I don’t really see an export function for Evolution. I do see an import function.

Microsoft is so rotten, I tried to export from Outlook, and it says I need some install disk with an add on,… so I went to my gmail, did an outlook compatible export, and the import was useless. BUT when I did a gmail VCARD export, that reads in just fine to Evolution.

Now, IF I found a machine with the proper Outlook Microsoft add-in, then I could synchronize my Blackberry to Outlook, and export to Ubuntu’s Evolution e-mail client.

Free AVAST is available for Ubuntu.

Visit the following link, download the .deb (for Debian, Ubuntu is a variant of Debian).

http://www.avast.com/eng/download-avast-for-linux-edition.html

Once it installs, just right click and choose the first option to install AVAST.

Once the install finishes, you will find the AVAST link in Applications-> Accessories

When you first launch it, it will ask you to register to receive a key in your email. Fill out the registration and past the key from the email that will arrive.

First do an UPDATE to get the latest virus signatures. Then do a full scan.

My technique is to install something new FIRST on my machine which runs a Wubi install of Ubuntu on windows, because if anything goes wrong, it takes me much less time to reinstall that than to reinstall my pure Ubuntu 280 gig Gateway.

I posted several times at Avira forum, which is always very helpful, asking for Ubuntu install instructions. Finally someone gave me a link to a PDF about Avira Linux installs which seemed to require a kernal rebuild, which is way beyond my abilities. If only they had given me the above link, I could have installed it with a couple of clicks. I kind of gave up on the idea of having Avira.

The way I discovered this useful link is that I wanted to have an IRC client to seek advice from other Ubuntu users, so I went to synaptic manager and … well, first I installed ircii, but I saw no way to launch it, so then I installed Konversation, which has a gui interface and launch icon and places me right into an Ubuntu chat. I mentioned there about my interest in Avast for Linux-Ubuntu and someone gave me the above link that I need.

I went to the synaptic manager and found the CLAM antivirus scanner, and installed that.

I am sure my Wubi Ubuntu machine will be running that THOROUGH scan of the ENTIRE system for quite some time. But I want to try it out to the maximum before I put it on my Gateway.

I just now took a peek at the screen and it is paused because IT HAS FOUND A VIRUS, which it recommends moving to the CHEST for Quarantine,

Suela -1042 in host/pagefile.sys

which means it is scanning the windows portion of the hard drive, so I think I will ignore it, since that Windows portion gets scanned each day by Avira and also by MalwareBytes.

It is most curious that the file is flagged by the Linux version and not by the Windows version, so I will post this at the Avira forum and call it to their attention. I do believe that pagefile.sys is part of the Windows system and is always locked during scans!.

I never stopped to think that a COMPLETE system scan would include all the files in HOST, which is the Windows partition.

ANOTHER VIRUS WAS FOUND IN ROOT.DISK
WIN32:Qoologic-AH

I decided to leave it alone for now, because if it moves my ENTIRE ROOT.DISK, i think it will crash my wubi ubuntu, and it COULD be a false positive!

Also in Windows, pav.zip pav.sig!!!
Windows sys32 rzdicpya.dll

Also in Windows, Win32.adaware-Gen in system32/mhbo2.dll

Notice the animal motif:

Table 1‐2. Ubuntu releases and support expiry dates.
Version number Nickname Updated until
4.10 Warty Warthog April 2006
5.04 Hoary Hedgehog October 2006
5.10 Breezy Badger April 2007
6.06 LTS 1 Dapper Drake June 2009
6.10 Edgy Eft April 2008
7.04 Feisty Fawn October 2008
7.10 Gutsy Gibbon April 2009
8.04 LTS Hardy Heron April 2011
8.10 Intrepid Ibex April 2010
9.04 Jaunty Jackalope October 2010

SOURCE:

Ubuntu Pocket
Guide and
Reference
Keir Thomas
MacFreda Publishing

TOTALLY FREE AVAILABLE ON PDF
Ubuntu Pocket Guide and Reference (PDF Edition)
Version: PDF1.1
www.ubuntupocketguide.com

Copyright © 2009 by Keir Thomas
All rights reserved.

SOME INTERESTING EXCERPTS AS I READ:

NOTE You might notice that a 64‐bit version of Ubuntu is
also available for download. In my opinion, there’s no need to use
this, even if you have a 64‐bit‐capable CPU in your computer,
unless your computer has more than 4GB of RAM. The 64‐bit
version of Ubuntu has been known to present a handful of
annoying compatibility issues that, while not show‐stoppers, can make life more difficult than it needs to be.

Problematic Installations

(alternate install)

Sometimes Ubuntu’s installation program goes wrong. Most commonly, this results in graphical problems that mean the installer program doesn’t work correctly.

In situations such as this, you can use the alternate install CD. This can be downloaded from www.ubuntu.com as an ISO image, just like the main install CD (click the link marked “Text-based alternate installer installation disk”, and, after selecting a download location near you, choose the file whose name ends with ‐alternate‐i386.iso).

The alternate CD provides the same version of Ubuntu as the main
install disc, but uses a “text mode” installer that doesn’t have a
graphical interface. As such the installer is compatible with virtually all computers, but this comes at a price because it isn’t as user-friendly as the main Ubuntu installer. The terminology can be obtuse for beginners, and the lack of a graphical interface means no mouse—you must navigate around the interface using the keyboard.

Configuring the firewall

Ubuntu contains a very powerful firewall called netfilter that is part of the central kernel program. However, it isn’t active by default, and must be manually configured. The reason for this is that Ubuntu has no outward-facing services. If you imagine Ubuntu as a house, you could say that it has no windows or doors through which intruders can gain access. All incoming connections hit a brick wall.
However, despite this fundamental protection, hackers are ingenious and there can be no room for complacency. Configuring the firewall using a GUI application like Firestarter, as described below, is so easy that there’s little reason not to do so.

TIP The ufw command can be used to configure the firewall at the
command‐line. This is relatively simple to use, but is still not as straightforward as a GUI application like Firestarter. For more de‐
tails, see http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=823741.
Installing and configuring Firestarter

Firestarter is a simple yet powerful firewall configuration tool. To install it, start Synaptic and search for firestarter. Put a check in the box alongside the firestarter entry in the results list and select Mark for Installation from the menu that appears. Click the APPLY button on the toolbar, and the APPLY button in the dialog box that appears.
There’s no need to restart because Ubuntu’s firewall component can be started, stopped and reconfigured while the system is up and running.

However, it is necessary to complete an initial wizard to configure
Firestarter itself, so start the program by clicking System 
Administration  Firestarter to run through this.

NOTE Bear in mind that there’s no reason to have the Firestarter
configuration program running to enjoy the protection of Ubuntu’s
firewall. All Firestarter does is configure Ubuntu’s built‐in firewall.
It isn’t a firewall application in itself.

Click the FORWARD button to work through the wizard. When asked to select the network device you wish to protect, select the connection type from the Detected Device(s) dropdown list. If you’re using a wireless connection, ensure the list reads Wireless Device, or similar (see Figure 7-1). Bear in mind that “Ethernet” refers to a wired connection, wherein the computer is connected by cable to a router, switch, or hub. Leave the other options as they are and click FORWARD to work through the wizard to completion. At the end, click the SAVE button.

NOTE There are almost no viruses or spyware infestations
affecting Linux. However, this is almost certain to change as
versions of Linux like Ubuntu become more popular.

REGARDING ENCRYPTION

NOTE: IF you choose to ENCRYPT a particular file or an entire folder, DO NOT forget the passphrase! If it is lost, any data you have
encrypted is also lost. There is no way of recovering the data, and
no way of cracking the encryption. Ubuntu uses 2,048‐bit
encryption keys. It is theorized that to crack such a key would take
more time than the universe has been in existence!

posted at Avira Antivir Support Forum today:

I just upgraded to 3 years of Premium Avira Suite (having done a 30 day eval. with Firewall, so no need for Online Armor) and everything is smooth).

But my old Compaq machine has Free Avira and Online Armor as well as MalwareBytes (free).

I do use Paltalk on this machine, and neither Avira nor MalwareBytes has ever caught anything. But Online Armor reported some very suspicious activity from Paltalk. I allowed Online Armor to block certain things, and I still had a fine long session in Paltalk Tuesday night. But ever since, Online Armour has been doing OAminidumps. I SUBMIT them via the minidump submit. When I go to DELETE, the machine hangs for a long time and then reboots. I booted in safe (F8) mode and the defragger said I needed to do chkdsk /f and that it could not be performed at the moment but would be performed at next reboot. When I rebooted, out of curiosity, I chose the Ubuntu boot, and it did a bit of fixing and then Ubuntu came up fine and stable. But each time I boot into Windows, I get the same Online Armor minidump crash. I am in safe mode right now on that machine after the chkdsk /f successfully ran. It is allowing me to do a defrag right now. As soon as that finishes, I think I shall delete Online Armor, with the assumption that the OAdump business will go away. I do wonder about the Paltalk issues, but I really enjoy Paltalk, and I know so many people around the world who use it, so it cannot be too malicious or destructive. I shall also post this at Online Armor’s forum, but I am curious to get the feedback from people here. Thanks for your great support!

Someone suggested at Avira that it would make more sense to tell Tall Emu, the makers of Online Armor, to which I reply:

[quote='Farger',index.php?page=Thread&postID=875210#post875210]HI WilliamBuell,

I think that more reasonable will be to ask Tallemu about this :S[/quote]

Of course I am going to tell Tallemu about this, but it IS a legitimate Avira issue with regard to the question of whether Paltalk is doing something questionable, and is escaping the attention of Avira AND malwarebytes.

The two strange things that happened with regard to Online Armor and Paltalk are that Paltalk when I first launched it, tried to access my drive directly, and Online Armor said this is a very suspicious activity. The other thing, which I blocked, had something to do with some key.dll. I didnt like the looks of it, so I blocked it, but Paltalk launched fine and I was in it for an hour. But after that, all this crash business started.

I was marveling to myself how a firewall can detect suspicious activity which an AV scanner might miss. So, this in itself is a valid issue to raise on the Avira forum, NAMELY, what can be said about those suspicious activities which only a Firewall can catch? There is one antivirus someone recommended to me which supposedly detects suspicious activity and can catch a virus or malware on DAY ZERO. I am perfectly happy with Avira Premium Suite on my wife’s computer, because I want everything integrated and straight foward, and the Avira fire wall is not “in your face” every other minute with questions.

A side note of interest: I find that I am able to access Paltalk on my Ubuntu machine via Firefox. Initially, I could not get audio or mic to work, but then Firefox installed an Adobe flash update, and suddenly it was working. So, I imagine I would be safe from Paltalk monkey business on an Ubuntu machine in a Firefox browser.

It was an UTTERLY awesome experience.

I had to redo each and every step of the way about 10 or 20 times, guessing about different tricks, before each stage would work, because there is little documentation, and the intall utilities are not intuitively obvious.

It took a few hours of playing around to realize that Windows was a lost cause.

Then, I tried to install Ubuntu from a CD about 20 times. I then realized I had to drop to drive C: and say FORMAT, and reformat the entire drive.

Then, I remembered too late that I should have first used FDISK, to adjust the PARTITIONS.

So, I burnd an ISO image cd of a linux utility which can repartition the drive. There is little documentation on how to do this. PLUS, you mentioned that your mouse was so old. Well, it was doing weird stuff, like I had to RIGHT click instead of left click. Finally, I switched to the newer usb mouse, and it worked FIND.

I had to try repartitioning the drive about 4 times. FInally I realized from obscure error messages that what it WANTS me to do and NEEDS ME TO do is to create THREE partitions in your 280 gig drive. The first is called ROOT, which makes everything in Linux run, except you simply name it “/” (forward slash, without the quotes).

Root has to be a certain size but not too big. I chose 512 and at the end of the process, it made me go back, saying that was too small, so I made it 5000. The second partition is what is called the SWAP partition. You do not give it a name, but with each partition you are offered 20 different flavors of format. I had to google to learn that ext3 is preferred for Ubuntu/Debian linus. So the second partition you do not name at all, and you choose the type SWAP-FILE, and it automatically makes that your swap file. Then, the third and humungous partion of 200 gig is called /home and is format type ext3. Then you finalize it, and it chugs away formatting and testing the drive.

Next, you put in the Ubuntu install and boot from that. I have a 2008 Ubuntu disk, and one created last week. I tried both of them over and over. They would run 30 minutes and then stop. FINALLY, the recent ubuntu disk actually INSTALLED itself and came up with the Ubuntu desktop, but it had alll sorts of error warning that make me think it had failed. But on the desktop was a strange folder saying INSTALL UBUNTU. Out of curiosity, I clicked on that, and low and behold, that was the part that would finish the install. It dumped me into a different partition utility. Finally, Ubuntu is installed, but no internet connection. I plugged a cable from the router to the ethernet card. I was told by forum members that Ubuntu would just automatically sense the Ethernet card and attach to internet. Didnt work. Then I followed a Youtube tutorial on how to install a Belkin USB adaptor. I did it several times. It didnt seem to work. But then, out of curiosity I plugged in the Belkin to the USB (which I had done earlier and nothing happend). Suddenly, I had internet connection.

Thanks you so much for giving me this machine, and making possible an experience with Ubuntu which I have wanted for several years, but never had a spare machine to take chances with.

ANd this machine is SUPER FAST on the internet, even though it is only a WiFi connection. Ethernet hardwire is supposed to be much faster. Anyway, I will sleep for a couple of hours, and be over in the afternoon to pick up that Mybook for repair.

I feel like superman with this success, or Dante, crawling through all of hell and pergatory, and finally getting a glimpse of Ubuntu heave.

I know I must run to J&R to get another $10 Belkin laser mouse, because your old mouse is so weird. And another belkin wifi adaptor. Then, all we need is a monitor at some point because we have 4 computers and 3 monitors.

Even my headphones and mic work in this Ubuntu. THey would not work on my Wubi install of Ubunu on top of windows.

Also, I am going to buy a cheap $7 memory stick and see how it works. Those sancor have SOFTWARE On them, which makes them more expensive. But the cheap ones are simply USB devices, and should serve my needs.

But your old Gateway was so trashed in Windows, it was hopeless. And now it is brand spanking new with a fresh Ubuntu install, and no viruses, no firewalls, no antivirus overhead. Apparently, Ubuntu is not as susceptible to viruses.

Anyway, thanks and talk to you later, and see you today to pick up that Mybook. I will make it my Holy Grail to retrieve the data, and you will be my Dulcinea, my Beatrice (remember, Quixote, and Dante).

Later !!!

Posted at bleepingcomputer.com forum

My boss gave me his old XP after his company closed. There are two users on it, his name, and my name.

Is there any danger if I delete his user name, and just use mine. I am not certain if there is some administrator password.
I know that I have full admin rights. I have removed most of the old data and archived it on a USB Mybook and on a USB Scancor 64 gig. I feel it would free up some resources if I delete his old profile. On the other hand, I would regret it if I deleted his profile and the machine stopped working properly, since I do not have the original install disks for Windows XP, and there is no real problem in leaving his user profile there and just never using it.

Also, I dont really have the expertise to reinstall Windows. And his machine also has some software that we find useful, like Quick Books, which would be difficult for me to reinstall. I suppose I am really answering my own question, namely, it is better to leave well enough alone, and, if it aint broke, dont fix it.

We did have a second XP at work that had all sorts of problems with the 4 of the user accounts. We had to give that machine to someone who purchased parts of the old company. But I did not dare delete those other user accounts, I just changed the name to DO NOT USE, and put a password on them, to discourage someone from accidentally getting into them.

I also had one strange experience with that particular machine. I purchased a CHEAP USB extender, and installing it seemed to mess up the machine. I think if I had purchased a Belkin, or some quality brand, then the problem would not have happend. But ever since that experience, I am hesitant to try a USB port extender, fearing that it will mess up a machine.

One machine we have at home, a Dell XP professional, is five or more years old. I was always afraid to mess around with it, fearing it would stop working. When I got 2 extra machines, I felt like I should take courage and try to really fix up the first machine, and take some risks. I had always used AVG by Grisoft free antivirus, for about 8 years, on an old Compaq which became useless, and then on this XP. It did seem to give some false positives. ANd what was HILARIOUS, when I installed malwarebytes, it flagged it as MALWARE! Ha ha! I had an old copy of free Sygate firewall, which was great in its day, but had stopped working. And I had a Norton firewall which we never updated because it would have cost money.

So, I decided on Avira Antivir FREE, and their forum was VERY helpful in giving me the courage to take some risks and clean up that machine. I uninstalled AVG, Sygate and Norton. Then they pointed me to two different uninstall utilities provided by Norton and McAfee to remove ALL traces of those programs left behind by normal uninstall methods, since those traces might interfere with Avira. So many people praised malwarebytes.org that I started using it all the time, and it was NOT malware as Avg claimed. The Avira forum directed me to Online Armour free firewall which works great.

Many at the Avira forum also swear by Ccleaner which has a registry cleaner. You can analyze the registry, make a copy of it which I have successfully used to RESTORE, and then, do things in tiny steps. You dont want to tell it to repair everything at once. If you have to restore then just boot into save mode, right click on the registry backup and it offers you the option to MERGE those entries back into the registry.

I must say that the older a machine gets, and the more you install and uninstall (plus the occasional virus or trojan), the flakier the operating system gets, until one reaches the point where the only option is to do a fresh install of the original operating system, or make it a pure Ubuntu machine.

I have always felt more comfortable with a desktop that comes with a RESTORE DISK, than with some laptop (like the old Dell laptops of 8 years ago, that had NO restore disk, and required a skilled technician to spend an hour or two reinstalling drivers). I am looking forward to the day when I can do everything with something like Ubuntu, and can always REINSTALL to the latest version and start over with a clean slate. AND the more that we have in the Internet “CLOUD” and not tied to some expensive proprietary software on our hard drive, difficult or impossible to reinstall, then the easier it is for us to resort to an OS reinstall as a solution to our problems. AND if we regularly back up everything, and plan ahead with libraries of what we installed and how we installed it, then recovery is perhaps only a weekend’s worth of work for “the weekend warrior”.

