Ever since I purchased my Garmin StreetPilot I have been built an obsession for all that is GPS. I even contemplated buying a Satellite phone , one can pick one up in eBay for a reasonable amount as well as pre-paid cards. Why? Just for those times when you are hiking in the middle of [...]
For those of you not on the VWNC list here is an interesting post from Terry Raymond. He now has 2.2 mb base image which I believe he is using to support Smalltalk scripting type of functionality. The image only supports file-ins and chunck format at that but he stated the he could probably add [...]
I have been playing with a little Smalltalk black magic to solve a philosophical problem. I believe that my acts should be consistent with my beliefs, not always possible not always what I want at the moment but …
So what is the problem?
I happen to be one of those Smalltalkers that creating setters and [...]
Another great meeting. Got insights into some of the work that Joseph was involved in i.e. the enhancement of the Sunit framework. As we all know automated unit testing i.e. the Sunit framework which was then the model for Junits and others came out of the Smalltalk world. Personally, I learned a few things. For [...]
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Today I decided to look into using a minimal desktop manager and only start my VisualWorks application. I therefore changed my $HOME/.vnc/xstartup to look like:
!/bin/sh
# Uncomment the following two lines for normal desktop:#unset SESSION_MANAGER#exec /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc [ -x /etc/vnc/xstartup ] && exec /etc/vnc/xstartup[ -r $HOME/.Xresources ] && xrdb $HOME/.Xresourcessetroot -solid grey/home/visualworks/scripts/startVWVirgin7_3_1.sh [...]
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Lately I have been struggling with configuring TightVNC both at work and at home. TightVNC is a spin on VNC (Virtual Network Computing). Think of remote desktops , terminal services etc. The scope included making things work with VisualWorks and making things work in both Linux and Windows. After some pain I [...]