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People who know me know that Python has always been one of my favorite languages. And over the years, I've been pleased with the array of development tools that have been created for it, including the different IDEs. I also do a lot of work in .NET, primarily with C#. …

I've had several people ask me what I think the best, top, most user friendly, ultimate, and so on distribution is--so now I'm publishing my Top 10 Linux Distributions in reverse order of preference. Ease of installation, commercial support, community support, updates, administrative tools, stability, performance, and to a lesser …

If you thought, or indeed hoped, that the Google Chrome OS would be a thoroughly modern marvel running web apps only then you are about to be disappointed. It would appear that even the brave new future of the OS cannot escape from the legacy of Windows. According to a …

Hi, can someone please tell me if there is a way to make my server accessible from the outside world? it works pretty well on localhost. I tried port forwarding, opening the ports it uses, but nothing works. I read somewhere that it only allows connection from the same network, …

Hi, I just installed PyQt Designer to start creating UI's with python, I've used WxPython and TKinter before, but never really done anything with PyQt. So for some of you this might be a very simple question that I can't seem to find with google. I really like how it …

Hello, first of all I'll start by saying this. A few months ago my world of warcraft was hacked (still unable to get it back). I sent the person who hacked my gmail a email, which at that time didn't know that he can trace my ip. About 3 month …

How do I make a transparent window in Tkinter?

alright guys? i just started working on my first assignment for networking and its very unclear of what i have to do for my first PASS assignment! :'( It doesnt seem very hard, really just very unclear! alright, so this is what it says we have to do: [QUOTE]Give a …

Hi everyone. Well I've been trying to figure this out for a quite a long time now by looking at some examples and searching the web, reading some tutorials and so on, but I don't even know where to start yet. Can you explain to me about the sprites too …

Probably the simplest way to get into multimedia with Python is the webbrowser module. This works with both Windows and Unix systems, and selects the default browser you have installed. But that is not all: if you give it the name of a multimedia file it will select the default …

hi guys, firewall in windows 2008 not starting with these error: Windows could not start the windows firewall on local computer. for more information, review the system event lof. if this is a non-microsoft service, contact the service vendor, and refer to service-specific errror code 5 any help is greatly …

Well, since there was no option for "tutorial" in the type of post, it has been created as a simple thread... Obfuscation - confusion resulting from failure to understand obfuscated code - Code that is hard to read In this tutorial, I will show you how to convert something readable, …

Again, another hard question. So Ive got a function, and ive got a couple of try and exception in it, and basically what i need is, if those exception give me an error, i want that function to go to an end. So, how am i suppose to do this. …

Hey people, I've got a file, looks like this: [QUOTE]england america spain brazil germany australia[/QUOTE] now, I need to read it line by line: [CODE]country = open('languages/country.lang', 'r')[/CODE] and give a value to it, like: [QUOTE]A1 = country.readline()[/QUOTE] and then A2 for the next country and so on. So I …

Is there a way to delete every n bytes from one point to the first byte? This s quite confusing. What I've done: [CODE]a = open("file.txt","r") b = a.read() a.close() findit = "WIN - PLACE" texto = b.find(findit)[/CODE] And now I need to delete everything before "WIN - PLACE", its …

Hey everyone again, so I am having a lot of problems with function in wxPython, this time, I need to know how, or if it is possible, to add new widgets to the main frame from a function, so here is my code: [CODE]import wx class Example(wx.Frame): def __init__(self,parent,id): wx.Frame.__init__(self,parent,id,'Example', …

[CODE]# create GUI app = Tk() app.title("Head-Ex Deliveries") # create a label Label(app, text = "Depot:").pack() # add to Tk app window # create a text entry depot = Entry(app) depot.pack()[/CODE] I understand and have been told that placing the instance name(app) as a parameter of Tk methods and other …

••••i am trying to build a clock using python where the clock is about 1/2 an earth second, it would have 11 seconds in a minute, it would have 5 minutes in an hour, and it would have 3 hours in a day. it would also have 3 months per …

Hey everyone, I decided I didn't want to use Tkinter, so now I'm using wxPython, and I'm having some problems, such as getting values from a function to another. I know, it's a bit hard to understand, and I don't even know if this is possible. [CODE=python]import wx class Example(wx.Frame): …

Hello, I think it was yesterday, that I turned on my computer and my mouse wasn't working. First, [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread276352.html"]Mozilla Firefox doesn't start [/URL] and then I cannot move the pointer on my screen, I don't think both problems are related, but I might have deleted some file(s) or while removing …

Hey, so as the title says my Firefox Web Browser doesn't want to start. It was working properly, but I guess after running a virus scan with KlamAV and quarantine a couple of errors that it gave me, it simply does not start. I've googled it, and I've tried a …

Hey, I have a really big file on my computer, this file only got words in it. And because the file is really big, I sure there are repeted words in there. Is there a way of deleting every single repeated word, leaving at least one? Every single word is …

While [URL="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/12/technology/12slate.html?pagewanted=1"]reports[/URL] suggest that Google is planning an Android or Chrome driven slate computer to rival the [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/news/story273324.html"]iPad[/URL], fuelled by some loose party talk by CEO Eric E. Schmidt, others have a date and price for their iPad-alike machine already. Take the Linux-powered WePad for example. The folk at Neofonie, …

Hi All, 1)I want to watch a directiory in unix using a shell script. 2)In case any change happens to any of the files inside that e.g new file creation or new directory creation or any file modification we need an automated mail. 3)Mailing part i will take care 4)on …

Hi, so as I said in a post a couple weeks ago, I am doing a project for my school and I am having some problems at the moment. My problems include, get values from one tab to another in my form and get values from one form to another. …

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I'm relatively new to access and have a problem. I have multiple rows of information on a form, and each of these rows has a few text boxes and one combo box. The combo box needs to have different information in it based on another field in the row. The …

Hello everyone, well I'm having some problems changing line every time my PHP code writes something to a file. Right now, it's writing the time of everyone, who visits my website, then it adds a comma and his ready to write the time of another person that visits the website. …

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Hello , I am working on getting this Mortgage repayment calculation code to work for my Access07DB, the code for was copied from some 2006 post on a vb forum. But some things I cant get to work [COLOR="red"]I will put the bad lines in red[/COLOR] [CODE] Option Compare Database …