Have not download Ubuntu 11.04

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I have not download Ubuntu 11.04, because I have not feel any attraction to this newer release. The main reason is Unity desktop.

From years I have download some netbook edition linux releases and test them on virtual machine and live mode. None of them give me any pleasure of using Gnome. Yes, I don't owe any Netbook computer. But I did not feel problem to understand Unity. I download and tried various netbook based linux distributions like 'Moblin', 'EasyPeasy', 'Meego', 'Ubuntu netbook remix', 'Jolycloud' etc. None of them satisfy me in any way. Though they all are like Unity2d but the main reason is the desktop usability. I like to keep my desktop clean. I always add less shortcut on my desktop. This is my common habit since windows 95. And the boring thing is on Unity desktop or populer netbook OS desktops are full of icon (application link shortcut) on desktop area. Sometimes it is hard for me to find any current downloaded pdf file which is saved on desktop. Even on some OS I can not access desktop by mouse. I can't touch any file which is saved recently on desktop. On Unity a very disturbing thing is left side pane. This is quite extra width then Gnome bottom (or top) panel. So it takes more space. I don't understand why Ubuntu developers don't understand this kind of simple thing. If they like to add regular using application links in-front of hand then they could use drawer like thing. It should have a hide button, so I can use more space when drawing a picture and I need larger area.

There are another main reason not to download or taste Ubuntu 11.04. I read many forum/ blog post/ mailing lists mail that Unity is quite modern hardware hungry. I have not much ability to buy a newer hardware.

I know Ubuntu developers will not understand money weakness of me or me like users. Because their target is not to make a lighter linux. There are many other option for lighter hardware user. They should use Light Linux not Ubuntu main distribution/ addition. They can use Lubuntu or Peppermint or AntiX or any LXDE based operating system.

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Some Literary theory and analysis books

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I think I should collect some name of literary theory and analysis book. I read a famous forum post about this topic. I found a great list of literary critic books written by great authors. This is not a list of modern day literary theory or writing or analysis or criticism. I had not heard about these great books. Is it a classic book list? I don't know. After reading the full page, sadly I found that I have not read any of the books below. Actually my English reading experience is very poor. I did not read much English or another European language books. I wish if I get any chance to collect hardcopy or softcopy (Free download) of any of the books, I can learn a new thing and gather some further knowledge. By the way, as like modern technology I also love literature. I believe reading is not my hobby, reading is a part of my life.

• Coleridge- Biographia Literaria
• Samuel Johnson- Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets
• Virginia Woolf- The Common Reader, The Common Reader Second Series
• T.S. Eliot- The Sacred Wood: Essays on Poetry and Criticism, Collected Essays
• Ezra Pound- Essays, Guide to Kulchur
• Wallace Stevens- Essays in The Palm at the End of the Mind and Opus Posthumous
• Ralph Waldo Emerson- Representative Men
• Gottfried Lessing- Laocoon: or, The limits of Poetry and Painting
• Walter Pater- The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry, Appreciations, with an Essay on Style, Greek Studies, Plato and Platonism, etc...
• Octavio Paz- Sor Juana de la Cruz, The Bow and the Lyre
• J.L. Borges- Selected Non-Fictions, Other Inquisitions
• Mario Vargas Llosa- García Márquez: Story of a Deicide, La orgía perpetua: Flaubert y "Madame Bovary" (The Perpetual Orgy)
• Italo Calvino- Six Memos for the Next Millennium, Why Read the Classics? The Uses of Literature
• Umberto Eco- On Literature
• Charles Baudelaire- The Painter of Modern Life and Other Essays
• Maurice Blanchot- Fiction and Literary Essays
• Samuel Daniel- A Defense of Rhyme
• The Poet's Dante- an anthology including essays by Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, Auden, Borges, Montale, Seamus Heaney, Charles Wright, W.S. Merwin, Robert Pinsky, Geoffrey Hill and C.K. Williams
• Paul Valery- The Art of Poetry

I should read

• Dante own work about himself
• Il Convivio
• Robert Louis Stevenson - Virginius Puberesque
• Henry James - Art of Novel
• Flaubert Letters
• D.H.Lawrence
• Cortazar
• Adolfo Bioy Casares
• Machado de Assis
• Chesterton
• Poe
• E.M.Foster
• Oscar Wilde
• Bernard Shaw
• Sartre
• Ortega Y Gasseti
• Nabokov
• Anthony Burgess
• Milan Kundera: The Art of the Novel, Testaments Betrayed, The Curtain
• Louis Aragon: Treaty of Style
• Henry Miller: The Books in My Life
• Gore Vidal: United States: Essays 1952-1992 (one section is devoted to literature)
• J.M. Coetzee: Stranger Shores: Literary Essays, 1986-1999; Inner Workings: Literary Essays, 2000-2005
• E.M. Forster: Aspects of the Novel
• Umberto Eco: Six Walks in the Fictional Woods
• Toni Morrison: Playing in the Dark
• Jean-Paul Sartre: What Is Literature?
• Philip Roth: Shop Talk, Reading Myself and Others
• J.P. Sartre- What is literature
• A. Chekhov- The art of writin
• AS Byatt- Passions of the Mind
• Maurice Blanchot's The Space of Literature
• Nabokov- Essays on Literature

I collect this valuable list from Online Literature Forum.

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Only available on Linux

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Today I am going to publish some funny and essential handful feature of Linux which are not available on Windows OS yet. I am using Ubuntu 10.04 to describe the functions and showing the screen-shots.

Stretching a Desktop Icon:
You can stretch a desktop icon as your desired size. It can bring back to normal size only with a one click.

stretch desktop icon to a bigger size

Tab on File browser:
Tabbed browsing introduced by Firefox (I guess, not sure). This feature so much helpful that every browser make it a trend on their newer release. Even Internet Explorer had to add tab feature. Tab is so helpful that everybody who use it can understand. Nautilus File browser has this great feature. If you use 'Nautilus File Browser' to search for files then tabbed windows will help you more to locate and short files.

Tabbed browsing on file manager

Extra Pan on File browser.
Extra everything (good ones) bring extra benefit. There is an extra window on 'Nautilus File Browser'. The habit of opening another window again an again is dead. Not you do not need to close any opened wind to search another folder or file. Press F3 and get an extra pan on current window. You can browse them using single left tree (location bar).

Extra Pan on Nautilus file manager

Drawer:
What a great idea of Linux developers. I am really impressed with this funny essential tool. You can add may drawer on any panel (top or bottom) and place any link from anywhere. You can even add the whole Ubuntu menu on a single ribbon-like drawer. Color it, resize it, decorate it in your own way and style.

Ubuntu drawer on action

Conky:
Oh! What a special thing windows users are missing! They can't believe and understand it. Conky is a powerful informative desktop attached tool to monitor various system information. I found a little info at 'Synaptic package manager'-

Conky is a system monitor that can display just about anything, either on your root desktop or in its own window. Conky has many built-in objects, as well as the ability to execute external programs or scripts (either external or through built-in lua support). Conky is a system monitor that can display just about anything, either on your root desktop or in its own window. Conky has many built-in objects, as well as the ability to execute external programs or scripts (either external or through built-in lua support).

If you are a Linux user and not test it yet then please read the post titled: Sexy Conky on your Ubuntu or Mint Machine and have a sexy conky system monitor on your linux machine.

One More Panels:
I have two panels on Gnome desktop (I can add another panel on LXDE desktop, have not check KDE and XFCE). Do you know I can add two more panels on my right and left side? More panels mean more links infront of me. I loved “Windows quick launch bar”. But it has very small place to add one click links. I had no option to add more one click links on desktop area. But linux give me freedom to add more and more one click links on desktop.

Hiding Panels:
Hiding a panel can give me more space to perform a task. You can enable 'Hiding button' from every panels 'Properties Menu'. You can hid a full panel on right side or left side or top side or bottom side. Attractive but valuable function.

Hide button on bottom panel

Enabling a 'Hide' button on panel is very easy. Right click on any place of a panel. 'Panel Properties' will open. Select (or tick) on 'Show Hide buttons'. You don't need to 'Apply' or click 'OK', Just close 'Panel Properties' effect will start instantly.

Enable hide button on panel properties

The Applets:
Applets are another lovely, tiny, powerful tools based on various task. You can done many kinds of job with this handy applets.

Ubuntu applets

The Workspace
Normally an windows user have only one desktop by default. But every linux distribution has a great feature named “The Workspace”. It give you extra desktop/ workspace to do job. You can add up to 20 workspace in your Linux system.

Workspace on bottom panel

Switching workspace is the ESSENTIAL part of effective work-flow but Windows officials did not think it.

Bundled Software, drivers and the huge collection:
Most of the Linux distribution comes with many essential daily needs software. Any (most of) newly installed Linux distribution will install the operating system itself with 'Office package'. You do not need to buy it or install any 'Office package' later. No need to require any further hardware driver. If you connect 'Linux installed harddisk' on another motherboard, then it won't disturb you offering any hardware installation. Instant hardware detecting is a simple job in Linux.

And nothing to say about the quantity of offered available program via synaptic package manager. In this moment at least 32744 items are available on “Ubuntu Software Center”. All are licensed copy. But do not thirsty for a single dollar.

Finally I must say about the helpful community of every Linux distribution. Every Linux variants has their own online forum. You can call it official supporting system. Because officially employed/ supported moderators answer problem topic. They love to help people and work hard to support them in any trouble. Anybody from any country of this world can submit a problem and get answer from these forum. All great, fixing supports are published for free to use and share. This is Linux philosophy. Helping other mean helping human kind.

None of the discussed Linux features require any more download. You can get this features on many popular Linux distribution by default. No need to install or update to get these performs on newly installed Linux system.

Graphical Disk Partition:
Many of us thought that “Partitioning in Linux is very hard, I can't understand it. It is a real difficult configuration on Linux.” But, I will say, wait before talk much. Linux partitioning system is a graphical thing. Not like a dos like (terminal like) programme. You do not need to remember anything, Change harddisk's value or task viewing on own eye. Use mouse to cut your harddisk. By the way, I think partitioning in Linux is very easy. Because you can do this critical job using graphical interface. Do not need to do on DOS like environment. Do everything with mouse click. Do not need to remember any command or guess anything. I will discuss partitioning in Linux method on a future post.

Various Desktop Environment
Only Linux has various kind of Desktop Environment to work through. No one on Windows community can think about the beauty and usability of KDE, GNOME, LXDE, XFCE or anything else. Windows has only one environment and is not possible to change it. Actually Linux has the philosophical understand of changing ability or choice of a desktop environment. Even you can change file manager if you not feel familiar on current one.

I can't end this post. Because a conclusion can not stop completing this kind of list. Linux has many many feature which are still in dream on the other operating system's community. I can say only one word- Use it and Learn it.

If you like to add more, please comment below.

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Why do I test newly published Operating system?

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I don't know if you ask it anytime or not. But I like to ask it. So I search and surf through internet and make a look on newly released operating system. Most of the time I got newly information about Linux distribution. Updated Linux distributions release regularly on the whole year. Newly optimized, redesigned, recoded, rewrite or edited, discovered, furnished, flavored Linux distributions published simultaneously. Sometimes it is got difficult for me to stay updated about new operating system. You know I like cooking, so, I know the value of testing. Testing a new operating system is really exiting and intellectual activity. I like to think that it is my hobby. I am not programmer, not a coder, nor a hacker. Even I am poor in English language. But, I like to know this intellectual performance made by man. I know I am not a producer, I am just a user only.

I think supporting on Open Source activity is a moral issue. Their philosophy like to help people. Not want to earn money. This is very good opinion. I think I should support it. So, I start to use Linux. Linux bring me freedom on customizing and gain usability. I got many valuable applications and tools on absolutely free of cost. This is really imaging. Hard to believe. But it is true. I fall in love to Linux (Open source OS and Applications). I want to know more and more about new Linux. I feel thirst to drink new Linux news. So, I go/ visit here and there, from this Linux blog/ website to another Linux/ open source website/ blog. Look for new news, release, apps. I like to feel my head with Linux and more Linux.

So, I always like to download newly published Linux distribution and run it on Virtual Machine. Try to observe it, ride it, discover it.

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Revolution is not dead.

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Recent situations on middle east teach us that revolution is not dead yet. One of a big leader said me that NGO's and neo politics has been succeed to protect men's anger. But new era said us that revolution is still alive. Many many men are fighting, supporting, creating revolution to change their society. Struggling for a better life pushing them in road. Women are shouting outside of their home at night, children are uprising their hand at midnight. They are not sleeping. They have no sleep on their eyes. They are waiting for a golden morning.

I welcome peoples of Egypt, Tunisia, Libya to a better world in this new 20th scientific century. I salute, support your protest against dictatorship. But, friend you all are late. Let comer. Communism said and done everything before you. You have not invent anything. I just ask you one question. Have you ever hard anything about 'KARL MARX", or know anything about 'Russian Revolution (1917)'. I must said that "It is islam which is original culprit, causing bad in your life and old Arab culture. It will disturb your life in future if you not aware and left it now." Not only political resim, you should change your thinking style, philosophical view/ support and sentence about human being, mankind.

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Twitter blog using blogger blog

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I have just visit blog.twitter.com and found that it is using blogger.com hosting blog. I am gettng surprise to see that they have not put any link to blogger.com. I guess if they use wordpress blog then they must use a phrase 'Proudly powered by wordpress'.

My question is why twitter authority have not mention any acknowledgement to blogger. They should write a single line like me. I wrote a single line at the bottom of my blog "Powered by Blogger." This is a common courtesy to using any free service online, but twitter failed to show it.

