Failed to Download Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx)

I am trying to download Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) LTS from morning. I tried with "Transmission" (bit torrent client) and "Downloader for X' (ISO download) but failed. I waited for hundreds of minutes. Seating for up one hour. But nothing happened. I know my internet speed is very low. Though sometimes I can download 1mb in 1 minute. But today I failed to download Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx). After 5 hours "Downloader for X" download only 10%. HAH. I need to wait more days to view Lucid Lynx's beauty.

BAD LUCK

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Released today

New Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Long Term Support) is published today. As you know we all are waiting for this version. This is a long term support version. It means (1) Desktop user will get 3 years support and (2) server user will get 5 years full support on absolutely free.

Office 2010 product guides

Microsoft office 2010 is coming withing some days. Microsoft Office package is a famous office software arround the world. Here are office 2010 product guide which is download-able from Microsoft.

We know that there are many new features is added in Office 2010. I know we will not use all of them in our daily life. But these features are very essential for experts. Office 2010 will include some Office web apps and Office mobile 2010. If anybody want to learn more about new features in Office 2010 they must need to read the books below.

All are free to download. Download all of them from directly Microsoft site.

• Microsoft Access 2010 Product Guide_Final.pdf
• Microsoft Excel 2010 Product Guide_Final.pdf
• Microsoft InfoPath 2010 Product Guide_Final.pdf
• Microsoft Office Mobile 2010 Product Guide_Final.pdf
• Microsoft Office Web Apps Product Guide_Final.pdf
• Microsoft OneNote 2010 Product Guide_Final.pdf
• Microsoft Outlook 2010 Product Guide_Final.pdf
• Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 Product Guide_Final.pdf
• Microsoft Publisher 2010 Product Guide_Final.pdf
• Microsoft SharePoint Workspace 2010 Product Guide_Final.pdf

Take a look at a page to know more about Microsoft Office Product Guides.

Use Global Menu on Ubuntu 10.04

Recently Mark Shuttleworth announce a new feature for Ubuntu 10.10 version. It will appear in only on netbook version. This feature won't be available on desktop version. Name of this new feature is "Global Menu".

Mark shuttleworth said on his blog:

We’re going to put the menu in the panel on the netbook edition of Ubuntu, and not on the desktop edition, because that’s where the screen real-estate is most precious. There are outstanding questions about the usability of a panel-hosted menu on much larger screens, where the window and the menu could be very far apart. Those questions are greatly diminished in the netbook environment, by definition.

Also, the netbook edition has a reduced application load. That will reduce the number of applications we need to get this working on.

However, it will be straightforward to use this on your desktop too, if you want, and we’d encourage people to try with that configuration. The more testing we have early on, the better we’ll understand how it works with different applications. It will be easy to add to the standard desktop panel for people who want to try it out, or prefer to work that way.

On this blogpost Mark explain everything about this 'Netbook Global Menu". He just want to make it clear that why this kind of menu is need on netbooks. Netbook computer has a very limited vertical size on screen. Standard is 1024×600. There is no problem about widh but vertical space is too short that developer need to think more. At last the confirm a solution. They add a 'Global Menu'.

Global Menu is a kind of Mac OS X like globally-shared menu bar. Which will use for applications launched in desktop session. This is currently only available for Gnome.

Though this 'Global menu' is only for netbooks and will release in Ubuntu 10.10 version, you can start to use it right now.

First add the repository in you system with this command in terminal

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:globalmenu-team/ppa

Than apply the command below for Karmic and Lucid

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install gnome-globalmenu

Remember that this Global Menu is not that which Mark shuttlworth said in his blogpost. This application already running and developing by Ubuntu community. It's name is Gnome2 Global Manu. It has some limitation.

• It will not work in Firefox and Open Office
• It will not display window title and controls.

Image and news credit: Webupd8

How to Install Newer onto Older

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS final release is going to publish tomorrow. I know you all Linux/ Ubuntu lovers are waiting for that special moment. After announcement every open source and ubuntu enthusiast will download the newer version and install in their system. I will do same, but thinking the correct method. My asking to myself is 'how do I install newer ubuntu?' I am using Ubuntu 9.10 now. My home folder is full of valuable data. I don't want to lose them all. I know partitioning in Linux. But as a new user I don't know how to install newer Ubuntu 10.04 onto older Ubuntu 9.10? I know that their is a fine solution on this topic. But for last days I cannot remember that way. Some minutes ago I found the way that I can erase older ubuntu but my home folder will be safe.

