Cisharp

yes... installing skype on fedora 64 bit is tricky.... there are some tutorials on the net, but i made it a bit different. i downloaded the fedora package, and then i needed to install the following packages as well: yum install glibc-2.13-1.i686 yum install glibc-2.13-1.i686 yum install alsa-lib-1.0.24-1.fc14.i686 yum install libXv-1.0.5-1.fc13.i686 yum install libXScrnSaver-1.2.0-1.fc12.i686 yum install 1:qt-4.7.2-8.fc14.i686 yum install qt-x11-4.7.2-8.fc14.i686 this then did the trick after that i could run skype on the fedora 14 machine.

like i already once posted, i would love to have agent ransack running natively under linux on my ubuntu. i then settled for regexxer, but down the line i didnt like it. i even eventually started to code one myself. but then i found two quite decent search tools. my favorite one is kfind. seems that program is the closest you can get to agent ransack. at least it fullfills nearly every of my wishes in a search tool, so thats how i search now. a more native-gnome approach would be the program gnome-find. though i think kfind is faster to use.

after updating to the new version of jaunty of course the dual screen stuff did not work anymore. the xorg.conf couldnt be read anymore, and even couldnt be backed up.... anyways, after update was complete i needed to play around a bit. to get dual screens in jaunty running again with synergy i then found the folowing solution: i started System>Administration>"Hardware Drivers", activated the revommended NVIDIA accelerated graphics driver (version 180), rebootet and then started nvidia-xconfig. now i started System>Administration>Nvidia XServer Settings, enabled under "X Server Display configuration" the second screen again, changed the configuration to "TwinView" and everything was fine. Seems ATM i am not using Xitami extensions anymore. now only thing that needs to be done after update is is... i need to get my broken gcc running again.... after my update from hardy to jaunty (with middle-step updating to interprid) i was surprised to find ...

Today I had a hard time after I tried to change my synergy solution. Before I had a WindowsXP-Ubuntu solution where 2 monitors where on the XP machine that acted as the synergy server and one monitor on the ubuntu machine. I now decided to move one of the monitors to ubuntu (for display-quality reasons). At first i had a hard time getting my Ubuntu Hardy Heron to work with 2 screens and I took some wrong turns but I finally found my solution: There are already many tutorials on the net, and luckily my Ubuntu machine has an nvidia card inside which made things easier: Here is what worked for me: I installed nvidia-settings application via classic sudo apt-get install nvidia-settings and then ran it with sudo. Here I activated my second screen which is running now. Hooray dual-screen usage! But unfortunately Synergy did not work properly anymore. Synergy switches screens between my first ubuntu screen and my XP screen, but it cant reach the SECOND ubuntu screen. when using the "--di...

first versions of the new monodevelop are out. boy oh boy i cant wait.... on the official site you now also will find some installers. Unfortunately only for SUSE and stuff, no package for debian. But do not despair dear debian-comrades! You can find debian packages at http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=980739 It has some drawbacks though: i didnt find a package for the debugger add-on yet, so if you depend on deb packages because you can't or don't want to build yourself (like me), so i still need to wait.

i had pre-christmas at work when after coming from my holidays i was presented with a new intel quad core pc. my colleages even already had installed a parallel XP/ubuntu on it. great, i thought "i can immediatly start working!". as long as the new monodevelop is not released, i am still stuck with eclipse (ganymede ). all i now had to do was i needed to install ganymede... after downloading ganymede from eclipse homepage, i fired it up but was very confused: eclipse behaved very sluggish.... ok, i am used to it behaving sluggish from my old machine (a p4 2100 with ubuntu), but i thought it should be quite fast with the new cpu. but i could barely work in a normal way: when doing a search, after pressing the shortcut i needed to wait for like 2 secs until i could press something that he'd recognize. and then after some time eclipse would crash with a "out of memory" exceptions. it also crashed sometimes with some other exceptions. this behavior and the fact that...

