Re: [MLUG] Software development: was mono

[Phillip Kelchen <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

I have a very easy time with the wireless. In fact, I only use wireless as my Net connection as I take my computer on campus, and both my apartment and my friends' have the cable modems in a bad spot to hook directly up to the router with the Ethernet cable. 

All I have to do is go to the System menu on the top tab, go to Administration -> Networking, and then select my wireless interface. I enter the ESSID and the WEP key and hit "Save." I then can save the WEP key/ESSID combination as a location profile. I have several profiles saved and all I have to do is pick which one I want to use. Simple as anything and in my opinion better than Windows' way as I never hop between APs. It will stay locked onto my chosen AP like a bloodhound onto a perp's trail. 

I can also very easily connect to networks via the Gnome netapplet. Click on it, it detects the network and connects to unsecured networks automatically or it prompts you for a WEP key if it is secured. It also lets you turn on and off interfaces and switch between them at will. Pretty spiffy. Canonical did a very nice job in the usability and the "it just works" in their latest release, now if they would only name it something more mature than "Ubuntu," they'll have something!

I know I'll probably lose some "geek points" for not running Slackware, Gentoo, or some other more-advanced-user distribution. But I have to admit that I do like to be able to play when I want to play and not mess around with things when I am not in the mood to do so. 

Phillip

On Tue, 2005-11-08 at 21:14 -0600, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:
> Vern Green wrote:
> > All I can say about .NET developing is that Microsoft has created (with 
> > version 2.0 anyway) a development platform with .NET that will blow 
> > anything else away.
> >  
> > What Microsoft has done is created the means for faster development of 
> > software applications. I know for my purposes working with web platforms 
> > the new system is such a time saver.
>
> I have never used .NET and don't really know what it is about.
>
> But I have done software development in C.  I have been rather surprized 
> to find the Linux/Unix development process much easier than the 
> Microsoft development process.
>
> The Microsoft approach is a rather expensive product called Visual 
> Studio.  Probably most of my problems are unfamiliarity with the 
> product, but I have yet to even figure out how to even start writing a 
> program.
>
> The Linux/Unix approach is to use csh or bash along with an editor, my 
> favorite is nedit, and a hand built Makefile to put it all together.  I 
> just find this so much easier.  But again it is probably familiarity.
>
> Where Linux/Unix wins hands down is the documentation.  I tried wading 
> through the Microsoft Class docs, and I just couldn't figure it out. 
> (My main goal was how to write Direct-X graphics programs, and to this 
> day it is all a mystery to me.)  The docs that come with Linux/Unix, 
> that is, the man pages, seem the model of clarity in comparison.
>
> Again, I must admit that I did also read some very excellent books to 
> help me with Unix (the books by Richard Stevens, and the red and blue 
> OpenGL books).
>
> Well, this is all a totally unfair and unbalanced view of things.
>
> I do admit that using my wireless network in Windows-XP is slightly 
> easier than what I do in FreeBSD:
>
> Windows XP - click on the internet icon, and enter the WEP key if it is 
> requested.
>
> FreeBSD.  Simply type the following simple list of commands (as root)
>
> kldload bcmwl5_sys
> kldload wlan_wep
> vi /etc/dhclient.conf
> (edit the appropriate entries so that it has the correct ssid and wep keys)
> killall dhclient
> dhclient ndis0
>
> I mean, what can possibly be easier?
>
> Stephen
>
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