I am finding delicious.com book mark utility combined with a wordpress blog and clipperz.com for password storage to be a great tool to document everything I am doing, and also to share what I have learned with others who are trying to accomplish the same sorts of things.

My reply at bleepingcomputer.com

One member answered my question:
Why would plugging a PC, no matter what OS is installed on it, into a modem/router change it? So no I wouldn’t worry about the Westell.

My reply:

Thanks! That’s just what I needed to know. But, obviously, I am not technically versed. So what is OBVIOUS to you may not be obvious to me.

A professor of Russian language, in the 1970s once said to me “There is no such thing as a foolish question, for IF it is a question in your mind, it is a LEGITIMATE question. There are only foolish answers.” Beginners should be encouraged to ask questions, and not ridiculed, for that is how they learn. And those who are fortunate enough to have expertise and experience should not gloat in their knowledge as if it were wisdom.

I once mentioned to an examining physician something very obscure and little know, about the anastamosis (joining) of a one vein to the left renal vein which is totally different on the right. He was astounded and asked how I could possible know that, not being a physician. I explained that all one has to do is read, and remember a fact, and the only difference between a physician and a plumber, is that plumbers still make house calls, but physicians do not.

Plus, if I had 5 routers, and 3 providers, and money flowing out my kazoo, I would just plug the cable in and see what happens. But, if something DOES go wrong, then since I only have one router and one provider, then I must spend hours on the phone with tech support, or, if that fails, spend days waiting for a technician to show up from Verizon.

Oh, by the way, I found a free beginners manual in PDF, on Ubuntu, which also mentions that IF the Ubuntu machine has an internet card, THEN connecting it to the router should give instantaneous internet access.

http://www.ubuntupocketguide.com/index_main.html

And, this is a bit off topic, but I spent much of last night experimenting with that Ubuntu chat program EMPATHY. When I initially clicked on Empathy, it launched a wizard asking me first if I wanted a Jabber account, and then asking me if I want to add AIM, MSN, Yahoo, ICQ, etc.

I only added Yahoo. Later, I tired to add other things and could not see how to get back into that wizard dialogue. I googled and found other posts suggesting that there was some problem. I UNINSTALLED REMOVED and reinstalled EMPATHY, but still no wizard. THEN I discovered that F4 will bring up a window to ADD other chat programs (which is not intuitively obvious to a beginner). I was pleased to see that my Wubi Ubuntu install is stable enough to remove and reinstall Empathy without crashing things.

I am very curious to explore the limits of the Wubi install on a Windows machine. Tonight I will have that old tower, and do a pure Ubuntu desktop install, and first I will try the wrapper technique with a Belkin Wi-Fi, and later I will experiment with the cable from the Ethernet to the router. I was a bit confused as to whether I should install Ubuntu DESKTOP or Ubuntu Server, but reading up on it made me realize that I am better off with the Desktop, because that gives the most GUI, and then ADD LAMP (Apache, MySQL, PhP) with the synaptic manager, since that is all I really want anyway and I will not use the machine as an actual server to other clients.

Here is the post that I want to submit to

http://forums.radioreference.com/

I just spent a LONG LONG TIME typing this post into the above forum and it disappeared. SO, I am composing it HERE first in my BLOG so that it will NOT disappear.

I use Verizon DSL with a Westell 327W Router. I have one Dell Windows XP hard wired to the router, and second XP connected via WiFi with a Belkin USB adapter.

I want to take a 3rd computer, an Ubuntu desktop install, and use a startec.com ST100S 10/100 mbps Ethernet PCI, which claims to have a Linux driver.

BIG QUESTION: If I do succeed in attaching the Ubuntu Desktop through the startech ethernet, is there any danger that the Westell modem will somehow be reset or reconfigured or disturbed so that I lose Internet and have to wait for a Verizon technician to show up and fix things. IF there IS such a danger, then I will go with wifi for the Ubuntu desktop.

I looked at all the WiFi and Ethernet products at J&R Computer World and found only ONE that mentions Linux, and it is 10/100 MBPS Ethernet PCI ST100S Netware ODI for DOS Linux

Here is the support question I submitted to

http://www.startech.com/support

http://www.startech.com/item/10PACK100BT-10-Pack-of-ST100S-10100-PCI-Ethernet-Cards.aspx

I want to do an Ubuntu Install, use your ST100S 10/100 MBPS Ethernet PCI, and connect it to my Westell modem running Verizon DSL and working fine with my Windows machine. 2 questions: 1) Can I easily do the unstall in Ubuntu. 2) WILL MY WESTELL MODEM BE ALTERED IN ANY WAY, by the install,.. am I in danger of losing all internet?
Can you suggest any other product or USB Wifi that well help me connect an Ubuntu Linux install to Internet through my Westell 327W Verizon Modem?

If I can make it work, I will spread your Company’s name and praise in many Ubuntu Forums!

P.S. – Ubuntu looks so promising to me that it is hard to believe not one single WIFI or Ethernet product mentions ANYTHING except XP Vista Windows3 etc.

http://yosemitefoothills.com/WalmartPC/WalmartLinuxPC-2512.html

The additional Ethernet port was obtained by installing a $12 Startech ST100S 10/100 Mbps Ethernet PCI Card from amazon.com. This card uses a RTL8100C chip and works with the 8139too Linux driver already being used by the motherboard Ethernet interface.

Enter TERMINAL

lspci -v | less

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE/PE DRAM Controller/Host-Hub Interface (rev 01)
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Memory at f8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]
Capabilities:
Kernel driver in use: agpgart-intel
Kernel modules: intel-agp

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE Chipset Integrated Graphics Device (rev 01)
Subsystem: Compaq Computer Corporation Device 00b8
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
Memory at f0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
Memory at fc400000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512K]
Capabilities:
Kernel driver in use: i915
Kernel modules: i915

00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 01)
Subsystem: Compaq Computer Corporation Device 00b8
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
I/O ports at 2440 [size=32]
:
NOW FOR THE WIFI:

ENTER TERMINAL

lsusb -v | less

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE/PE DRAM Controller/Host-Hub Interface (rev 01)
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Memory at f8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]
Capabilities:
Kernel driver in use: agpgart-intel
Kernel modules: intel-agp

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE Chipset Integrated Graphics Device (rev 01)
Subsystem: Compaq Computer Corporation Device 00b8
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
Memory at f0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
Memory at fc400000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512K]
Capabilities:
Kernel driver in use: i915
Kernel modules: i915

00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 01)
Subsystem: Compaq Computer Corporation Device 00b8
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
I/O ports at 2440 [size=32]
:

There are so many tutorials to be found with Google.

I chose this for my first exercise with PHPMYADMIN

NOTE: This following link showed me how to EMBED code within my WordPress blog so that it will be displayed but not executed.

http://en.support.wordpress.com/code/posting-source-code/

http://www.phpeasystep.com/phptu/6.html

This morning by 6 a.m. I got to the point where PHPMYADMIN would come up in the browser by entering

http://localhost/phpmyadmin

(dont enter this in your browser because it only works on my machine, attaching to my local apache webserver)

After successfully logging into PHPMYADMIN which was not easy to figure out, and took many google searches, I was able to ADD
myself as a superuser with all powers in MySQL.

Next, I logged out and logged back in with my user name and password.

The first think I did was create a new database called “test” because that’s what this particular tutorial uses.

The tutorial provides me with the code to CREATE a table called “members”

CREATE TABLE `members` (
`id` int(4) NOT NULL auto_increment,
`username` varchar(65) NOT NULL default ”,
`password` varchar(65) NOT NULL default ”,
PRIMARY KEY (`id`)
) TYPE=MyISAM AUTO_INCREMENT=2 ;

and then to insert one member row with the following code

INSERT INTO `members` VALUES (1, ‘john’, ‘1234′);

PHPADMIN HAS A WINDOW where I can copy and paste tutorial code and then execute it, so it is all pretty easy. The hard part is to learn it well enough to one day do it without tutorial instructions or notes or copy and paste.

My next task is to create a file in /var/www
called “main_login.php”

I need to use the TERMINAL to do this, and I must issue each command preceded by “sudo” which will prompt me initially for my password, to prove I have rights to modify the Ubuntu system.

One of the first things I do after Ubuntu is configured is add TERMINAL to the launch pad at the top of the Ubuntu Desktop.

APPLICATIONS -> ACCESSORIES -> TERMINAL (right click) -> ADD THIS LAUNCHER TO PANEL

ALWAYS REMEMBER THAT in TERMINAL if you have copied something and you want to PASTE IT, you position your cursor inside TERMINAL, click EDIT and select PASTE. CTRL V will not work
in TERMINAL

Enter TERMINAL

sudo gedit /var/www/main_login.php

The GEDIT window will now open up and I can paste the following code from the tutorial:

PASTE THE FOLLOWING CODE:

<table width="300" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" bgcolor="#CCCCCC">
<tr>

<td>
<table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
<tr>
<td colspan="3"><strong>Member Login </strong></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="78">Username</td>
<td width="6">:</td>
<td width="294"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Password</td>
<td>:</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>

</tr>
</table>
</code>

I save and close GEDIT and next I create a second php page:

sudo gedit /var/www/check_login.php

Again, the GEDIT window opens and I paste the code, BUT obviously I MUST CHANGE name and password in the example to MY name and MY password.

 ############### Code

<?php
$host="localhost"; // Host name
$username=""; // Mysql username
$password=""; // Mysql password
$db_name="test"; // Database name
$tbl_name="members"; // Table name

// Connect to server and select databse.
mysql_connect("$host", "$username", "$password")or die("cannot connect");
mysql_select_db("$db_name")or die("cannot select DB");

// username and password sent from form
$myusername=$_POST['myusername'];
$mypassword=$_POST['mypassword'];

// To protect MySQL injection (more detail about MySQL injection)
$myusername = stripslashes($myusername);
$mypassword = stripslashes($mypassword);
$myusername = mysql_real_escape_string($myusername);
$mypassword = mysql_real_escape_string($mypassword);

$sql="SELECT * FROM $tbl_name WHERE username='$myusername' and password='$mypassword'";
$result=mysql_query($sql);

// Mysql_num_row is counting table row
$count=mysql_num_rows($result);
// If result matched $myusername and $mypassword, table row must be 1 row

if($count==1){
// Register $myusername, $mypassword and redirect to file "login_success.php"
session_register("myusername");
session_register("mypassword");
header("location:login_success.php");
}
else {
echo "Wrong Username or Password";
}
?>

I click SAVE and quit GEDIT

NEXT,

sudo gedit /var/www/login_success.php

copy and paste this code:

############### Code

// Check if session is not registered , redirect back to main page.
// Put this code in first line of web page.
<?
session_start();
if(!session_is_registered(myusername)){
header("location:main_login.php");
}
?>

<html>
<body>
Login Successful
</body>
</html>

SAVE and QUIT

sudo gedit /var/www/logout.php

PASTE THIS CODE:

// Put this code in first line of web page.
<?
session_start();
session_destroy();
?>

SAVE AND QUIT

NEXT:

sudo gedit /var/www/checklogin.php

############### Code

<?php
ob_start();
$host="localhost"; // Host name
$username=""; // Mysql username
$password=""; // Mysql password
$db_name="test"; // Database name
$tbl_name="members"; // Table name

// Connect to server and select databse.
mysql_connect("$host", "$username", "$password")or die("cannot connect");
mysql_select_db("$db_name")or die("cannot select DB");

// Define $myusername and $mypassword
$myusername=$_POST['myusername'];
$mypassword=$_POST['mypassword'];

// To protect MySQL injection (more detail about MySQL injection)
$myusername = stripslashes($myusername);
$mypassword = stripslashes($mypassword);
$myusername = mysql_real_escape_string($myusername);
$mypassword = mysql_real_escape_string($mypassword);

$sql="SELECT * FROM $tbl_name WHERE username='$myusername' and password='$mypassword'";
$result=mysql_query($sql);

// Mysql_num_row is counting table row
$count=mysql_num_rows($result);
// If result matched $myusername and $mypassword, table row must be 1 row

if($count==1){
// Register $myusername, $mypassword and redirect to file "login_success.php"
session_register("myusername");
session_register("mypassword");
header("location:login_success.php");
}
else {
echo "Wrong Username or Password";
}

ob_end_flush();
?>

SAVE and QUIT

Dear Avira Forum Members -

I did search the Avira Forum on UBUNTU and found two links

The command from the second link

http://forum.avira.com/wbb/index.php?page=Thread&threadID=92283

seems VERY USEFUL and understandable to me IF I already had Avira installed on my Wubi Windows install of Ubuntu.

sudo /usr/lib/AntiVir/avupdate –product=Guard

BUT YOUR FIRST LINK

http://forum.avira.com/wbb/index.php?page=Thread&threadID=90095

is too vague for a beginner to know how to install Avira on Ubuntu.

Your above first link refers to

http://dazuko.dnsalias.org/wiki/index.php/Downloads

which mentions that the target is Linux 2.6.31 and mentions some TAR downloads, but gives no indication about Ubuntu 9.1 (which is the what Wubi windows installer installs) nor does it give step by step instructions for how one might install it via the synaptic manager, or via sudo commands.

Therefore I shall post here in the hopes that someone might point out the kind of instructions that I need.

MY POST:

I would like to see a step-by-step beginners guide on how to install and run Avira in Ubuntu.

I did about 10 Wubi installs (and subsequent uninstalls) of Ubuntu for Windows on an old Compaq Presario with an 80 gig drive running Windows XP Home edition.

My only successful experiences so far with installing additional packages are by means of Ubuntus Synaptic Manager, installing Apache, PhP and MySQL (Lamp). If you check my blog post you will see in great detail not only the step-by-step method which finally resulted in success, but also the many times that I encountered problems and had to reinstall Ubuntu and start over.

It is my understanding from searching forums that Ubuntu is far less subject to malware, and the main motive for an Ubuntu installing any antivirus is to clean up things which might be emailed to a Windows user and infect them. I would appreciate hearing Avira Forum member’s views on this sort of statement.

I feel that IF Avira could make itself available on the Synaptic Manager, then Avira popularity would greatly increase for many reasons.

BUT, if there are some obstacles to placing Avira on the Synaptic Manager, then, a step-by-step tutorial on how to download, install and launch Avira under Ubuntu would become very popular for beginners who what to get their hands dirty on a successful install.

I will certainly post regarding such a tutorial at my blog and various forums and I do see some activity and interest as people search on tags.

I am truly impressed to see what Ubuntu is like. I only felt comfortable trying it when my step-son gave me his old Comaq Presario, which makes my third Windows machine, so I feel I can afford to be daring and take chances installing and using things that might destroy the Windows installation.

The other piece of the puzzle that made this Ubuntu experiment possible for me was realizing that I can connect additional computers to my Verizon DSL by means of an inexpensive Belkin Wi-Fi USB port adapter ($30 USD). If you visit my blog on the Wubi installation, you can see how I finally got Ubuntu to connect to the Internet.

The biggest obstacle for the beginner to try Ubuntu the lack of a solid step-by-step tutorial on how to install it, connect to the Internet, and then install other useful packages.

One post regarding Wi-Fi adapters and drivers on unix machines (and the issue of wrappers vs. native linux drivers) made one observation that really caught my attention, saying “two years ago Ubuntu was more like a toy, and it would have been difficult or impossible to connect Ubuntu via Wi-Fi, but two years from now Ubuntu will have matured into a serious option for businesses.”

I remember in the 1990s asking a Linux programmer out of curiousity if there were any businesses that ran on Linux. He surprised me by saing that Sy Simms Clothiers (“An educated consumer is our best customer”) was on Linux.

I started out with a Radio Shack Model I, moved to a Model III, then switched to MS-DOS machines on an inexpensive network product (not Novell). Finally, I moved to Windows in the 1980s.

The glimpses that I had of Unix and Linux gave me the impression that they were very difficult to use. I finally found a few years of stability using XP, and was horrified by the Vista problems in the rumor mill. I dont even hear anything very positive about Windows 7, but rather see commercial after snide commercial from Apple Mac, mocking Microsoft as an incompetent buffoon.

I wonder how Avira Forum members feel about the future of something like Ubuntu becoming dominant in the business world.

Years ago, I perceived MySQL as a kind of educational toy and curiosity. But now I receive re

But now that I have a glimpse of what Ubuntu is like, for the first time I have the urge to switch totally to open source and escape the uncertainties of proprietary software and license agreements.

http://forum.avira.com/wbb/index.php?page=Thread&threadID=90095

http://forum.avira.com/wbb/index.php?page=Thread&threadID=92283

P.S. I just went to a HUGE computer store near my home J and R Computer world in Manhattan, and I looked at EVERY wifi and ethernet card to see if ANY mention Ubuntu or Linux, and only ONE mentions LINUX which is www.startech.com and the card is only $10 USD. But it utterly AMAZES me that manufacturers so ignore such a market as Ubuntu.

I have found this forum VERY CORDIAL and helpful to me as a beginner, and you have EMPOWERED me to attempt things that I was hesitant to attempt because I do not have a lot of spare money or spare computers. But I do want to observe how OBTUSE most technical types are, especially in the LINUX world, when you go somewhere like SOURCE FORGE for example to download something, there is VERY LITTLE plain English (or plain German or French) instructions to help guide the beginner, and yet it is the BEGINNER audience, and adolescents who will one day become adult users and consumers of products and operating systems.

http://ubuntuforums.org/index.php

[quote=cariboo907;8302876]The idea behind a server is to have a stable reliable platform for what you need to do, you’re starting out with 2 strikes against you already. A wubi install is not what I’d called stable and reliable, and using a wireless connection, it is stable and reliable, but it is slow, you don’t have the bandwidth of a wired connection.

I would just install the server version on the spare computer, and be done with the experimenting, you can just get down to work, and develop your app.[/quote]

Cariboo, you make excellent points! BUT there are a few very important points that have escaped your attention.

I am an elderly man who is unemployed and my funds are limited. Certainly the best way to tackle any problem is to throw gobs of money at it, and anyone who has money is a fool to waste their time tinkering with inexpensive do-it-yourself projects.

