Sounds like watir (http://wtr.rubyforge.org) will do what you want.

Here (http://wiki.openqa.org/display/WTR/Example+Test+Case) is an example of how to set up a google search

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_internet

Neither language is 'more powerful' - you can achieve the same thing in either.

And while Google use Python heavily afaik they don't use Django (I may be wrong but I don't think they do).

Both...

'starting up' ?

Do you mean the Windows loading screen?

If it gets to the 'Loading Windows XP' screen you may need to do a system repair with an XP disk.

If it doesn't get as far as the...

Dunno how you cope with that much stuff in your programs menu

I would recommend python; a cross-platform, dynamic object-orientated language that you can use for all types of programming. Python is free, there is lots of documentation, a very good developing...

Either is fine. All the databases (mainly PostgreSQL) I'm responsible for here run on Debian (http://www.debian.org/).

All the databases I listed (possibly with the exception of Sybase but I'm...

Why spend money on SQL server when there are free versions of IBM DB2 (http://www-306.ibm.com/software/data/db2/express/), Oracle...

Unfortunately there are already too many non-technical talkers in the IT industry.

You may find this (http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~harrison/Java/sorting-demo.html) article interesting

Yahoo pipes takes some beating.

I've been using gimmie the last few days and it seems pretty decent

That looks a lot like one of my old ones also made in the gimp (thats probably why!)

http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/7098496/

I used perl and python at ruby but then discovered Ruby.

Try it in your browser. I bet you love it. Even the Kaiser Chiefs love it

http://tryruby.hobix.com/

It depends. Are you called Fred? Do you gamble? Did you know about the company betfred before you registered the domain name?

I'd imagine you did, its a household name in Britain and has round...

I got steam/cs working no problem using the latest wine in ubuntu.

wine SteamInstall.exe then followed the install wizard.

Only thing i had to change was ALSA/OSS settings then it worked fine
...

Sorry, I'm jumping to conclusions here but:
a) You are probably not clever enough to write it.
b) Asterisk probably does (most of) what you want and is open source.

Love pty

Now the 3d buzz is around Second Life. This sounds like something someone would make there.

For the record I don't like 3d stuff unless I get to shoot people (counterstrike 1.6!!!). SL is clunky....

I keep my eye on a few (aside from the ones on Daniweb) including:

Miguel De Icaza (http://tirania.org/blog/index.html), Michael Robertson (http://michaelrobertson.com/), Guardian Technology...

If you want automated image processing I suggest ImageMagick (http://www.imagemagick.org/script/index.php)

Give vimtutor a try - it gets installed with vim on most distros and gives you a quick rundown of the goodies.

vim is the most productive editor I have ever used; I use it every day and would feel...

I just tried AbiWord for the Mac (been using it for years on Linux) and it is impressive; looks just like a Mac app should.

Anyway to set it to Finnish just open it (it defaults to US English),...

Abiword should support Finnish no problem; I checked on their site and they don't provice any extra files for the Mac so I presume it uses the built-in OSX checker.

I'll check when I get in from...

But that would mean him actually doing something!

For what you want a Mac would be ideal and I'm sure you'll pick up Mac OSX in no time (not to mention the other advantages such as no spyware, viruses and when you buy the new machine it won't come...

yes

C

Does kismet (http://www.kismetwireless.net/documentation.shtml) not do what you want?

As a developer the two things that get on my nerves most are

<rant>
a) Users/clients. Yes I know they pay the bills but it doesn't half **** me off when I complete a piece of work that meets...

If you use XGL it is kind of true yeah, however if you use AIGLX (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aiglx) you'll find that OpenGL apps run fine.

I've been using it for a while and find that the...

It is on his server, he can do with it as he pleases.

If you want to discuss private matters via IM I suggest you use a client that allows for encryption (such as gaim otr...

You can test out the Beryl with XGL (i think its xgl but it may be AIGLX on the sabayon (http://www.sabayonlinux.org/index.php) live DVD.

It should work for any modern nVidia/ATi cards

Have you tried aptana (http://www.aptana.com/).

I don't use it but our design guy uses it instead of Dreamweaver these days. Also Notepad++ is good for quick editing; syntax highlighting, html...

slightly shorter way in python


print range(1,11)

i use vim (http://vim.org)

what is the shortest way of printing 1..10 in any language?

i can't see any being much shorter than this :


1.upto(10) { |i| puts i }

rpm is more the equivilent of debian's dpkg

redhat (and fedora) both use a apt-get like system called yum; so in the same way on debian you use sudo apt-get install abiword on redhat you can use...

To be honest, I don't know how the webspace thing works on Freeserve; they may limit ftp (the thing dreamweaver uses to upload your pages) to people who actually dial up.

Do you still have your...

I had a quick look

It appears that your site is still hosted by freeserve however I'd assume that your freeserve(/wanadoo/orange) account is now closed; that is probably why you can't log in via...

if you can't find it try


whereis irssi


or


locate irssi