The solution: At a partitioning stage, I will select 'manual partition' then select root to my older root, swap to older swap and home to the older home folder. I will select 'format' for 'root' and 'swap' partion, not in 'home' partition.

Then newer ubuntu will delete all the information of older ubuntu but 'home' folder will stay intact and safe. On install process installer will not touch 'home' partition because I did not give permission to delete files from it. I just say installer to use it as a home folder. I think I am right. Do you have any suggestion?

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (RC) published

Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx LTS (RC) has published just now. In this release candidate version major changes has been done by developer. Last day a leakage has found in the video x.org. But withing 1 day is was fixed. Other changes are quite same as ubuntu 10.04 LTS beta2 release. Last 19 April I told you that Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Release Candidate is going to publish at 20th April. I heard it from one of my developer friend. Canonical will break the usual RC publish schedule. They want to publish it 2 days before schedule date. But x.org memory leakage has stop them to doing so. Though everything has done within schedule time. I wish that xorg memory leakage will be fully solve in final release.

The upgrades since 9.10 are done in these fields:

Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) RC is coming tomorrow

I just heard that Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) RC is coming tomorrow. This RC (Release Candidate) version has some major change since Beta version.
I am waiting to see new style and changes in Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) RC version.

Fighting against spammers in NetGator

I have made my blog 'Dofollow' just 2 hours ago. Within this time more then 50 comments has submitted. I am sorry to say that all are spam comments. Subjects are common. I am publishing a few of those comments to aware you against them. By the way, one person made all the comments and he/ she came from India. IP address is 59.97.176.127 and ISP is NIB (National Internet Backbone)

This is full report of that criminal. Take a closer look at the image below and understand the new dimension of Indian business/ marketing policy.
Here are some comments of that guy:

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I thought people will be aware about this kind of comments if they found in their blog.

NetGator is a dofollow blog

Dear friends, Today I made my blog 'Dofollow' blog. You may know that backlink is very important for any blog or website in search engine ranking. If anyone want to make his/ her blog to get top position in any search engine then his/ her blog must have some dofollow backlink from other site. I notice that I got some visitors from search engines everyday. But most of them do not comment. I know most of you are know about blogger.com blogs commenting policy. Dofollow attributes are disable by default in blogger.com blog. It is important for fight against spam comment. I also know spammers power a lot. Though I decided to make my blog as a 'Dofollow blog'.

I make 'dofollow' in two section.

1. If you make a post about my blog and give me a link back. That will apear in that corresponding postpage and you will get a dofollow linkback.
2. In comment form, if you leave any link that won't get any dofollow link. It is for protect spamcomment. But if you write your site URL in comment that will get a 'dofollow' link.

So friends, if you want to get a dofollow link to your blog then comment more and more and write posts about my blogposts and linkback to me. Your give me link I will give you 'dofollow' link.

I have made changes in these area:

1. <a expr:href='data:comment.authorUrl' rel='external, follow' target='_blank'><data:comment.author/></a>
2. <a expr:href='data:backlink.url' rel='external, follow' target='_blank'><data:backlink.title/></a>
   

I have changed my contact form

After starting this blog, I have add a contact form in this page. I used 'Wufoo" to create a contact form. But today I have changed my provider.

Last day one of my friend said that he just send a mail to me and I did not answer her yet. She is very angry to me for my not reply. I am astonised. What is she said? I thought did she really send me any mail using my blog's contact form? I checked that form by myself sending a fake email. But alas! She is write and I am wrong. 'Wufoo' did not send me any mail. That means 'wufoo' contact form is not working? Why? What's the reason? Is it for that I am a free user? If so, then they did not done any fare job to me. Because I did not found any such kind information that they will not send mail to me if I am a free user.

I log on to 'wufoo' site and did not found any mail if they want free users to log in to read mails. No. There was no any mail waiting for me. Even there is no any options or help page which describe my problem.

So, I decided to through out 'wufoo' from my site. Actually 'wufoo' has many nice feature and colorful control panel. I liked them all. And want to write a post about them. But they done unfair to me. They don't like free users. They don't want free blogger to use their form. They should write it clearly in bold text in their website. Even they have not any trial period for their free users.

Today, I go to http://www.emailmeform.com site and made a Email Me form for my blog. I add it into my blogs Contact Page and working nice. You may check it sending me a mail.

I am very happy with the service of 'emailmeform'. I will write a post about them as soon as possible.

THANK YOU

Thank you for your mail. I will read your mail very shortly. I always try to answer every mail I get from my blog reader. Please allow me some days to mail back.

Now you may write a mail again using this Contact Page
or go directly to the Home page.

Thank's for staying with me.

Lubuntu 10.04 Beta 2 Was Released

I am a real let guy. LXDE based ubuntu distribution Lubuntu 10.04 beta 02 was published 12 April. But I did not post on this great news. What a fool I am? Yes, I am a lazy person too. So, can not check latest information on time.

You know that LXDE (Lightweight x11 desktop environment) is a very fast desktop environment. It is really extremely fast performing and energy saving desktop environment. So, it support low hardware based computer like older, netbook etc.

Canonical (UBUNTU) thought that if they build a distribution based on LXDE, that will be popular to low end user. So they made a variation named "LUBUNTU". 12 April 2010 was the date of Lubuntu 10.04 beta 2 release date.

What changes were made after beta 1? On mailing list I have found some changes are:

== New stuff since Beta 1 ==
* Auto-login at install time
* Support encrypted home directory
* Up-to-date lxdm, libfm and pcmanfm2

== Specific Lubuntu changes ==
Lubuntu still contains modifications not available in the official
repository, you can see them in the Lubuntu PPA [1] :
- New pcmanfm2 and libfm (LP: #523433)
- lubuntu-default-settings with pcmanfm2 support
- Fix for blurry shutdown-icon from elementary-icons (LP: #527345)
- Autologin support in ubiquity (LP: #546445)
- New lxdm

Remember that this version is not for regular use. It is still beta now. Use it only for testing purpose.

Google Buzz button for Blogger blog

Dear friends, today I am telling you a technic to show Google Buzz Share Button in your blogger.com blog. Now a days Google Buzz is growing popularity more and more as a social tool. Most of us has been activated Buzz in Gmail. We are sharing our thoughts, weblinks, pictures as buzz. Google make this as a alternative of Facebook and Twitter and I thought they are success. We visit websites and found many good article. We share them through 'Stumble', 'Digg', etc. You may notice that some webmaster use a buzz button in every post. In Blogger.com blog there is no any default option to use buzz button in every blogpost. We will create this by ourself.

Adding a buzz button in every blog post is very easy. Just add the codes below in your bogs HTML page.

• Log in Blogger.com
• Go to Layout > Edit HTML
• Tick on "Expand Widget Templates" with your left mouse button.
  
• Search <div class='post-header-line-1'/> and add the code just after this line.
• or
• search for <data:post.body/> and paste the codes just before this line.

More alternative default facebook profile photo

Some days ago I have wrote a post, named "69 alternative facebook profile image". After publishing that post, I have found that my visitors like this post very much. May Facebook user want to change their default 'Facebook user progile photo'. So they came to my bog again and again. Today I am publishing some more alternative Facebook user profile pictures. I wish you might like these images.
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You are allowed to use these image with no cost. All are free to download and use. No need to say thanks to me. I have just collect them from online for your Facebook activity. When I searched Google for this kind of image I found that some site was published these alternative Facebook profile photo but they did not give credit to the original creator. I don't like that. I like to say thanks to "thisblogrules" for these lovely facebook alternative user profile photo.

?? How to use these images?
It is very easy. Just right click on any of these picture. On the pop up menu click on "Save as" and save the image in your computer or harddisk. Upload that picture in your Facebook account as your user profile image.

Nested Labels are enabled at Gmail

Gmail blog has published and announcement. The said that nested label feature is now enebled in Gmail. Here is a snapshot at the left side. How to get it in Gmail inbox? If you like to use it, go to the Gmail Labs tab under Settings, and look for "Nested Labels". Now enable it and click "Save."

