Inspiron 1525 the Count Down Starts

This is being a very long ride for me . I never thought that i would be oweing a laptop.

It all started when i left banglore and went to my home for my Final Year Exams Results. Things was bit tough for me as i was totally under presurres for getting placement .

Well let me start my story.It was on july 11 when i told about the laptop to my father and i had no idea how he is going to respond that.BUT .....he told me why don't you check yourself,that really made me to think.WOW..great so far so good.. I went to my Pc and checked all that i need to have in my pc.

Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo Processor T5750

2.0 GHz, 2MB Cache, 667 MHz FSB

Genuine Windows Vista(R) Home Premium 32 bit SP1

3GB (1 X 2 GB + 1 X 1 GB) 667MHz Dual Channel DDR

250GB SATA Hard Driv....etc

all at 41,798.26

Then i opted for dell Inspiron 1525 which satisfyed all my needs and it also had nice service and ssupport which i did't get where else. I called the customer care of DELL The toll free number is 1800 425 4001 and a lady atted and i told whaat i need then she tranferd my call to the sales account manger.MR Sunil Karthik ,he was really a very nice person who helped me with all the queries that i had about the DEll.And i placed the th configuration and he was quick enough to send me the qutation for that.

Ubuntu 11.0( hardy herion)

This is my first installation of Linux distro ,without anybody's help.My earlier distro was OPENSUSE (mini Me) that i had. i alloted a wooping 10 GB for ext3 and 1GB for swap partition.But latter made it to 5GB for EXT3 and 1 gb for swap .the installation was so smooth that i had no problem in configuring my network or my disk.The partition can be also be made automatically but i thought i will do manually.
later it showed all the partition which was allotted in my system and i ahave already alloted 5gb for ext and 1gb for swap.so first i choose the ext3 option and alloted 5gb and for swap 1 gb.and it formated.

latter time configuration and keyboard layout that i am using i also made that change also.Everything smooth.It configured my network automatically(amazing)and my printer.all was configured without any wizards or steps as i see in windows.
So the installation was soo smooth without any problems,and all the software which it as was already outdated so the first thing i need to do is that i need to update. so to do this i just typed symati update manager. and again a surprise it automatically installed the latest version of the software ..and it installed 245 software. so the next day when i gone through the UBUNTU.i did't find any compiz fustion software and i was need of it so i thought i need to install the compizi fustion
to be continued.....

VIRUS (alpha post)

This virus i s from our very own NIIT center residency road.AS i was inserting the usb it installed some software and made the system to reboot.But i did't care much about the virus as i thought i could use LINUX to to remove it .
BUT...star age thing hapen.it is not allowing to mount the USB.And justin also did his best to get that thing to remove..but i t is not allowing it and it says acess dened.
will be continued..................

Insert your USB pen drive. Let it get detected and mounted. Open Terminal. Type The Following commands 1. dmesg |tail –> here the ‘|’ key is the pipe, ie, the key before the backspace key(the upper one, so press shift) You’ll get something like

sathya@shaman:~$ dmesg |tail [ 9921.681164] sda: Write Protect is off [ 9921.681174] sda: Mode Sense: 23 00 00 00 [ 9921.681178] sda: assuming drive cache: write through [ 9921.709138] SCSI device sda: 4030464 512-byte hdwr sectors (2064 MB) [ 9921.720951] sda: Write Protect is off [ 9921.720963] sda: Mode Sense: 23 00 00 00 [ 9921.720967] sda: assuming drive cache: write through [ 9921.721225] sda: [ 9921.727896] sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi removable disk sda [ 9921.744187] sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0 Note the terms in bold. In your system it will be different, maybe sdb or something. Whatever it may be, make sure to substitute it in the commands below, else your hard disk may get formatted.

2. Unmount your pen drive by using sudo umount /dev/sda (In your case, please substitute sda with the appropriate device, listed above.

3. use the mkfs.vfat command to format to FAT32 filesystem, or mkfs.ext3 to format to ext3 filesystem sudo mkfs.vfat -n ‘Label’ -I /dev/sda Replace Label with the name you want the pen drive to have.

4. That’s it! When done formatting, you’ll be returned to the prompt sathya@shaman:~$ mkfs.vfat -n ’sathya’ -I /dev/sda mkfs.vfat 2.11 (12 Mar 2005) sathya@shaman:~$

Remove and insert the pen drive to have mounted again!

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assword: locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory [root@localhost ~]# sudo umount /dev/sdb1 [root@localhost ~]# sudo mkfs.vfat -n ‘Swaroop’ -I /dev/sdb1 mkfs.vfat 2.11 (12 Mar 2005) [root@localhost ~]#

Was the SMS alert was weird........... idea?

I have my problems with Sujay, but I have to say there's one thing you
can't fault the man for: sheer physical courage( hope fully ..sujay).

This is a man who had his first flirt in my college ,and talking about him he is my dearest friend ...thnks u dude for helping me in todays EDP.Without you i have no idea how will i be writing the "problems faced by small business"...guys this was the last question in the question paper....which carrys a wooping 20 marks ..and i am telling you frankly that i have asked him the answer.

PIN without the pain

As you all may know, Goolge have send a Personal
Identification Number (PIN) by standard mail when my account first reaches
$10 in earnings. This PIN is used to help verify My accounts and
addresses for security purposes.I often receive messages from publishers
concerned about what to look for in the mail, and when i can expect to
receive it.