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I am runing Ubuntu 12.04. I cannot open Ubuntu Software Center and cannot upgrade anything. When I tried to upgrade using terminal with following lines:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
My system displayed
Reading package lists... Error!
E: Encountered a section with no Package: header
E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/ubuntuarchive.hnsdc.com_ubuntu_dists_s_
E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
Can any one guide me what to do. I am new to Ubuntu.


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Dashing!Written on February 7, 2005 Blue Oval Truck Parts' Cure for the Common "Old"
What's the one thing you can always count on seeing when you get behind the wheel of your pickup? Your dash--more specifically, that gauge cluster nestled right on the other side of your steering wheel. Or is it? If you're like many who drive early Ford pickups (mainly the beloved '56 F-100), you may be trying your hardest to make out needle locations that determine vital stats not only going on beneath your hood, but beneath your wheels as well when driving at night. That's if your little pointy things are working properly to begin with! Sure you may have noticed the 45-mph-posted speed-limit sign you just passed, but can you be sure that your old speed-o is telling you the truth about just how fast you may have passed it? Maybe...maybe not. Not only that, but the average gauge bezel, as cool and nostalgic as it may be, can be sort of boring to some--especially those looking to add a bit of flare (even if just for personal satisfaction) to that area most looked upon when in the driver seat.
We just happen to wander into Charp Industries not too long ago as they were about to replace a stock F-100 gauge cluster with a fancy new cast-aluminum six-hole bezel and modern Nordskog (digital) gauges obtained from Blue Oval Truck Parts (a division of Charp). Being the studious editorial types we are, we had camera and notepad in hand, and we were able to capture the entire installation/transformation in one afternoon. From the electronic to the mechanical aspects of this job, it was literally a no-brainer (and this is coming from an electronically timid writer!).
For those considering this swap, keep in mind that it is not a direct bolt-in replacement: You will need to trim your dash to fit the "taller" bezel in place and allow sufficient room for the new gauges. If you're not prone to cutting virgin FoMoCo metal, please keep this in mind! Everyone else, please follow along!
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Without a doubt, the stock F-100 gauge bezel is a work of art. Thing is, not everyone is into "purity" and therefore like to spice things up a little.For those folks, we offer you the Blue Oval Truck Parts (BOTP) cast/polished aluminum six-hole bezel!If you read the story, you already know about the precaution--but being you've made it this far, it's a safe bet you're up for some cutting! Before you go and take and the time to mount and loom together your desired gauges, take the bezel and mark your dash where it will need to be trimmed.Whether you use an air saw, die-grinder, Dremel, or even a hacksaw (not highly recommended!), just make sure you don't cut too much since you want sufficient metal for the lower portion of the bezel to rest upon.The BOTP bezel is cut for two 3 3/8-inch gauges and four 2 1/16-inch gauges. The bezel is also available in a five-hole configuration, as well as a dual-quad setup. Contact BOTP for more info on availability and options. For this installation, the owner chose to use a set of Nordskog digital gauges with red illumination. The first thing we did was trial-fit it--no problem.Unlike analog, it's a bit more difficult to know exactly "which" gauge you're working with unless they're illuminated! Simple--we just gave them "juice" to help us along.Don't let the mess of wires scare you; keep things in order and you'll be fine. The important thing is keeping the gauges lined up, which you can ensure by keeping the mounting tabs parallel.
Once we had everything in line, the mess of wires out back was "un-messed." In other words, the ground, power, and sender feeds were all loomed (zip-tied) and soldered together for a nice, clean look--which also helps with wiring into the truck.Take care in removing your old cluster, especially if your dash is painted nice, but also to keep the stock wiring in tact as much as possible. (It's also a good idea to disconnect your battery while working with "hot" wires.)The lower portion of the stock gauge cluster that's usually hidden behind the dash is most of what you'll be trimming out. But don't use this as a template; follow the steps outlined earlier to get your cut line!If you've got an extra pair of hands, have them install your electronic gauge sending units while you're busy cutting away on the dash.You'll want gauge-matched oil pressure, water temp, volt, and fuel senders, as well as an electronic speedometer sending unit if you're using a digital/electronic speed-o.Most top-name gauge manufacturers provide you with wiring diagrams for your new instruments; the Nordskog ones had very clear instructions. We wired in the new gauges with disconnects to make future access (if at all necessary) much easier.The new BOTP panel attached to the dash with the stock upper Phillips screws, and believe it or not, nothing more. Once those screws were secure, so was the panel--even with a full set of gauges in place.Using the truck's main power source this time around (we like to call it a 12-volt battery), we made sure all six of the gauges were working properly. Nordskog's tach and speed-o feature fine-tuning adjustments for trip meters and such, which you can read more on in their instructions.

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Kevin Lewis Cully, 34, of Hamburg was charged with suspicion of first degree arson in connection with a Feb. 26 house fire in Hamburg.
The Fremont County Sheriff's Office received the call about the fire at 1107 Washington St., Hamburg, at approximately 11:50 p.m. on Feb. 26. The Hamburg Fire Department extinguished the fire and found it to be suspicious. The Iowa Fire Marshal's Office investigated and determined the fire was arson.
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Start with the really well-known fact that $R[x_1, \ldots, x_n]^{S_n}$, where $R$ is any commutative ring, is polynomial on elementary symmetric polynomials. Now consider the slight generalization of multiple collections of variables, namely $R[x(i)_1, \ldots, x(i)_n]^{S_n}$, where $i$ runs over some finite indexing set and $S_n$ still acts by permuting subscripts. These rings are generally not polynomial algebras, in particular when $R$ is ${\mathbb F}_p$.
Ten years ago, in the context of computing the cohomology of symmetric groups, Mark Feshbach gave generators and inductively-defined relations for these rings when $R$ is ${\mathbb F}_2$. My questions are:
(1) Does anyone know of calculations over ${\mathbb F}_p$ or other approaches over ${\mathbb F}_2$?
(2) Restricting to $R = {\mathbb F}_p$ and replacing $S_n$ by $GL_n({\mathbb F}_p)$ we get the Dickson algebras in the case of one collection of variables. Has anyone studied the analogues of Dickson algebras where there are multiple collections of variables?


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There will be a upgrade guide available explaining just this, but it won't be available until GA.Sencha Inc.
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and when this GA version available ? coz I need to upgrade my ST 1.1 MVC app too
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Sometime in the new year.Sencha Inc.
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...of Women!!??Since I never watch TV except for the news, I am amazed to have found two terrific programs all in one evening: "Call the Midwife" and "The Bletchley Circle." Both are set in early fifties London. Ration books are still in use. Babies are delivered at home. And "Call" the midwife seems to require running to the nursing convent where they live because people have no phones. The women sleuths in "Bletchley" are in the process of regathering their experience as wartime "decoders" to solve a case of serial murder.Without going into plot details, let me suggest that the overall impression (on one sitting) is that the women in both dramas are smart, resourceful, energetic and terrific. Naturally there are overtones of male chauvinism which hardly deters them--they smile indulgently. Since there are few expectations by their betters that they are as smart, resourceful, etc., as they actually are, they are free to act without fear of failing, achieving, etc., or having a graduate education.Since these are current 2011-12-13 productions, I am impressed that the filmmakers are conceptually and dramatically able to imagine liberated women before there were any--officially! Sunday evenings on PBS.