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English is very hard language

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Now I feel that English is really very hard language. It is so hard that most of the english speaker also made many wrong in their regular conversation. I am not much fan of any foreign language. I am not much briliant to learn any new language. But I want to learn english to read its literature. Their are many famous writers in english. I want to read them all. But alas. I feel it hard to understand. I feel very hard to repeat it.

This is my problem. I am a real illeterate.

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Why schools should use free software

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I have just reading an article on open source software. Famous open source activist Richard Stallman wrote on "Why we need to use it, why we should support it etc." I like to share this article with you all.

He said only about schools and necessity of open source software. He said:
The purpose of this article is to state additional reasons that apply specifically to education.

First, free software can save schools money. Free software gives schools, like other users, the freedom to copy and redistribute the software, so the school system can make copies for all the computers they have. In poor countries, this can help close the digital divide.

Yes that is the real fact. I support open source software. I also on the side of using open software on schools and office and our daily life. Please read the article at the link below.

Why Schools Should Exclusively Use Free Software written by great Richard Stallman.

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Ghost, goblin walking on Google search result

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On my last post I told you that A ghost just passing my blog. No, this is not true. I have failed to correct the title when publishing that blogpost. Actually correct answer is, When I searched site:netgator.blogspot.com on Google, then I saw that ghost/ goblin. But, now I can not able to see that Google creature/ animation anywhere. Is it remember IP address? No, because I changed my IP address after restart computer. Then? Is Google remembering my computer, machine's architect number or any hardware code? Who knows?

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Muslims are burning Bibles

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A news published at New york post last 06 october 2010 that "Malawi Muslims burning Bibles". Some days ago when Reverend want to burn a silly qoran, we all know that what muslims said. Then they even threaten humanity for just a book. They said this is not just a book, this is a holy book. But now I want to hear their voice. I know they won't answer me. Then even stop to talk to anybody about this matter. This is the true face of islam and muslim. They will not speak a single sentence about this ugly islamic activity. Actually they support it, but show another face to us. They want democracy to them but don't want to honor others democracy. America should learn from this. Every year America importing muslim terrorist from islamic country. Don't believe it? I will tell you later.

I did not say anything about this dirty theory (islam) in my blog. Even I did not think to express myself in this way. But day by day I really feel disturb by islam. So, I changed my mind. I add a webbutton/ badge on the right sidebar of my blog. On the very first day when I add this button on my blog the number says :
At least 16046 people killed after 9-11 massacre on twin tower NewYork. I must remember that day all my life.
The number of victim caused by muslims increased day by day.

I am publishing full news from New York Post.

LILONGWE, Malawi -- Muslims in southern Malawi have been burning Bibles to protest their distribution in Islamic schools by Gideon's International, a Muslim Association of Malawi official said yesterday.

The Bibles "annoyed some parents and other leaders, who have resorted to burning the holy books . . . in protest," said Sheik Imran Sharif.

He said the burning of bibles was carried out by a few Muslim fanatics, and the association has ordered them to stop.

News Source Link. What a shame to you all so called democratic muslim. SPIT to you and to your so called peaceful koran and hadis and mohammed.

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User switcher applet crashed, deleted in Ubuntu

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I don't know why it happened to me. I am still in Ubuntu 10.04. Last time when I start my machine, after desktop appear this message showing its nose to me. It says:

The panel encountered a problem while loading "QAFIID:GNOME_FastUserSwitchApplet".

I delete it. So 'Me Menu' also disappear from my Ubuntu machine. I thought deleting a crashed application is better. Later, I have searched my Ubuntu system and even in Google but failed to recover/ reinstall it. I did not find the way to get it back anywhere. I found this page by Google search result, but there is no any solution or download for Ubuntu 10.04.

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Muslims are killing more people

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You may know that last 14/09/2010 I have added a button which is counting 'Islamic terrorist attacks since 9/11'. Until that day islamic muslims were killed 16046 people in the world. Today I have noticed that the number increased. Now the counter shows that 16175 peoples was killed since 9-11. That means they killed 871 more people within 23 days. What a religion of peace????

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Visitors OS variation on my blog

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Today I am quite curious about my visitors Operating System. You know I have add a tracker on my blog. I took that free visitors tracker from Sitemeter. When I am going checking to know about the operating system of my visitor blog. I got confused with two type of information.

