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....
VMware is a piece of art of software which allows you to run guest operating stystems (OS) on top of the main OS you’re using. For example in my case, I run SuSE 10.0 on Windows XP via VMware. Anyway, despite having the name as cool as it sounds, installing the VMware on my machine is a pain in the rear. This could explain why I so stated as above. The installation of VMware always gives the blue-screen-of-death on the Windows XP SP2 on the final step....
LBreakout2 is another multi-platform game written by the same programmer as LBreakout. The new features of the games include more than 50 levels, level editor and networking, which enables user to play on-line by connecting to LBreakout2 server. I haven’t tried that yet though. You can find more info at the LBreakout2 homepage. Let’s check out the screen-shot: A tip to compile this game for Mac OS X is to configure the source with the nls disable....
I thought Mac OS X comes with libpng pre-installed. It’s pretty clear that I was wrong after I failed to compile a game that uses libpng. The good thing about OS X is that, you can just use fink to easily install Unix/Linux binaries. However, the weird thing is, the game configuration still complains that libpng could not be found. So I decided to install libpng from the source code. In case anyone of you out there who may face the same problem as me, you could do as what I describe below....
I’m pretty bored today, and I wanna take a break from learning Python. So, I decided to compile an open source game, LBreakOut (L is for Linux), for my PowerBook. In order to compile this game, you need obviously the source code of the game where you can get it from here. Additionally, you need the SDL library, where you can get it from http://www.libsdl.org. Here is the screen-shot of game running on my PowerBook:...
Normally, I would bunzip the file first, then untar it next. But I found something after googling for a shortcut: it can all be done with just one tar command. $ tar -xjvf example.tar.bz2 Notice that, we use j flag to decompress bzip2 file and z flag for gzip file. 🙂
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 /> celsius = int(sys.argv[1])<br /> else:<br /> celsius = int(input("What is the Celsius temperature? ")) fahrenheit = 9.0 / 5....
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....
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....
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:...