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Two folders that can be ccleaned automatically is the recycle bin and the Temporary Internet file folders. Both these are located on some directories or folders in your computer. These emergency to cleaned periodically. Now there is no way of telling your computer to clean only the recycle bin automatically. we must write a program and upload it on to the Windows Scheduler.

You program can be composed in Dos Script or in Visual Basic. All needs is to have is a line that deletes the Temporary Internet Files folder and the rrecycle bin. The next business is to tell the computer achieve this proggram everyday. If .bat file is used your program can be worn in as is where is condition. On the contrary if VB scripting is tempered to then the program needs to be converted to exe interfile composition.

Now we must upload the prrogram to the Scheduler. Windows has a scheduler which will fulfil programs automatically a given day / on the dot of the week/once or repeatedly.

We to delete the existinng files that are just now automaticcally. We cannot write an auto remove program based on size or age as we do not know if we command the files. So what we need to periodically copy antique and sized files on to another disk partition or on to a disk mounted on a drive. Now ages again we can use Visual Basic. One can use the File System Object and retrieve properties of old files and large sized files and can just principles a simple line which purpose copy full of years files and hefty files to another exclusive disk partition.

The thirrd issue is letting you know that there are some files waiting to be reviewed not later than you in front being deletedd. You can setup an e-mail wide awake benefit using Visual Basic and receive e-mail alerts some new files are copied on to the other disk partition. This has to be placed in the scheduler as well.

Now your self-acting program is almost ready. Now one has to physically efface the files. Just create spread sheet your exclusive backup partition drive and specially mark files that you do not want off. After this write another inadequate program inVisual Basic which will look through the contents of this spread sheet, obliterate all the files that you want to deleted and also delete recycle bin.

dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb // склонировали диск1 на диск2
dd if=/dev/sda of=~/disk1.img // склонировали диск1 в файл

dd if=/dev/sda1 of=/dev/sdb1 // склонировали 1 раздел 1ого диска в 1ый раздел 2ого диска

dd if=/dev/sda1 of=~/disk1_1.img // склонировали 1 раздел 1ого диска в файл

dd if=disk1.img of=/dev/sda // сделали восстановление из файла на диск.

dd if=disk2.img of=/dev/sda1 // сделали восстановление из файла на раздел

Бэкап диска в файл с архивированием “налету”
dd if=/dev/hda conv=sync,noerror bs=64K | gzip -c > /mnt/sda1/hda.img.gz //BS в идеале указывать размером кэша вашего диска, ну или чуток поменьше. например: BS=8M.

А вот так можно сделать бэкап без нулей !
dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/filetmp
rm /mnt/filetmp
dd if=/dev/xxx
gzip > image_file.gz

So I have to start from scratch!

I was trying two different methods of BACKUP for Ubuntu.

One was a humungous tar command which allegedly zips the entire system into a 1.6 gig tar file.

The other was something called simple backup which installed through synaptic manager.

The simple backup ran and created a folder /var/backup that could not be accessed without root privileges.

I could swear that I blogged elaborate notes about the tar backkup, but somehow that tar file winds up in root, and cannot be accessed except with admin root rights.

So, someone suggested that I issue in terminal

sudo nautilus

which would launch me into the file manager with super rights.

I got some error messages, but it did put me into file manager with rights, and it allowed me to delete that /backup.tar.gz file.

But when I rebooted, then I was getting this error:

THE CONFIG DEFAULTS FOR GNOME POWER MANAGER HAVE NOT BEEN INSTALLED CORRECTLY.

I searched for some way to boot into a rescue mode, but nothing worked.

So, I am starting all over, first with the Gnome partition program, except THIS TIME I am making root 10000 instead of 5000. I am leaving the swap-file partition at 5000 like the first time. I feel that I need a larger root.

Now, I keep re-running the ubuntu install and it keeps hanging. It may help now that I hit F4 and used the SAFE GRAPHICS MODE.

IF and when I get a fresh Ubuntu install, then I have the option to try and unzip that one tar backup which I have. On the one hand, it is taking me so long to do the install, that I am afraid that the tar restore will not work, and I will be back at the beginning. On the other hand, when will I ever try the tar unzip restore to know that it is reliable?

For some reason, the Ubuntu install keeps dying, hanging. So, I went back into the Gnome partition software and tried making everything ext4 format instead of ext3. And I made /home half the size and added a 4th partititon called /extra.

Might as well experiment with different things.

Suddenly, Ubuntu is coming right up! I guess it likes ext4 better than ext3!?

ubuntu install manual pdf ext4

Here are some odd differences from my first experience:

As the install began, I plugged in my Belkin USB WiFi adapter, and Ubuntu INSTANTLY recognized it without having to bother with ndiswrapper!

As the install advanced, it showed me the partitions I created with Gnome Partition Manager, and then said THERE IS NO OPERATING SYSTEM DO YOU WANT TO USE THE ENTIRE DISK. So, I said yes, and I guess it is creating its own root and swap.

It occurs to me that I do not DARE try that old tar file restore, for the simple reason that the previous install was NOT ext4.

So if I do anything at all, it should be to immediately try a complete backup and then a restore right now with the tar method.

I do think the install goes better if I press F4 and choose the safe monitor mode.

During my first install, I wasted tons of time on various problems.

I did not realize that I had an obsolete mouse that did not function correctly, so that made things difficult during the initial partitioning and installation.

I spent tons of time trying to make ethernet cable work, but now I know that it is best for me to stick with WiFi.

And I spent a lot of time in vain trying to use ndiswrapper for the Belkin, when it is recognized automatically.

