Recent content by sjpatrick

I have a string, a person's name. If the name is, say, (James), I make it possessive by appending an apostrophe ('); if it's (Bob), I also include an (s), i.e. ('s). I haven't been able to find a way to check the supplied string to see if it ends with an (s) so I can determine what I need to...

Thanks, jstreich, but the point of the exercise was to actively use the computer to help provide an environment conducive to sleep by creating soothing sounds and visual images. I am one of those for whom total silence is the worst environment for sleeping; my own thoughts keep me awake if my...

Would someone please pin a star to this person's chest? Hey, wait... I can do that myself! Thanks, AdaHacker, for knowing/finding the exact solution I was looking for. <d3v310p3r/>

The best option I can think of to offer (without doing any actual work to verify that there is a real solution to be had... ;-) ) is to download/install/run VMWare Player, then search their list of appliance machines for a routing solution. Failing the pre-existence of such an appliance, you...

I want my machine to switch to a specific desktop (I'm running kde) at a particular time (of the evening -- sortof a go-to-bed reminder). I have, natch', many options for running commands at certain times, but I want to change to a specific desktop at said time. This is part of an experiment...

I'm trying to set up printing to a network printer, but the KDE printer setup wizard does not show network printer "tcp" as a valid choice; it's disabled. This printer, in fact the whole network printer setup, was working before but I've hopelessly broken something and find myself dumfounded...

Anyone remember the Starry Night screensaver from the ancient After Dark collection? I'd like to write something similar, though better, just for the sake of having it. I'm a sucker for nighttime cityscape photos and would like to create my own and animate them. I'm not looking to write a...

As much as I hate to say it, being as we *nix-ers just love our uptime, but I once dug into the exact same problem and the only solution, sadly, turned out to be a system reboot...

I can't figure out how to get the gdm login manager to stop showing up in german. Pretty certain that all locale settings are what they're supposed to be; can't find language setting in /etc/gdm/gdm.conf (using knoppix/debian distro); google search no help. Anybody got a silver bullet?

Anyone know the php silver bullet for scanning an email server for certain message senders and/or subjects? I'm trying to set up a lightweight email-event manager. Thanks in advance.

Trevoke, right you are. You should have been starred already for this without my having to be goaded... (blushing) Rectified. SciTE has been filling the bill quite nicely. Actually, I think KDE's Kate is about the best programming editor I've ever used, though I certainly prefer vi if I'm...

Perfect. That's exactly what I was looking for. Thanks, Trevoke.

Anyone know of a quick-and-dirty, small footprint programming editor ala kate that I can throw onto a windows box? I have to build a php web front-end for a ms-sql/ie-only based app and it would be a lot simpler if I could do so on the server in question...

I get another vote for Java-Moron-of-the-Day. ODBC data sources can only be accessed by the servers on which they live, not across a network. Installed Java on the server in question and all works as advertised.

Okay, turned off error trapping and got this: jdbc:odbc://cltpsi01.cgraphics.com/PSI-Jdata Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException at sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbcDriver.initialize(JdbcOdbcDriver.java:436) at...