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Ms. S. --Which station is the Bletchley program on?What a fascinating outfit Bletchley Hall was! Historians have realized it only recently, but the women "decoders" were actually founding the science of programming electronic computers -- theirs, "the Enigma", was just about the first electronic computer and the programming had to be invented from scratch. They were treated like clerks at the time, however. Besides the great Alan Turing who invented the thing, others who worked there on decoding included some apparently ordinary railroad employees whose job it had been to plan the switching of railroad tracks which allows trains change course == dynamic switching structures which are analogous to the on-off operations of computers. I read recently that at the end of the war there were 10,000 people working for the decoding enterprise (at several campuses by then), and not one of them ever broke their pledge not to talk about what they were up to. The Germans never had a clue that the English were reading their secret messages "as if they were the daily newspaper". Some say Bletchley saved the West -- the war never could have been won without it.Check it out in "Alan Turing: The Enigma" by Andrew Hodges.
We watch "Call the Midwife" regularly, and there is a lot to like. The second thing you're referencing, I believe premiered last evening, at least in Chicago. I was off puttering around with something else when it aired, but we tivo'd it and we'll get to it sometime this week. My wife was already anticipating great things.The show that comes in between those two, about a London retail emporium, hasn't hooked us. I think that PBS hopes it becomes another Downton Abbey, but we've given up on it already.
Station? PBS...Channel 13 in NYC. Re computers: One of the amusing scenes has a flashback to Blethchley where the four woman are tracking a German name. One of them, apparently with a photographic memory, quickly recites all the dates when the name has appeared in their records. She sounds like a computer, but is more attractive than one.Secrecy: yes, apparently none of these women have revealed the nature of their wartime work to anyone, including husbands...
My wife always watches; or, if needed, tapes and watches later. Call the Midwife is excellent - almost as good as Downton Abbey.
Bletchley Circle also has closed captions, which helps me get their "English," or whatever it is they're speaking..... do they all have sinus infections?
"which helps me get their English, "I've been watching PBS on Sunday evenings for so many years that I've become pretty adept at being able to understand it, but there is a Cockney fellow on Call the Midwife - the caretaker or whatever he is - whom I haven't understood yet, and we're into the second season.
At one time some of the shows shown on BBC America were preceded by a public service announcement that recommended turning on closed captioning. Seriously.
Thanks, Ms. S. I look forward to it.
The idea that at some point around 1970 women became "liberated" is an insult against my grand-mothers, grand aunts etc. who were some of the freest people I ever met.
(Sorry, Margaret. Trying again with your comment in quotations.)"Naturally there are overtones of male chauvinism which hardly deters themthey smile indulgently."(I think its funny when people who never watch TV mention that fact.)I like Call the Midwife, but I havent noticed the overtones you saw. A couple of weeks ago, e.g., when a nun and a nurse had to climb up the side of a ship to take care of a woman giving birth, her father and the seamen to whom she had been made available for sex, were cowed by the women.But I suppose its all in the interpretation.(The East End is a little too clean for the period, when bombed out buildings still abounded, but thats okay, too.)The thing I found interesting last Sunday night was the casual way the nuns (Anglicans) explained to the midwives how newborns with spina bifida were dealt with in days of yore: they were given chloral hydrate and allowed to drift away in peace.
I increasingly have to turn on the subtitles when I watch a British show or movie if characters are not speaking with a "received" accent.
One of the recurring themes of "Call the Midwife" is that these East End residents would never be receiving the standard of care exemplified by these trained nurses were it not for the national health service, which I think was brand-new during the period in which the show takes place. Thus we see a government program improving the lot of the poor and empowering women, all at the same time. No wonder conservatives want to cut PBS funding :-)
Best programme on TV right now, followed closely by "As Time Goes By" also shown on PBS.
My first encounter with sub-titles for Brits was "Prime Suspect." Helen Mirren was perfectly understandable. Her male colleagues were not. Someone has told me several were from the north of England. I gave up. Then one Christmas, our son gave us the complete DVDs, which had sub-titles. Even some years after it first appeared, "Prime Suspect" remained an engrossing show.Another curiosity: "Life on Mars," a Brit detective show didn't seem to have the non-standard English problem...All professional actors???
Prime Suspect is the very best thing I've ever seen from that entire BBC / PBS franchise. I wish Helen Mirren would do 20 or 30 more episodes.
I second that: more "Prime Suspect."But "Life on Mars" was pretty terrific, combining police story, detective work, modest romantic interest, and sci fi... But it seems to have been short-lived.


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Suppose, I have a list called employee database and the list has two columns Name and employee ID.
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Now, I create a new list called, employee registration tracker and have following field in this list; Employee ID Name DOB
Is there any way by which, while entering a new item in this new list, I just enter employee id and using some javascript, it fetches 'name' corresponding to that ID from employee database list and automatically populates the field 'Name' in this list. So this way we do not have to again enter name.
We have approx 500 team members in different teams and we need to keep track of them. I tried various ways like cascading dropdowns etc, but such a big list it does not allows. Also like I told you earlier, I need to make all this in my enterprise firewall and other restrictions where they do not allow sharepoint integration with MS access , Sharepoint developer etc and the only way I have is easy javascript in CAML.


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I am loving this peek into your design process! And at the same time as I look at your sheets feeling ever do disorganized!
As I also watched your latest video slideshow for booklet 279 (keep doing these slide shows they are great) one question kept coming to mind. I was wondering how far ahead do you prepare these designs for the booklets? The way you both spoke of the designs in the slideshow they sounded like, well, old friends!
First, I have to say, that while we have to stay organized in order to produce so many new patterns each season, the rest of my office does not look so very organized. Here is the truth. My desk, right now:
My boss kinda understands that we designers need to be a bit messy, but I am forced to clean up periodically to clear my mind (or prep for an impending visitor). Right now we are finishing up the last minute designing for Spring '09. Our sales reps are on the road with the photos in a few months, we show all at the TNNA trade show in January and all the info goes up on the web in January. Spring hits the stores, well, when ever they want it, starting in January or February. So really, we are not all that far ahead, 6 months, give or take. We are BUYING yarns for Fall 09 now though. As soon as this season is all wrapped up will be off and running with that one.
The sweaters DO feel like old friends by the time the books are in the yarn stores. We know all of their names (as odd as they may be). We've talked about them and written about them ad nauseam and yet we still love them.
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Does anyone know the average number of times a new author has to submit before acceptance?
I've been looking through this site to understand the difficulty in getting published, and what I see is lots of subjective answers, nothing very objective. Can anyone comment on that?
Here's the deal: Let's say that tomorrow morning 10,000 people wake up with the greatest idea for the novel of the century. What happens next? My understanding is that around 9,000 of them may try to write it but will give up at this stage because they know the odds are against them, and they can put their writing time to better use.