Now it is time to create some label. Name label with slashes (/) to make it the child of another. As example, let's say you wanted to create a simple hierarchy with a "Home" label, and inside it a "Members" and a "Jobs" label. Just create three labels with the following names:

Home
Home/Members
Home/Jobs

If you want, you can then create "Home/Members/Kids," "Home/Pets," etc.
In Gmail blog official said that :

You can create complex hierarchies of labels if that's the way you like to organize your mail, and you can expand/collapse labels to save space. You'll always be able to tell whether a given label contains unread messages in its collapsed child labels by looking at whether it's bold or not.

Read more tweaking at Gmail blog.

Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) beta-2 released

Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) Beta version number 2 has published. This release has some special feature. You may check them and download an single ISO file from here.

If anybody want to update their Ubuntu system directly then run the command below in terminal and follow the on-screen instructions.

update-manager -d

Ubuntu 8.10 to Ubuntu 9.10 will automatically update via internet with this command.

Ubuntu 10.04 official webbutton published

If you want to support Ubuntu philosophy then you must know what is it. So you have moral activity to announce Ubuntu to others. Here is four Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) countdown web button which can be used in your blog or site. All are java based code so paste the code in a HTML/ Javascript gadget.

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.ubuntu.com/files/countdown/display.js"></script>

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.ubuntu.com/files/countdown/display1.js"></script>

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.ubuntu.com/files/countdown/display2.js"></script>

If your site or blog service provider don't javascript based gadget then use the web button and code below.

<a href="http://www.ubuntu.com/"><img src="http://www.ubuntu.com/files/countdown/static.png" width="180" height="150" alt="Ubuntu: For Desktops, Servers, Netbooks and in the cloud" border="0" /></a>

After a hard contest canonical picked these buttons at last. This news was published in the Help spread the word about Ubuntu page.

Search engine changed in Ubuntu 10.04

You may know that some months ago canonical official said that upcoming Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) search engine will be "Yahoo" instead of "Google". But now they have changed their mind. An official announcement said that:

Each release we determine the best default web browser and the best default search engine for Ubuntu. When choosing the best default search provider, we consider factors such as user experience, user preferences, and costs and benefits for Ubuntu and the browsers and other projects that make up Ubuntu. Up until Ubuntu 9.10 these defaults have always been Firefox and Google. Earlier in the 10.04 cycle I announced that we would be changing the default search provider to Yahoo!, and we implemented that change for several milestones.

However, for the final release, we will use Google as the default provider. I have asked the Ubuntu Desktop team to change the default back to Google as soon as reasonably possible, but certainly by final freeze on April 15th.

It was not our intention to "flap" between providers, but the underlying circumstances can change unpredictably. In this case, choosing Google will be familiar to everybody upgrading from 9.10 to 10.04 and the change will only be visible to those who have been part of the development cycle for 10.04.

Thank you Mark. I am a Google lover too.

That announcement has been published here.

Configurable related posts gadget blogger blog

Last day we have know a way to show "Related posts" in a smartest way. That smartest related posts gadget have some less feature. Actually configuration of that hack is quite difficult for newbie. Such if you want to show more then 5 posts then you need to edit the "related-posts-widget-1.0.js" file. That is some critical for me like blogger. Today I am going to publish a new and updated configurable "Related posts" gadget that is easy to configure as my desire. This code can be use as a "Recent Posts" gadget. Even you can show other blogs latest posts with this gadget. Here is the code...

<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.3.2/jquery.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="http://blogger-related-posts.googlecode.com/files/related-posts-widget-1.0.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
relatedPostsWidget({
'containerSelector':'div.post-body'
,'relatedTitle':'Related Posts:'
,'recentTitle':'Recent Posts:'
,'loadingText':'loading...'
,'maxPosts':'5'
,'blogURL':'http://another_blog.com'
});</script>

Here is the configuring methods....

