OpenSuSE 11.2 is so pretty on my desktop on SuperSluggo, that I can’t bear to part with it. Unfortunately there is a bunch of stuff that doesn’t work. I got DVD playback to work, but unfortunately Amarok either crashes or refuses to play Mp3 files, depending on which repositories I use to load required files.… Continue reading Further Adventures with OpenSuSE 11.2, Ubuntu 9.10 and Windows 7
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Another EP Simulator Screenshot
Progress on EP Simulator is slow. I’ve been working on multiple screen configuration, since the Prucka/GE system runs on two monitors. Anyway, here is a screenshot (on one monitor though).
Initial Experience With OpenSuSE 11.2
I attempted to upgrade both Krell, my ToughBook laptop, and SuperSluggo, my main computer to OpenSuSE 11.2 this weekend. Since SUSE was my first Linux I have remained partial to it, only using Ubuntu at one time on a now defunct partition of my wife’s computer, MonsterMagnet. Anyway, the SuperSluggo upgrade from OpenSuSE 10.3 to… Continue reading Initial Experience With OpenSuSE 11.2
The Death of SVK
I was saddened, or at least nostalgic, to learn of the discontinuation of development of SVK . There are a few posts on SVK in this blog. It was one of the first distributed version control systems, although it was a bit of a hybrid, still using an SVN central repository. But with SVK I… Continue reading The Death of SVK
Wacky UAC – Part Deux
I notice that I have a tendency to set out to write multi-part (“to be continued next week”) blog posts and then move on to something else and never come back and write the next part. Now that I have finished the upgrade to EP Office I am happily back working on my Linux partition,… Continue reading Wacky UAC – Part Deux
Spaces in Paths are Evil!
This comes as no surprise to anyone who has wrestled with this problem. While trying to make sure that the EP Simulator program builds and runs on Windows, I ran into trouble using absolute paths in my qmake *.pro files. Qmake is a tool from Qt Software that generates a Makefile that builds the program.… Continue reading Spaces in Paths are Evil!
Wacky UAC – Part I
During our current work on upgrading EP Office, I ran smack into the wackiness that is Vista UAC (User Access Control). If you use Vista at all, you know what that is. You start a program, everything seems to freeze for an inordinate period of time, then, the screen goes gray, and the dreaded UAC… Continue reading Wacky UAC – Part I
Emacs 23 and Fun with Org Mode
I installed Emacs version 23 the other day on my machines. Nice anti-aliased fonts and quicker startup times — plus a lot of things that should be defaults (like transient-mark-mode) but weren’t and which you were forced to put into your .emacs file under earlier versions are now defaults. Meanwhile, not quite related, but not… Continue reading Emacs 23 and Fun with Org Mode
Some Useful Emacs Commands
I have been using Emacs for editing source code, and have found that I can do things faster and faster the more I use the program. If I then go and use an IDE such as the new Qt Creator (which has vi but not emacs key bindings as an option) I am incredibly frustrated… Continue reading Some Useful Emacs Commands
Triple Booting on SuperSluggo
I’ve been maintaining EP Office on my Panasonic Toughbook laptop Krell, which dual boots Windows XP and OpenSuse 11.0. SuperSluggo, my main desktop dual boots OpenSuse 10.3 and Windows Vista. Unfortunately all my development tools for EP Office are older versions, such as InstallShield Express 4.0, and won’t run on Vista. So it was time… Continue reading Triple Booting on SuperSluggo