VBA

Last Thursday (its Saturday now) I learnt more about VBA than I ever did with any language, in the time given. In the afternoon, I was sat there thinking "where do I start?". By night time, I had pretty much finished the second Applications Software Development assignment, which asks for a bunch of userforms for adding faults, adding staff and technicians, searching for faults, etc. I have to hand it to Microsoft, that is one seriously easy to learn language. Seeing more result than error at such an early stage of using the language was quite impressive. It has encouraged me to get to grips with RealBasic, which is similar to Visual Basic, but cross-platform.

Suse 10.1 XGL

Yesterday, I went through the time consuming process of:

-Backing the /home directory and documents directory to the external drive
-Telling Suse 10.1's installer to format the second disc with ext3, rather than FAT32 (I have Windows able to read and write to this now)
-Copying the backed up files back to the system, but carefully (individually, rather than one big cp -r command)

Now, there was no real need to do this, as /home was on a seperate partition. I could have told Suse 10.1 to only mount the existing /home partition, rather than format it. But im overly cautious. Suse 10.0 was beginning to keel over, so I didn't want to take any chance what-so-ever.

The end result was the most impressive and usable desktop ive ever seen. Windows just cannot compare with Mac or Linux (KDE/Gnome with XGL)'s desktop. The fun features and intuitive usability make it so rewarding to use. In particular, the cascading windows: