Wow! A new post! You might be wondering, where I had vanished.
Well, the semester has come to an end, and I can put something into my blog. As said before, I promise, short simple posts.
Am now having trouble with updating my wordpress and plugin. Some error. Must sort that.
I have got a Google Wave invite and am on google wave now. Wait, most of my friends are not and without friends, am pretty confused of what to gain from Wave.
Windows 7 looks really spiced up.
So does Ubuntu 9.10. I installed it on my friends laptop and it blew me off! Wow! Amazing work there coders!
So am I not waiting for Linux Mint 8? I wanted to but I had some really bad experiences with Mint 7. It hung! Yes, something screws Gnome and then I need to hard reboot. Hate it!
And well Mint is for new comers. Am no new comer (I mean it!).
Now am going to install Ubuntu 9.10 on my laptop. Next time will be blogging from Karmic Koala. Watch out for reviews, tips and tricks on Ubuntu Karmic Koala!
Two things are essential for a blog to survive. One is posts, and the other is readers. Posts make readers happy and bring more readers. More readers means the author is happy, he writes quality articles. That brings more readers. So its a two way process. One action is reciprocated by the other.
The world is a blend of people with different features. The difference should be there or else life will be boring. So you are different from every other blogger around and the readers reading your blog are different from those reading other blogs.
By knowing what your readers think, you can in fact double the time your blog visitors spend on your blog. And your readers, think exactly in the way you think.
I don’t like reading articles that run into pages. I prefer it to be short and shouldn’t force me to run searching for a dictionary. And graphical representations like pictures and mind maps, make it easier for me to grasp the articles content. So I search for more of such articles. And the next time I visit that blog, I may even read the lengthy articles!
So, there is a possibility that visitors to my blog too like the same. My articles shall be short (if they aren’t How To’s or Tutorials), and including graphics is a bit painful in wordpress (Am lazy, and don’t want to do all that uploading of images etc.). I have found Posterous to support all that I want, and it’s easy too!
So by realising what you like to see and read online, you can satisfy your readers, and get visitors to become readers and later on subscribe to your blog! Observe yourself and you shall obtain your answer.
The “New Folder .exe” virus is pretty annoying. Of course all viruses are annoying, but this one is frequently encountered by me (in my friends pen drives). The computers in our Computer Center are fully infected by these, and no pen drive is spared.
My friends come to me, to help them remove this New Folder Virus from their Pen Drives. They come to me, because I have Linux on my laptop, and it becomes easier to remove the virus. Just find and delete.
For those who do not know about this virus, let me give some background. This virus, creates a copy of itself within every folder present in the pen drive. And the name of those files is the name of the folder followed by .exe.
And this it does repetitively in every folder found inside the pendrive.
When my friends come to remove, I used to manually visit each and every folder and remove the file, until I found a way to do it easily.
Thanks to the find and rm command, I just have to run a single line of code. (Believe me, I thought I will have to write a script to do it!)
The Find Command in Linux
Find command finds any file with a particular pattern.
find -name “*\ .exe”
This line helps you find any file with the extension ” .exe”. Note the space before the period. That distinguishes the virus from an actual windows executable file. Now you have to remove these files. And this is how you do it.
find -name “*\ .exe” -exec rm -rf {} \;
That’s our required piece code, I mean line of code. So go to /media/pendrive and run this line. It will find out the New Folder virus files and remove it!
P.S. If you doubt this code, then please create a backup copy of whatever is in your pendrive, then run this code. If it doesn’t delete other files, then great! You can believe the code, you can believe me! 
I use RealVNC. So when I installed vncviewer in Ubuntu, I expected RealVNC to pop up. But no it didn’t. Something else came up, and though it let me access my desktop, yet it wasn’t something I appreciated. So began the hunt for RealVNC for Ubuntu, and this post relating my experience with the same.
Click here to visit the download page.
After downloading the tar.gz file, I untared it. There was a file called vncinstall in it. I opened a terminal and run the script file. You can do this by typing the following in the folder where you untared the tar.gz file.
sudo ./vncinstall /usr/local/bin
This copied the files vncserver, vncviewer etc to /usr/local/bin. This enabled me to open vncviewer through Run Application (Alt+F2). But to my horror nothing happened. So I opened up a terminal and tried to run vncviewer from there. You can do that by
vncviewer &
But this gave me an error.
vncviewer: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
I installed libstdc++6 through the terminal using
sudo apt-get install libstdc++6
But still vncviewer spit out the same error. After going through Ubuntu Forums I found the solution. There was one more package that needed to be installed. Run this command to download the deb file, and double click, to proceed with it’s installations.
wget http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/pool/main/g/gcc-2.95/libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2_2.95.4-27_i386.deb
This command will download the file. After the deb file is downloaded, install it. All dependencies should be satisfied, and the installation should be a breeze.
Now, vncviewer should work. And it worked!
Hope this solution, helps you get RealVNC working on your Ubuntu!
