HFS OMG! On some applications (it appears it works with Word, Microsoft Visual Studio, doesn’t seem like it is in Firefox), you can hold down Alt while selecting text… and it will select in columns instead of rows! So if you copy a big table and it gets plopped down as text, you don’t need to open a spreadsheet to delete columns; just put your cursor down in one corner, hold down alt, and drag the cursor to the opposite corner! So cool!
Archive for May, 2008
I figured that if I’m going to take a C++ class for the finance industry, I should get on the Windows bandwagon, and not with an open source port. Instead, I went with Microsoft Visual C++ Express, which is a free version of Microsoft’s IDE, and will almost certainly do what I need to do.
I did have a problem installing it the Visual Express 2008, which caused me to initially backtrack to the 2005 version. The error I was getting was being thrown during the unpacking of the installer. It was:
setup has encountered a problem while trying to copy $shtdwn$.req
It turns out the system was installing the temp files onto my Linux Ext3 drives and this was generating an error (probably relating to permissions). When I disabled the Linux IFS driver (or, really, unmapped the drives manually) and ran the install, it went fine, as the temp files went onto my NTFS drive C.
Nothing gets a person quite as riled up as having the tools to create something… that’s how I feel now that I have a Visual C++ IDE ready to go…
