Or…I can just install Atom. Which was not in any Tumbleweed supplied install method. And press Ctrl+Shift+B.
Monthly Archives: August 2021
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VS Code frustrations
Opening a terminal in VS Code doesn’t open it in the directory I’m working in. I want to be competent in Javascript, not VS Code. So I google and get stuff like this… Yeah…and? What am I supposed to do with this? I looked at it and it still didn’t work, so obviously I can’t …
Javascript
Decided to dig into Javascript. Install node.js on Tumbleweed.
OpenSuse File create
Today I copied on OpenSuse a directory from another drive to the OpenSuse home dtive. And I noticed the Created date was today, I don’t remember seeing that before. I wanted it to retain the original dates. I looked up the CLI cp command and it says the -Pr flag will retain the old date. …
Underrated distro
I was listening to Destination Linux #237, yesterday. Episode aired 8/2/2021. Topic “What’s the most underrated distro in Linux? Surprisingly almost every host said OpenSuse. Good to hear since I recently started using it again. One thing they said that really pleased me was how you could update it after not for months, and it …
An even simpler Free Pascal SQLite example
I found an even easier SQLite program example. It was in the documentation for TSQLite3Connection. Docs can be found here.I added a check to the program, to see if the DB exists. The docs say TSQLite3connection is a FCL (not LCL) non visual component meaning that it can be used in ObjectPascal, console applications as …
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Linux Mint 20.1 problems
I’ve seen more problems with this version than I can remember from Linux Mint. If I remember correctly I tried to install gnuCobol but there was a problem with gcc. And now today, after installing sqlite3. I tried to install the libsqlite3-dev. which I need to access sqlite3 DBs in Free Pascal, and I get… …
Free Pascal & SQLite without Lazarus
I liked the Free Pascal & SQLite example I spoke of here. However it is a Lazarus project and I mentioned that it used “the Lazarus IDE, I think because it uses some Lazarus components”. The actual Pascal program is contained in a Lazarus “.lpr”. So I wondered if these SQLite libraries were unique to …
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