Ramon Tayag's questions

I followed this blog post to compile gvim with ruby support. However, when I make, I get this error:

/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lruby-static
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
link.sh: Linking failed
make[1]: *** [vim] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/ramon/vim/src'
make: *** [first] Error 2

I searched around for people who had this problem, and couldn't find any. This guy just changed computers altogether.

And yes, I have ruby:

$ ruby -v
ruby 1.8.7 (2010-08-16 patchlevel 302) [i686-linux]

What do I do?

I want to copy some text from screen to my clipboard. I know how to get into copy and paste mode in screen, but I want that text to go to my clipboard so I can paste it on the browser, for example.

How do I do this? Thanks!

I just upgraded to Firefox 5 to find out that Selenium does not work on it. I'd like to downgrade to Firefox 4 but haven't found a way to do this.

How do you downgrade to Firefox 4 on 11.04?

Thanks in advance.

It used to work fine in another install of Maverick, I don't know why it's broken now.

I've added a network printer. Both the host and guest are Ubuntu.

The printer added fine, but the system asks for authentication when I try to print. I typed the host's (the account that installed the printer) username/password, didn't work. I typed the guest's username/password, it didn't work either.

What username and password do I enter?

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VLC is set to open the folders (Home, desktop, documents etc) in the Places menu. How to reset this?

I came back after a month long vacation to check out my parents computer, only to realize that the bookmarks (e.g. Places → Downloads) opened up VLC. To try and fix this, I uninstalled VLC. But when I open those bookmarks, the browser (Firefox) launches instead.

How do I fix this and get Nautilus to launch?

PS. I'm using docky, and opening mounts from docky also has the same behavior.

I've been using recordMyDesktop to record stuff. A little slow to compile but it records fine. However, when I try to convert from ogv to avi (I've used Devede and an mencoder script) the audio and video go out of sync.

Here's the script for reference:

#!/bin/bash
# ogv to avi
# Call this with multiple arguments
# for example : ls *.{ogv,OGV} | xargs ogv2avi
N=$#;
echo "Converting $N files !"
for ((i=0; i<=(N-1); i++))
do
echo "converting" $1
filename=${1%.*}
#mencoder "$1" -ovc xvid -oac mp3lame -xvidencopts pass=1 -o $filename.avi
mencoder "$1" -o $filename.avi -oac mp3lame -lameopts fast:preset=standard -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=4000
shift 1
done

Are there good reliable video converters out there? :)