the forum below, I can watch GEO from media player again. Yay!
regsvr32 jscript.dll
regsvr32 vbscript.dll
Open Tech Support – Windows Media Player – Internal Application Error
Don’t ask me why but I have these masochistic cravings at times so I ran an EXE file without thinking what it was. Malware! That too, the most @#$@# one I have ever encountered. It keeps on reporting that my pc is infected with spyware and that ‘Windows’ needs to download the latest antispyware thingy.
Symptoms: You get a red icon in the systray which keeps on giving you the message “Your computer is infected! Windows has detected spyware infection.”. Your registry has an entry in the LocalMachine/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Run key, for braviax.exe. Removing the entry doesn’t help, it comes back on reboot. Deleting the file doesn’t help either.
Removal: Without wasting time in existing software/spyware/adware removers, just install Malwarebytes’ Anitmalware, run and reboot.
I’m on an adfree pc finally… yay!
For me, it started with the RAMA series and went on to all the places in the galaxy from there. I had just started Firstborn last week and I was wondering the other day how old Arthur C. Clarke was. The answer I guess is ‘old enough’. and I am waiting for ‘The Last Theorem’…
Arthur C. Clarke; Sci-Fi Writer Foresaw Mankind’s Possibilities – washingtonpost.com
I often find myself humming this without even realizing I am humming.
I haven’t read a non-course book for so long now, so its time I go back to my 1 hour a day routine. Here’s my first sci-fi novel after an year or so. *sigh*
