VLC on Backtrack

So my Windows7 OS crashed last weekend. Now running Backtrack5 as my primary OS and Windows7(for now, may shift to XP later) as a secondary OS. Backtrack for work and XP for gaming

Backtrack came with a number of bugs after install as most linux distros do. 

Starting with the all too annoying Startx bug. The screen goes blank and hangs after the startx command. Fixed by booting to the backtrack recovery mode and running the startx fix. Easy enough, well not at first, far too many blogs have far too many ways of fixing and they all seem to work for atleast somebody.

The latest bug solved is, running VLC in root. After installing VLC, you cannot run it as root, to change this, edit /usr/bin/vlc with vi or hex/text editor of your choice and among the muck find the line

<code>geteuid._libc_start_man</code>

and replace it with the line

<code>getppid._libc_start_man</code>

It is important to remember developers disable running programs as root for a reason and doing so can damage your distro.Only do so if you know your way around linux and around root

Next step is getting chrome to work as root

In the begining

Following Genesis,
God created the world one day at a time, or one event at a time. Still cant figure out why in his awesome power he didn’t get it all compiled and running in one move.

Perhaps there’s a lesson in there for the rest of us wanna-be creators, go at it one event at a time.
I seem to be learning this the hard way, so many ideas, working on all and getting none launched(yet). Today is the beginning of my creation story done like he did it, one event at a time.

But first, “Let there be caffeine!!!”…and there was none for i am stuck in the faculty lab and not on a laptop in my room where caffeine runneth forth like a river.

Watch this space