Coming into the second problem, which I faced was downloading applications directly from internet and trying to install them, just like I do in windows.But that created a lot of problems ,and I need to follow a lot of steps from terminal also to install the required application.Here where I came to understand the power of Ubuntu Software Center which lets you choose and install thousands of free applications directly from the internet with out the need for you to follow any steps .But sometimes, even with proper authentication I could not install certain applications telling me that there is some authentication failure. I cleared this problem with going to System-->Administration-->Synaptic Packet Manager and installing the required software from there.All the software that can be seen in Ubuntu Software Centre is also available there .
Tuesday, June 8, 2010
Monday, June 7, 2010
Ubuntu (Part-1)
I have installed and uninstalled ubuntu a number of times during my last year at NIT.Firstly for the sake of curiosity and secondly "Life is a race............(3 idiots)",but never sticked to it.I haven't used it for a week in a row continuously until my junior introduced me to it again in the middle of march this year.I installed it this time and using it to this day and also made the people around me get inspired through me for using it.(By mistake I formatted my friends system completely installing ubuntu once :P).In the next few posts on Ubuntu I will list on the few problems I faced with Ubuntu and how I overcame them.
The first problem was with dual booting.I want to install Ubuntu along side my Windows partition so that I can choose between them during boot up process.These are some of the tips and tweaks for it :
1.If you format your entire system and install ubuntu first and windows later, then you are going to lose Ubuntu completely since firstly you cannot dual boot ,but enter directly into windows partition and the hard disk portion in which you installed Ubuntu will get completely disappeared.
2.Now if there is already Windows in your system and you install Ubuntu with out any change to the drive in which windows partition is present ,then you will get to dual boot,but the portion of hard disk which you gave for installing Ubuntu will get disappeared here also.This problem is still faced by me ,but since I gave only 12 GB of my 250 GB harddisk for Ubuntu ,I am not facing much difficulty with the disappearance of that space.
3.If you want to just install Ubuntu like a set up file and uninstall it like any other file through control panel in windows use Wubi installer .But you will get to use it with reduced performance and hibernating option will be absent in this.
The first problem was with dual booting.I want to install Ubuntu along side my Windows partition so that I can choose between them during boot up process.These are some of the tips and tweaks for it :
1.If you format your entire system and install ubuntu first and windows later, then you are going to lose Ubuntu completely since firstly you cannot dual boot ,but enter directly into windows partition and the hard disk portion in which you installed Ubuntu will get completely disappeared.
2.Now if there is already Windows in your system and you install Ubuntu with out any change to the drive in which windows partition is present ,then you will get to dual boot,but the portion of hard disk which you gave for installing Ubuntu will get disappeared here also.This problem is still faced by me ,but since I gave only 12 GB of my 250 GB harddisk for Ubuntu ,I am not facing much difficulty with the disappearance of that space.
3.If you want to just install Ubuntu like a set up file and uninstall it like any other file through control panel in windows use Wubi installer .But you will get to use it with reduced performance and hibernating option will be absent in this.
Saturday, April 24, 2010
Interesting facts
Just heard that India has 71 million netizens and I felt very happy also hearing the fact that India is the third largest country in terms of netizens and every year 25% growth rate is there in terms of netizens in our country.
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Panda Antivirus is the first cloud based antivirus.Also one more thing you may hae the problem with the malware "Autorun.inf",if you copy anything from pendrives or external storage devices,the best way to remove this is click here and download the software and use it to remove autorun.inf .One morething if you have problem with the same appearance of windows desktop everytime you open your computer , click here there is a software and with that you can change the appearance of your desktop to the style you like.Everytime you browse in google you may want news sometime,images sometime and some other things,there are seperate searches available for all these but if you want all the searches to appear at one place seperated with squares go to this link and search.If you want to hide any file you normally know how to do it and in folder options if you choose ,view hidden files it will appear ,but if you want it to be hidden even after we did the above thing,do one thing.If the name of the directory is "Dileep" and it is in c -drive write this and click enter in explorer c:/>attrib+a+s+h Dileep and press enter and if you want it to appear again,write c:/>attrib-a-s-h Dileep and press enter
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