Now we're down to 1,000 people who have fully written and editted (well, according to them) manuscripts that are ready to get shipped off to a publisher/agent. A percentage of these may get read by someone at the publisher who like them enough to pass them on to someone in authority. A (small) percentage of these will warrent an offer to the author. Probably most of those will result in some type of contract, and then a number of those will be purchasable at a bookstore.
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right im fed up of all this now ive tried downloading the microsoft dx update because i keep getting the error with the graphics system thing an now the microsoft dx thing keeps saying its corrupt an ive deleted it an tried installing it again 4 times but to no joy.biggest waste of 30 quid ive never had so much trouble with a game obviously its jus ripping millions of other people off like myself.
any advice would be much appreciated as i cant download the microsoft updae because it says its corrupt.also steam isnt running when im doing this.
Are you using Firefox when downloading it?
yes mate i got firefox as my explorer i click download then save to disc an a little download box comes up then it saves to desktop an i try an install an it says it corrupt.im not the brainiest when it comes to computers but im doin all this by the book like.im dyin to play it aswell.
Hi, for some reason my 3D match engine doesnt seem to work properly, as the players are all really flat and almost horizontal. Any known solutions for this?
Here is an example of one of my 3D games:
Cheers for your help!
Could you also post the name of the file you have uploaded in this thread when you have done so please, we can then take a look
Just one slight problem... I still can't see the players' faces when I go to their profile screen. Is there anything I can do about this? (I've managed to download the patch)
Last edited by picktoir; 22-11-2008 at 21:00.
Can some body from SI please respond to my issue. I have had a personal message from neil dejyothin about him having a look at my computer through remote assistance. My Problem is:
When I load the demo after downloading the direct x thing from microsoft( link posted earlier), the game loads(slowly) and then where it usually loads in the bottom right hand corner of the screen, all that comes up is the first letter of the word "LOADING", "L". This is above the usuall ticker that goes round but this just flickers.
Note this is a problem on my fm 09 demo as I do not have the proper game yet
I have tried all the above but my system still crashes with the blue screen every time I try to run the game from the shortcut on the desktop.
I'm getting very frustrated that I still cant play the game and I can't work out why it doesn't run?
Is there anything else I can do to make this game work correctly?
think everyone is sooo ****ed off mate they should take the games back an give refund or give um back when its fixed its a joke
ive downloaded microsoft dx again and unzipped it an then jus hit the launch game button to reveal graphics system error again.so frustrated now though.
my game freezes whenever i click on preferences and comes up with the message "football manager 2009 has stopped working" then says windows will find a problem and closes the window.
someone help .
sorry if u have to repeat yourself.
I've been trying for a few hours to get this game to work and i've looked on most of the threads on here but none of them seem to work including
Windows Vista
1: Click Start
2: Click Computer
3: Right Click the local Disk that contains the FM2009 installation.
4: Select Preferences
5: Select Tools
6: Select Check Disk
7: Select Start
Ive also downloaded the latest MSXML file but still nothing. I'm getting quite annoyed now and I wish I never brought the game. I should be able to put the game into my comp and play it without any glitches especially of this magnitude.
I'm not taking my frustration out on your guys but I brought the game 3 days ago and it still doesn't work and all I want to do is play the game.
I've had the game 2 days now am still yet to play it! The whole thing is a disgrace and the game needs recalling and refunds should be made. I've tried all the sollutions and none of them work. seems like the si people were so determined to make sure people dont pirate the game they forgot about the paying customers!
I am trying to install via Steam.
I have my key already entered.
When I click to install, it gives me the following message:
"Your steam ticket has expired. Please reenter your password."
So, I do so.
When I try it again. I get this message:
"The steam servers are currently too busy to handle your request. Please try again in a few minutes."
Um...I have been trying for over and hour. Please advise.
I have had steam since september 2003, i have never experianced a problem like this before.
Posted earlier, I've been running the game since 8:30pm on release day.
I earlier downloaded the suggested update, microsoft direct X.... It's done sweet F.A... and I still have the can't load due to GFX problems.
I've been running this for 6 days AT LEAST with no problems.
hi wondering if anyone can help me. i bought the game last night and i am seriously hacked off with it!. i have tried to install it and when i get to the bit where you put the code in off the back of the manual it says on the soft anchor page i've put the wrong code in which i havent!. i've double checked and typed it in both higher case and lower case and that made no difference.i am so computer illiterate and really want to know in simple terms what to do please help
What were the results of said test? These check for system stability and will give a greater idea what exactly is causing the system errors.
I had the graphics system error. Finally got this sorted by downloading the microsoft direct x thing. Then when i tried to play the game i was getting a black screen with a flashing L. Got this sorted by downloading the patch. Now i get to my first match and the game shuts down and i get "DIRECT SOUND ERROR: NO DRIVER" This is getting ridiculous now....just problem after problem. Could someone tell me how to fix this please.
I have been playing Championship Manager/Football Manger for years now and have never had this many problems. Think this may be the last time i spen my money on the game!!
Please can someone help!!!!!
this might sound stupid but where do i install the patch to, i don't have the net on the computer my game is on
will the patch make my game faster because it takes me nearly 2 hours to go 1 week and about 20-30 mins to play 1 game, unacceptable
Hi Guys,
I had the game bought for me and loaded it all fine with no problems at all. It was playing fine as well until I got to the first match. I needed to give 2 players squad numbers and when I clicked submit numbers it does, then when I click on 'play match' it just wont do anything else. The curser turns into a football and the program won't respond!
Any idea how I can fix this, it's driving me up the wall
Thanks in advance
FM 2009 crashes with multi-coloured lines
Any fix, thanks,
Can some body from SI please respond to my issue. I have had a personal message from neil dejyothin about him having a look at my computer through remote assistance. My Problem is:
When I install the game the game loads(slowly) and then where it usually loads in the bottom right hand corner of the screen, all that comes up is the first letter of the word "LOADING", "L". This is above the usuall ticker that goes round but this just flickers.
any help would be usefull!
Thanks SI, I've finally got the game working after around a week. I hope thar windowed mode is just temporary and the main window will be sorted soon. I'm lucky though as i get a white screen with the pop saying "Football Manager is not responding" so i say to wait for a response and it seems to work... don't know why...
I hope to be using the main window and sound soon
i bought the game last night, installed using steam and played the game. but today i tried launching again and it gave me all kinds of errors. couldnt find game, couldnt locate this, whatever. i uninstalled (it took a while, cause it couldnt find the file to uninstall at first) tried installing again. mind you it took a fraction of the time this time around and it never asked me for a keycode again. but now every time i try launching it says servers busy try again in a few minutes!!!!!!!!! i downloaded both zip files fix2 and fix3 from the sega site and after unzipping i cant open those files either!!!! what can I do? i just wanna start playing. if there is a call center please provide me with a number.
this is rediculous guys, i buy a game i expect to be able to play it without having to download, install, restart, re-install 10's of "fixes" so that it will activate. the operator number is constantly ringing out and your going to have alot of unhappy customers taking your game back.
Hi there,
I've tried to reinstall the game, and install the game through both steam (which seems a pointless application by the way) and normally. The game always tells me my product key is already active. I have tried the fix listed in the solutions post, however, I do not have an 'application data file' or a 'Football manager 2009 Certificate' anywhere on my computer.