This time around, I did something a little different when the install finished. Instead of clicking on REBOOT, I clicked on CONTINUE TESTING which simply means that I can go to update manager, and install some things, which seems to make more sense then immediately rebooting.

The Update Manager said I was up to date but when I clicked on SEARCH for updates, it found many, and is installing them now.

I do notice that there is an error message to the effect that some of the drive is not formatted. I may take courage and try to correct that now. Once a week or two of work has gone by, I wont have the courage to possibly make a mistake. But if I am going to address the problem/question, now is the time.

Oddly enough, when I removed the install disc, shut down, and then rebooted from the hard drive, the Belkin WiFi was not recognized until I unplugged it and then plugged it back in, and then I had to reenter the WEP key.

I am redoing the UPDATE downloads. They had some trouble when I was in the CONTINUE TESTING mode. And the SHUTDOWN icon that I added to the launch pad was not there when I rebooted.

My UPDATES just now finished ok. The very next thing I will do is add TERMINAL to the launch pad, and enter the command

sudo tasksel

arrow down to highlight LAMP (Linux Apache MySQL PhP)

AND PRESS SPACE BAR TO CHECK IT FOR INSTALL

AND THEN tab down to and press enter.

This is the easiest and most straight-forward way to get MySQL database engine, Apache webserver, and PhP dynamic HTML to interact with the SQL database.

It prompts me for the password for the MySQL user and then verifies the password. Next I will go to synaptic manager and install phpmyadmin. I key in phpmy in the search field and it jumps right to phpmyadmin. I mark it for install. During the install it asks me if I want apache2 (which I do) or lighttpd (which I DO NOT).

Next, in Firefox, I key in localhost/phpmyadmin

It prompts me for the user which this first time should be root, and the password.

Now that you are in as Admin, you must add your own user name (I use bryan in honor of my step-son) and give all possible rights.
So, click on PRIVILEGES and go down to ADD NEW USER.
I leave the default of ANY HOST, I click on CHECK ALL for privileges

and I check CREATE DATABASE WITH SAME NAME AND GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES. After all, I can always go back and add a different user name, with different privileges if need be.

I add GEDIT to the launch pad, and paste and save the SQL code generated to create the new user and save it to the desktop.

Then, I exit from phpmyadmin by going to the little icons in the upper left which are hard to see, and clicking on EXIT.

Next, I want to set up Evolution email and add my two Gmail accounts.

I notice that the first thing Evolution offers to me is an opportunity to restore from a backup file. I should have made such a backup. But I will in the future.

In order to set up the two Gmail accounts, I had to experiment quit a bit to guess at the proper settings.

Whenever you launch EVOLUTION email client in Ubuntu, you may click on Edit-> Preferences and see the various email accounts that you are attached to.

The two TRICKY tags are SENDING EMAIL and RECEIVING EMAIL

For a Gmail account, in the RECEIVING EMAIL, you want to specify
Server: pop.gmail.COM
Username: (whatever your email user name like superman or wonderwoman if you prefer i.e. whatever name you chose to go in your address like MYFREAKINGNAME@gmail.com but leave out the @gmail.com part for this field and just enter the NAME)

Use secure connection: SSL encryption
Authentication type: PASSWORD

and you may experiment with checking the REMEMBER ME box to see which you might prefer.

The SENDING EMAIL is configured as follows for Gmail:

Server type: SMPT
Beneath this option check the box for SERVER AUTHENTICATION REQUIRED.

Server: smpt@gmail.com

Use Secure Connection: SSL encryption

Type: Login

And you may experiment with checking and unchecking the REMEMBER PASSWORD box to see what suits your need.

Username: (here you put your user name as above – e.g. superman, wonderwoman)

NOW I test out my first gmail by sending a message to my second gmail that I am about to add.

I will be prompted twice for the password, once to receive mail, and once to send.

Then I click on EDIT and Preferences to ADD A SECOND GMAIL ACCOUNT.

The first time it took me an hour or two to figure out the correct email settings. It is very fortunate that I took the time to write everything down.

Next, I want to go to the synaptic manager and install Konversation for IRC chat in the Ubuntu forum.

I have already registered my name there as WilliamBuell.

During this second install, I found it handy to refer to http://delicious.com/billbuell to see some of the many bookmarks I have saved.

The install time for all these packages adds up to a lot of time, in addition to the efforts to configure them, and everything depends upon these elaborate notes.

Once the install is done, I go to APPLICATIONS, INTERNET and I will see Konversation there. I right click on it and add it to the Launch pad which is the bar accross the top of my desktop.

I click on Konversation and click EDIT, and then next to IDENTITY where it says DEFAULT IDENTITY I click EDIT. I remove any names that might be there and put WilliamBuell

at the bottom under service I put nickserv and then I enter my password. NOTE one has to have registered a name with nickserv before this will work.
I click on Away and Advanced and place my wordpress url in the part and quit messages, but I dont know if that will work or if it is permitted.

Now that Konversation is set up, I will install EMPATHY, the chat client for AIM, MSN, ICQ, Yahoo, etc.

I say YES I want to enter my new account details NOW, and click FORWARD.

First I add my two gmail accounts
williambuell and literarydiscussions
, and at the bottom, make certain that YES I WANT TO ADD MORE is clicked.

Next I add my AOL chat identity literarytalks
Then I add MSN bill_buell@hotmail.com
Next, ICQ
and finally Yahoo literarydiscussions

Well I guess I have restored enough of Ubuntu for today since it is almost 7:00 am

Just before I went to sleep, I stumbled across an Ubuntu forum in India, so I joined and posted a link to this blog

http://forum.ubuntu-in.info/forum/general-support

Via http://osxdaily.com/2009/11/20/resize-partitions-in-mac-os-x-with-disk-utility/ :

Met de meegeleverde applicatie Disk Utility (onder /Applications/Utilities of  /Programma’s/Hulpprogramma’s) is het erg eenvoudig om HFS+ (Mac OS X) partities live te vergroten of te verkleinen. Werkt met Mac OS X Leopard (10.5) en Mac OS X Snow Leopard (10.6). Klik op bovenstaand figuur voor demo.

Sorry for the lack of updates, guys. Stress has gotten to me, along with whatever germ I ingested.

I am taking my mind off my dissertation by reading a little subcontinental history. Bad idea. Now I’m just depressed. I’ve been reading about Partition – one of the most painful things in the world to read about, because it was wrong on so many levels. Jinnah’s vision of Pakistan was identical – identical - to Nehru’s vision of India. Others in the Muslim League were calling for an Islamic state, perhaps, but Jinnah and Nehru had the same secular ideas for their nations. And yet Partition happened. The subcontinent was suddenly full of murderers and rapists as neighbors turned on each other. People fled their ancestral homes where they’d lived for centuries with Hindu and Muslim neighbors. Trains looked like slaughterhouses. Two unstable new nations – Pakistan being especially unstable – were formed in blood and gore.

The entire culture of the subcontinent changed when Pakistan and India were created. In the end, today’s Pakistan is nothing like what Jinnah envisioned in the first place. Pakistan is emphatically The Islamic Republic of Pakistan, but maybe it wouldn’t have been if the Congress and the Muslim League had just learned to get along, and maybe then thousands of people wouldn’t have died, and maybe then Jinnah and Nehru’s identical vision of a secular, democratic nation would have been realized without breaking the subcontinent apart…

Same old, same old. I have actually felt depressed about this for years, but reading about Partition just now made the tragedy come back to me in full force.

Indian history is big steaming pile of Really Heavy Emotional Baggage.

Reformatting your WINDOWS XP computer will erase everything on your hard drive and reinstall the operating system. To avoid losing your data (documents, pictures, music, etc.), you will want to backup your information prior to reformatting.

See the ITS Help Desk Personal Data Backup Support Center for more information. After you have reformatted your computer, you will need to reinstall all of your personal data, as well as any software products you may use (i.e. Microsoft Office, iTunes, Symantec AntiVirus, etc.).

Reformatting your Windows XP computer has three main parts:

• Reformatting the computer from your operating system CD.

• Reinstalling the drivers that came with your computer.

• Running Windows Update to reinstall all security updates and patches.

Please contact the ITS Help Desk (384-4357) prior to reformatting your computer if you have questions about any of these processes involved.

NOTE: If you have a network connection, please unplug from the network before starting installation.

1. First, make sure that your computer is set to Boot to CD.  This is a different procedure depending on your computer. When your computer boots first, look for an option to enter the BIOS settings.  Under the BIOS settings, find the “Boot Order” and make sure the CD-ROM is set to boot first.  If you have any problems with this please contact the ITS Help Desk at 319-384-HELP.

2. With the Windows XP CD in the CD-ROM drive, save your BIOS settings and exit.

3. If you’ve done everything correctly you should be asked to “Press any key to Boot from CD”.

4. After installing the necessary setup files, Windows XP will display your partitions.  Delete any existing partitions by selecting the desired partition with the arrow keys, press D to delete and then L to confirm the deletion.

5. You should now have only one option, “Unpartitioned Space”.  Press Enter to install Windows XP to the unpartitioned space.

6. When asked how you would like to format the partition, select “Format using the NTFS file system”.

7. After the partition is formatted, Windows XP will begin installation;  The computer will reboot.  While the computer is rebooting, DO NOT TOUCH ANY KEYS.  From now on, the screens will look like the following:

8. Enter your Windows XP Product Key.  If you purchased Windows XP from the IMU Bookstore, the product key will be located on the back of the sleeve your CD came in.  If you are reformatting using a Windows XP CD that came with your computer, the product key may be located on a sticker somewhere on your computer case.

9. When asked for Network Settings, choose “Typical Settings”.

10. Windows XP will now complete installation.  Upon completion, you will need to reinstall the drivers for your hardware (i.e. Modem, Audio/Video, Webcam, Printer, etc).  Many PC companies such as DELL, GATEWAY, and HP will include a “Driver Installation CD” with the computer.  Simply insert the CD and follow the instructions.  Otherwise, you can download current drivers from many manufacturer’s support websites. If you have any problems please contact the ITS Help Desk at 319-384-HELP.

11. Next turn on the Internet Connection Firewall.  Instructions to turn on the Internet Connection Firewall can be found here.

12. Reconnect your computer to the Network.

13. Run Windows Update by opening Internet Explorer,  then clicking on Tools -> Windows Update.  Follow the on-screen instructions for installing critical updates.

14. Restart your computer.

15. FINISH.

Obama should know Kashmir’s accession is irrevocable
J. N. RAINA

A lot of fuss has been created about Kashmir. It is a deliberate attempt to confuse the international opinion about the ‘ownership’ of Kashmir.The U S Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s obfuscatory remarks that “feelings of the people of Kashmir” must be taken into account to resolve the issue, tantamount to interference in India’s internal affairs. She must understand that Jammu and Kashmir, constituting the three regions of Kashmir, Jammu and Ladakh, is an integral part of India, just like Texas—where feeble voices of secession were heard recently— belongs to US.

