Category: Programming

A wise choice ….

As i have said in my last post.. few days ago I shifted most of my work to Linux (Ubuntu Edgy Eft) I had many reasons to do this,

1. I was sick choosing good anti virus programs/add ware removers/spy ware detectors for my win XP OS coz there were plenty of viruses/add wares/spy wares making the whole system slowing down.

2. I needed some change in how things look and feel.

3. for the sake of adding some thing to the open source movement.

Any how I had my reasons… but what I am writing here is to justify that my decision was not disappointing at all.. There are many Linux Vs Windows comparisons on the net. some have proved that windows has a better UI and linux does not well thats not true to me… in the case of Ubuntu (6.10) it comes with GNOME 2.14 and for me its awesome !!! any how u have a choice between GNOME and KDE …. and yet thats also customizable !!! so what else a user need..

Any how there is a some kind of a lack in 3rd party software still for Linux but yet the number of choices getting more and more day by day. most of the popular Java IDEs have their own Linux distributions and this is same for C/C++ (Anjuta/KDeveloper).. yet only problem is for .NET even though MONO had made .NET development possible in Linux platform there are no good workforce Gathering IDEs Such as Visual Studio .NET any how I must say apart form .NET for any other development Linux brings a whole new meaning and a good experience.

Talking about IMs as in the long RUN Gaim Imitated many Internet messengers partially at least. and now for MSN in Linux you can use aMSN as an alternative. the newest version is bug fixed and working fine.

Any how all that was about what I found out in last few days sooo am still discovering… meaning I will make a separate entry in my blogg for Linux…..

Cheers !!!!

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Imagine Cup – A Struggle to sign-up

The latter post is something I had to post a week ago but I was walking like a jobless creature having loads of work in my schedule !!! (Aftermath)..

One such thing is to register to the Imagine Cup competition. Since my team mate Sandaruwan threatened me today if i didn’t register today itself that he will throw me out from the team.. I hurried to sign up !!! well this is the second time I am going through this process coz I am very poor in remembering my passwords !! At the 1st attempt I used my Gmail account and registered months before !!! but as i tried today and some days back and gave up !! the password recovary system has some bug !!! It resets the password ! send you the password but that password wont be accepted by the Site , which is so funny !!! then today I created another account Using my hotmail address which I ended up cursing the site !!! The verification code never mailed to me !!! Is this coinsidance !!! I dont know But the URL it self makes me pissed !! “.aspx”

I have gone through many online registration processors before but I was never Screwed up like this but at last after attempting few more times and reseting the password for almost 10 times I got access to my old account again !!! any how I must say That When the URL ends with “.php” These things hadnt been happening in my experience !!! plus pages comes on to ur screen in a much more faster manner !!! I wont Go further more coz I have registered to the competition and hoping to use ASP/C# which they have demanded !! *_*