True
I set up MAMP and LAMP and each only took me like 10 minutes to set up, more for the downloading and stuff yeah.

apt-get is fantastic.

Btw, yeah your home sounds epic (talking about the DIY stuff), I wanted to do something like that but I always run out of motivation. Maybe I'll take some ideas from you and get it done.

But what do think? Python or C for the controls? I know both, but I am better at the latter.
(Archeleus hates cabbage, Tue 29 Jun 2010, 10:32, 1 reply)

Either....or....
I use python simply because I don't have to compile it every time I make a change - which is frequently, and I can just open the file over SSH and change it without a lot of grief.

Although C would most likely be fine as well - I hear socket programming is a nightmare though, and in Python that's all done for you.

I did initially write the touch screen interface in C#, but have since rewritten it using GTK+ as I came home one night to see someone remotely controlling the machine! (It was the only Windows box on the network, and to be honest, after so many years of not having to worry about virus protection etc... I just got lazy. Rather than go back to that nightmare of updating patches/virus protection/spyware etc... I figured I'd install Linux on the box and rewrite the front end. I generally wrote all the *grunt* work as webservices in PHP, so it really was just a matter of placing buttons on the screen in a different language).
(dchurch bah, Tue 29 Jun 2010, 13:40, closed)

Ah yeah security
is best with *nix systems.

Well, I have only done socket programming in Java before, but it hogs too much resources so I'll stick to C I guess. Or Python if I can get better at it.

Thanks anyway.
(Archeleus hates cabbage, Wed 30 Jun 2010, 12:03, closed)