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Time to celebrate!

By Rich Johnson on Published: July 17, 2007 at 7:07 pm

Not because I have finished 3 out of the 4 courses for the 8 week summer semester, but because 2 of those courses required the use of Windows. No more! The GUI design course utilized VB because, well it is so simple to do. And the ASP.NET class is well, ASP.NET 🙂

Now, with that out of the way. I know Mono is out there, and Mono Develop, however it was damn near impossible for me to follow along using Mono instead of the glorious Visual Studio (actually I am a fan of Visual Studio, if only Linux had such a powerful IDE). I would like to take some time out and become familiar with Mono and Mono Develop now that I have finished the class and realize just how easy ASP.NET coding really is. So if any of you have experience in doing so, please guide me a little bit on if it is possible. Maybe the problem I had was because ASP.NET in Visual Studio is drag-and-drop like crazy!

Oh, and also, when is somebody going to come up with a Qt version of Mono Develop? I would love to run it on my laptop, but there are just way to many libs, so I run it on my desktop at home that runs Gnome. Thanks!

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Urban Myth

By Rich Johnson on Published: July 14, 2007 at 3:25 am

THIS has got to be the worst write up I have seen to date. The reason I am posting this is because of just how great the comments are and how wonderful it is to be apart of a community of such great individuals. Of course I got in and put my two cents in, especially after installing Windows XP on my new setup.

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Didn't listen to my own self

By Rich Johnson on Published: July 14, 2007 at 12:01 am

My previous post, Don’t be cheap, I stated that when purchasing computer components that you shouldn’t be cheap. Well, I didn’t listen. I went to Tiger Direct today and purchased an MSI motherboard for $50 (USD) and a Pentium D 805 (dual-core 2.66GHz) for another $50. The reason for the motherboard is because I didn’t want to purchase anything else as I already have 1GB of DDR PC4300 memory and an old Radeon 9550 AGP card. This new setup is much faster than the previous.

Well, the bad motherboard I am going to RMA through Newegg.com which means I will get that same Biostar motherboard back. This time I will not flash the Bios at all, screw Biostar and their incapable tech support. That means I will have to 64bit systems. The new system will be my main 64bit system and I will use the old amd64 rig for my pbuilder box/server.

Thanks to those of you who offered similar situations and pointers. Now I will be able to finish my final projects for school. Ya, I have to install that great OS called Windows XP, which was free as in free beer because of the ASP.NET class. I tried out Mono and Mono Develop w/o any success. Now that I understand ASP.NET a little more, which I am not the biggest fan of at this time, I will mess around some more and see if I can reproduce the website projects that we had to do.

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