Mozilla Thunderbird 1.5.0.4

Mozilla Thunderbird is a free open source email client. It is one of the best program with lots of features which makes emaling safer, and better than ever. This is one of my favorite applications created by the Mozilla Foundation. Recently, the new version of 1.5.0.4 has been released and you could get it from: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.5.0.4. For the full list of new features, please visit: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 release notes....

June 8, 2006 · 1 min · 72 words · kenno

Temperature Conversion v0.2

I just learned how to implement basic command-line argument with Python. Hence, I would like to incoporate this feature in the previous Temperature Conversion program. `# convertc2f.py Version: 0.2 A program to convert Celsius temps to Fahrenheit Date: 4/13/06 by: S. San (Kenno)` import sys if (len(sys.argv) == 2):<br /> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; celsius = int(sys.argv[1])<br /> else:<br /> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; celsius = int(input("What is the Celsius temperature? ")) fahrenheit = 9.0 / 5....

April 13, 2006 · 1 min · 125 words · kenno

Using Java 5 on Mac OS X Tiger

Mac OS X Tiger still uses the J2SE 1.4 as default Java virtual machine and compiler. If you need to upgrade to JDK 5, you have to download it from Apple download site. After you install it, you need to change a symlink to point to the JDK 5: $ cd /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/<br /> $ sudo mv Current Current.old<br /> $ ln -s 1.5 Current<br /> $ mv CurrentJDK CurrentJDK.old<br /> $ ln -s 1....

April 7, 2006 · 1 min · 110 words · kenno

Temperature Conversion

If you get used to read the temperature in Fahrenheit scale like me, you may be confusing to see the temperature in Celsius scale given in weather forcasting on Australian or New Zealand televisions. So today, I’m gonna show you a small Python program which can be used to convert the temperature scale from Fahrenheit to Celsius. As my Python programming skill is very limited at the moment, the program is going to perform very basic function....

April 6, 2006 · 1 min · 166 words · kenno

Hello World &#8211; Python

I’ve been hearing a lot about “Python”, so I decided to pick up a book “Python Programming for Absolute Beginner” by Michael Dawson. Today, I’m going to share with you how to write classic “Hello World” program in Python. Fire your favorite text editor program, in my case I use vim. kenno$ vim helloworld.py Then type the following code: # Hello World<br /> print "Hello World!" Save it, and execute it with the following command:...

April 5, 2006 · 1 min · 86 words · kenno