Can anyone help? Or should I just take the game back? It's all very frustrating!
I can't install the game on my macbook 2.2ghZ, 4gb ram. It freezes on "installing Football Manager uninstall.app". It never gets anywhere from there. I've tried to search the net but only a few people have this problem, and I can't find a solution. Maybe the cd is corrupted or something? I got the same problem with the demo though.
I'm going to take the game back! The si people should not be making a pofit from something that don't work. It's obvious the game is causing more grief than anything else. Seems like they have just rushed into a release date when the game was clearly not ready!
Iv'e now tested the CPU Burn-in, Video Card Stability Tester and the web page don't load for the Prime95 to test that. The results were all fine and nothing was wrong with either test.
Please can you tell me what other test I need to perform in order to get this game to run?
Hi, I use a macbook.
My FM crashes and I can't go on anymore in 24 July 2009.
Is there a solution? A patch?
Is something very bad because I can't play anymore!
It's ridicolous to pay 54euros for a INCOMPLETE GAME.
You should ashame of you.
I pretend the patch AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.
I play with this game since 1997 and never had many problems like this year. Maybe I'll never buy it next year.
right what can i do ive uninstalled the game twice an still gettin the graphics ******** again an again an sick of downloading the microsoft dx thing cause that doesnt work either what can i do to get my money back off sports interactice am sure am not the only one theres prob thousands sorry millions of others aswell.
When I put the disc in it doesn't read and when I go on My Computer it freezes and when I close it all my Desktop goes away for a while. When it comes back I cannot click on anything. What is the problem with my disc? And I use XP.
when i double click on the football manager shortcut the game wont load and i get a error box that comes up saying
"runtime error...... R6002-floating point support not loaded"
whats going on? haha
The game has succesfully been installed and my code has been accepted but when it goes to load the game up i get a message saying Football Manager 2009 has stopped working Windows will look for a solution.Iv tried uninstalling the game and trying again but it just does the same everytime.Does anybody have any ideas to what i can do to solve this problem?
i have downloaded the direct x fix and still the same problem. Failed to set up graphics system.
Any ideas what to do next?
Everyone who is struggling with issues starting up the game, three very important questons:
1- Have you installed the 9.10 patch?
2- What graphics card are you running on your system (Can be found via your Dxdiag - see known issues to find out how - http://community.sigames.com/showthread.php?t=64821)
3- Have you updated your graphics card (Again see same thread to find out how to do this)
Let me know, thanks.
My steps: After inserting the disk:
I choose Internet installation, Advanced and then it said
Disk Space available:
Required: 1, 426, 389, 233
Available: 96, 162, 406, 400
I press install and then get 'Please wait, Football Manager 2009 is being configured for your system. This may take a moment.'
Then I get: 'The installation of Football Manager 2009 is finished, but some errors occured during the install. Please see the installation log in for details.'
I press done and nothing comes up on the desktop and little in the programs. I have installed and reinstalled several times and only once has it offered me the scope to put in the activation code.
I have had the opportunity to put in the product code but no joy.
I am on Windows Vista, can you please help? I'd really appreciate it.
Many thanks,
I registered the game fine and everything, but at the end of the installation it came up with "an error has occured in the installation process please check install log" etc.
Although after this the game started up fine and played for 2 hours with no problem, but once i exit the game and try and click on the thumbnail again it just shortcuts to the sportsinteractive/football manager2009/games folder. and i click on the saved game it just asks what programe i want to run it with and FM isnt there and i have to reinstal the whole game just to play it again.
The error i found in the install log was:
Custom Action: com.sigames.InstallAnywhere.WindowsGameExplorer
Status: ERROR
Additional Notes: ERROR - class com.sigames.InstallAnywhere.WindowsGameExplorer NonfatalInstallException AddGameExplorerTasks() failed: Failed to retrieve GUID for application
please help! :confused:
p.s. im running in on a vista laptop no older than 5 months
Also tried there installing the patch but 'error reading file 26' came up
Just like the other guy, my game crashes each time I reach a certain date.
In my case it's 25 July 2009.
Please could I have some assistance.
basically i cant download the patch 9.1 or whatever it is
when i installed football manager, i never had any of this steam thing. so now i cant have it updated automatically by steam and i cant download the patch from a site
what do i do?????
i have tried but when it completes download
it says error when i click run or open folder
I finally activated keycode successfully via fixv3 yet when launching game i still get Trial Period Expired box, i'm tearing my hair out in frustration.;(
I bought the game from steam and everytime i put theactivation key in it says activated, i then click launch but everytime i get asked for the activation key again
So, here we go. Had the game since release. Downloaded the demo on the day of release. Total time playing both games = 0 seconds. I have had so many problems with getting this started. So I have now run a total PC Recovery and installing updates and hoping that this will finally fix all the problems I have had.
If not, I think I will be returning the game to Sega. Countless PM's to members of SI and no luck no matter what I have tried. I know my laptop is good enough for the game. I will know in roughly an hour if two weeks of trying has been a total waste of time.
Sorry if I am chasing a bit quick but can anybody help?
I am having the problem with: XML parsing error
I have attempted the solutions but they're not working coz when i go into the properties of the shotcut it shows this.
"C:\Program Files\Steam\steam.exe" -applaunch 10540
I try putting in the one you say to but it says its invalid
Is there anything else that i can do to fix the problem: XML parsing error.
Can you help please i desperately want to play the game!!!!!
Last edited by Frazori; 23-11-2008 at 20:40.
I don't know what else to try... I've seem to of done everything that is mentioned in this forum but it still doesn't work.
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE HELP I want to play the game.
Hi all, just a quick question...
I've got a MacBook running a GMA950 and Tiger (10.4.11). Does the new 9.1.1 patch make the 3D match engine work for my specifications or just the 2D engine?
hey all, i just downloaded the 9.1.1 patch on my mac but its still freezing at the start of my first match, anyone be able to help at all? please! i feel like ive tried everything
You are receiving the error: This application has failed to start because saAuditMD.dll was not found. Re-installing the application may fix this problem
this keeps coming up everytime i try to launch the game i have downloaded the zip file but i cant open it just keep getting the message i cnat open this file as access is denied any help would be appreciated i have had the game for over a week and still cant play it shocking from si and i have reported it to the bbc watchdog programme see if they can get any answers about all the problems!!!!
Me to, put my disc in and nothing, I have two different drives and it works in niether......I'm getting very p****d with it.
Oli G
Hi, I hope somebody can help...
I had football manager 2009 up and running fine played it for 6 hours then left for some essential snacks, but when I returned it wouldn't start up again! The pop-up window read:-
fm.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close. we are sorry for the inconvenience
I've tried everything for the last 5 hours and have trawled the forums for assistance but nothing works (eg.screen resolution) as my problem code is different to all the similar posts i have seen on all the forums:-
AppName:fm.exe AppVer:126.96.36.19944 ModName: fm.exe ModVer: 220.127.116.1144 Offset:00bff79b
Please can someone help, this is driving me crazy and i'm absolutely gutted!
My game is only available in the 2d version of the match engine....does that mean by graphics card isn`t of the required quality ?
