Archive for September, 2006
Linux Geek, Windoze N00b
Now I dont call myself much of a linux geek, but atleast I know GNU/Linux more than some of the others.
Today By the way went to CRIS, Centre for Railways Information Systems, along with tuxmaniac to give a hands on training in Eclipse, & CDT.
techno_freak and Dr. Sreenivasan, both from NRCFOSS accompanied us, since it [...]
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Edgy Beta
Felt like doing an ’sudo apt-get dist-upgrade’ to upgrade to edgy,
Edgy, by the way is the yet to be released version of ubuntu..Check her outÂ
Heres what I did,
First, replace all instances of dapper in source.list to edgy
Second, sudo apt-get update
and finally sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Just make sure , you have the *buntu-desktop installed, otherwise the upgrade [...]
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Hating Java for another reason
Remember the Java seminar i was talking about….I turned out to be a total mess…Yeah rite..how would people listen to someone who sits on the last bench and makes the classroom a total chaos for the lecturers..
Besided Eclipse and OO, both of them based on java (I think) runs slooooowww on my box.. I dont [...]
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Eclipsing my mind
I downloaded eclipse ide and the cdt plugin which is used for c/c++ development, Eclipse runs slowwww on my 256 megs RAM, I don’t get it, why does it slow down to a crawl. 256 megs is good enough…Aah maybe its because of the java stuff associated with it. Anyway I have not been a [...]
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GNOME -> KDE
I migrated to kde today..Gnome was getting on my nerves. It was slowww on my box.. Strangely kde is kinda faster..Hmm
I remember using kde some 2 years back..Thats long..:D
kde 3.5.2 looks stunning..Gnome looks clean.. I would stop my rants here. I am not even thinking of proceeding further.
Anyway because of the ldtp development going on, [...]
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Firefox 3.0 automation
Hi..Jus got a chance to work with richee for firefox 3.0 automation using ldtp.
The plan (till now) is to start from the help menu. The scripts are written in python so i dont think it would be a problem…
Meanwhile this is my first entry using BloGTK..Categories aint shown in BloGTK though..
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Hello world!
Howdie..At last dad gave me broadband connection…Its been tough without internet for 4 months. Right now I am working on ldtp stuff…Lets see how it goes. Apart from that my college is turning out to be a nightmare because of ECE dept.
Anyway..Any new stuff should be started off with ‘Hello World’ (I dont want to [...]
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