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Just started using chrome in my Nettop running Ubuntu 9.10. the experience is cool. Though it is just beta but still it is giving me a pretty stable support. I have been waiting for this to arrive for a long time now. The only bug so far I have found is, it is missing the arrow's in the scrollbar. Previously I did used the crossover Google chrome in Linux. Most probably it was using wine to run the application in Linux. The feel was not as smooth as I am getting now in the Google version of chrome for Linux. About the experience of installation I would say it is pretty straight forward. Just go to Google chrome's website , and viola you can download the thing. Hope my rest of the experience would be as good as my first look.

Run .NET Application in Linux using mono MonoDevelop is a development tool for .net developemnt in linux. It is based on the code of Sharp Development – a windows based open source development environment for .net. MonoDevelop happen to be a very nice and easy to use .NET IDE for mono. As I mentioned the IDE started with the source of sharpdevelop (A.K.A #D). But instead of WinForms the GUI has be replaced with gtk#. It has all the feature you can expect in a stadard IDE. Fig 1 : The monodevelop welcome page The IDE features some of the most importna features like intellisence, code highlight, gui designer etc. The IDE is mainly focused on C#. development. But you can also create vb.net based application with it. The GUI toolkit supported by the IDE is gtk#. Fig 2 : Source code video of monodevelop for a gtk# based GUI application The features in mondevelop is so nicely build that it is very easy to use to build applications in gtk# for linux and also it has a distribution builder, w...

A Simple introduction to Ruby Hi in this simple introduction i want to give you some very brief idea on Ruby. I am going to write some very simple program here and give the description of them. The peoples who are new to ruby or just want to learn something about ruby they will get the feel of this dynamic language in here. Simple Hello (first.rb) Lets start with a simple hello world program. The code is given bellow puts "Hello World" Now this is the very simple typical hello world program in ruby. Write this lines into a text file using your favourite editor. And then save it. Run this program by typing the following command in your command prompt ruby first.rb Now fig 1 show the screenshot of the ruby program Fig 1 : The screenshot showing the execution of our typical hello world program Make it a bit interactive (second.rb) Now let us write a bit more interactive program out of ruby. Lets say a program which will take you...

The Ant and the Grasshopper The Classic Old Version The Ant works hard in the withering heat all summer building its house and laying up supplies for the winter. The Grasshopper thinks the Ant is a fool and laughs & dances & plays the summer away. Come winter, the Ant is warm and well fed. The Grasshopper has no food or shelter so he dies out in the cold. Modern Version The Ant works hard in the withering heat all summer building its house and laying up supplies for the winter. The Grasshopper thinks the Ant's a fool and laughs & dances & plays the summer away. Come winter, the shivering Grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know why the Ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed while others are cold and starving. NDTV, BBC, CNN show up to provide pictures of the shivering Grasshopper next to a video of the Ant in his comfortable home with a table filled with food. The World is stunned by the sharp contrast. How can this be that this poor Grassho...