Arun Stephens

This is nothing new, but I wanted to stop X from starting on bootup with Ubuntu Desktop 8.04. I would prefer to start it using startx. The easy solution, from within the Ubuntu desktop (seeing X has started already, I may as well use graphical tools) click the System menu, then Services. Unlock (if you need to) and deselect Graphical login manager (gdm). BE CAREFUL THOUGH: If you apply those changes, X will stop, presumably because it was started Read post »

I have been reading a bit of the documentation about the ADO.NET Entity Framework. There are a few passages that relate to my previous post: Because referenced objects are not automatically loaded, you must call the Load method on the entity reference to load the related object data into the object context. You can also specify a query path that defines which related objects to load with returned objects. For more information, see Querying Data as Objects (Entity Framework) Read post »

I have been looking for a SQL-based way to store all my old email messages. I think I may have found it. There is an email system called DBMail that stores messages in a database (MySQL, PostgreSQL or SQLite) and exposes them (for want of a better word) through POP3 and IMAP. At the moment I use Gmail, forwarding to Exchange 2007, Outlook 2007 and a huge PST. Searching the PST takes a while. Gmail doesn’t have everything in Read post »

I have had little bit of experience with LINQ to SQL, but recently read that Microsoft is instead concentrating on LINQ to Entities. I have just started a new project, so thought decided to use LINQ to Entities instead. And I ran into a problem. I haven’t managed to find a solution to it yet, so I figured that I would write about it here and hopefully, once I have figured out what I was doing wrong, it might Read post »

Hello, I haven’t written on here for a very long time. I have been in London now for just over 6 months. I have just over 4 weeks left before my visa expires, so I’ll probably be heading back to New Zealand for a wee while. Not too long though; just long enough to get a visa for the next place I’m going to. I saw The Dark Knight (the new Batman movie) last night. It was Read post »