[Dorset] New Venue for Next Meeting Chosen.

2018-09-13 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi, The next meeting with be at a new venue to try it out. To help fund it, we're asking for a contribution of £1 from each of those attending a meeting. The Bournemouth Electric (Sports and Social Club) ‘...was founded in 1935 as a social club for employees of the Electricity Board’. http://dor

Re: [Dorset] Visual basic on Linux

2018-09-13 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Tim, > > > For his school computing course, my son has been told he needs to > > > download Visual Studio 2017 onto a Windows PC, to write some > > > simple programs in vb.net. We don't have any Windows machines It used to be Linux users were the odd ones out and everyone else had a Windows PC

Re: [Dorset] dorset Digest, Vol 745, Issue 2

2018-09-13 Thread Graeme Gemmill
On 13/09/18 13:00, dorset-requ...@mailman.lug.org.uk wrote: Visual basic on Linux I have to run occasional Windows apps on this PC, and doubled the RAM to 16GB (not an expensive option) so that I could allocate a full 4GB in VBox to the Windows 7 system. Perhaps a similar move would help the

Re: [Dorset] Visual basic on Linux

2018-09-13 Thread PeterMerchant via dorset
On 13/09/18 11:16, Terry Coles wrote: I only need it to do updates on my Garmin Satnav and view Solar PV generation from my eLink Energy Monitor, but unfortunately those (somewhat) niche industries don't appear to know about OSs other than Windows and Mac (even though their devices are almost ce

Re: [Dorset] Visual basic on Linux

2018-09-13 Thread John Carlyle-Clarke
I used to run a Windows 10 VM on KVM/Qemu on a Linux desktop with a fairly slow CPU (dual core i5, but an old one) and it was actually very fast and usable, although I never really fired up anything like Visual Studio since that's a huge beast anyway. As always fast disk and plenty of RAM helps a l

Re: [Dorset] Visual basic on Linux

2018-09-13 Thread Terry Coles
On Thursday, 13 September 2018 09:45:10 BST t...@ls83.eclipse.co.uk wrote: > Well, that's a real revelation. Looking at the service host processes > under the Windows task manager, there are a bunch of update processes. > After 15 minutes or so these are done and the machine becomes usable - > than

Re: [Dorset] Visual basic on Linux

2018-09-13 Thread tda
Hi Terry On 13/09/18 07:43, Terry Coles wrote: On Wednesday, 12 September 2018 21:43:45 BST t...@ls83.eclipse.co.uk wrote: For his school computing course, my son has been told he needs to download Visual Studio 2017 onto a Windows PC, to write some simple programs in vb.net. We don't have any

Re: [Dorset] Visual basic on Linux

2018-09-13 Thread tda
Hi Patrick On 13/09/18 00:11, Patrick Wigmore wrote: Hi Tim, ...my son has been told he needs to download Visual Studio 2017 onto a Windows PC... Are there any options other than spending several hundred pounds on a new PC to run this bloatware for compiling programs. MonoDevelop is proba

Re: [Dorset] Visual basic on Linux

2018-09-13 Thread PeterMerchant via dorset
On 13/09/18 01:23, Peter Washington wrote: I would suggest using either Visual Basic Express 2015, or the same for 2017, if it exists, it's simpler and less bloated. There may be way to stop Windows trying to check for updates every time, or you could just wait for the first update check to fini