• Change "Related Posts" words as your desire.
• Delete "Recent Posts" (red line full) if you don't want to use it as a recent posts gadget.
• Change the number 5 to more or less posts link.
• Write other blogs address in the "another-blog.com" if you want to show other blogs posts.
• Or delet the blogURL line (red line full) if you don't want to use this feature.
• That all. Save the gadget and you've done.
  

Smartest related posts gadget

Look at my blogposts bottom. I have add a "Related posts" gadget there. I think it is the smartest related posts gadget I have ever seen. Just copy and paste the codes below in a HTML gadget and you've done. You don't need to adjust the html gadgets space. It mas stay anywhere in your blog. But related posts must show on the bottom on every posts.

<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.3.2/jquery.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script> <script src="http://blogger-related-posts.googlecode.com/files/related-posts-widget-1.0.js" type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript"> relatedPostsWidget({ 'containerSelector':'div.post-body' ,'loadingText':'loading...' });</script>

Thats all. You have done.
This smartest related posts gadget was made by More Tech Tips.

Sidebar link nudging effect

Sidebar Link Nudging effect

Look at the image at right side. It is a linkbar stated in a blog sidebar. This linkbar has a special effect. It is an uniques style which can be implement in any blogger.com blog. When blogreader hove mousepointer through a link, that link will be nudge slightly. It is calle sidebar link nudging effect. Today we will know how to nudge a link in a sidebar.

• First of all you must login in blogger.com with your Google id and password.
• Then go directly to Layout > HTML tab section.
• There paste the code below just before the <head> tag.
• Take a look preview befor save themplate

How do I add recent post gadget in my blogger blog

Recent posts gadget

Look at my right sidebar. There is a active "Recent Posts" gadget showing latest posts from this blog. It has some powerful feature. First of all if will show latest or recent posts as soon as a new post published. This 'Recent Posts' gadget has some built in feature. They are

• Show summery of posts.
• Show date of posts publish.
• Show a "More" link corresponding to the latest post.
• Have a link to the recent post title link.
• Can be configure very easily.
• Summery, Date, More link can be remove in a easy way.
  

If you ask me that "How do I add this nice and powerful "Recent posts gadget" in my blogger blog", I will answer that it is a very easy method. Just follow the instruction below.

Huge explosions in the Pakistan again

There is some huge explosions in the Pakistani city Peshawar today. All of the main news agency cover this as their headline. I am very sorry for the killed person. What a life there is? Islamist terrorist are doing their job in perfect way, but general people are suffering from that.

Ubuntu mascots image and code names from first to last

We know that Ubuntu Linux is the one of the popular Linux distribution in the world. It started it journey since 2005. After first release Ubuntu is making history again and again. In the desktop computing everybody use Windows. Linux is better in security and durable, stability but there is no much easy graphical support in here. Ubuntu change the tradition. It makes a better and easy to understand desktop. So a general user like me can understand what a Linux power is. Really I wanted to use linux since 2002. But everything looks very abracadabra and hard to do. I know there is a famous distribution name Red Hat Linux. There are also SUSE, Mandrake (Mandriva) and so on. I tried them all. But there is no any community support on those linux. So when I stag in a simple problem, I did not get any help from anybody. When I meet with Ubuntu and its community I realize that what makes it popular. So I started to use Ubuntu and still love on it.

From beginning Ubuntu use two word codename and select a animal as it's mascot. Here is the all mascot images from the first one to last upcoming release.

Ubuntu 4.10 Warty Warthog

What language it is?

Some times ago when I visit www.gmail.com the home page look like the image I uploaded above. Look at that image. I don't know what the language it is?

Would you please tell me "what the language it is in Gmail home page?

Thanks

Google is indexing my blog quickly

Good news. Google.com is indexing my blog very quickly. Look at the picture. I have wrote an article named "Linux Timeline" some times ago. Google indexed this post withing 6 minutes.

Dear readers,
First of all, I will thank you first for this great achievement. Because, if you don't visit my blog most often, this could not be done. Google will not value my blog. It is your credit that Google bound to think my activity differently or specially.

Thank you again for visiting my blog.

Linux Timeline

I am really sorry to say that I have forget the source of these valuable documents. These picture display the timeline of Linux distributions.

Both image are bigger picture. Click a image and your click will open larger picture.

Image no one.

Image no. 2