Today saw the first Beverley Linux User Group meeting for almost two years. Topics discussed were Linux, Linux Distributions and Apple Macs, iPhone and iPad (I couldn’t resist). We hope to meet every month from now on.
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N.B. Includes Snow Leopard “binary not found” fix.
In this context CDT is a three-letter abbreviation referring to the Eclipse C/C++ Development Toolkit and OS X is a UNIX based operating system.
However, unfortunately for would-be C++ programmers and unlike most flavours of Linux, OS X does not come with the standard development tools pre-installed that the Eclipse CDT requires in order to compile, link and execute C++ code!
Therefore, the following steps are required…
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Cocoa EclipseGiven that the new iMac is intended for software development the first port of call was the Eclipse Download site.
I selected the Cocoa 64 bit version of the OS X Eclipse C/C++ Development Toolkit, downloaded, installed and tested it with the ‘Hello World C++ Project’ that has long since come with Eclipse.
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Santa brought me a brand new iMac 21.5-inch!
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…Dr Whack-a-doodle to the emergency mercury salmon poisoning room!
The Resuscitation Council is woefully inadequate when it comes to advice on how to resuscitate a moribund Research Masters Degree course. Thus, I will have to make it up as I go along. I wonder if the patient will make it through?
The first 6 months were very productive with respect to collecting background information, previous works, resources and developing a direction. The initial programming experiments seem useful and relevant but I have lost all sense of direction.
Unfortunately, rereading my original research proposal does not help because it too seems lacking in direction. Perhaps, as Thoreau said, it is better to “Simplify, simplify”?
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…and nothing ‘blogged’ for 13 months! (Triskaidekaphobia anyone?)
Well I was busy!
- started a part-time Research MSc at University (again)
- struggled to have time for MSc (again)
- learned to snowboard (o_O)
- put MSc on back burner (again)
- got kicked in the butt by economic down-turn (again)
- got wife pregnant (awesome)
- got a new job (hurrah)
- got a new baby (^_^)
- got a new iMac (student discount)
- went jogging (at last)
- decided to blog efforts to resuscitate MSc (gulp)
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From techradar.com (this one is for ectpete)…
Why wait for Windows 7 though? There are loads of ways you can fiddle with Vista’s interface and cheer up the depressing and omnipresent black bars. To show you some of the options out there here are seven tricks for dealing with that most common of Windows’ viruses: Mac-envy.
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This seems a logical step for many Eee PC owners and the Asus Eee PC Forum has a thread devoted to unraveling this issue [link] but for your convenience here are the steps laid out:
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