The Obama administration has even gone to the extent of ‘admonishing’ India to provide a ‘solution’ to the so-called Kashmir ‘problem’. These tangy observations are made off and on by fusspots, not just to baffle global opinion about Kashmir, but to force another partition of India and beleaguered Pakistan. The latter has already got truncated, following the separation of East Pakistan, to become Bangladesh. The real motif behind these pungent remarks cannot be underestimated. There has been no end to machinations against India, ever since the subcontinent was divided by the imperialists in 1947. The root cause of partition was the “clash of civilization”.

Both Mrs Clinton and President Barack Obama must take a judicious view of the fact that Kashmir ‘problem’ was resolved when Maharaja Hari Singh executed the instrument of accession on October 26, 1947. The accession was formally accepted and signed by Lord Mountbatten on the following day; October 27, 1947, in his capacity as the Governor General of India.

At the dawn of India’s independence, the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir, like 560 other such states, had a choice to either join India or Pakistan. When the British paramountacy came to an end, the Maharaja had no alternative but to accede to India, in the wake of Pakistan-backed Tribal invasion. However, he consulted then popular leader Sheikh Abdullah, who subsequently took over the reins of the administration.

Any form of ‘secession’, being engineered by Pakistan, in collusion with some foreign forces, can lead to a greater clash of civilization, which can have far reaching consequences globally. It will have a cascading effect in the western nations, which are already on Osama bin Laden’s hit list. Laden has threatened American Christians to embrace Islam. He is acquiring nuclear weapons. It was 9\11 that changed the world, according to Italy’s ambassador to India, Roberto Toscano. “Clash of civilizations has left the sphere of scholarly debate to become a familiar reference”, he says.

Pakistan has been provoking the Kashmiri separatists and misleading the international community that Kashmir ‘is a disputed territory’ and Kashmiris were ‘waging a struggle for their right of self-determination’. Plebiscite is a dead issue. It was buried in the Indian Ocean when Bangladesh emerged, following the 1971 war between India and Pakistan. Now Pakistan is seeking the services of Barack Obama, to get Kashmir on a platter. The U S has a vested interest in Afghanistan. This is why India is being pressurized to obtain Kashmiris opinion while the two countries resume talks. The U S Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs has repeatedly said: “Any resolution of Kashmir has to take into account the wishes of the Kashmiri people.”

Pakistan has been supporting the secessionists in Kashmir, because it is a Muslim-majority state, although the divide between Hindus and Muslims is not so wide. By dint of that very notion, East Pakistan would not have separated in 1971 war. India is united because of its huge diversity. It is the system of governance that matters.

The Kashmir issue would have been non-existent, but for mass conversion of Hindus in the 14th century. Kashmir was a Hindu kingdom till 1320. The civilizational clash, or whatever we may call it, continues even now. The flash point reached when over half a million Hindus were driven out from Kashmir in 1990.

Most member –nations of the UN General Assembly believe that the right to ‘self-determination’ applied only to people under colonial domination by foreigners. India is not a colonial power. Kashmir’s accession is legal and irrevocable. The UN has observed that ‘self-determination’ cannot be allowed to “dismember or impair, totally or in part, the territorial integrity of sovereign states, conducting themselves in compliance with the principle of equal rights…” Some members of the United Nations Committee on India and Pakistan observe “Mere technicality of holding a plebiscite seemed beyond the scope of reality.” Kashmiri Muslims are not being discriminated. In Pakistan, even Muslims are discriminated, not to speak of Hindus. Kashmiri Muslims are being misled by vested interests. They have no right to secede. The Security Council, according to political observers, has recognized the accession of Jammu and Kashmir, while accepting India’s complaint against Pakistan in 1948.

Says veteran journalist and writer M J Akbar, “There is some good news for Hillary Clinton. The Kashmir problem has already been solved. It was solved on January 1, 1948, the day India and Pakistan froze their troops along a Cease Fire Line, recognized by the United Nations”. Kashmiri opinion has been ascertained from time to time whenever elections were held. Only recently, Kashmiri Muslims exercised their franchise overwhelmingly, ignoring the boycott call of the pro-Pakistan Hurriyat Conference and the guns of militants.

When the Shimla accord was signed after the 1971 war, the Cease Fire Line was converted into the Line of Control (LoC). Some saner persons suggested to convert the LoC—de facto border—into the de jure one, making it an international border, although it will be difficult for India to forgo its claim to Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir (PoK), which is legally a part of India.

The U S as a ‘friend’ of both the countries can play a constructive role in making them to agree to convert the de facto border into the de jure border. But instead, it is provoking Pakistan and the separatists, to keep the Kashmir pot boiling, by making frequent references to the so-called Kashmir ‘problem’, which actually does not exist.

US shows eagerness to develop good relations with New Delhi; yet it has been arm-twisting India on Kashmir. The Obama administration has signalled that it would take ‘markedly a different approach’ to Kashmir from the previous Bush administration. Some time ago, Obama had decided to appoint a ‘special envoy’ for Kashmir. The US might fastidiously pass on some modern technologies to India, as a bargaining factor, but not without attaching strings.

The rub is, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has been keeping mum and not reacting to such verbose. India can never bargain on Kashmir. The U S wants to weaken India, asking it to demilitarize Kashmir though it knows Pakistan has a well-established ‘proxy force’ placed across the LOC to bleed India.

I worked 20 hours straight to prepare an old Gateway tower with 280 gig drive for an Ubuntu 9.10 install. The Gateway was hopelessly unbootable in Windows because of some operating system problem (not hardware problem). I realized that I should drop down to C: and type format, to just reformat the entire drive which took about 30 minutes. I forgot that I should have typed FDISK first, to set up the necessary partitions, but it was too late.

I downloaded an ISO image for GNOME partition and burned it to a bootable CD.

I booted the GNOME partition utility. It took me literally hours to guess at what I should do.

Finally I realized that Ubuntu expects THREE partitions. The first is referred to as ROOT but the actual name you give it in the partition process is simpl “/” (forward slash omitting the double quotes).

The second partition will have NO name, but you will designate its format TYPE as swapfile, and that will become the system swap file.
The third partition is called /home.

I had no idea how much space to allocate, so I gave 512 for root and 512 for swap, and the huge remaineder for /home.

The software warned me that root and swap were too small. Just for the heck of it, I changed root and swap to 5000, and it worked.

Then it took me dozens of tries installing Ubuntu. I had a 2008 Ubuntu disc and a 9.10 disc I had created last week. Time after time, I would boot from each one, say INSTALL UBUNTU, and it would chug away for a long time, and then die with no messages. FINALLY, but why or how I dont know, the 9.10 unstall brought up an Ubuntu desktop with what looked like all kinds of error messages. There were TWO icons on the desktop which I had never seen before. One said EXAMPLES which I never looked at. I was about to give up in dispair when I decided to click on the icon marked Ubuntu. AS IT TURNS OUT, that is the icon which COMPLETES the install process, and it first brings you into its OWN partition software. I cant exactly remember what I did next. I do remember that GNOME partition utility offered me literally 20 DIFFERENT format types to choose from for each partition (one of which is swap-file). I had no clue what to choose. I did some google searching on my other machine (and you NEED a windows machine attached to the internet to look these things up). I discovered that format type ext3 is good for Debian Linux (and Ubuntu is a flavor of Debian) so I went with ext3.

Finally, I had a working bootable pure Ubuntu 9.10 machine.

My next Sisyphean agony task was to connect it to the Internet. The tower already had an Ethernet card. I was informed that IF I connected a cable from the ethernet to the router, then Ubuntu would automatically sense the ethernet connection and configure it. The ethernet board DID light up and pulse when I connected the cable to my Westell router. But Ubuntu never recognized it. Later I read that only certain ethernet cards will be automatically recognized, so I guess the one in my tower was not a compatible one. My next choice was to try and get my Belkin USB WiFi adapter working. I went to ADMINISTRATION -> SYNAPTIC PACKAGE MANAGER and keyed ndiswrapper into the search. I was prompted to place the Ubuntu install cd into my drive. It kept giving me errors. I placed my Belkin adapter install cd in the drive and looked around for the ini driver file, but could not see it. Finally, out of despair, I plugged the Belkin wifi adapter into the USB and LIKE MAGIC Ubuntu recognized it, asked me to choose a connection and enter the WEP key, which I have now done many times with other machines and during the Wubi Ubuntu install on Windows. So now I had a working Ubuntu machine connected to the Internet.

I went to J&R computer store up the street and found a $10 USB 4 gig memory stick by http://www.dane-elec.com which is REALLY cheap. I recently discovered that the Sancor memory sticks that I love actually have a lot of SOFTWARE on them, which only works under windows, AND if you have a password set on the device, then Ubuntu wont even read it.

I had to go into synaptic manager and search on usb for some installs. Again, it was trial and error, and I dont know what finally made it work, but finally, Ubuntu recognized the memory stick.

TODAY, I had to meet my step-son near at Borders Book Store next to Penn Station. This was lucky for me, because while I waited for him, I browsed the computer book section on the second floor. I found a $9 small Linux handbook reference of commands by Daniel J. Barrett (O Reilly publishers) so I got that to practice all the hundreds of Linux commands that I dont know but need to know.

I browse various books on Ubuntu and Mysql.

I found the key thing I needed to know for my next project, to install LAMP (Linux Apache MySQL PhP) on my new Ubuntu desktop.

All one needs to do is enter TERMINAL, and key in

sudo tasksel

(you will be prompted for your system password next)

A task selection window will pop up with many packages available for install, one of which is LAMP. Now here is a mystery that took me an hour to solve. You can arrow down to highlight LAMP, but you dont have a clue in the world as to how to CHECK it for install. Google revealed the secret: YOU SIMPLY PRESS THE SPACE BAR AND IT IS MARKED CHECKED FOR INSTALL. Then you press ENTER and the install proceeds, Apache, MySQL and PhP. You will be prompted for the MySQL admin password.

Next I wanted to install phpmyadmin to administrate mysql, creating databases, tables, etc. I went to SYSTEM-> Synaptic Manager and searched on phpmyadmin. I think there is only one. BUT HERE IS A SECRET. Once your LAMP install finishes, then power down and boot back up; otherwise, certain files will remain locked by processes and the phpmyadmin install will fail.

Once phpmyadmin installs (and you will again be prompted for that pesky password), then you can open firefox and key in http://localhost/phpmyadmin

You will be PROMPTED FOR A USER NAME AND PASSWORD. This is tricky and confusing. You have to key in the user name “root” without quotes, and then give the password that you have been using all along throughout this. Now you are in phpmyadmin, and you can go to Privileges, and create a new user and give him all possible privileges.

Then, I found a $50 book, also by O’Reilly, entitled
“Head First – PHP & MySQL”. THIS book looks like the perfect way to teach myself how to develop php mysql applications which will have proper security (which is a very complex topic).

I didnt purchase that book tonight, because I wanted to come home and see first if I could sucessfully install LAMP and phpmyadmin, which I just now finished.