Whatever the shortcomings of Wubi, and Ubuntu running on top of Windows, there is definitely a place in this world for something like Wubi. There are young people who perhaps only have one Windows machine which they may need for other purposes.

They cannot afford to do something drastic to their machine like repartition it. But Wubi will allow someone even with an old machine and limited funds to at least install and try out Ubuntu to see what it is like. I can testify to the fact that one may install and delete Wubi Ubuntu many times (I have done so at least six times in the past 2 days). The only down side is that after you delete Ubuntu, there remains a 17 gig area on your hard drive which defrag cannot move. The Wubi install claims that when you reinstall, the system reutilizes that area. I imagine there is some kind of software that could free up the 17gigs, but I have no urgent desire to do so just yet.

Certainly no one is suggesting that a huge company like General Motors should be run on a Wubi install. But, I have learned an enormous amount in just the past few days on an old machine which was not being used, and which I could afford to lose if the drive was irrecoverable.

Here is a link to my blog post about my experiments with Wubi.

Today, I looked at Dell to see what they offer with Ubuntu on it, and I found a laptop with a Moblin/Linux remix which comes to under $700 even when you add all the bells and whistles. They do caution that it is more for developers, because it is not completely stable and out of beta.

I am sure that there are some readers who would love to do a Wubi install and play around just as I am doing. IF they stumble across my blog post, then they will find some step-by-step instructions which took me several days of guessing and experimenting to find.

The more there are in the world who have inexpensive easy access to some kind of Ubuntu, especially the very young, the more Ubuntu will grow in popularity and mature into something that one could run a Company on.

Wubi has its place for adolescents, hobbyists, and probably one day for one of those Ubuntu For Dummies books.

Someone is going to give me an old tower machine shortly, and I will take an Ubuntu install disk and make the entire machine an Ubuntu server, as you suggest. My first concern is to figure out how to get a Wi-Fi adaptor working on it.

I had no trouble at all getting my Belkin USB adaptor to work with the Wubi install. At my blog post I do mention one brand of adaptor which is said to work seamlessly with Ubuntu.

Anyway, thanks for taking the time to read my blog and offer your suggestions!

I WILL BE ADDING TO THIS POST ON A DAILY BASIS

Each time I uninstall and reinstall Wubi Ubuntu, I begin posting each move step by step at the top of this post.

Realizing that my Ubuntu was hopelessly trashed by the fixes I had attempted. I do notice that defrag sits for a long time saying 1% done, and then it moves along quite quickly.

Judging from my previous reinstall, it should take 30 minutes for Wubi running in Windows to download the ISO from bittorrent, and then 30 minutes to reboot into Ubuntu and finish the install under running under Ubuntu (and not under Windows).

1)click on the shutdown button
2.) Reboot in Windows
3.) go to control panel TO add/remove programs and REMOVE Ubuntu.
4.) Reboot in SAFE (F8) mode to do a cleandisk, and a defrag. I am curious if there will still be the same 17gig unmoveable area of root.disk, or will it have grown larger?

Defragging should not take nearly so long as it did the first time.

While I wait for the defrag to finish, I am going to reassemple here from my notes what I believe are my subsequent steps.

Here is the link to the page which starts the Wubi install:

http://wubi-installer.org/

I realized I am going to be reinstalling frequently, so I have a shortcut on my desktop to the initial download of the installer from Wubi.

DEFRAGGING just finished, taking only about 10 minutes. I see that boot.disk is still 17 gigs and undefraggable (unmoveable) so at least it does not grow in size with each install. So now I shall reboot into regular windows, click on Wubi installer on my desktop, and an hour from now, I shall have the pleasure of repeating the other steps, namely, get wi-fi belkin adapter talking to internet, TEST WITH FIREFOX TO SEE THAT I REALLY HAVE A CONNECTION, use synaptic manager as I guess which packages I need for apache php mysql and phpmyadmin.

I notice with some irony that I am commencing the Wubi Install at 3:45 a.m. and it was exacly 3:45 p.m. the PREVIOUS time I reinstalled, and I was finished by 4:30p.m. so lets see if it really only takes 45 minutes again.

I admire the ruggedness of XP on this Old Compaq to take such a licking and keep on ticking. On Line Armor fire wall, Avira antivirus and malwarebytes scanner seem pretty quite during all this. I was doing a number of virus scans in between, but I see they are clean, so I wont both. I notice many people saying that Linux/Ubuntu is rather immune to viruses, and if on has an antivirus, it is only to scan emails and attachments destined to be sent to Windows machines.

With each new reinstall, I make a little more progress, and a few less mistakes. My next trial, when these installs are done, is to solve the reason why I cannot log into phpmyadmin with a user name and password, even though the install process PROMPTS me for a password. One post I found said that mysql default user is root and the password is blank. We shall see.

My reinstall took less than 45 minutes.

I am now logging in and will connect to my Belkin WIFI adaptor 1st thing.

At the top of the screen on the Ubuntu Desktop is a band called the Launch Pad, with some button icons, the most impressive of which is Firefox. Next to that is System -> Administration-> Network Tools
Drop down NETWORK DEVICE and click WIRELESS INTERFACE.

Now at the top right of the screen, on the launch pad, click the left most icon which represents wireless, and click on your rounters wireless address. Mine happens to have a WEP KEY 40/128 bit key, but there are other choices. Key in the WEP key. Click CONNECT, AND immediately when it says connected, click on Firefox and go to any website, just to make certain, because If you THINK you are connected and you are NOT then the synaptic manager will give you lots of trouble and you wont understand why.

Next, click on SYSTEM -> ADMINISTRATION -> SYNAPTIC PACKAGE MANAGER.
You will be prompted for your password, so give the password that you entered at the very beginning of the install.

Click on SETTINGS -> REPOSITORIES -> and see that Download From is UNITED STATES. If you cant find the apache php mysql packages, go back to this setting and choose MAIN SERVER. Although I think for this one I will go with MAIN..

Close the SETTINGS window. Look at the left of the Synaptic Manager and make certain that ALL is clicked. At the right you will see hundreds of packages to browse through, plus a search field. The search field does not seem to work, so page down until you see Apache2. Click on the box at the left next to Apache2 and MARK for installation. You will be shown a number of other packages that will be included. Click on MARK at the lower right of that window. Next, click on APPLY at the top of the synaptic manager window. A second window will pop up and you click on APPLY in the lower right of that window. A progress bar will show you that 9 packages are being installed. Finally you will see a window that says CHANGES SUCCESSFULLY APPLIED, AND YOU will click CLOSE in the lower right.

Now, click on the Firefox icon in the launch pad, click ONCE, and when the browser comes up, enter localhost in the url field. IF the Apache install was successful, you will see a screen that says IT WORKS!

Return to the Synaptic manager, which should still be open, and scroll down all the choices until you see php5. Mark that for install, and it should say that three packages will be installed, and on apache package will be removed. Click MARK in the lower right, and then click APPLY in the Synaptic Manager window.

We will test to see that php has been installed by doing as follows:

But BEFORE we do this, we must run the TERMINAL and issue the following command:

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

This will restart apache and allow it to SEE the php we have just installed.

I wanted to verify that php works by using gedit directly from the menu, to add a file to www/var/test.php and gedit said I do not have permission. BUT I remembered an earlier tutorial that had me do the same thing using the TERMINAL, which is as follows:

From TERMINAL key in:
sudo gedit /var/www/testphp.php

THE sudo COMMAND automatically grants me admin rights (super user I think, su). Then, type:

and , save the file
THEN, in Firefox browser, enter the address:

http://localhost/testphp.php

and if PHP is properly installed (which it now is) you see a detailed report of the status and settings of PHP.

By the way, you should know that you may copy from any web page into your paste buffer, click on the terminal, click edit, and choose PASTE to past the command into the TERMINAL for execution.

Now return to the Synaptic Manager and find Mysql-server, mark and apply.

And when that is done we will install phpmyadmin.

All I need to do is launch the Firefox browser and enter http://localhost/phpmyadmin/ and I am IN!
which I learned from THIS TUTORIAL

I discovered quite by accident that what I must do BEFORE phpmyadmin will allow me to log in with my user name and password is launch the TERMINAL and issue the following two commands:

sudo /etc/init.d/mysql stop

sudo /usr/sbin/mysqld –skip-grant-tables –skip-networking &

This stops the mysql daemon process and then restarts it, telling it to Start the mysqld demon process using the –skip-grant-tables option. Because you are not checking user privs at this point, it’s safest to disable networking.

I am sure there are many things I must learn and do to correctly configure mysql, but at least I have the beginnings of something that I can log into and begin creating tables, and php pages that manipulate the data in those tables.

+++++
My latest (I think the 4th or 5th) reinstall of Wubi Ubuntu 9.10 took exactly 1 hour (30 minutes to download the ISO from torrent and 30 minutes after reboot into Ubuntu to setup configure automatically) and this was on a Compaq Presario running Windows XP Home edition. I close that screen, the little icon whirls for a bit and SUCCESS, I AM CONNECTED WITHOUT THE FREEZE AND REBOOT.