Sitemeter said that most of my blog visitors using Linus.
But blogger.com blog's default (newly activated) Stats saying that my major visitors are using Windows operating system. Look at the images below:SiteMeter says that my blog visitors are mostly using Linux operating system. They are 46.2 % within all visitor.
But Blogger.com default Stats telling me that my visitors are coming from mainly Windows operating system. They are 56 %. What a contradictory problem! I am not sure which is correct.

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What is my IP address?

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Today I am trying to know my IP address. IP stands for "Internet Protocol". My internet service provider give me dynamic ip address everytime when I connect to internet. There is no option to get any static ip address. I know that it changes everytime I press connect button. I tried to know my current IP address. But failed. Yes. I am failed to know my correct IP address. I know you won't believe me. You will say that there are many many website who shows vosotprs ip address if I just visit them. So why don't I get any answer of this simple question.

This is result of whatismyip.com

and this is result of whatismyip.org

Wait friend, I am explaining. Look at the two pictures I uploaded above. Both results say two type of answer. Those picture was taken tomorrow. I am giving you todays result below.

• First result from whatismyip.com. It says that my ip address is ***.**.7.115
• Second result from whatismyip.org. It says that my ip is ***.**.7.178
• Third result from whatismyipaddress.com. It shows that my ip address is ***.**.7.178
• Fourth result from ip-adress.com. It says that my IP Address is ***.**.7.17
• Fifth result from whatsmyip.org. It says that my ip address is ***.**.7.146

Besides five results, only two of them shows same result. Other three webtool shows different result from each other. I am confused. What is my real ip address in this moment? I don't know, how can I know that?

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My internet speed variation

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I am downloading 'Free Mega Game Pack for Linux' with 'Transmission Bittorrent client'. Suddenly I feel curious about my internet speed. So I look at 3 info source and found 3 type of result.

At first I look at 'Transmission'
It is telling that my My download speed is 16.3 KB/s

Then I look at my 'NetSpeed'. It showing that my internet speed is download:26.9 KiB/s

Now, I open the 'Device Details' on Net speed. It is said that my to download speed is 32.0 KiB/s.

I am confused about this speed variation. I don't know which is correct.

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Peppermint OS made me sorrow

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In this moment I am downloading Peppermint OS with Downloader for X download manager. Last week I have faced some problem with various Linux based Operating system. I use Nokia e51 to connect internet. In ubuntu I found my cell phone automatically and setup as "Mobile broadband ". I am searching a light, stable linux distro to operate a older pc. So I downloaded more then 20 distro to check. Most of them failed to detect Nokia e51 and I cannot able to connect with internet. Searching some days I choose PCLinuxOS to install in harddisk. I checked all downloaded OS (.iso files) in "Virtual Box OSE". PuppyLinux is better. It can detect and make ready to run my Nokia phone with some tweaking. But I found firefox bug is still in puppylinux. They failed to solve this problem (Sudden close, Crashed, Hanging).

My badluck "PCLinux OS" also failed to configure my nokia cell phone. Now I am trying to test "PepperminsOS". Downloading it and come to their forum to check my phone's state. Please view the image below (Click on image to see bigger screenshot or peppermint os forum). You'll notice that some questions are not answering for more then one month.
What a abstract form it is?!!&$()#$?

In their homepage (Pepperment team), they said that

Team Peppermint is committed to welcoming new Linux users, offering them a product that is fast, easy to understand, and offering them an arena to experiment with Linux and all the while offering avenues to educate them further. Empowering the planet with Linux is our goal. Will you join us in this journey? We certainly hope so….
Link: http://peppermintos.com/about-peppermint/

I will say you more after compleating download. And yes, I will rin pepperminsos first in 'Virtual Box'.

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Failed to Download Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx)

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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

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How to Install Newer onto Older

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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?

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What language it is?

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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

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I've just visited some lovely blog

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You may notice that today's "Blogs of Note" blog is "The House of Marrakesh". Some minutes ago when I visit blogger.com to login in my dashboard, I saw this link and visit at that blog. Found it is a very interesting blog. The blogger visited in Morocco and blog about the current event about there staying. I read some posts and enjoyed.

I also followed the links found that blog. All of them are nice and brilliant person. I thought about myself. What a fool I am! I don't know nothing, I have not much ability to write such article and poetry! What a badluck or disability of myself!!

I commented some of the blogs. I don't know how will they take my commenting. Will they thought that I am a alien or bogus boy? Or they hello my visiting? I don't know. I am quite confused.

I think, if they have much time to visit my blog, they will thought that I am a techie blogger. But I want to say that I am not like that. I just know this tricks and want to share with all. I am still reading through the net and my neighbor library. I will share more interesting topic in future.

Today's "Blogs of Note" blog URL: http://thehouseinmarrakesh.blogspot.com/

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