Last edited by kanejoe; 24-11-2008 at 10:01.
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I'm getting XML parsing errors when I start up and the game crashes when I load my game.
I tried changing the target field of the shortcut but I get the "is not valid" message when I try to apply the changes.
Any other suggestions? Uninstalling did not work.
Apologies if this has already been covered but there are 26 pages in this thread and i don't have the time to go through them.
I have managed to install the game without any problem and patched it, again without any trouble. However, when i played the game for the first time i got as far as my first friendly match and once into the 3D view the screen went very odd with a strange coloured area partially covering the match whilst it was playing. I tried to get out of it by pushing ctrl, alt and del but to no avail and the computer locked up giving me a serious error message when i reset it. Going back in it played that first game ok but it seemed to slow down a few times but the match played to completion. I then went on to play my 2nd friendly which was again OK aside from the slight slowing down. Playing the 3rd friendly and again i got the horrible coloured area covering part of the match screen and i noticed that there was some stretched faces as part of the playing area. This time i allowed the match to continue and see what happened. There appeard to be clickable areas underneath the colour but nothing happened when i clicked. Once half time arrived the coloured area vanished and the game appeared to return to normal. I haven't played the game again since for fear of doing some sort of damage to my computer. Since this happened my full squad has now appeared on the main squad page and i can get them to split in 1st team, reserves and under 18s. Don't know if this is part of the same fault but this wasn't the case until the above fault occurred.
The pc is only around 6 months old and running XP with 2Gb of RAM. The video card is an Nvidia 8500 GT with 500Mb of video RAM.
I've been playing these games for years and never had a problem with them. Any help would be really appreciated.
I am getting a message saying some errors occured during install. Below is my install log for the game, can you help?
Installation: Successfulwith errors.
10 Successes
1 Warnings
1 NonFatalErrors
0 FatalErrors
Action Notes:
Install Log Detail:
Execute Script/Batch file: Steam InternetCheck.exe
Status: SUCCESSFUL
Get Registry Entry: Key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Valve\Steam
Value Name: InternetConnectivity
Status: SUCCESSFUL
Check Disk Space: C:\Program Files\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2009
Status: SUCCESSFUL
Additional Notes: NOTE - Required Disk Space: 223,090,694; Free Disk Space: 23,992,156,160
Install Action: Jump To: Next Steam Label -- Prev: NO JUMP
Status: SUCCESSFUL
Install Directory: C:\Program Files\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2009\
Status: SUCCESSFUL
Additional Notes: NOTE - Directory already existed
Get Registry Entry: Key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Valve\Steam\
Value Name: InstallPath
Status: WARNING
Additional Notes: WARNING - Win32Exception
Execute Script/Batch file: Install Steam
Status: SUCCESSFUL
Execute Command: "$IA_STEAM_INSTALLPATH$\steam.exe" -install $INSTALLER_LAUNCH_DIR$\..\..\..\..\thirdparty\stea m\fm2009\
Status: SUCCESSFUL
Install File: C:\Program Files\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2009\saAuditMD.dll
Status: SUCCESSFUL
Execute Uninstaller: $USER_INSTALL_DIR$$/$Uninstall $PRODUCT_NAME
Status: ERROR
Additional Notes: ERROR - No uninstaller existed in the directory
Hi, i have a problem with my computer and it need to be formetted. But if i format the computer before i uninstall FM(actually i cant uninstall it because JAVA problem) i lost my 1 of my 5 different computer install chance, so how can i deactivate my FM09?
I read from somewhere that we can manually deactivate with a systme but how? I want your help..
Hello, I had this problem during my game, it seems i'm not the only one and I quote this message from another fellow player:
"Originally Posted by simonbyrneno.4
the game loads perfectly and everything is fine until it comes to my first match, and as soon as i try to make a substitution the game crashes and a message comes up saying that a file has been created in the fm09 folder. this folder is a crash dumps folder and the files that are in there all read "FM 2009 v184.108.40.206064". after that comes up, the game automatically shut it's self down."
Do you have any solution for my problem, it also happened to me in the FM2008.
What is happening when the game fails to start?
Vista will not create a desktop shortcut, the game will be present in the Games explorer.
It may be a good idea to do a full uninstall and remove any extra files left behind but I will take you through that after you answer the question.
Hi, i have tried downloading the patch for FM2009 from the links provided on fm.com, the file downloads but as soon as it finishes a window appears entitled Internet Explorer saying it blocked the download because it didn't have a valid digital security key. Is this simply problem with my security settings or can someone tell what the problem is please. On the fm.com FAQ section there is solution to this problem for Vista but I am running on XP (laptop) and am not really a "genius" when it comes to computers so dont really want to risk trying it when it is written for Vista.
Last edited by ulsterman_RFC; 24-11-2008 at 13:26. Reason: Forgot system info
ermm i got a problem here,last few days i been playing the game with no problem but today when i wanted to start the game it say
"Facegens disabled because it failed to initialize,pls check log file for details".So if i didnt upgrade my graphics card or download the patch i shouldnt be able to play the game in the first place right?
Since my xml parsing error just isnt going away can you help me do a complete uninstall?
I've uninstalled and removed any extra SI files in Application Data, Program Files, and My Documents(both admin and user) but the problem still comes up after reinstallation.
I'm obviously missing some files to manually delete. Can you help me out please?
Is there any other reason why the xml parsing error would continue to show even after a full uninstallation? Also would I be able to use my old save game if I get the game to work again?
Thanks in advance.
Last edited by kps88; 24-11-2008 at 13:18.
Hi Steve Cox, I don't understand why you've been unable to respond to my post,yet you have responded to posts after mine? I really would appreciate assistance. My problem is:
fm.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close. we are sorry for the inconvenience
AppName:fm.exe AppVer:220.127.116.1144 ModName: fm.exe ModVer: 22.214.171.12444 Offset:00bff79b
many thanks
now i redownload the patch and when i updating it say Error reading file block 138


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I installed SSL (stupidly) to encrypt the data being sent, the only trouble was my subdomain was redirecting to my main. I changed my default virtual host back to the original settings and also ran
a2dismod ssl. Now when ever I type in www.domain.com it redirects to https://www.domain.com and then says SSL Connection Error.
I'm hoping to either get SSL working on the main+sub or just remove completely. Has anyone got any idea why it's redirecting to Https?
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DocumentRoot /var/www/folder
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#SSLCertificationKeyFile /etc/apache2/ssl/apache.key
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"It just gives me a little piece of home," said the Oak Lawn resident with ovarian cancer, smothering Sadie with kisses. The canine reciprocated, unperturbed by the oxygen tube attached to her master. "It's just wonderful to have someone to hug . and help me deal with things."
The new policy was approved in December after three years of study and debate about cleanliness, cost and logistics. Ultimately, Rush decided that the emotional charge a patient gets from time with his or her own pet outweighed the risks. So officials moved forward, joining about a dozen other hospitals nationwide with similar regulations, they said.
After numerous requests, Rush launched a task force to study the pet policy in 2010. Slesinski-Evans was the first to take advantage of the change, and Sadie became the pioneer pooch, arriving fresh from the groomer with a Valentine's Day kerchief.