Now, I click on Applications at the left, hover over ACCESSORIES, and navigate to TERMINAL, RIGHT click, and ask that the Icon be placed on my LAUNCHER PANEL, for convenience, because I am going to be using TERMINAL to issue linux commands.

Now, at the top of my desktop to the right, which is called THE LAUNCHER PAD, I highlight SYSTEM and hover over SYNAPTIC PACKAGE MANAGER, which so far, in my experiments, seems to be the soundest and most straightforward method to install new applications, and I am going to attempt to install Apache, PhP and MySQL (LAMP). The Synaptic Manager first prompts me for my password, because it is going to alter the system and needs administrative rights. The user name and password are what you entered early on in your Wubi install.

NOW COMES THE STRANGE AND INEXPLICABLE PART OF THE SYNAPTIC MANAGER. I must browse around and locate the proper packages for Apache, MySqL AND PHP. And one does not always see the same choices displayed. I have to play around with different internet sources which POPULATE the synaptic manager with packages. I switch from the USA server to some MAIN server, and now I am beginning to see packages that LOOK like what I need.

Finally, I spot Apache2. I click the little checkbox to the left to mark it for install. The synaptic manager AUTOMATICALLY chooses all the other packages that need to be installed with it and shows me a list. I click on MARK and then APPLY, and the install begins, tellim me that 6939KB of disk space will be used.

The PROOF that Apache has successfully installed is to launch the Firefox browser (which is in the top launch pad), and key into the browser address field: localhost. If Apache was successfully installed, a page should display which simply says IT WORKS!

The Synaptic Manager cannot install my packages for Apache right now because it cannot resolve certain things from the internet repository. If one clicks on REPOSITORIES in the Synaptic manager one can see servers around the world, and choose different ones and reload.

Meanwhile, I did notice php5MySQL so I am MARKING that, but doing so simply ADDS that package to the Apache packages, so it will STILL have a problem resolving. And yet YESTERDAY I had no problem intalling LAMP with the Synaptic Manager so perhaps later on or tomorrow, a server will be working.

SO, for now, I will shut down Ubuntu, and to do so, I will right click on the LAUNCH PAD (the bar at the top of the Ubuntu desk top) and I will choose to ADD an application to the launch pad, and I will choose ADD TO PANEL, and click on SHUTDOWN (which had a red icon with a circle in it and a notch at the top of the circle). This way, I can always click on that to power down.

(a few hours later) STUPID ME. I did succeed in making Ubuntu connect to my Wi-fi. I said it was connected. But I should have launched Firefox to confirm that I can get to places like google.com

The reason the Synaptic manager was acting funny was because it did not really have Internet access. I went out to do some errands, and decided to leave Ubuntu running, just to see how long it stays stable. When I came back, I tried to use the browser, and realize that I wasnt really connected. I clicked the Internet section of Administration, played around, disconnected, connected, it prompted me again for the WEB key, and NOW I had Internet. And NOW suddenly I could install all the Apache, PhP and MySQL packages.

I wanted to verify that php works by using gedit directly from the menu, to add a file to www/var/test.php and gedit said I do not have permission. BUT I remembered an earlier tutorial that had me do the same thing using the TERMINAL, which is as follows:

From TERMINAL key in:
sudo gedit /var/www/testphp.php

THE sudo COMMAND automatically grants me admin rights (super user I think, su). Then, type: , save the file
THEN, in Firefox browser, enter the address:

http://localhost/testphp.php

and if PHP is properly installed (which it now is) you see a detailed report of the status and settings of PHP.

I also installed phpadmin, but I have to figure out how to launch it.

AHA, PROBLEM SOLVED! All I need to do is launch the Firefox browser and enter http://localhost/phpmyadmin/ and I am IN!
which I learned from THIS TUTORIAL

EXCEPT, now that I am IN the PhPMyAdmin login screen, it will not accept my password.

SO, I am following the tutorial at THIS LINK

I TRIED a number of things, and one of them, which was a “last resort” wiped out a number of applications already installed including open office, which is now no longer on the applications menu in the launch pad at the top of the screen.

SO, I am going through the huge list in the synaptic manager, and marking what I think I need for REINSTALL, and it is now downloading 300 packages for install. I doub that this will work, but I want to see what happens, and what its like. I would even be curious to mark each and every package for install, just to see how big the Ubuntu installation would become. But what I will probably have to do is uninstall and reinstall Wubi Ubuntu, and work from my blog post notes to get it going again. I found a bunch of links addressing the problems of phpmyadmin and not being able to log in with user password. So I will keep on trying to keep on trying.

I am now entering Ubuntu for first time after this install, and my first task is to learn how to set up wi-fi to recognize my Belkin adaptor in an orderly fashion, without the system freezing and necessitating a reboot.

At the upper left of the Ubuntu desktop, I click on system -> administration -> Network Tools (which opens to the DEVICES TAB) THEN drop down the NETWORK DEVICE can choose WIRELESS INTERFACE. Next, I close those, and move to the right top of the Ubuntu desktop, and click on the left most WIRELESS icon, and click on CREATE NEW WIRELESS NETWORK. It is asking me for the NETWORK NAME, and that for me is a series of numbers, but other people actually make up a name in their router (one humorous one in my building is GET AWAY!!!). I am ready to enter my WEP key, and I am GUESSING that it is WEP 40/128 bit rather than WEP 128 bit (but I am not sure).

I would like to see everyone who is interested in Wubi installs in particular and Ubuntu Linux in general to collaborate in the production of a reliable step-by-step tutorial which anyone of average abilities can follow, to:

1.) Prepare a Windows machine (new or old), for the Ubi Install
2.) Select with care which adapter they will use for connection to Internet.
3.) How to may Ubuntu talk to that Internet adapter and wi-fi.

By the way HERE is one example at Dell’s site of one persons solution to creating a driver for a Wi-Fi adaptor. I merely post this to point the way to Dell Ubuntu forums as just one example of how serious Ubuntu is becoming as a choice in the marketplace.

Also take a look at these DIGG posts regarding the Moblin Linux Remix that is in the developer state.

4.) How to install LAMP (Linux Apache MySQL PhP)
5.) If possible how to install a Gui Admin tool for MySQL THAT APPEARS ON THE DESKTOP.
6.) Step by step how to build a simple but complete application which includes member login, email verification, and all that is necessary to safeguard against SQL injection into PHP.

IF WE CAN SUCCEED IN PRODUCING SUCH A TUTORIAL, then many around the world shall benefit by being empowered to migrate to Ubuntu, and Ubuntu itself as a community will grow stronger and more dominant in the workplace because our strength is in our users and the strength of each user is the tools and tutorials to build stable hardware software configurations which accomplish their tasks and goals in a sound and stable fashion.

PREPARING YOUR OLD COMPUTER FOR WUBI INSTALL:
1.) Made certain that the computer is as clean as possible of trojans and viruses by using Avira Antivir and Malwarebytes and then installing Online Armour firewall so that when you are in Windows, you will be protected against malware.

2.) Be certain to boot into SAFE MODE (holding down the F8 key as the machine starts to boot) and perform all virus scans a second time in SAFE MODE.

3.) Once you are certain that your machine is clean and your firewall is well trained in what is safe and trusted, then, delete or archive off line all unnecessary data so as to have the most disk space possible, and then run CHKDSK, DISKCLEANER, and then DEFRAG. It is important to run the defragger BEFORE you install Wubi Ubuntu, because the ROOT files in the Ubunto folder will be marked as not-moveable (and hence not defraggable).

BEGINNING THE WUBI INSTALL:

The following link is all you need, in Windows, in your browser, to
start the Wubi install of Ubuntu (Linux/Unix), onto your Windows drive, with no partitioning, with all Linux files located in one windows folder which may be deleted in the event of an uninstall, and only a boot option to select Windows or Ubuntu.

I have installed and uninstalled Ubuntu about 4 times in the past two days for reasons that I shall explain.

You may REMOVE Wubi installed Ubuntu with the Control Panel ADD/REMOVE option, just as you would remove any other program.
The uninstall does NOT remove the dual boot option, but perhaps there is some way to do that, if desired.

Here is the link to the page which starts the Wubi install:

http://wubi-installer.org/

The install takes an hour using my Verizon DSL.

The install is totally automatic. Only towards the end will it ask for a name for login and a password. Then it will reboot, and you simply choose Ubuntu instead of Windows. When you first boot into Ubuntu, the install continues for about 30 minutes.

IF you have no intention of installing things like LAMP (Linux Apache MySQL PHP) then you are done, because you have an Ubuntu desktop with Firefox, Open Office, and many sorts of utilities.

BUT your next task will be to get Ubuntu connected to the Internet.

I already have a Belkin USB Wi-Fi connector working in Windows.
It took me several hours to figure out how to make this work, but when you know, it is rather simple. If you look at the upper right of your desktop, you will see a little icon which drops down to offer selections for Internet connection, one of which is Wi-Fi). You will see all the Channels available. You need to know the name of YOUR channel and the WEP KEY. I click on MY channel, and then, the whole system freezes. I have to power down and reboot and reenter Ubuntu. Once Ubuntu reloads, it will prompt me for the WEP key (and remember the key for furture sessions). There is probably a better way to do this which would not involved rebooting, but I found something that works, and I dont feel like experimenting more right now. (Note: since this post, I have decided to delete Ubuntu and reinstall, and determine an exact method of connecting to wifi with a WEP key WITHOUT have the machine freeze and having to reboot, which might result in some damage to the more fragile file structure of Ubuntu running on Windows folders and files.)

