MSK Software Development

I moved my development blog to schrievkrom.wordpress.com … my more private posting will stay at www.schrievkrom.de

Just for information purposes:

The stuff is still working - but with all those errors mentioned for VASmalltalk 7.5.2. I tested it here under Ubuntu 8.10/64.

My old HP OfficeJet went away - some problems with the power inside the system. Not worth to repair it and then I looked at another printer - with the following requirements:

- low power consumption
- black and color printing possibility
- fax and scan function
- network printer

And I found one: the Brother MFC 5490CN. Ubuntu 8.10 does not come with suitable drivers for that printer, but I downloaded the drivers from the Brother support internet page and after doing some work I got a working system:

printing (back&white and color), scanning (XSane) and faxing (from OpenOffice) from Linux, Windows is now possible from all locations in my network !

Now I’m using something like Wine 1.1.x and I forgot to mention some other problems I have found out with this configuration:

- when a callback or event is executed within Smalltalk (like resize) and one tries to write a string to the Transcript window within the responding method a walkback comes up telling me, that it is not allowed in this situation.

Wine 1.0 is out and the situation is here (Ubuntu 8.04-AMD64) the same as with rc1 … rc5: most of the stuff is working