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What is Ubuntu?

Ubuntu is a Linux distro, an open source product. Along with other competitors like Fedora, Red Hat ,Ubuntu has a special space among Linux users. Ubuntu is more suitable for newbies and developers. Like other Linuxes ,Ubuntu also possess its own feature. Let us have a look at the salient features of Ubuntu Useful Commands : apt-get - Call A dvanced P ackaging T ool. clear - Clears terminal screen cat [filename] - Opens the file in terminal cat > [filename] - Createsa file with name mentioned chmod - Change the mode of a file to read, write, execute, extract etc. gedit - Opens gnome editor gksudo [program name] - Open graphic interface of an application with administrator install - Install a package or a component pon - Trigger a dsl-connection poff - Turn of a dsl-connection plog -PPPOE Log file. sudo -To become an administration for that particular transaction / terminal session alone. privileges. synaptic - Open package installer vi - Opens VI editor Installing a

Hindu crossword puzzles

Crosswords, are one of the interesting puzzles. They give real work out to human brain. The specialty of crossword puzzles is , anyone can make a puzzle in the domain where he/she is strong in. Puzzle makers adopt their own architecture. For example, crossword puzzles in tamizh are very much simple, as they will always have direct questions. Similarly, crosswords puzzles which are put in Hindu Young world magazine are easier to solve with the help of a single dictionary. Likewise, they are no specific rules to device the puzzle grid.The only restriction is, all questions should adopt a protocol in common. Crossword Grid: The layout of Crossword is simple. It is just a square frame containing internal squares.The squares are represented in two colors. 1. White - called as Light 2. Black - called as Dark. Answers or the solutions must be filled in the Lights. All crossword puzzles provide at least two ways to complete the grid. 1. Filling the answers from Left to right. The clues will

Joomla - A Short Overview

Joomla ,a component management system . Web design has been made easy with these Component Management Systems abbreviated as CMS. The challenging part in web designing is not just the user interface , but other back end dealings like communication with the server, interaction with the data source and many more. Manual coding accomplished such tasks in olden days. Things become monotonous and complicated, when the user count started increasing. The technology desperately needed an automation. Many architectures, languages brought the automation in their ways. One of them is this Component Management Systems(CMS). One such famous CMS is Joomla . Joomla is an open source platform or can be called as a software. It can be downloaded from Joomla Homepage. Joomla follows a simple installation process which requires a little domain knowledge.It offers a fully customized control panel with multiple user support. Joomla carries a database named " Joomla " . So the back end has been oc

Maintaining a Hard Disk

Hard disk , usually called as Hard Disk Drive (HDD). The name is quite a controversy. Hard disk is not a hard component. A single shake in the reading head or a single drop of water is enough to make your hard disk to break down. Being a magnetic material, it has got many enemies around to spoil its health. 80% of hard disks fail due to improper power supply, especially in India where none of the houses have proper earthing. If your computer is receiving a bad power supply, then first thing that has a highest chance to get affected is your hard disk.So perform this check, before you connect your hard disk. Connect your CPU without Hard disk. Turn it on Take a tester and touch each and every spot in the cabinet. The tester light should never turn on.If the tester light glows, there is some problem with the power supply. Remember ,cabinet has nothing to do with you computer. You can make a computer run in a flat table. The cabinet just holds all your components in position.Connect the h

Total Video Convertor - Buggy?

The same fingers once praised Total video converter for it's versatility and functionality. But this time , the fingers are going to type something bad about it. I downloaded some good videos from my friend's computer. Wished to export them to my mobile, my hands stretched towards total video converter. A pretty simple task of converting a MPEG format file in to a 3GP file, ate an hour of my time. The reason is application crash . Whenever i clicked "Convert" , the application threw me different types of error. I can never blame my system as it is brand new with fresh copy of windows running. Then it should be in their side. This is a common problem with all software makers. As they elevate to higher versions and add more functionality, they end up with unpleasant bugs which hides the real features what they intended to present. Infected with Harish Syndrome

Windows Live Bug - Very Funny

I never used my windows live id for communication, as i feel comfortable with my gmail Id. After a long time, i was forced to use my windows live id, for accessing msdn forums. I tried signing up with my usual name harishsyndrome. I got an error, stating "Id Already Exists". Am sure no one uses the nick name harishsyndrome.So i tried recovering the password for harishsyndrome@live.com. I clicked recover password. The screen was as shown below Windows Live asks me to select an email id to which it would send the reset instruction. They are 1. harishsyndrome@live.com 2. Alternate email - I provided. The first option was shocking but funny at the same time. They are sending the password reset instructions to the email, for which i lost the password. How i can i open the email Id. Infected with Harish Syndrome