At the outset, Diane Gallagher, Rush's associate vice president of nursing operations and an unabashed advocate, told her task force colleagues: "For those of you who are dog lovers, this will be a piece of cake. The rest of you will just have to trust me."
In the past, health care professionals usually had no choice but to deny a plea from a patient to nuzzle a beloved pet. Sometimes, clinicians would look the other way while a relative would sneak Fido or Snowball up a back elevator — usually at night or on the weekend. A few area hospitals allow visits from pets in the lobby or restricted areas, but until now, none formally allowed them into patient rooms.
Once, the staff at Rush went to elaborate lengths to bring a patient's dog to the roof, hoping to give the owner one last look from his bedside — only to have the patient die a day before the plan could be executed, officials said.
"We all felt a great deal of sadness," Gallagher said. "We want to have a safe environment, but we also want to make sure patients get the support they need."
Task force members had to address a wide range of scenarios that could interfere with patient care or potentially damage the hospital's reputation.
What if someone brings a boa constrictor or a Bengal tiger? What if a roommate objects? And, what if there's an accident?
The answers can all be found on the 21-item checklist: Only dogs and cats are allowed. Everyone must consent to the visit, including the attending physician. And any soiling will be disposed of and cleaned up by the pet handler, followed by environmental services sanitizing the area.
Other requirements include proof of rabies vaccination, no interaction with other patients and a bath and brushing for the animal before the visit.
Gallagher is old enough to remember other once-sacred hospital rules that have fallen by the wayside, such as not allowing fathers in delivery rooms or visiting hours that were strictly enforced.
"All those changes happened . and the sky didn't fall," she said, adding that she expects the same positive outcomes with four-footed visitors.
However, the skeptics needed more. So the task force reached out to large institutions that already had a successful pet visitation program — such as the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics and the University of Maryland Medical Center.
At Iowa, the "Furry Friends" program has been in place since 2000 without a single incident, according to Jean Reed, director of volunteer services.
"It's a win-win all around — not just for the patient, but for the staff and the family, who frequently feel powerless," Reed said.
No one had to convince Slesinski-Evans, an assistant payroll supervisor at Tootsie Roll Industries. She was diagnosed in 2010 and has been in and out of Rush, including her current hospitalization for pain management, which began Jan. 28.
When a nurse noticed photos of Slesinski-Evans' three dogs, she informed the patient of the new pet policy. Less than 48 hours later, in strolled Sadie, blithely unaware of her trailblazer status.
"Dogs are just like people," Slesinski-Evans. "They have thoughts, feelings, they love to be cuddled. You can get mad at them and yell at them and still, their love is constant."
The mother of three and grandmother of four has made provisions in her will for the care of Sadie and her other two pets, a collie and an Australian sheepdog.
When it was all over, the patient said she felt "great joy" — as did Gallagher.
"We went through multiple revisions, but it was worth every minute. What we wanted was a Kodak moment."
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Sulfasalazine is a medicine formed from salicylic acid (the active ingredient in aspirin) and an antibiotic, sulfapyridine. It is given by mouth (orally) and is available in time-release tablets.
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Why It Is Used
Sulfasalazine is used for early, milder cases of rheumatoid arthritis. It may be used with other medicines such as nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) or with disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs) for more active rheumatoid arthritis.
People who have sulfa or salicylate allergies should not use this medicine.
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Studies show that sulfasalazine is effective in relieving the symptoms and slowing the progression of rheumatoid arthritis. It may take up to 3 months to notice an improvement.1
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25 Nov 2012 3:28 AM #1
Can not create app on Mac OSX 10.7.5
I have followed the installation guide to install and am getting stuck on the errors I see in the command line.
If I navigate to the SDK and just type sencha I get -
[WARN] The current working directory (/Applications/MAMP/htdocs/sencha-touch-2.1.0-gpl/sdk) is not a recognized Sencha SDK or application folder. Running in backwards compatible mode.
Sencha Command v2.0.0 Beta 3
Copyright (c) 2012 Sencha Inc.
usage: sencha COMMAND [ARGS]
The available commands are:
build build a JSB project
create bootstrapdata generate boostrap data
create jsb generate a minimal JSB project for an app
create locale generate a template locale file from source
create manifest generate classes manifest
package package your Touch web app into a native bundle
slice theme slice a custom theme's images for IE
I saw on a thread that if you add a hidden file called .senchasdk into the sdk then that will help.
But than I get this error -
throw e; // process.nextTick error, or 'error' event on first tick
Error: Cannot find module '/Applications/MAMP/htdocs/sencha-touch-2.1.0-gpl/sdk/command/sencha.js'
at Function._resolveFilename (module.js:332:11)
at Function._load (module.js:279:25)
at Array.0 (module.js:479:10)
at EventEmitter._tickCallback (node.js:19
This has me confused! There is no path sdk/command but there is sdk/cmd
If I try sencha generate app that has the same error
I have no idea how to progress. I have sencha cmd 3.0 installed but any sencha commands I do throws error.
Do I have to change the SDK path in /etc/paths/ ??
26 Nov 2012 11:36 AM #2
Fixed Issue
I fixed the issue with the following methods
1) I enabled hidden files on mac
2) I went to my username directory and found my .bash_profile
3) I noticed my links were export path as below
PATH=/Users/simonsmith/bin/Sencha/Command/22.214.171.124:$PATHexport SENCHA_CMD_3_0_0="/Users/simonsmith/bin/Sencha/Command/220.127.116.11"
There was no folder PATH so I deleted the bash_profile file. (Might want to check what else is there before you attempt it)
I then deleted all files in my htdocs files and uninstalled everything so starting fresh
4) I created a folder called Sencha in my htdocs then created a folder under it called projects. I then took the sencha sdk zip file and unzipped in the Sencha folder and re-named it sdk
I then installed Sencha Command v3
I noticed the bash_profile has the folder path with 'cmd' in the PATH now and not 'command' as before.
Then it works from here on in as expected
The bash_profile PATH was the issue.
29 Nov 2012 3:47 PM #3
I had the same problem. I fixed installing Sencha CMD instead of Sencha SDK Tools.
The first time I installed the SDK Tools following this suggestion in the getting started guide:
"First, you'll need to download the free Sencha Touch 2 SDK and SDK Tools from the Sencha website"
16 Mar 2013 7:10 PM #4
Sencha Cmd ver 22.214.171.124 OSX $PATH install issue
FYI all, I tried to install the latest Sencha Cmd 126.96.36.199 version, and found that the Mac OSX installer on OSX 10.7.5 did not correctly update the $PATH. When I dug a little further, I found that my ~/.bash_profile and ~/.profile had the correct PATH 'Export' statements, but it wasn't until I also put the newer Sencha Cmd path into my ~/.bashrc file, and reloaded the bash terminal that using Sencha Cmd became possible.
In researching this on StackOverflow, I reference this great post on the in's & out's of Mac OSX 10.7.x $PATH parsing which helped clarify the issue...
I think Sencha need to re-test and clean up their Mac OSX installers in general, especially if you are paying for Sencha Complete, and make its a seamless one-click install that detects dependencies and corrects these kinds of issues.