The Head First book gave me links to try the book on line free for 45 days. Money is kind of tight, so I decided to see how far I can go without any additional purchases, but if I get things working, I will buy the book one day. It is interesting that O’Reilly also offers a link to an on line university which can grant degrees in computer science.

I signed up at Oreilly for a trial access of the electronic version of the above-mentioned book.

Here is something I tried which crashed my Ubuntu. I wanted to copy the introduction to the book, from the OReilly site, and PASTE it into an Open Office Document. The first time Open Office died, and the file was shown as requiring recovery. I did the recovery, opened it again with Open Office Document, and then the whole Ubuntu system crashed. I rebooted, and had to go through a long complicated reconstruct procedure. I thought perhaps I would have to install everything from scratch, but fortunately, Ubuntu repaired itself. Moral to story is paste into GEDIT and save, which I guess eliminates whatever hidden characters are in the webpage which cause Open Office to crash the system.

There, I found a link to download all the source code from the book.

I downloaded the zipped file of all the source code.

Next, I went to the source code for chapter 1. They have a beginnning version (which I guess you make changes to, and then a final version).

I tried to copy and paste report.html to var/www which is where apache wants to find pages loaded from local host. I was not allowed to paste because I do not have superuser priviliges. So, I went to terminal and typed SUDO GEDIT, which gets me into gedit with super powers, so I can now navigate to the unzipped code in my DOCUMENTS in a special folder I created, open report.html, then do a save as to var/www.

THIS WORKED, because now, when I open Firefox and key in localhost/report , it runs the Chapter 1 example webpage.

FOR MY NEXT TRICK, I must figure out how to copy a chapter 1 tutorial image of a dog (fang.jpg) from the location where it unzipped (in a folder in my Documents) and copy it into var/www where I do not have Admin privileges. SO, I open my OReilly handbook of Linux commands and find the CP command. I open a TERMINAL session and key in SUDO CP which I know will executed it with super admin privileges, but NOW I do not have a clue as to what the PATH names are for the file source and destination.

I am permitted to copy fang.jpg from the unzipped file into DOCUMENTS, just to simplify things.

Using PLACES -> COMPUTER, which brings up the FILE BROWSER, I first navigate to home/Documents and I RIGHT CLICK on the fang.jpg image, and click on PROPERTIES which will SHOW ME that the path is
/home/bryan/Documents/fang.jpg (I use bryan as my user name, but that is my step-son’s name). Next I do the same right click trick on any file which is already in var/www such as report.html, and I discover THAT path, which tells me that the command I should issue in TERMINAL is

sudo cp /home/bryan/Documents/fang.jpg var/www/fang.jpg

BUT IT HANGS… NOTHING HAPPENS.

Then I realize that I should close my other applications, because they are somehow LOCKING UP something that the CP command needs. Sure enough, once I close a bunch of applications, the SUDO CP command asks me for the PASSWORD and then copies fang.jpg to var/www

I can now bring up the image by opening Firefox and typing

localhost/fang.jpg

into the browser address field.

NOW that fang.jpg is in var/www, if I once again open Firefox and type
localhost/report.html

the exercise 1 page loads and also shows the picture of the little dog fang.jpg

I still need to copy report.php and style.css from the place where they unzipped to var/www. Since I can launch gedit with sudo and have superadmin powers, I may open them in that fashion and do a save as.

I ran the finished example, hoping that it would actually send me an email.

I realized that I must examine my php.ini and somehow reconfigure it. I went to some pains to locate that file, but did not post notes as I went, and now I must reconstruct what I did. I still have not succeeded in getting the app to actually send an email through php. But I feel it is more essential for me to move on to other lessons in the HEAD FIRST book.

Saroj Khan is one of Bollywood’s most reputed choreographers. She has choreographed more than 200 movies so far. Saroj Khan is born on November 22^nd 1949 in Pakistan. She migrated to India after the partition, now settled in Mumbai. Saroj Khan started her career in Gulzar’s Mausam (1975) when she was working as an independent choreographer. He got her break through in the movie Hero. Later rose to fame in Sridevi’s snake dance in the movie “Nagina”, Madhuri Dixit’s Ek Do Teen dance number from movie Tezaab and Choli Ke Peeche dance from Khalnayak. She has won Filmfare Awards eight times and National Film Award thrice and American Choreography Award for the movie Lagaan. She is currently hosting and judging a talent show in NDTV Imagine titled “Nachle Ve with Saroj Khan”.

If your system is slowly grinding to a halt, and multitasking is a nightmare, you may need to check your swap is in use. If you’re experiencing non-stop, furious hard drive activity resulting from even the most simplest tasks (like clicking another tab in your browser, or even something basic like minimising an app), with things you’ve initiated taking 2 minutes or more to appear, then open a terminal and enter top.

You’ll see “Swap” near the beginning, and if the total is 0k (that’s zero kilobytes), then that means your swap has been deactivated for some reason. To enable it again, start the Partition Editor (found in System > Administration; if it isn’t installed, enter sudo apt-get install gparted in a terminal to do so).

Locate linux-swap, right-click it, and choose Swapon. Your swap partition should now be in use, but if you have further hassles, it might pay to reformat (or even delete) the swap with GParted (ie: Partition Editor). To format it again, just right-click the swap and choose Format > linux-swap.

In case the swap appears on (even if not working), you will need to Swapoff to get the Format options. Similarly, if you decide to delete the swap and start again, you might need to turn it off first so the Delete option is available. The swap can then be recreated with the unallocated space it left when deleted, which you would then format as linux-swap.

