The Life and Programming of Cameron Crothers
skip to solution While recently re-writing our build script into a simple perl script I came across a problem. I wanted to have the script put output from the commands that it was executing onto both the screen and into a file at the same time. No problem, in perl you can open commands like [...]
Update Skip to solution Virtualbox is a wonderful tool for pc virtualization. I use it all the time for testing installers and just general I don’t want to hose my PC if this goes pear shape type stuff. It’s great for devloping Windows software that needs to work on different versions of the OS too. [...]
When using the explorer in Windows Vista I was having trouble finding the folder properties, for showing hidden files among other things. Like everything else in Vista it has moved and changed name. No longer can you find it under “Tools” -> “Folder Options…” But now under “Organize” -> “Folder and Search Options” It really [...]
Well it’s officially been announced that Java J2SE, J2ME, J2EE will all be released by sun as reference implementations under the Gnu GPL + classpath exception. Which I’m sure will bring a new era of Java, especially to Linux since Java will be able to be shipped with distributions without concern just like Mono is [...]
For a while now I have been waiting for tomboy to be ported to windows because I am stuck in windows land for now because of my sound problem. However on the net it is always talked about having tomboy for Windows but no one has ever released anything that could be considered usable. So [...]
Today for the first time my virus scanner here at work started deleting files. Identifying them as the Prockill-DF virus. It wasn’t going to take any chances and deleted the files what was interesting was what files it identified: Filezilla setup Gaim setup #Develop setup xampp setup Are you getting my drift here it’s after [...]
After reformatting our old Celron 400 Laptop to Hoary Hedghog, Oh the joy of only having Linux on a computer. However since most of my time at the moment is taken up doing C# development and more importantly of the MS.NET kind rather than the Mono But I was pleasantly surprised that Ubuntu comes with [...]
Here at work we I am running Windows 2000 and for the longest time the fact that tray icons could only have 16 colours has annoyed me for the longest time. With a lot of newer programs creating their icons to this high colour made the UI(User Interface) look really bad :(. However to day [...]
Yet another delay has been announced for the next versoin of windows codenamed Longhorn. Will this give futher chance for Linux to gain a foothold in the Desktop market only time will tell. But by the time it is released in late 2006 we on the current 6 month release schedule we should see Gnome [...]
