Entering basic information

Once the Ubuntu installation CD has booted successfully, you will be presented with a desktop, with an icon labelled Install. Double-click this icon to start the Ubuntu installer. Then, follow the instructions below:

1. Select your language from the list provided and then press Forward.

2. Select a city from your country and timezone by either clicking the map or selecting a city from the drop-down menu labelled Selected city. Press Set Time... if the time is set incorrectly. Once you are satisfied that the time is correct for your location, press Forward.

3. Select your keyboard layout from the list provided. You can type in the box provided to test that your keyboard is working correctly. Press Forward once you are satisfied that you have chosen the correct keyboard layout.

4. Enter the details requested. Pay particular attention to the password section - by choosing a more complicated password, you can help to make your computer more secure. You must also ensure that you can remember your password correctly, including the case of the letters you use ('ABC' is different to 'abc'). Once satisfied that all of the information you entered is correct, press Forward.

   	When choosing a password, try to use a combination of letters, numbers and punctuation symbols which spell out a random word (e.g. p0tato!). This will make your password harder to guess if someone tries to access your computer without your permission.

5. The Prepare disk space screen will load. This will allow you to partition your hard disk. Partitioning is covered in the next section, Partitioning your disks.

Blogged with the Flock Browser

Final goodbye for early web icon......FUTURE BROWSER IS HERE....FLOCK

Flock Browser - The Social Web Browser

I've heard about Flock from Justin and I've been thinking of downloading it. Now ever since my IE has started behaving weird , I decided that its high time i download this one of a kind browser.

Firefox is the main competitor to IE, particularly in Europe where it has a 28% market share, according to some statistics.
The open source browser's development iscoordinated by the Mozilla foundation, set up by Netscape staff made redundant in 2003. It has had more than 500 million downloads worldwide and in countries such as Finland it is the most popular browser.
'Competition is what brings quality," said Ms Baker.

Flock describes itself as "the social web
browser" and allows people to see feeds from community websites, such
as Flickr and Facebook, and post to blogs without having to navigate to
the page.

"There are lots of ways that people are

engaging in having a conversation and Flock is very focused on making
that as effortless and convenient as possible," said Mr Hardin.

However, not all Netscape users are happy about having to change browser.
"I'm sad. Flock still needs improvement

and I am not happy with Firefox's interface. I'm [an] orphan!" read one
post on the Netscape blog.

Others who posted comments on the blog predicted the browser will make a return.

"Netscape is a wonderful browser, and it will be so in the future," read one.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7270583.stm


[excerpts from Wiki]


Flock is a web browser heavily based upon Mozilla Firefox
and other Mozilla technologies. Flock is also the name of the company
developing the browser. Flock's creators call it a "social browser",
due to its ability to interact with popular social networking web services. Such web services include Flickr, Del.icio.us, Technorati, Photobucket, and various popular blogging and news aggregation services.

Features

The current beta release has the following feature differences from Firefox:

• Flock's
  custom homepage, "My World", tells you when your friends have new
  photos and videos and when you have new feeds. My World gives quick
  access to your recently visited favorite sites as well.
• Bookmarks, in addition to being saved offline, can be replaced with del.icio.us. When a bookmark (known as a favorite) is added, it is added to the user's del.icio.us account.
• Favorites can be tagged
• A favorites and history section are integrated into the favorites manager
• Built-in full-text search using Clucene. Search as you type for pages in the cache
• Flickr and Photobucket integration
• Technorati tagging
• Blogging tools
• News aggregator
• "Drag-and-drop" capability and a clipboard like feature known as "The Shelf."
• Media Mini Bar, allows you to search, stream, and view content off of sites like YouTube and Truveo.
• Built in uploader, to submit content to flickr and photobucket

Many of these features can be attained through extensions for Firefox. del.icio.us Bookmarks, developed by Yahoo!, Inc., provides integration with del.icio.us online bookmarks. Fotofox, developed as an official extension by the Mozilla Corporation, integrates with Flickr. Sage provides a built in news reader, similar to Thunderbird's.

Blogged with the Flock Browser

world of its own..ubuntu

Well it was two days back i finally got my Linux installed in my pc.i don't know how long i was waiting for this great installation to take place.It was on Monday(20 AUG) at around 8:45pm,while returning home from my tuition, i saw a white packet on my table ,which i order from Ubuntu through Shipit.
it was a great felling at that time ,i don't know how to mention.
To be continue......

well at that moment i had no idea ,who to install ubuntu in my pc.