Memang, untuk partisi 64-bit, aplikasi pengaturan partisi dari pihak ketiga tidaklah sebanyak untuk partisi 32-bit.  Untungnya, untuk operasi sederhana semisal mengubah ukuran partisi, Windows Vista sudah menyediakan alat bantu. Jadi Anda tidak perlu repot mengunduh aplikasi pengatur partisi untuk sekedar mengubah ukuran partisi 64-bit Anda.

Baik, mari kita mulai. Langkah pertama, lakukan proses defrag pada harddisk Anda agar ruang harddisk lebih tertata dan lebih maksimal.  Untuk melakukan proses defrag, jalankan program Disk Defragmenter melalui Start » Accessories » System Tools » Disk Defragmenter.

Setelah proses defrag selesai, kini kita jalankan program Disk Management. Klik tombol Start dan ketikkan Disk Management pada lajur pencarian. Anda juga dapat mencapainya melalui Control Pane » Administrative Tools » Computer Management » Disk Management.

Klik pada pilihan Storage dan pilih drive yang ingin Anda ubah. Klik kanan pada partisi Anda kemudian pilih Shrink Partition. Disk Management akan menghitung seberapa besar ruang harddisk yang bisa diperkecil. Kemudian Anda bisa menentukan seberapa banyak ruang harddisk yang akan Anda perkecil. Untuk memperbesar, pilih opsi Extend Partition. Ingat untuk selalu menyediakan ruang ekstra pada drive C: untuk menjaga performa komputer tetap maksimal.

Apabila Anda ingin membuat partisi baru dari hasil Anda memperkecil partisi, tinggal klik kanan pada ruang kosong yang dihasilkan dan pilih Create Partition. Nah, semoga tips kecil dari maximumpc ini berguna bagi Anda yang ingin mengatur partisi pada sistem 64-bit.

Instructions
Things You’ll Need:
• PC with Windows
1. Step 1
Open Computer Management
Navigate to Start Menu > Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Computer Management. You will need administrative privileges to continue (not a problem for most people).
2. Step 2
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This appeal is from “Citizens of Pakistan”. I have always raised my voice on Baloch issue, my readers know about it. I have reservations on the ideology and working of SACW . First of all Pakistan has got no “citizen”, an Ahmedi is not citizen a woman is not citizen.  I think we dont need to be apologetic, Muhammed Ali Jinnah was not a “champion of  Kalat’s freedom” that is not right. The facts given are right but context is not clear. Mr Jinnah did plead Kalat’s case. He was attorney of Khan of Kalat and was receiving fee for that. It was Muhammed Ali jinnah who annexed Kalat once he received a telegram from Commonwealth office in London warning Pakistan about dangers of “independent Kalat”. Apparently Jinnah didnt see any conflict of interest in his role as attorney of Kalat and later Governor General of Pakistan when he adopted the same policy against which he fought on behalf of  Khan of Kalat. we dont need to make Jinnah champion of  every thing , especially not of Baloch cause because it simply will alienate Balochs further who know these things on their finger tips. The appeal can be reached here.

Shaheryar Ali

We the citizens of Pakistan must express solidarity with the people of Balochistan

Dear friends,

Balochistan is burning and needs our special and urgent attention. For the fifth time the people of Balochistan have been forced to take up arms as an expression of defiance against their continued exploitation. Each time the state of Pakistan embarked on military action to crush the resistance rather than to seek a reconciliation with the Baloch.

The state atrocities on the people of Balochistan have now reached unbearable proportions. So many have faced extrajudicial killings. Thousands of young men have disappeared at the hand of state agencies. Common people are being humiliated everyday by the Pakistani law enforcement agencies. Most young men in Balochistan have become totally alienated from Pakistan. If we continue to keep quiet we will commit a gross injustice to our Balochistani brothers and sisters. We must speak up now.

We the citizens of Pakistan must express solidarity with the people of Balochistan. The enclosed statement is meant to do just that. It also suggests steps that we the citizens feel the government must take in this regard.

We are approaching you to seek your help in this campaign.

A web-based signature portal is also being created. But we are all aware that as a vast majority of Pakistani citizens do not have access to such portals. Hence a need for signatures on a printed statement. The statement is in both English and Urdu, and we would deeply appreciate if some friends translate and print it in other languages, and get signatures.

Please join the campaign by collecting the maximum possible number of signatures on the statement, beginning with the members of your organization but also reaching out to as many others as possible. After obtaining these signatures, please mail the signed copies of the statement to the address printed at the bottom of the statement (P. O. Box 3395, GPO Islamabad).

Please read below some facts about Balochistan that highlight the reasons underlying the intense resentment among the common people of Balochistan.

Economic Deprivation of Baloch People

• 18 out of the 20 most infrastructure-deprived districts in Pakistan are in Balochistan.

• The percentage of districts that are classified as high deprivation stands as follows: 29 per cent in Punjab, 50 per cent in Sindh, 62 per cent in the NWFP, and 92 per cent in Balochistan. If Quetta and Ziarat are excluded, all of Balochistan falls into the high deprivation category. And Quetta’s ranking would fall if the cantonment is excluded from the analysis.

• The percentage of population living in a high degree of deprivation stands at 25 per cent in Punjab, 23 per cent in urban Sindh, 49 per cent in rural Sindh, 51 per cent in the NWFP, and 88 per cent in Balochistan”.

• Province’s 48 percent of the total population lives below poverty line whereas 26 percent in Punjab, NWFP 29 percent, and 38 percent urban and 27 percent rural population in Sindh.

