Well, I got over my mad about Windows. It hasn’t changed my opinion of that so-called operating system, but I got past the problems I was having. I discovered that the installation we were having problems with was missing a file. When the program tried to use a file that wasn’t there, it threw an exception. Now that I know about that, I will add some code to the program to ensure that the file is present before proceeding.
I am gathering up more programming tips and will display them here when I get enough of them. Shell programming examples are not out of the question. Even tips on how to use Gimp would not be out of the question.
Silly sign of the day:
Free/Open Source Software
- Why Linux succeeds while other open source projects fail
- The Linux Desktop is More Than Ready
- Add new hard disk to your Linux machine
- Open Source Appeal: It Comes Down to Costs
- IBM launches Ubuntu-based distro in Africa
- Bob Sutor – Here are your “Dead Ends”
- Installing Wallpaper Clock in Ubuntu in 3 simple steps
- Intel Ports Linux Netbook OS to Desktops
“It’s Mine, and You Have to Pay (and Pay and Pay) For It”
- France passes tough anti-piracy measure
- Lily Allen Distributing Tons Of Copyrighted Music; Blows Way Past Three Strikes
- Some Questions For Lily Allen
- A Teaching Moment For Lily Allen [Update: And *Poof* Goes Her Blog]
- “Frugalista” Debate: One Blogger Stakes Claim
- UK Anti-Piracy Plans Cost More Than Music Industry ‘Losses’
Local and Other News
- Signs of Water Are Found on the Moon
- 3G wireless eReader from Irex aims to tackle Amazon’s Kindle
- Newly Declassified Files Detail Massive FBI Data-Mining Project
- Firefox tidies up with Office 2007’s Ribbon – So, if the most popular guy on the block jumped off a bridge, I guess you would, too.
- Electric Mountain Bike Gets the Equivalent of 2,287 MPG
- Secret teen hacker army ridiculed
- Two-Screen ‘Booklet’ Reported Under Way at Microsoft
- London cops finally apologise for mugging geek — four years later