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In a passenger car with 3 mirrors (rear-view and 2 side mirrors), how do you set your side mirrors so as to see as much as possible?
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The Click & Clack method:
Sitting in the driver's seat (left or right-hand drive vehicle):
The difference? In my experience, most people seem to have their mirrors set narrowly (left) which has much overlap (blue area), what you get is more information per sq. in. of mirror (right):
Image taken from a good article on the subject.
It seems that a lot of driver education classes promote what I would call is the improper, narrow-view method. Perhaps for newer drivers it is easier for them to understand where things are in the mirror if they have their own vehicle visible in the mirror as a reference. I can't see how that outweighs the clear benefits of the wide-view.
Using the wide-view method, you all but eliminate blind spots. The only things that can fit in your blind spot are small trolls that are attached to your rear quarters. You do not need to turn your head as far to check your sides. If you need to reverse into a tight spot, you simply lean toward the needed side to see more relevant visuals for backing in.
For some, this is controversial. I can't see why. You decrease the amount of visual overlap, and increase the amount seen through the mirrors. That is, you only decrease the size of your blind spots (greatly). There is no drawback other than having to get used to the new positions, which is temporary.
Here's another good article.
None specific to this method, really. But keep in mind that this optimizes the view for the lanes adjacent to yours. Merging lanes coming in at an angle, or the 2 lanes over, visibility will be better, but you still need to shoulder-check those. Also, no guarantee that it works on all vehicle shapes and sizes.
When you set your mirrors with the Click & Clack method, if you find the (electric) mirrors won't adjust out far enough, try moving the mirror up or down and then try to go further out. Failing that, I wouldn't be afraid to gently push on the mirror if the electric motor won't adjust it quite as far as you need. As Nick mentioned, manufacturers don't quite get the Click & Clack method, so sometimes the mirrors won't adjust out far enough without a little trickery.


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Why is writing a program in text files or via the terminal a better option (as I read) than using IDE(s) like Visual Studio on Windows? Do the features an IDE provides exist there (eg. showing compilation errors) or is it a manual process?
This sort of hypothetical might do better on Programmers.SE because it's likely to be pretty one-sided here. That said, I was a .NET developer for a few years and came to depend on Visual Studio. It does a lot for you and yes, I particularly like the integrated debugger... However, I think there are a few reasons people choose Linux:
Is Ubuntu better for you? Who knows. It's a very capable and very customisable system. If you give it a chance and alter your workflow to allow it to help you, you should be able to make it stick.
I would like to add one more important reason though; Ubuntu is great for experimenting with new libraries, languages, IDEs and compilers. Everything is one apt-get away.
So you've heard about a fancy language called Haskell:
Oh, you've heard a fancy editor for Haskell:
The same with C/C++ libraries, you just
In essence, it's not about how fast you can setup your day-to-day working environment. It's also about how extremely fast you can setup an experimental environment. I believe that's what accelerates the learning experience under Linux.
Here's an opinion from a primarily Microsoft platform developer. If you're not targeting the .NET ecosystem I would argue that your best option is Ubuntu. You will have a much easier time obtaining, configuring, and using tools for almost every other platform/language if you are on Ubuntu instead of Windows.
The value of Microsoft's toolchain is that it is HIGHLY integrated. From the IDE to Source Control, Project Management, Build, Deployment, Database, Cloud Infrastructure, ad nauseum. Microsoft makes it VERY easy if you're going full-bore with their platform.
As some have mentioned, deviating from the Microsoft Way can be a pain. Using .NET for your code and Oracle for your database...d'oh that's gonna be a pain.
Want to create an .NET web application and deploy it to Amazon Web Services...not very straight forward.
But if you stay within the Microsoft Ecosystem...that baby will sing like a mocking bird for you. In the hands of a competent software developer, the Microsoft Platform is like PEDs for a talented athlete. It's not going to enable an amateur programmer to create the next Facebook. But it will give an edge to a talented developer who understands how the pieces fit together.
The argument for the free (as in beer) cost of getting started with Ubuntu is out the door, there are a number of programs Microsoft offers that let you get started with their tools for free. Including Bizspark which gives your startup company 3 years of licenses (including production use licenses of their tools). And Dream spark which gives it to students for free.
That being said, if you want to explore and learn new languages and platforms, you'll find better tools to get started on Ubuntu and if you're looking for work outside of the Microsoft ecosystem, you're going to need to be familiar with Ubuntu.
I use both tools, IDEs and text-editors with command-line interface (CLI), to write programs.
What Linux offers is a useful CLI and this from the get-go. If you don't need a the CLI and you are just using an IDE there isn't much of a difference anymore, IMHO.
Text editors and CLI tools
I often do my prototyping with text-based tools. Later, when there are more files to manage, I value the refactoring tools an IDE is offering me.
I'll throw my answer into the ring (though I believe these all are good ones too).
The most basic answer you can get is that it's all about philosophy.
In the Microsoft world, it's a bit religious - You have the gods on Mt. Redmond who must be petitioned if you want anything implemented. Sometimes they will listen, other times your sacrifices and pleas will fall on deaf ears. Perhaps they were out hunting. Microsoft controls the entire ecosystem - they own the OS, they own the IDE, and they couple them together in ways that are probably inappropriate to talk about on a SE network. Even within the IDE pieces are tightly coupled - it may be called integrated but I think coupled is more accurate. If you would like to change things up a bit, Gates forbid that you would want to alter something in a way that either the designers of Windows or Visual Studio did not expressly allow. And then throw in technologies like IE, and IIS, Microsoft servers, and MS SQL Server, and Office... and everything is a nice big happy family. But if you should want to leave part of the family behind? shudder!
On the other hand, you have Linux, which inherits from the Unix philosophy that each piece should be responsible for its own small sphere of responsibility. It should do one thing, and do it well. And preferably, communication should happen by way of strings of text. As others have pointed out,
Not only is it easy to combine them, but it's also very easy to split them apart - if I decide that I no longer need to edit a stream, but I want to filter the results, rather than passing my text to
Now, this is the fundamental philosophy behind development in a Linux environment - so even if you go up from there, many tools provide similar sorts of interfaces. They allow you to decompose them into parts, or interface with them through the command line or ports or HTTP.
And even if that were not the case, you also have open source software. Most (if not all) software on the Linux platform is open source. So if you don't like how it's written you are completely, totally, absolutely able to change the software yourself. This is incredibly empowering. Can't break apart that IDE the way you want to? Either make the changes and submit them back upstream, or fork the project. Not sure why something behaves the way it does? Use the source, Luke! Need to be able to automate something through the command line? Hack on the project and stick your changes in. Come across a bug, or a security issue? Hey guess what - you can fix that yourself, you don't have to wait for SP3.432vb89234.startdate1eQ to come out.
You can combine the tools that you want and you need. And if there's something that is in your way, you are 100% able to get that changed. Even if you don't have the capability, you could certainly pay someone to develop that change - or even suggest it to someone else who has the know-how.
The reason this is better for programming is because when you come across friction, you can eliminate it from your workflow. Because development is hard there are a lot of things that you have to think about to be a successful programmer, and the more you have to think about the harder it is to think about other things.
