Archive for November, 2008
the last few days i have been learning about asp.net and about the new asp.net mvc framework. i am very new to asp.net. i’ve never ever used asp before. but as per a requirement at my work place i had to look in to it. i was rather excited to look in to it really. [...]
i recently wanted to give my lap a static ip for some n/w administration purposes. i am running ubuntu 8.10 on it. the network manager was the usual way to go about when getting this done so i tried setting a static ip from the network manager. but it doesn’t work as expected. my configuration [...]
this is a tiny ruby script that i wrote some time back. it does a very simple(but helpful, at least for me ) task, that is it will send a given message to a pre configured list of gmail(actually anything that do jabber) accounts. and after this it will wait and listen for any [...]
there are some blogs that i love to read. i read all the posts on them. but thats not enough sometimes! i need to read all the comments that the author of the blog makes in reply to the comments, his posts, receive. this particular blog in which i wanted to read all the authors [...]
recently at my workplace, i had to look in to, moving existing sources in vss, to svn. i have been using svn for a while now. both personally and at work. all i can say is its a pretty neat source controlling system. there is some hype about GIT. but i have not tried it [...]
I am a huge ABBA fan. and i recently got to know of a new movie that came to the theaters. mama mia!. so what does mama mia have to do with abba? well mama mia have a lots of their songs in the movie. its a musical. and all the music in it is [...]
setting the tab order in visual studio is no thing. basically you can set the tab index property using the property grid or you can use the designer to set the tab order. how ever when you have panels in your form(i am talking about a winforms application). setting the tab order becomes a little [...]
I’ve been in the torrenting scene for a while. torrents are a essential part of your Internet lives these days. you cannot ignore it or live without it. its a grate way of sharing large sums of data between people with distributed cost(meaning less cost of distribution for the initial distributor of the data). there [...]
today just before some hours i upgraded my ubuntu to 8.10 from the LTS. the upgrade was fairly ok. no big troubles. first when i tried to upgrade the installer told me that i need more free space in my root drive. so i had to delay the upgrade and uninstall some stuff to make [...]