when becoming a cross-platform novice, there was one thing that really disturbed me about linux that was so much better on windows: the standard commandline editor(s) for editing text files. if you are using gnome or KDE, the standard editors under linux (gedit/kedit) are better that the normal notepad under windows. but when it comes to commandline, the common windows-user is lost. if you are a non-hardcore linux user you know what i mean: vi(m) and emacs need to be LEARNED before they can be used. what a normal windows to linux switcher wants is an editor like the good old MS-DOS Editor "edit". what i want is an editor that i can simply USE without needing to learn it. there are thousands of different flavors of software out there for linux so i thought it shouldnt be difficult to find an editor that is as intuitie as MS edit. well, it was. but finally after about two hours i found one thats quite comfortable that satisdfies my needs. with you might feel at home with it to...

nothing much to report. i am a bit exhausted and sick after going out on sunday, then working on monday and going to the EM match in the main fanzone of vienna.  i wondered very much what happened to me in the last 2 years when i even put on some paint onto my face like those freaky soccer watchers do. it did not help anyway.  in work there were some things happening, plus i am fighting with synergy desktop sharing software with my newly updated hardy heron ubuntu edition in the company. some characters are not transported to the other pc, hell knows why. with gutsy everything worked. so everything i could talk about now would be too much to... write  :) so i ll just leave it for now

Finally i found a nice tool to search for files under linux! under windows i am using Agent Ransack , a very comfy and efficient tool for that purpose. I dont want to use grep under linux for my searches then i always would have to concentrate on the syntax, so i was looking for a nice tool that is a sort of to Agent Ransack under Linux, so i'll have a tool that does the job similar to my favorite search tool. ( i also dont want any desktop search app with all the overhead they seem bring) the next best thing i found was regexxer that can be installed by "sudo apt-get install regexxer". unfortunately you will not be able to use wildcards with regexxer but use regular expressions, which are a bit... more complex. but still it is the best alternative i found and, compared to some other linux apps, quite self explanatory. bytes

Today i would like to tell you about my experiences with the new Ubuntu 8.04 release (called hardy heron). ... unfortunately i can't, because i still have not installed it  :) well, well. that was a phun post. i'll now go enjoy the sunday in some café with nice company.

…or are they? Aren’t all linux nerds = Microsoft haters always complaining about MS world not using standards? I state that all those linux-guys are preaching water but drinking wine. Why? Tthere are multiple examples: I’ll post one that annoyed me just some moments ago right now, multiple others may follow later: It is an interesting fact that when you search things on the internet and you find resources to it which were written by some linux guys (or on linux but would also be usable in windows) they may post their code (in this case code, but I might also have found docs that way) for downloading. How can you obtain the stuff? You find it in an archive. As a .tar, or as a .tgz. or whatever other wicked linux-packing formats there are. Why use an open standard archive like .zip anyways? Just because EVERYBODY can open it? Noooooo my friend. Ok, i am not familiar, so: .tar/tgz may very well be open "standards", but whats a standard worth if 90% of all people are not abl...

yesterday i tried getting my Wacom Graphire4 Dashboard to work with ubuntu. actually.... not that i needed it, because actually all graphic programs i met for linux yet... plainly suck. the all-so praised GIMP is nothing compared to Paint.NET. Plus it is so-not intuitive. Well, there s not much to wonder about that fact i mean... its a linux program and by history linux programs are counter- intuitive :) ok by now i should already have succeeded in getting all the linux phanatix out there hating me, at first saying GIMP (one kindof opensource-linux flagship as i understand) sucks then making the blasphemy saying that a .NET program (which implies bad-bad MS) is better and then even saying linux would be counter intuitive. ok, enough-having made-friends with the linux community so far. nevertheless, i just wanted to see if i can get it to work under linux. which is as far as i am concerned very linux-geeky: trying to get something to work for linux which one actually does not really ...