Eliminating friction is key.
So if the Microsoft
But if you don't fit the Microsoft Mold(tm), patent pending, then you will run into friction. Development will be a pain. Each time you wish you could do something, but can't, that will drain precious cognitive resources. And if that's the case, then a Linux development environment is probably for you.
I'd like to provide my more general thoughts to the question:
"Why is Linux a better environment for programming?"
I think the most important reason why to develop on Linux is because you have full insight into most software internals. You are able to learn how things actually work if you are interested. That allows you to learn and adapt good or bad practices by seeing them in action. This allows more diversity for your ideas.
Why Linux is better for programming
Besides Visual Studio and Xcode, which serve their specific purposes, most popular IDEs are multiplatform. It might seem like there are gazillion IDEs for dozens of languages, but in the end most of them are based on either Eclipse, IntelliJ IDEA or NetBeans. What they have in common is that they are all Java-based. Java works more efficiently on Linux, than on any other OS on the same hardware. In fact, Java is as much as 20% faster on Linux, than on OS X on same hardware. Many of these IDEs are ready to install with one click in Ubuntu Software Center.
GCC has very much become industry standard. Beyond any doubt its primary platform is Linux, where it's best supported. And it's free and royalty-free.
Additional tools
Linux provides unique tools, not available on other platforms, like for example Valgrind (a tool for memory debugging, memory leak detection, and profiling). Linux also comes with debugging tools such as strace and ltrace, which can be used to debug even production code (i.e. not compiled with debugging symbols). Equivalent tools for Windows are either non-existent or very expensive and do not provide the same functionality.
Ease of installing OSS
Ubuntu has an excellent package manager. In most cases installing software is just
On the other hand, in Windows you have to manually download and install packages, and if they require some other packages, you have to do that manually too. There is no system wide updating either, each software package either implements its own annoying updater or does not update at all.
Production machines are very likely to be Linux
If you doing any kind of programming for back-end, for web, for cloud, etc. it's very likely that your target machines are Linux. There are lot less nasty surprises when you're developing on same kind of OS as your target machine.
Of course, you might be developing a desktop application for Windows, but nowadays this is kind of a niche job market for programmers.
It's not, I can argue that it's quite the opposite. Generally though, people tend to prefer tools which they're better at. The type of tools you use might benefit the ease of writing programs. So for example, I can write Java programs just fine with vim but it's really counter productive as opposed to a full fledged IDE like Eclipse or IntelliJ. Jon Skeet gave a great answer to the question Why use an IDE.
Back to your original question, the only thing Linux is better at is C programming. Everything else you can do on Linux you can also do on Windows and vice-versa (programming wise). C programming is better on Linux for historical reasons, it offers a great set of tools (which you can get on Windows BTW but it's much easier to set up Linux for it). Likewise, if you're writing C# and like .NET then Windows is a better choice for obvious reasons. Everything else is completely subjective and you'll hear pros and cons of both sides.
What tools (text editor or IDE) you use for programming is a matter of choice. Generally speaking you can say: Beginners and very small projects tend to use better text editors, like sublime text or a modified version of gedit. Just because you learn more when using plain text editors. IDEs can screw up your learning process by automating things (like Visual Studio does ;) ).
When it comes to professionals, messing with lots of tools and languages, IDEs come in handy, because they can do so much more for you, if you let them. There are many IDEs to choose from, depending on the language you want to program in. There are better ones and also less convenient ones.
My personal experience is, that an Ubuntu OS is by far faster and easier to setup for development than Windows. I presume, this is because most of the tools and programs I use are build on Linux and because I do not have to search the internet for download links to my favorite programs. It is just an 'apt-get install program1 program2 program3' away. In comparison: I need 3 working days to install and configure a fresh Windows install with everything I need for programming (company, not private, that would be faster), but it is just one day for the same task in Ubuntu.
My experience is, that programmers, who switch to Linux for programming have (most of the time) a deeper understanding of technical contexts and how basics work. Mac and Windows users tend not to know why something works this way or why it does not. I am not sure if you can actually learn something from working with Linux or if just that those williong to learn switch to Linux.
Hope my "blafasel" helps a bit...
I would argue that a Linux distribution is an IDE.
For a start, Unix was designed from the outset to be a development environment. It was written by programmers for programmers. Most Unixes, and Linux, still ship with development tools in their default configuration. And missing parts are only an
An IDE is more integrated, in the sense that IDEs are more tightly coupled than using GCC, Git and Vi (for example). Tight coupling allows things like `intellisense' to work better. But on the other hand, loose coupling has many advantages (e.g. flexibility, interchangeability, lack of lock-in).
And advances in compiler design (compilers with easily separable front-ends such as LLVM) might eventually mean better support for features such as syntax error highlighting even in loosely coupled environments.
On the matter of philosophy: Ubuntu/Linux permits the computer programmer direct access to the internals and hardware, whereas Windows is a sort of gatekeeper. This is an important philosophical issue when it comes to programming. So, philosophically speaking, this feature being an advantage will depend upon whether the user is sufficiently knowledgeable or technically aware of the importance of it.
On the matter of programming: The entire system architecture of Ubuntu/Linux is founded upon the Unix tradition of small, simple programs doing one thing, and then piping them together to do more complex things. For a programmer this architecture is incredibly powerful, and, in my view, is the reason why Unix will prevail in the long run against every other software architecture on every platform. One of the few places where Unix is not currently dominant is the desktop, but that will change over time. Distributions like Ubuntu are helping to see this evolution through.
I don't dispute, however, that there are some very good programming environments on Windows. For programming within a corporate environment, these often dominate.
Speed is the sort answer.
I find that with an graphical IDE like Visual Studio or QtCreator that I use the mouse too much when I should be using short cuts. Each time you switch context you are having to pause your brain, focus on your target and wait for the action. Whereas pressing F5 is infinitely quicker.
Now if you are using vim, Emacs or something else that doesn't have nice looking buttons you'll be focused on the key presses, you have one method and become faster because its routine.
The errors are presented in a more verbose way with a command line interface, which I prefer, and it also gives feedback during compilation. One thing I hate about Visual Studio is the default is a little icon indicating its doing a compile, then you get an error list out.
With a narrow view you'll keep to the 80 column width which helps readability, I've seen code that spans out to the 200 column width. With code fitting to 80 columns you can have 4/5 windows open at a time.
With a CLI editor you can code remotely, no need for a slow (compared to text) RDP session to your Visual Studio. You could code over a GSM link.
Visual form development kind of sucks. One advantage you might put on a GUI IDE is that you can draw your screens and its quicker. However in my experience its fine for a prototype but often you get better results with doing it manually in code. The VS2012 Code Analyser this morning just warned me about 200+ problems with code that was auto-generated by Visual Studio?!?!?
I think your real question might be, "Are there any Visual Studio alternatives that will run on Ubuntu, since it won't?"
It's workable, but you'll hate it if you're used to VS and all the features.
There is NO advantage to using a text editor. Remember that nice thing called Intellisense? Not happening (but MonoDevelop has something like it). Hope this helps.
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