I R Programmer

And I say it that way NOT because of the lame “LOLcats” stuff, but in the way of the old cartoon (old in that it’s just a few years old and not like decades) cartoon, “I R Baboon”. In this show there was a baboon and a weasel, and apparently they fought against each other to ‘one up’ each other so they could say to each other, “I R BABOON!” “I r weasel.”

Anyway.

I’ve been ‘homeschooling’ myself and trying to learn Python programming. Whoo hoo! Anyway, my early, lame attempts have been paying off- I have written my first program and am working on learning more! Yay! Soon I’ll be rich!

Yeah.

Anne

Oh HELL I Hate Vista

You all have heard about the UAC on Vista- User Account Control, where if ANYTHING of import is going to happen, up pops a dialogue box asking if you REALLY meant for this happen. Well, it’s a good idea gone horribly horribly wrong, but that’s for another post that I won’t write. Anyway, I managed to set a flag SOMEWHERE and now when the UAC dialogue box pops up, now I don’t just have to acknowledge that I MEANT to do what I want to do, but I also have to type in my PASSWORD for it to happen.

Gods above.

And I had managed to make a Windows XP install on a partition, and sadly I downloaded and installed a “We’ll help make things better for your system!” program, and it promptly started EATING my WinXP install. Before I deleted it, it managed to:

Delete all my anti-virus, firewall, anti-spyware; delete a TON of file associations that I can no longer re-associate; fuck up my fonts so they don’t display correctly, but in subtle ways*…

I have most of it fixed up, but some of it… I’ll probably have to re-install  my WinXP system but man. I don’t have SPACE to move 40 gigs of stuff I want to save so I can re-format that paritition. Right now, that’s the only thing that’s stopping me. That and the fear that MSoft will… uh, unvalidate my WinXP install method. Which is totally legit and non-pirated**.

Oh my life is so sad 🙂

Anne

*I am trying to learn Python programming. The fonts in my WinXP install do not show symbols like ‘<‘ correctly. Or the ‘=’ sign. Man. And when I come to the Vista side to try and learn Python programming… there are two main Python “flavors” that I have found. One uses the “Idle” programming envireonment, the other is ActiveState Python. Idle doesn’t work for me in Vista and I like Idle better, but the fonts don’t work right in WinXP, so… whine whine whine.

**Cough Cough