But, in all my searching in Google, it seems to me that there is no one tutorial which addresses all the things I need to do to get Ubuntu and Wi-Fi working, and then install Apache, MySQL and PHP.

In fact, part of my reason for posting this is so that I may document what I did over several days and remember it if I have to do it again in the future. I am posting this right now from a Foxfire browser running in Ubuntu.

AS I WAS TYPING THE ABOVE SENTENCE, Ubuntu froze up and I had to reboot. Now it is possible that part of the problem is the old Compaq I am using, with XP, service pack 2. I tried to clean it up as much as possible before embarking upon this Ubuntu experiment. It is to the credit of WordPress that I did not lose a sentence of this post, even though I had to reboot (however, I published and updated it frequently, out of fear of losing my work.)

I may be getting an old tower from someone, so I will have a spare machine to install Ubuntu from a CD, and totally reformat the drive, so that there will be no Windows involved. Ubuntu impresses me enough to make me want to put in the effort to experiment, and see if I can make it work.

I did google to see if there are any Wi-Fi USB adaptors which come with Linux drivers. I did find one, which I shall describe here and post. One forum pointed out that there are WRAPPERS, that can wrap around the windows driver and be used in Ubuntu, but a native driver is preferable to a wrapper. Also, if you put a wrapper around the windows driver, then you are tied to the user agreement for that driver (I mean, it is not purely open source).

HERE is the link I found about a wireless wi-fi adapter that supposedly works with no effort in an Ubuntu machine.

http://www.airlink101.com/products/awll3028.php

The AWLL3028 features a compact design and compatibility with USB 2.0 ports. Includes wireless encryption data with 64/128/152-bit WEP. Also backward compatible with 802.11b.

HERE is the link which alerted me to the above AIRLINK adapter.

I spent a lot of time a few years ago, playing around with WAMP which is Apache, MySQL, pHp under WINDOWS (while LAMP the same package under Linux). Remember that Ubuntu is a flavor of Linux which in turn is a flavor of Unix.

Having WAMP on your Windows machine allows you to have your own private Internet server (even if you are not connected to the internet). You can create SQL databases using MySQL, and you can create webpages using php which QUERY tables in your database, and add/modify/delete records.

So my next task was to find out how to install Apache and MySQL and PHP on my new Ubuntu install.

I will tell you up front what finally seemed to work for me, and then I will backtrack and explain the ways that didnt seem to work.

THIS link explains how to install software in Ubuntu using what is called System >> Administration >> Synaptic Package Manager.

I had to hunt around in that Synaptic Package Manager and kind of guess which installs had words like Apache, PHP, and MySQL. But once you find what you need, you just click a little box, and they install automatically.

I am positive that once I go to the huge Barns & Noble store near Union Square, I shall find books which talk one through these Ubuntu installations.

Once I had Ubuntu installed, and connected to the Internet through the Wi-Fi USB Belkin adapter, I was DESPARATE to learn how to install ANYTHING at all, and have it show up on the desktop.

I decided I would try to install AVG for Linux. I downloaded the package (named .deb for Debian which is what Ubuntu is compatible with)… I downloaded the file under Windows. Then, I booted into Ubuntu and navigated the file explorer to HOST which is actually drive C and all the Windows folders.

Once the AVG .deb file is downloaded, you boot into Ubuntu, locate the file, right click on it, and it offers you the option to install it into Ubuntu. Now the first great mystery after it installs is WHERE did it install. And the second great mystery is HOW might you place it as an icon on a desktop menu.

I never found out how to execute AVG. I now suspect that one gets into the SHELL and issues command lines to invoke these various programs. I further imagine that there is some was to create a batch script file of all those commands and place that on a menu.

I tried so man diffent ways to install things, that the files in the Ubuntu windows director became corrupted, and UNINSTALL could not delete them. I had to boot several times in Windows and Ubuntu and safe mode, with the compute hanging, until suddenly, the computer informed me that it was doing CHKDSK to repair whatever was wrong. Only then could I boot into windows and uninstall the corrupted version of Ubuntu. This is an illustration of the fragile nature of Wubi Ubuntu running under Windows.

Tonight, before I go to sleep, I am going to set DEFRAG running, which should take something like 5 or 10 hours.

After one succeeds in installing Apache, the test to see if it is working is very simple. Get into a browser and type “localhost” and it will pop up with a screen that says IT WORKED!

The way to test out MySQL is to click on a little black windowed terminal program, and get into SHELL. One must issue an SU command, and be prompted for the root password, so that one may issue these commands in root with admin status.

Here is the tutorial which helped me to ender the shell and issue MYSQL commands.

I realize you are overwhelmed at times and could not get to my post.

Please consider this solved.

My JHOOS experience inspired me to dig deeply into Avira Antivir support forum.

Part of my concern was that repeated scans by malwarebytes and avira, both in normal windows mode and save mode, did not seem to eliminate my problem. Avira support volunteers suspected that there were remnants of old McAfee and Norton installations which can only be removed by special and two special and little know uninstall utilities provided by McAfee/Symantic. Once I ran those uninstall utilities, Avira and and Malwarebytes were able to do their job, and I had a clean system. Then, I inquired which is the best firewall which would be compatible with Avira and was directed to Online Armor. Online Armor, in turn, periodically points a finger of suspicion at some file, and I can then google on it, and block it if I feel uncomfortable. I feel that the worst that will happen is that some other important application will cease to function correctly, and then I can unblock it, and that it is better to err on the side of caution than on the side of complacency.

Another tool which many speak well of but which always scared me is Ccleaner. When I saw so many people using it in the AV and Firewall forums, I took courage and experimented with it on the oldest and least important machine. It REALLY helped me with the old Compaq, because it quickly found and deleted 40 meg of temp files that I could not have manually found so quickly, and there was something buried in those that was giving Avira a hard time.

The scariest thing to me is REGISTRY. But Ccleaner allows you to make a backup before each change, and you can restore if something goes wrong. The real wisdom is to realize that one SHOULD NOT automatically clean up everything that the cleaner finds, but do a little at a time, and be ready to restore.

I have decided that it is good to join various fine forums like this and keep well informed about what problems others may be having.

Someone gave me their old Compaq XP from college (2002) and it was LOADED with 100 serious viruses and trojans even though it had a Sygate firewall (back when that was free) and symantec and spybot search and destroy and spyware blaster. But then, a college student may be too distracted to really stay on top of such AV and firewall software, update signatures, run scans, etc. The old Compaq is now clean and protected, and I can affored to take some risks with it and explore the unknown, so I did a Wubi Ubuntu install, which is blowing my mind away with awe and joy, since I never thought it would be so user friendly.

Thanks to all of you in all these fine forums! United we stand, divided we fall!

I went STRAIGHT up to J&R and bought a $30 Belkin USB Wi-Fi just like the one I installed on the old computer from work.

I wanted to be very conservative and buy only that, until I could see that this old Compaq works well with it.

It took me a couple of hours to make the Belkin recognize our Verizon Wireless, partly possibly because the Compaq, though XP, is only Service Pack 2, and hasn’t kept up with upgrades.

The Compaq machine automatically recognized the Belkin laser mouse from my boss’s machine, but did not recognize the USB keyboard. The keyboard from our original machine, non-usb, does work. Then I went back to Lourdes and got the old keyboard that was on the desk, and it works perfectly being non-USB as well.

The NEXT thing I did was install Avira-Antivir free antivirus, and also another scanner which they recommend from malwarebytes.com.

I spent about four hours scanning and rescanning both in normal windows mode and in SAFE (F8) mode, and found OVER 100 TROJAN AND VIRUS INFECTIONS. I was shocked because Bryan DID have several anti-virus programs AND an old free firewall that I had installed (Sygate, which was bought out by Symantec some years ago, and is no longer free).

After several hours, I got the machine totally clean of malware, and then I downloaded the free firewall, Online Armor. Then came an 2 or three hours of “teaching” the firewall what is permitted/trusted and what is not. One the firewall was working ok, I then downloaded another highly recommended product, Ccleaner, which was able to quickly remove 40 megs of temporary files.

Finally, I did something I have always been itching to do! I used the WUBI installer for Ubuntu Linux, which is the easiest and least disruptive of all Windows Linux alternatives, as it DOES NOT REPARTITION the drive into a windows partition and a Linux partition. All it does is change the BOOT up to offer a Windows choice or an Ubuntu choice. It took about an hour to download and install.

Then came the fun part of booting up in Ubuntu Linux for the first time. The Wubi install is so smooth and automatic! And the Ubuntu desktop looks every bit as nice as Windows. I had no idea what to expect, and thought perhaps it would be something more DOS-like and primitive, with only a command line interface, like the old DOS days.

