So, I finally switched to Mac a month ago. I’ve had a Mac laptop since last summer and have been very pleased with the experience, so since Windows Vista has been giving me huge amounts of trouble (e.g. see my last post on getting Cygwin to work, though I won’t go into the full gamut of issues I had here) I decided to go for an Apple desktop machine too.

I’ve just managed to fix a particularly annoying issue I was having with Cygwin under Vista with UAC enabled. Essentially, when I ran the Cygwin bash shell as an Administrator I was seeing the following:

I’ve always used Google as a search engine: I can say that having tried out all its competitors it’s results are simply the most relevant.

As you may know, C# has a rather lovely little feature whereby you can setup an event on a class, like so:

Recently I started to receive some rather strange error messages from some .NET programs I had written that made use of the WebRequest class. The exception was something like this: