Eclipse: new Android project. Can’t select Build Type / Target

This caused a good 30 mins head scratching. When creating a new Android project in Eclipse it is not possible to progress past the initial screen as it complains “an SDK target must be specified”.  In the window you will see “Build Target” but no box listing your installed Android Versions. The area of the [...]

yum update – TypeError: unsubscriptable object

Odd error when running yum update on my slice. This appears to be a currently outstanding bug which can be worked around by issuing a

user@computer:$ yum clean metadata

or

user@computer:$ yum clean all

The former worked fine for me. Original error shown below.

user@computer:$ yum updateSetting up Update ProcessResolving Dependencies–> Running transaction checkTraceback (most recent call last):File “/usr/bin/yum”, line [...]

Windows Vista fails to copy large files to network share

Encountered a rather odd error, two HP Vista laptops failing to copy large files to network shares, these would error out complaining about being able to access the source file on the local disk, which was a rather confusing way of reporting the error as there was no problem with the local disk.  On network [...]