• The national literacy rate in Pakistan is 50 percent, the province has 23 percent literacy rate with only 7 percent female literacy rate.

• Only 4 out of total 30 districts have gas supply while the province has been a major producer of gas for the total domestic, commercial and industrial needs of the country from early 50s. The capital of the province, Quetta, was provided gas in 1986.

• 78 percent population has no electricity.

• 79 percent has no gas facility while the province has a very low gas consumption of the country especially as compared to 64 percent of Punjab.

Mega development projects

• The local population remains largely deprived of the benefits of mega development projects such as Gwadar port, Mirani dam, Kachhi canal, coastal highway, cantonments, and Pasni oil refinery plant etc.

• Mostly outsiders benefit from such development schemes. The province has witnessed an influx of more than 5 million people to Gwadar port and other development areas.

• Non-Baloch technicians and workers are hired while Balochs are only hired as unskilled workers.

• Out of 1200 employees at Saindak copper-gold project, only 50 belong to Balochistan. Similarly, 130 engineers from Balochistan were trained at Karachi to be employed at Gwadar Port but they were denied jobs.

• Land developers and investors from outside Balochistan are allowed purchase of Balochistan land.

Conflict-generating history

• The current military operation in Balochistan is the fifth in the series. The first one was in 1948, the second in 1958, the third in 1962, the fourth in 1973. All the operations were to curb resistance to interference from the Central Government.

• Historically, Balochistan or Kalat has never been a part of Indian state.

• After the British conquered a part of the State of Kalat in 1839, the British pledged to respect the independence of Kalat and also gave it subsidies to maintain local loyalty for protecting British interests.

• Mir Ahmed Yar Khan and the people of Balochistan supported the movement for the creation of Pakistan but at the same time they envisioned Kalat as a separate, independent and sovereign state after the departure of British from India.

• Quaid-I-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah himself was the champion of independence and sovereignty of Kalat. In 1946, Mr. Jinnah pleaded before the Cabinet Mission for complete independence and sovereignty for Kalat as it existed before the agreements and treaties of 1841, 1854 and 1876 with the British. The Marri and Bugti Tumandars also joined the plea demanding their regions to be included with the Kalat federation. Quaid-i-Azam won the case.

• Thus Kalat and Pakistan signed a standstill agreement on 4th August 1947 in which Pakistan recognized Kalat as an independent sovereign state, while future relations between Kalat and Pakistan regarding defense, external affairs and communications were to be negotiated later.

• While Pakistan announced its independence on 14 of August 1947, Kalat announced its independence on the very next day, 15 August 1947.

• But soon after independence, Kalat was pressurized to merge itself with Pakistan in the ‘interests of both’.

• The Khan of Kalat refused to agree and tabled this desire of Pakistan in the Kalat State Houses of Parliament, Dar-ul-Umra and Dar-ul-Awam, which unanimously refused to merge Kalat with Pakistan. However they partially agreed to have an agreement with Pakistan for having a joint currency, defense and external affairs while keeping Kalat an independent and sovereign state.

• The members, however, pledged to strongly resist any coercive action from Pakistan even with force.

• Pakistan illegally annexed Kalat’s sub-states Makran, Kharan and Lasbella.

• Pakistan ordered its garrison commander to invade Kalat and keep the Khan under house arrest until he signs the document of annexation.

• Khan eventually went to Karachi and signed a controversial but conditional merger document with Pakistan on 27th March 1948 in his personal capacity despite strong opposition of both Kalat legislators.

• This forced annexation gave birth to this conflict erupting in a low-scale resistance in Kalat led by the younger brother of Khan, Agha Abdul Karim, who was governor of Makran that had been part of Kalat for 300 years. However, the rebellion was overcome by military as the resistant leaders were arrested over a deceptive agreement on Holy Quran but were imprisoned as well as fined. Agha Karim spent seven years in prison.

• In a personal meeting in 1958, President Iskandar Mirza asked the Khan of Kalat to mobilize sardars for the restoration of the Khanate of Kalat., and then on the pretext of this activity, sent in Pakistan Army under the command of Tikka Khan. The army arrested the Khan and sent him to an internment in Lahore. As soon as Ayub Khan took charge, he sentenced Prince Karim to another 14 years of jail term. In May 1959, Nawab Nauroz Khan Zehri came down from mountains on assurance of amnesty on Quran. He was immediately arrested together with his sons and grandsons and sent to Hyderabad jail, where they were tried for treason. Seven of his associates, including his sons were sentenced to death and hanged in Hyderabad. The ninety years old Nawab Zehri died in captivity in Hyderabad.

• In 1962, Ayub Khan sacked Ataullah Mengal, Nawab Khair Bukhsh Marri, and Nawab Akbar Bugti from their hereditary positions as sardars of their tribes. This led to resistance, which was again quelled with an army action, arrests, long incarcerations, etc.

• From this resistance emerged a movement (1962 to 1968) which resisted the one unit regime imposed by Ayub Khan in West Pakistan to provide population parity between the two wings of the country. One unit was finally disbanded in 1969 and Balochistan gained the status of a province in 1970.

• Another resistance started in 1973 when the federal government of Z. A. Bhutto sacked the elected government of Balochistan on the flimsy charge of conspiracy against the state. The Army again went in to crush the resistance, but this time with the help of the Shah of Iran, and using most sophisticated equipment including helicopter gunships. It was the bloodiest conflict. The resistance ended when General Zia ul Haq’s military dictatorship announced a general amnesty in 1978.

• The current resistance and military action started during the military dictatorship of General Musharraf in response to the assassination of Nawab Akbar Bugti.