It took me about four hours to get Ubuntu to recognize the wi-fi and access the Internet, because there are not clear instructions, so I just had to click on every imaginable place, and try all sorts of WEP key/address combinations, but finally, I WAS ON-LINE!

I started all these efforts right after I left you, which was around noon, and I worked straight through until 6 a.m. this morning, when I finally was satisfied with my progress, and could not keep my eyes open another minute.

As soon as Ubuntu was connected to the Internet, the NEXT breathtaking thing was to click on FIREFOX browser (which comes ready installed in Ubuntu) and see that it feels JUST like being in a browser in Windows! So the first think I did was go to my Plurk (which is like Twitter, a microblog, but much more fun and interactive, and much easier to meet technical and intellectual types like programmers and teachers), and lose my Linux virginity my making my first post a PLURK post. Next I logged into Facebook, to make that my second post.

Ubuntu comes with all sorts of ready to use programs including I think Open Office which is the Linux shareware offering for Microsoft office, with spreadsheet, word processor, etc.

Unix came a long way to get to Linux, and Linux came a long way to get to Ubuntu, and Ubuntu came a long way to get to an easy Windows friendly installer like Wubi. But one can easily see why much of the World is attracted to an open-source shareware environment, even if it is less slick and more work compared to Micro$oft, with all their proprietary software which may one day be shelved/abandoned.

By the way, things like the Google search engine, are written in open source languages like Python, which is free for anyone to develop/support/enhance. Why write a massive application in some proprietary language/operating system, and then be at the mercy of that for-profit Corporation, and the vicissitudes of the marketplace and world economy.

(A side note: one article on the emergence of the European Common Union points out that they have enough clout to force Microsoft to conform to their demands, but the American government was not successful in a similar dispute with Microsoft.)

It is no wonder that many developed countries like Switzerland (as just one example) have declared that Linux is to be a required standard for all educational institutions.

The same praises may be given to open source software like Apache (an internet server), MySQL (a free database) and pHp (a programming language that interacts in a browser on the client side and interacts with MySQL on the provider/server side).
Packages of those three that run on Windows are called by the acronym WAMP (Windows, Apache, MySQL, PHP), and such a package that runs under Linux is called LAMP.

Now I must post at the Avira anti-virus support forum and the Online Armor support forum to ask how their products can best be made to integrate with Ubuntu.

I think my next purchase will be a $10 Belkin laser mouse (Microsoft also had one for $10 but a technician told me that the Belkin’s last a bit longer). And I will get a decent power strip with a long cord. So all I will need is that monitor you mentioned, which I am sure will be adequate.

At some point I want to get one of those deals from Sancor that offers 6 or 12 memory sticks 2 gig on a shrink-wrapped board, then that would be useful, because I am learning of ways to format them into useful things like Avira Rescue disks that one can even BOOT from, should the machine become unbootable from malware.

Finding and removing lots of viruses is as much fun as squeezing zits (so gross, yet so true.)

And you can see how much MORE fun I had that simply getting a new machine (which is not what it is really about at all). When I have a spare machine, like Bryan’s then I can afford to be far more bold and daring in trying out things like REGISTRY cleaners (Ccleaner) and Ubuntu installs.

Oh, and around 3am, I decided to install Google’s CHROME browser (which I have never tried), simply so I could have an up-to-date browser to delete and reinstall Firefox, because the Firefox was so old that it didn’t want to upgrade. And the Internet Explorer was also too outdated to allow me to do all the Microsoft Windows updates that havent been done for several years. Finally, I discovered a way to tell Windows itself to automatically download Windows updates (because I never could get microsoft.com update feature to work in Internet Explorer browser.)

About DAZUKO from Avira for Linux

Installing DAKUZO in Linux/Ubuntu

Hay veces en que no nos atrevemos a particionar un disco duro, por el riesgo que conlleva realizar esta acción.

Wubi es un programa para Windows que nos permite instalar Ubuntu sin necesidad de hacer particiones ni formatear. Sólo tenemos que introducir el CD de Ubuntu (lleva incluido Wubi desde la versión 8.04) y seguir unos sencillos pasos:

- Al leer el CD se nos abre directamente Wubi. En el caso de no ser así, entramos en X:/wubi.exe (cambiad X: por la letra de la unidad de CD que tengáis). Aparecen tres opciones:

• Demostración e instalación total. Esta opción nos permite iniciar el LiveCD de Ubuntu, para posteriormente instalarlo de manera normal.
• Instalar dentro de Windows. Esta es la opción que vamos a elegir en nuestro tutorial.
• Para saber más. Contiene información acerca de Ubuntu.

- Pulsamos en la segunda opción:

- Seguidamente nos sale la pantalla de configuración. En ella podemos indicarle la unidad dónde vamos a instalarlo, tamaño de la instalación, entorno de escritorio, idioma, usuario y contraseña:

Ahora sólo nos queda darle a Instalar y esperar a que termine. Reiniciamos y ya podemos elegir entre cada uno de los SO que tengamos instalados en el equipo.

Espero que les haya resultado útil este primer tutorial.

There was this issue I faced a couple of days ago. I have Windows Vista installed on my laptop. I wanted to install ubuntu on a separate partition. Now since I have a single partition on my laptop I decided to create a dedicated partition for ubuntu. I realized that Norton’s partition magic does not supports windows vista and people who tried partitioning their hard drive with Vista pre-intalled, had their partitions screwed up.

Later on I found that Vista has this inbuilt partition manager with options like shrink/extend volume which were useless most of the time and were not flexible enough. I had almost given up when I came across the
wubi installer.

This is a really cool software which allows you to install ubuntu as just another application in windows without the need to create a dedicated partition. I would strongly recommend this installer for all those who would like to try out ubuntu or who would like to use it without creating a dedicated partition.

There are ofcourse a few minor limitations of using the OS this way. You can check these out in the
FAQ section.

   Precum spuneam pe aici azi  dimineaţă mă gândeam să-i ard un KDE la tanti Koala şi eventual un LXDE – zis şi făcut, dar spre deosebire de GNOME care nu mi-a făcut probleme, cele două desktop managere nu au fost tocmai pe gustul meu în ceea ce priveşte comportamentul scontat – ambele nu ţin minte rezoluţia – de ce nu ştiu, iar la Compiz n-am putut cu niciun chip să activez sfera şi cilindrul, asta când nu am dat de mici glitch-uri destul de supărătoare . În ceea ce priveşte Wine-le se comportă penal în KDE – îl buşeşte de tot sau nu are niciun sunet, nici măcar ăla prost din GNOME . Ce să mai zic ? E oare aşa de greu să ai un linux perfect funcţional în zilele noastre cu toate driverele puse la punct, fără bug-uri şi glitch-uri, cu toate desktop manager-ele stabile şi fiabile, cu un Wine care să se comporte rezonabil ? Se pare că da şi asta mai ales cu ultimele pachete software instalate – dacă nici cu astea nu merge treaba atunci cu ce ? 

   Ştergând eu ultimul Ubuntu (beta-ul) pentru că nu mai binevoia dumnealui să se actualizeze şi observad în daily build-ul de astăzi că tanti Koala a trecut deja la kernel-ul 2.6.31.14 zic să-i mai dau o şansă şi astfel îl dau jos; cum Wubi-ul nu mai era funcţional de foarte mult timp mă gândesc să fac o încercare şi să văd dacă au remediat ceva şi pe aici – prima oară o dă el într-un loop d-ăla de neam prost şi stau eu şi aştept, şi aştept şi până la urmă observând cu o furie crescândă cum butonul de restart îmi face cu ochiul – odată zdrang bag mâna-n el şi gata – a două oară săracul Wubi s-a speriat şi zise către mine – Master, Master – be cool and nice – I’ll install right now this damn Ubuntu ! Uaaauu – chiar a făcut-o – d-aia trebuie să te înfigi niţel mai tare-n el . Adevărul e că pe NTFS Koala se mişcă surprinzător de bine şi de rapid – Compiz-ul şi Emerald-ul funcţionează fără probleme, driverul ATI la fel şi cam tot ce trebuie să meargă merge – singură problemă rămasă – prezenta şi la instalarea pe EXT4 este sunetul care se buşeşte la reintrarea în Windows, singura soluţie fiind Power-off-ul . În rest toate bune şi frumoase până acum – am de gând să-i trag şi-un KDE că să se-nvete minte şi să mă simt şi eu mai bine la look and feel !

לכל המשתמשים שעדיין משתמשים בחלונות ורוצים לנסות את אובונטו אך מפחדים , יש פיתרון!

אפשר להתקין את אובונטו על Wubi , תוכנה שמתקינה את אובונטו כמו תוכנה רגילה- אתם לא תקבלו את המקסימום מהאובונטו בדרך הזאת ואולי יהיו כמה תקלות קטנות , אך בכל מקרה, תוכלו להבין איך אובונטו פועלת והאם אתם מוכנים למעבר כזה.

את התוכנה Wubi תוכלו להוריד דרך הקישור הזה.

הנה סרטון שמראה את ההתקנה ומסביר לכם מה שונה ומה דומה באובונטו לחלונות:

קרדיט לכלכליסט אשר יצר את הסרטון הנחמד מאוד הזה.