pygteditor gives me a error of:

an error occurs saving file: coercing to unicode. need strings or buffer none type found

any ideas what in doing wrong ?

thanks

Is it possible to partition an SSD drive and dual-boot linux and winXP? I'm thinking of doing this but am not sure if files from both OSs can be read by each other, so would I have to use my NAS as the storage box? Would it be recognizeable in linux wihtout reformatting to a different file system?

As it was already mentioned, try python. It is really easy to learn and to write programs and you don't have to compile. You can have your first program in less than an hour and learn the most basics of python in less than a week.

The really cool thing is that you can write python programs directly on the device. You just need to install ssh and ssh to the device over wireless. Then you can edit programs and run them directly on the device.

You don't need to repartition your drive, though that is probably the way to get best performance. There's Wubi which is a Windows application that lets you run ubuntu (and maybe other linux distributions too, I might guess) from within windows without rebooting.

Download an Ubuntu install and burn it to cd, then stick it in the drive and I think windows will autorun and give you the choice to try ubuntu linux out using wubi. It creates a file on your windows drive (you can set how big, preferably a few Gb the default is probably fine) then uses that as though it were a whole partition to run linux from.

You can also boot from the CD and try it out as a "live CD" - which will run from the CD and won't mess up your windows install. Slower, as it has to load everything from the CD, but will work just fine no matter what operating-system you have installed presently. So many ways... Google the things I've mentioned/search on http://www.ubuntu.com