Peppermint One 01042011 Respin Review [ScreenShots]

New spin of 'Peppermint one' operating system has been released some days ago. [Newslink]. I missed the news. It published on 04 January 2011. last weak I start to download new Peppermint one. Today it completed. I run 'Peppermint-One-01042011.iso' with the help of Virtual Box. Test different.
At the news post on Peppermint os homesite they said that only some change has been implied in this new respin. I am just pasting some text from the announcement post.

1. The default kernel has been updated to 2.6.35 in order to stay more current regarding hardware support and to match the kernel in Peppermint Ice.
2. The Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) has been completely removed from this edition in order to help with performance and to increase application modularity.
3. The default screenshot application has been replaced with PyShot, a simple Python/GTK application contributed by our longtime friend and supporter, Ikey Doherty.
4. Some low level utilities have been updated such as the GNU Coreutils to version 8.8, the Samba file sharing framework to 3.5.6, and others.
5. Some user level applications have also received updates such as the PCManFM file manager to 0.9.8, LXTerminal to 0.1.9, and Firefox to 4.0b8

But I think they forget to mention a great change found on this new release. They said it only in half sentence at last number. This is about PCManFM file manager. Now PCManFM desktop icons are movable. So you can rearrange desktop icons just dragging it anywhere. Position of icons can be saved and restored. Day by day LXDE are becoming more popular for its various kind of feature. This is the newest one. I believe users like me feel more exciting with this new ability of pcmanfm.

After downloading and setting up in VirtualBox I found the screenshots published below one by one.

80 and more free ebooks download website

Here i am publishing some website's address which contain downloadable free e books. You can get all books completely free of charge. Some books are provided by publishers and some are by authors. Most of the sites share here do not require any registration or sign-up. You do not need to buy or linkback or refer anything to download or read or use ebooks. All books are freely distributed under public domain law (sometimes rights reserved). So do not feel hesitation to download e books from the sites below. Beside, these site there are plenty of sites which offer illegal electronic copy of books published recently.

First of all I remember the name of
01. http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/scores/top
A great library for classical literature, science, travel, expedition, exploration, history, politics, social science etc. are publishing online for more then 5 years. Various kind of ebook format and reading device format files availabe here to download. Many language books are uploaded here. Has a huge collection of audio book (sound file) and image file. Computer readable, human readable, online based, compressed or handleld device formated files are sharing here.

02. http://www.online-literature.com/author_index.php
This is a literature forum. But it has a huge collection of literature texts. This site offer 250 authors book freely online to read and download. They have nearly 3000 full books and almost 4000 short stories and poems. They also have quotations database, that has over 8500 quotes.

03. http://www.marxists.org/
A huge jiant library for Marxism. Read online books can be destribute as DVD all over the world. Specially on poor countries. Read online History or subject index. Found essential information on Marxists Encyclopedia.

Search Engine
04. http://www.pdf-search-engine.com/
PDF book search engine which search sites, forums, archive for pdf files.
05. http://www.pdfgeni.com/
Its a PDF search engine. But also search for sheets, forms and documents.
06. http://issuu.com/
Search and share online books.

Sharing site
07. http://www.snipfiles.com/
Another sharing site for freely distributed ebooks and software.
08. http://www.esnips.com/
File uploading and sharing site. A lot of collection of eboks.
09. http://www.e-booksdirectory.com/
File uploading and sharing site for e-books, documents, lectures, notes found on internet. Comment, upload or download cost free.
10. http://www.free-ebooks-canada.com/
PLR( Private Label Rights)and MRR (Master Resell Rights) are allowed to share any e-books here.
11. http://www.scribd.com/
Another online document sharing site. Sharing document is easy here. This site support pdf, xls, doc, ppt, pps, ps, txt, rtf, odt, odp, ods, odf, odg, sxw, sxi, sxd, tif, tiff, docs, ppts, ppsx, xlsx file formats. Download any of the files or share them embeded in your blog or webpage.
12. http://knowfree.net/
User exchange ebooks freely, They use this site for educational and self practice. Video training and pdf download free.
13. http://www.memoware.com/
Free ebooks for handheld devices, like PalmOS device, Pocket PC, Windows CE, EPOC, Symbian or other handheld device. Unique collection of d
documents like databases, literature, maps, technical references, lists, etc.

Other online ebooks libraries are listed below.

Burn IMG files to USB in Ubuntu

You may found that various kind of operating system delivered as a .img file. Today we will learn 'How to burn or write or install .IMG file to a usb pendrive'. Installing procedure is very easy. You can do it with the help of a simple tool called 'Ubuntu Image Writer'. You can find this tool in 'Ubuntu Software Center'. It is a tiny tool to write .img files to USB Keys. This tool can work perfectly in any Debian based Linux operating system, like Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Peppermint OS or Lubuntu.

image writer tool in ubuntu software center

How to get this application? Just heed to Main Menu > Ubuntu Software Center. Write 'ImageWriter' at searchbox. You will find it in seconds. Connect to internet. Click on 'Install'. It will install in seconds according to your internet connection.

Ubuntu image writer programs location in ubuntu main menu

After completing installment, you can get that tiny tool at Main Menu> Accessories submenu. Go to that link and click. 'Ubuntu Image Writer' will start now. But remember, if you did not connect any usb key on any usb slot, then it will show an error message.

img file burning complete message

How to burn an .img file using this tool?
Firstly, connect an empty usb pen drive in a usb slot. Then start 'imagewriter' from menu. Password required. It will recognize your usb key instantly. Click on next to 'Write Image' text to browse your hard disk and select any .img file. Now click on 'Write to device' button at the botton of the interface. Writing .img file to usb device will start. Wait a bit. After completing it will give you a message:

Success
The image wass successfully written to the target device.
You are free to unplug it now, a log of the operation will be saved in your homedir if you close the program.

Now, you can remove the usb key and store for later use or restart computer to boot from usb device and start newly installed Operating System instantly.

Google.com.bd hacked by Bangladeshi Tiger

A rumor spread through the Bangladeshi online community that, 'Google.com.bd website has been hacked by a Bangladeshi hacker named Tiger'.

Google.com.bd hacked by Bangladeshi Tiger

Top online news-site (both Bangla and English) bdnews24.com published a news just hours ago on their breaking news section. In that news 'Google Bangladesh Domain Hacked', they said:

Hackers have broken into the Bangladesh site of leading search engine Google, internet service experts said Saturday evening.

"The site has definitely been hacked," Pradip Dey, chief technical officer of ADN, a leading ISP, said.

Attempts to access the site by users are rebounded with message reading," Google Bangladesh OwN3D by TiGER-M@TE.

In some parts, however, the site is still being accessed as ISPs cache top sites for user convenience.

Google.com.bd hacked by Bangladeshi Tiger news on bdnews24.com

So I try to open it in firefox browser. (I know, visiting a hacked site is dangerous for computer. But, friends, I don't use windows operating system, I use ubuntu linux, so I have not fear anything.) I have not see any change on the search giant site. I see it normal.

I ping google.com.bd and found that everything is normal (Google ip address is 74.125.230.83). I read some Bangla site and found that some of them tried to visit google without www and found a hacked site. I tried without www before google.com.bd and did not found any problem.

177 Hacking E-Books Collection

Here I am giving you a huge list of hacking books. All are abailable in E-Book (Pdf and Chm) format. Most of them are copyrighted and could not download free from anywhere. Downloading illegal copy is prohibited in many countries in the world. But, if you do not bother to collect any illegal ebook, then search through internet using the titles below.

iBus keyboards for Ubuntu 10.10 netbook

If you are a user of Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat) netbook edition, then you may notice that there is no much keyboard installed default for iBus input method system. This is really annoying for a nonenglish user.

I uploaded some dependencies for iBus. I downloaded the files below from 'http://packages.ubuntu.com/' and compress them in a single zip file. Now it is only 2.5 MB. Easy to download on a slower internet connection.

1. libotf0
2. libanthy0
3. libm17n-0
4. m17n-db
5. m17n-contrib
6. ibus-m17n

Download the zip file from the link below. I wish it will help you to write nonenglish language in Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat) netbook edition.

You can install them by clicking one by one. Or, run sudo dpkg -i *.deb command in the containing folder.

Download the zip file from here.

Install 'Ubuntu restricted extras' easily [Solved]

Sometimes we can not install 'Ubuntu restricted extras' easily. I am writing this post only for them. You can name this post as "How to install 'Ubuntu restricted extras' easily" or "How to fix broken ubuntu restricted extras package list". This post will help you if you try to install 'Microsoft True Type core fonts' on your ubuntu machine. I found that 'ttf-mscorefonts-installer' sometime cause a broken link problem. 'Microsoft TrueType core fonts' are issue of copyright, but they are platform compatible and you can still install them from third parties.

First of all enable 'multiverse repository'. To do it go to System > Administration > Software Sources. Now click on the leftside radio button of "Software restrictecd by copyright or legal issue ( multiverse)".

Now click on 'Close', click 'Reload' on message box. Reloading or downloading package information will be done within seconds.

Now open terminal (Applications → Accessories → Terminal) and run the command below:

sudo dpkg –configure -a

Type password and press 'Enter'
Run the command below on the same opend terminal. It will justify and upgrad any missing or pending package.

sudo apt-get -f install

wait to complete the process. Now type/ run the commands below one be one. Always wait to complete one command.

sudo apt-get –fix-missing install

sudo apt-get clean

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get upgrade

sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

At last run the final command in the same opened terminal. This is the main command which will instal 'Ubuntu restricted extras' on Ubuntu system.

sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras

Wait until finishing the downloading. Now Restart your machine. You will find that "ubuntu restricted extras" has been installed succesfully.

Link public Google Profile with Picasa Web Albums

At last Picasa web albums now use Google account holders public Google profile. This connection will display your name and profile photo on your albums and next to your comments. Picasa officials said that this will help improve your experience in two ways. Firstly, friends can see and recognize whom they are interacting with and secondly if you use multiple google products, it will be easier because this feature enable updating profiles in one place.

Link public Google Profile with Picasa Web Albums

This new feature will not effect on your privacy. Because public albums will remain public, and private albums will remain private. Now, you can edit Google Profile to change display name, profile photos. You can change your Picasa Web Albums address easily.

Just go to http://picasaweb.google.com/home now and explore this new feature.

'Software index is broken' on Ubuntu [Solved]

Recently, I am going to install a software from 'Ubuntu Software Center'. But, due to slow internet connection, download has not completed and package list has been broken. What a bad luck of me! I tried to download that software again from 'synaptic package manager' but a message appear and said:

Software index is broken on Ubuntu

Software index is broken
This is a major failure of your software management system. Please check for broken packages with synaptic, check the file permissions and correctness of the file '/etc/apt/sources.list' and reload the software information with: 'sudo apt-get update' and 'sudo apt-get install -f'.

Software index is broken, application download failed and updates package-list can not open

I run sudo apt-get update at terminal. When it tries to read package lists an error occurred. Look at the last lines at the image above. Several error message showing there.

W: Envountered status field in a non-version description
E: Problem parsing dependency Replaces
E: Error occurred while processing gconf2-common (NewVersion1)
E: Problem with Mergelist /var/lib/dpkg/status
E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.

I fall in deep-thought. So, I shutdown computer and restart it. I run sudo apt-get update and sudo apt-get install -f at terminal again. My ubuntu system fix-up its broken package list automatically.

Now I can install my preferred software from software center again. I am very happy to get all thing normal.

Gmail has no text area to write mail

Just discovered that Gmail has no any text area to write email. Is it caused by slow internet connection? Is it Gmail's server or any technical error? I am still searching internet to find some solution or at least any suggestion.