I have been away from developments in the larger Linux world since quite some time. I’m not a distrohopper any more. I’ve kinda settled down on my (childhood) favorite openSUSE. I’d installed version 13.1 about two years ago on my brand new laptop. A few days ago I decided to update my KDE 4 to Plasma […]
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Moved to a new webhost
Posted on under Life & Thoughts — Leave a commentHere I am. With Arvixe. After 8 years with DreamHost, I made the move to save money. Shit loads of money. Hosting with DreamHost was a smooth and wonderful but expensive journey. Their support and technical expertise are unmatched, things that came in pretty handy while hosting a Linux distro (Granular, remember?). In its heydays, […]
MonoDevelop 4: CSS files not loading for an ASP.NET MVC4 site
Posted on under Coding & Tech, Tutorials — 3 CommentsIf you are like me — always living in Linux, but sometimes being required to develop ASP.NET sites — you have no doubt used MonoDevelop. While its latest iteration brings in many good things, it’s still not the ready-to-use Visual Studio. Once you are past the System.UnauthorizedAccessException and Could not load file or assembly ‘System.Web.WebPages’ […]
The Exciting New Puppy
Posted on under Coding & Tech, Open-Source — 2 CommentsA couple of days back, I got myself a new puppy. Nope, not the dog sort. It’s a variant of Puppy Linux, and comes with LXDE. The most wonderful aspect of Lxpup is that it is a perfect fusion of an ultra-lightweight feel (of Puppy) and a more usable (and beautiful looking) desktop environment (LXDE). […]
OpenMandriva Association logo contest is live now
Posted on under Coding & Tech, Open-Source — Leave a commentOpenMandriva, an association formed to create a community-based Linux distro sponsored by Mandriva SA and ROSA, is now a registered non-profit organization in France. The progress over at OM is going pretty well, and now they need a logo for the association. Yesterday a logo contest was launched by OM, which will accept user-submitted designs […]