The next version of Firefox will identify malware on Web sites and make users stop and think about it.

With the number of malicious Web pages mushrooming over the past several months, the Mozilla Foundation is looking to help users defend themselves. Window Snyder, who is Mozilla's "chief security something-or-other," says the company is taking a two-pronged approach.

Mozilla programmers are rewriting a lot of the Firefox code for the upcoming version release, Snyder says. They're replacing much of the older code to increase performance and make the code base more modular, able to handle new security threats like phishing. In a previous interview, Snyder said some of the browser's components that are written in native code are being rewritten in managed code to reduce memory management flaws, like buffer overflow vulnerabilities. Managed code executes in a virtual machine, so there's less space for memory management problems.

HATE MOZILLA BUT USE IE OR ELSE…”

Yesterday, my friend Shyam was having a very dificult time ,in accessing ORKUT AND YOUTUBE. And he told me to help him!.....so i thought i should help him to remove the infection from his PC.(even thou i was not so sure about it...that i could make it!) i went to his home along with Vishnu ,after finishing the horrible test in our tuition class.
even though he scanned his computer with the AVG7.5,it didn't showed any infection..... Hmm strange..
i right clicked and opened the USB drive and found there was no content. Autoplay appears only if there is a Autorun.inf file present in the root of the drive.

He wanted to check his scrap so he ran my beloved browser Firefox, it opened and with in couple of seconds a message box popped up which said ” “I DNT HATE MOZILLA BUT USE IE OR ELSE…” and the header read “USE INTERNET EXPLORER YOU DOPE.” I was like what? It also terminated Firefox :-( . This is when I remembered the Autoplay option in the usb drive. This is when I had to open Internet Explorer and Google this text and found the worm name is w32.USBWorm (it was now obvious). shhhhhhhh....... Nor I could find any information on how to remove it. I decided to give myself a try to remove this worm.

I tried opening orkut and Bang another surprise. This is the message it popped up ” ORKUT IS BANNED,Orkut is banned you fool`,The administrators didnt write this program guess who did?? ” now this is pissing me off. Now, i had no other option but to remove this worm from his system. I pressed ctrl+alt+del and found nothing suspesious there .

Lets see what this worm does

It runs a exe file which is name MicrosoftPowerpoint.exe which is located in the USB disk. The autorun.inf runs this file when double clicked.(shyam.... you don't need to do this unless you completely format ur usb) Once this program is run you are infected. It hides all your hidden folders, runs the process in the memory, makes the worm to start with windows and pops those annoying messages. This worm doesn’t destroy any system files. It just infects other USB drives and spreads to new hosts.(this information is from the google )

It’s time to KO the Worm

I went through all the process and found out that svchost.exe was the one responsible for it. Where taskmanger helped me a lot...., svchost.exe was running from a location C:\heap41a . So this is where the worm resides, hmm interesting now deleting the folder would do our task. But it was not so easy, as I terminated this process svchost.exe from the process list it would start again.
Now I searched the folder C:\heap41b but it was hidden.

I went to Tools>folder option and select Show all files and folders and pressed ok. I refreshed the c:\ only to find that it won’t show any hidden folders. I again went to the Tools>folder and found the setting of Show all files and folders was reseted. Now how do I see the content, what I did was went to windows search and in advanced option I gave search hidden files and folders and gave svchost.exe as the search keyword. Bang it searched it, so I opened the folder to find out this file was not alone, the other files in this Folder were [offspring], 2.mp3, Icon.ico, reproduce.txt, svchost.exe, drivelist.txt, script1.txt, std.txt .


These are the keys that were responsible for the hidden folder problem that you faced earlier

regread,regdata,REG_DWORD,HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE,SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\

CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced\Folder\Hidden\SHOWALL,checkedvalue
ifnotequal,regdata,2
regwrite,REG_DWORD,HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE,SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\

Explorer\Advanced\Folder\Hidden\SHOWALL,checkedvalue,2



Now to rectify this go to Start Menu>Run and type regedit . In the Registry Editor browse to this entry HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\

CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced\Folder\Hidden\SHOWALL and in the “Checked all” key reset it back to 1 from 2. Now you can change the settings in the folders option. Now delete the folder C:\heap41a and clear all the key entries from this registry entry HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE,SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\

Now the virus infection is removed 100%. Before you are done make sure you format the usb drive it doesn’t infect other systems too.(you ....better do it from other system)

All the best shyam . Untill a tool is out for this worm, you can follow this method to remove w32.USBWorm.i hope you got all....