Well I am using ubuntu and while there are a quite a few things that I am so annoyed with about it, I am finding it quite usable. There are several things that I have needed to do for life, business, and school, and I am able to accomplish all of them so far. I must say ubuntu is very nice for a comprhensive alternative to windows. It takes some work to figure out things to use alternativly compared to windows, but it is quite doable.

One thing I find quite instersing is I need to remote into a windows server 2003 machine well I didn’t want to boot up my laptop just to do that one thing so I did a little bit of searching and some asking around and found out about grdesktop. This is an amazing app. I was able to easily remote into Windows Server 2003 perfectly from a gui interface. I was very much impressed.

For the most part everything that I have needed to do I have been able to accomplish through a GUI which makes me very happy. The one problem though is you have to take a lot of time to find little programs that come default in windows. I currently don’t seem myself going back to windows on my desktop unless when I do get my 64bit computer I can’t do anything, but so far from everything I have seen there is plenty of support for 64bit.

Later I will post up what I use in linux that correlates to an app in windows. I know this is a bad thing to do because you shouldn’t look at Linux as a direct comparison to Windows since they are two completely different things, but what they hey why not.

Personal issues resolved:
Well I found out that inorder for me to run monodevelop I was going ot have to run that export command everytime right before I open up monodevelop.

Well I sent out an e-mail to the mail list and a guy told me to put it in the /etc/profile and voila it worked. Apparently, looking out it, that is where quite a few Envrionment varaibles are stored. I need to remember that.

Little bug:
I found out that the version 0.7 issue is just an accident. So no real big deal there.

Can’t wait to try:
Also the database stuff looks awesome in monodevelop. I am going to install mysql on my laptop temporarily to test it out then see about opening the ports up to my server and play with remote mysql adminstration. I can’t wait to test this little thing out.

Interesting:
From what I have read on the monodevelop roadmap they are going to incorporate stetic into it as the gui form editor. Which IMO will be awesome stetic from what I have seen look awesome. On the stetic site there is a flash video of how to use it. And I must say that it is nice.

Monnopix:
If you want to just jump into doing some development in mono I suggest you do two things at Monoppix.com
a) Downlaod the ISO burn it and get ready to do some development as soon as you reboot with the cd in like knoppix.
b) Watch the Video tutorials on the site they are quite good and can really get you started.

woohoo. I finally got monodevelop installed on my laptop in crux.

What a bear of a job. I spent a few days wondering why in the world it wouldn’t start. Then mircoulusly(sp ?) I tried to start it through console and it spit out that it needed MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME variable set to Mozilla installation directory. Well that sucked because I had not idea what program it was refereing to. Whether it meant a specific one or the whole freaking package.

So after a day of griping and complaining and google searches I finally decided to just download the 13 meg mozilla file and untar it. Well once I finally did that I set the envritonment variable like so:

export MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME="path/to/mozilla/"

After that it worked. Now I need to figure out why it says Version .8 and not version .7. Oh, well at least I have it installed now and can play with it.

Until next time happy coding.

I am working on creating ports for everything mono. I have several things done so far, but have a few scripts to write to finish it.

I finally got ASP.NET running in linux using mod_mono. It didn’t really take as long as I thought it would. Once I figured out a few basic things about installing applications from scratch in crux things are flying. I am really picking up a lot, and really likeing this distro more and more.

Also, you something I find quite funny is that as a computer person when you see something different at a kiosk that is very limiting you tend to try to do as much as you can to see what all is possible on the computer. For example I am at a coffe shop called Kaffe Bona. They have a highly customized version of IE with a lot of limitaions, mostly done in active directory i am sure. Anyway the first thing I do when I see it is start to see what all is closed off in it. Like i can’t control click to finish urls. I can’t minimize it in anyway ctrl+d doesn’t work. It is very interesting indeed.

But it just says something. When restircited one of the first things people do is see what they can do to get around it. Usually, like in my case, so they can do something incase they need to fix a problem. Like if I the browser crashed most people would just give up, but a computer person would do what they can to reopen the browser.

Anyway enough of my rambling.

Haha. One of the coolest things in the world is I can now mount my USB key to my crux install with a little command

mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb

I don’t, at the moment, have a window manager on my linux partition so I am using command line quite a bit. It is a lot of fun though. I hope that in the next couple of days that all the gnome stuff on the ports system is corrected so I can install it. I just really wish that I could find the Gnome Install Guide, or at least a working link to it.

I do like the ports system that Crux is set up with very nice. It pretty much downloads all the files you need compiles them and installs them.

Also I am trying to learn XSLT right now and am haveing one heck of a time with it. I just can’t seem to find any good tutorials so if you know of any let me know thanks.

Well today I was at the local LUG (linux user group) meeting and I was just so annoyed with openSUSE Beta 3 because of how long it took to boot, and the no mp3 support. These are 2 pretty trivial things when you consider that it does a lot of other stuff for you that you don’t have to worry about.

Well guess what I did. I got rid of and started install probably one of the most difficult distros around. That distro is Crux. Wow was talk about a leap. I basically went from everything is done to ok lets compile the kernel now and manually set up internet connections script. Literally.

Don’t get me wrong I rather enjoy it but wow what a shock to the system. One good things is that it helped me to relearn a few things for the Linux VTM’s.

anyway till next time.