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Guide: Install Ubuntu Linux for newbie on a system with Windows XP (Step 3)

2006-02-19T09:22:00.000+01:00

go back to step 1 and 2
Step 3: Install and configure Ubuntu

1. Press ENTER to continue.

2. Select English and Press ENTER.

3. Select "other".

4. Select "Malaysia"

5. Press ENTER to choose American English as keyboard layout

6. Following screens will show up.

7.Use tab to move between item to select "Continue". Press ENTER.

8. Hardware detecting.

9. Starting partitioner.

10. Select "Manually edit partition table".

11. Partition table will show up. Select the Ext3 partition that you just created.

12. Select "Mount point".

13. Select "/ - the root file system" as Mount option.

14. Select "Done setting up the partition".

15. Select "Finish partitioning and write changes to disk" to start partition.

16. Select YES to confirm the changes.

17. Installing. This will take a while.

18. Select YES.

19. Press ENTER

20. Enter your name and choose CONTINUE.

21. Enter your user name.

22. Enter your password. Then reenter to confirm.

23. Configuring.

24. Select YES to enable dual boot of Ubuntu and Windows XP

25. Installing GRUB boot loader...

26. Follow the instruction. The PC will reboot.

27. When boot, select "Ubuntu kernel" to boot.

28. Ubuntu loading on boot.

29. Installing packages. This will take a long time so be patience.

30. Select the screen resolution you want by pressing SPACE key then select OK.

31. More installing...

32. Installation finish. Ubuntu start. Enter your Username, press ENTER and the same for password.

33. Congrat! You just installed Ubuntu successfully!

Guide: Install Ubuntu Linux for newbie on a system with Windows XP (Step 1 and 2)

2006-02-18T20:39:00.000+01:00

Ubuntu Linux is by far the easiest Linux to install. If you scare of losing your data in your hard disk after Linux installation or unable to boot into Windows XP, fear not, following is a complete guide for installing Ubuntu on a system with Windows XP.

Assume that:
you have 1 hard disk with 1 partition with Windows XP on installled it.

Outcome:
You can choose which OS to boot (dual boot).

Step 1: Download and burn Ubuntu Linux Installation CD
Require: Nero 5.0 or above or any CD-burning program

1. Go to download section of Ubuntu website. Choose the nearest site.

2. In "Install CD" section, click on "PC (Intel x86) install CD" to download the "ubuntu-5.10-install-i386.iso" file .

3. After the download completed, start Nero Express.

4. Choose "Disc Image or save Project".

5. Then select the Ubuntu image file "ubuntu-5.10-install-i386.iso" that you have just downloaded.

6. Insert a blank CD-R in CD/DVD-Burner and click next to burn.

7. When finish burning, take out the CD, go to step 2.

Step 2: Partition the hard disk for Ubuntu installation
In order to install Ubuntu Linux you'll need to create 2 partitions on your current hard disk, first is the Linux Ext3 partition and second is Linux swap partition.

Require: Partition Magic 8.0

1. Start Partition Magic. Click on "Create a new partition" on the left side of the window.

2. Click next

3. Select "After C:". Click next.

4a. Ubuntu Linux at least 2.2GB for installation. It is recommended to set the partition size as 5GB. So enter "5000" in "Size:". Keep "Create as:" as "Logical". Select "File System:" type as "Linux ext3". Click next.

4b. Click finish.

5. You will see this after that. Click on "Create a new partition" again. Click next in the wizard window.

6. Select "After *." and click next.

7.Untick the "C:" partition as shown below. Click next.

8. Enter "1024" in "Size:" Keep "Create as:" as "Logical". Select "File System type:" as "Linux Swap". Click next.

9. You will see following screen. Click on the "Apply" button on the left below.

10. Click "Yes" to apply changes.

11. Click OK to reboot so the partition can be created.

12. When the PC reboot, you will the following partition in progress screen. After the partition is completed, the PC will reboot again.

13. In Windows start Partition Magic again to check on your current hard disk partition. You will see the following screen.

14. Partitioning is now complete. Go to step 3.

Guide: Build BartPE bootable Windows CD

2006-02-16T22:48:00.000+01:00

Bart's PE Builder create a bootable BartPE windows CD from your existing Windows XP installation CD. It has a complete Win32 environment with network support, a graphical user interface (800x600) and FAT/NTFS/CDFS filesystem support. This is handy when your PC fail to boot after crash or virus infection as you can still access your data in NTFS filesystem (which can't be access in DOS mode using normal boot disk since it is encrypted) and save your precious data. No installation is required, so no matter how badly the hard disk or Windows is in shape, you can still run it.
Following is a quick guide on how to create a BartPE CD.

1. Download and install PE Builder.

2. Run PE Builder. Click agree on the license agreement.

3. When asked search for Windows installation file, click no.

4. Insert your Windows XP installation CD into your CD/DVD Drive.

5. Create a directory in your hard disk, e.g. "C:\WinXP".

6. Copy the content of the Windows Installation CD to that directory.

7. After that, you may see something like this in the directory.

8. In PE Builder, click on the "..." button beside "source" and select "C:\WinXP" directory.

9. Select "Burn to CD/DVD" in Media output section.

10. Insert a black cd-r/dvd-r and click "Build".

11. The license for your Microsoft Windows XP product is shown. Click "I agree"

12. PE Builder will now start building BartPE. This will take a few minutes. You will see a lot of files getting copied and/or decompressed, the ISO image build and the data recorded to your CD/DVD writer.

13. After the build is finish, reboot your PC, insert the CD and you should see the following screen.

14. A normal Windows boot up logo will show up

15. BartPE desktop will show up. Now you're ready to use it!

Get a PC for FREE! using VMware

2006-02-14T13:06:00.000+01:00

Before you think this is yet another spam blog, read further and you won't be disspointed. VMware create a virtual machine on your PC that enable you to run any Operating system like Windows, Linux, Free BSD etc. A virtual machine is a computer defined in software. It's like running a PC on your PC. Download the free VMware Player and read the instruction.

The concept is similar to the Matrix defined in the movie, The Matrix. The machines fool humans to believe that they are living in the real world through brain manipulation. This is done by simulate a pseudo-real senses in the brain that it can differentiate that they are in fact simulated.

In this case virtual machine is the matrix. It simulate all the hardware like CPU, hard disk, RAM, CD-ROM drive, etc that are required for a fully functional PC. The operating system assume these hardware are real so it will operate perfectly.

The usage of VMware are endless. Home users can take advantage of Browser Appliance which guarantee 100% secure internet browsing as any virus,trojan or spyware will get stucked in the virtual machine and won't damge your real PC a bit. For academic and research purpose, one can run Linux OS on Windows installed PC and the other way around. Multiple Linux distro too can be installed on a single PC. The switch of OS is a matter of split second as reboot is not required. You can get more pre-build virtual machine at Virtual Machine Center. Those who wanna try out Linux but scare of screwing up their hard disk can try the pre-build Ubuntu Linux.

Tips: Download stuff from IRC

2006-02-13T09:03:00.000+01:00

#At http://www.ircklipper.info/, Choose the bot based on the following criterias in descending order GET, RECORD_SPEED, LAST_UPDATE

#Other IRC search engine: http://www.packetnews.com/, www.ircspy.com

#See the latest release at www.nforce.nl

#Use script to make the download process easier xdccklipper http://www.xdccklipper.info/
more scripts can be found at http://www.mircscripts.org/

I still recommend u not to use script as some channel ban the usage of script. Some scripts disable certain function.

#Use winrar to extract the tar file into rar files. Extract the rar files again to get the full file.

#Use Quicksfv or similiar programs to open sfx file in the extracted rar directory to check the present of all rar files and no file is damaged.

#Try to download stuff in rar format instead of avi or bin format as u can resume it using following method.

#If u can't finish download some stuff. Say, up to 90%. Or a rar file is missing/damaged. Go to #incomplete channel in the network. There u can request certain rar file from a release.

type, !request [rar file] / [release name] or read the channel instruction
e.g !request king.kong.cd1.xvid.dvdrip-god.r45 / king.kong.xvid.dvdrip-god

Some known #incomplete channels on different networks.
irc.rizon.net #incomplete
irc.nodramairc.net #nsane-i
irc.efnet.net #incomplete irc.ultra-irc.net #incomplete

U have limited number of request per day, say, 5 to 10. Some channels doesn't allow u to reqeuest for the whole release else u'll get banned

#Some networks/channels with fast bots which update frequently.

Movies
irc nodramairc.net #nsane-warez
irc.mircaddict.net #beast-xdcc
irc.irchigway.net #divxdvdrips

TV-Series/Reality Show
irc.irchighway.net #survivor-central

Use digital camera as webcam

2006-02-12T19:08:00.000+01:00

This might sound overkill but theoritically you can use your digital camera as your webcam(if you don't have one). What you need is a digicam with Video-Out, a graphic card or TV-card with Video-In and a video cable. I got a Sony Cyber-Shot DSC-W1 digital camera and a Terratec Cinergy 400 TV-card. I tried the following method and it worked on MSN Messenger and Skype.

First, switch on the digital camera and connect the video cable from video out to the video-in on the tv-card. Then run the TV-card software, choose "composite" mode that make it show video-in source instead of TV source. Check if it really show what you see on the digital camera LCD screen. Close the program and run MSN Messenger. Choose "Tools->Audio and Video Setup" menu and follow the wizard's instruction. At "Step 3: Webcam Setup", if you installed your graphic card or TV-card driver properly, you should see a video capture driver in the drop down menu, in my case "Cinergy 400 TV capture". Select it and you should see your LCD screen display appear. That's your "webcam" display now. Click finish and you're done. Likewise with Skype, just goto "Tools->Options->Video" and choose the video capture driver.

Guide: Download stuff from IRC

2006-02-10T23:59:00.000+01:00

1. Download and install mIRC. Follow the instructions for installation.

2. Run mIRC. Click continue.

3. Enter your personal info in the window. Don't enter your real full name and email address. Name like "Anonymous" and email like abc@abc.com will do. Choose a unique nickname. Alternate is your alternate nickname if some alrea y has the same nickname as yours in the network. Click "DCC" in the tree on the left

4. Select "Auto-get file" radio button and click "Yes" in the following warning window. In "If file exists:" choose "Resume". Expand the DCC tree by clicking the plus sign of the left.

5. Click on "Ignore" in the tree on the left. In "Method" choose "Ignore only". Click OK

6. Switch to your web browser. Go to www.ircklipper.info/search.php. Type in the search box anything you wanna download. e.g. King Kong dvdrip. Click "Search" button.

7. The search results will be listed. Pay attention the "Last Update", the less the better as it implies the possiblity the bot is still online.

"Record speed" is the download speed, so the higher the better. More than 500KB/s is acceptable and 1000KB/s is good enough. "Gets" is the number of time the stuff has been sucessful downloaded. So the higher the better. "0" means most likely the bot is not active.

Based on these criterials choose the best bot and click on the channel link. e.g #mexicanwarez.

8. It will switch to mIRC and a window pop up. Click OK. Wait for a while to connect to the network.

9. Following window will show up. At the bottom of the channel window, paste by pressing ctrl+v. Then press enter.

10. If something like this show up.

All slot full. Added you to the main queue in position N...

It means that the bot is sending other people's stuff, so you gotta wait for your turn in the queue.

Else you'll see this

Sending you pack N which is N GB

And a download window will pop up. Download is in progress now!

Buggy AntiVir 7 and bad english

2006-02-09T22:21:00.000+01:00

I always love AntiVir coz it's a free anti virus program which is small in size and fast. Recently AntiVir version 7 was released. I downloaded and installed it. To my disappointment, it's not even as good as version 6. It filled with many bugs that slow my pc down and the update just won't work. After a few failed attemps, I went to the support forum to look for help. Instead I was greeted with bad english.

Well, see for yourself the "germanish" english. No present continous tense like "working" and the verbs are always at the second position of the sentence. Michael Mann (the director?) or whoever that is must really work on his english.

Cheap misspelled articles on eBay

2006-02-08T20:17:00.000+01:00

Articles that are spelled correctly can be found online by millions of surfers not the ones that had been misspelled! But exactly those are the items that could be bought extremely cheap, because almost no one will find them.

Now you can locate those misspelled items easily: With www.MisSpellIt.com

Interesting Organization Forms

2006-02-07T20:10:00.000+01:00

Read a newsletter and found something interesting. Various organisation forms. Quite stereotype but it's true and funny. Note the Latin American, if you know what i mean. :)

Germany's Next Topmodel

2006-02-06T22:21:00.000+01:00

A German version of America's Next Topmodel. The hostess is German supermodel Heidi Klum. See the video clip.

My First Post

2006-02-06T21:05:00.000+01:00

My first post. Just to test out.