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| Posted: 22 Mar 2010 07:02 AM PDT  10 Latest News, Blogs, Tips, and Reviews that I find Interesting and Useful:1. The Physics of Alice in Wonderland By now you've probably seen the new Alice in Wonderland. It's made over $230 million so far, so if you haven't see it, apparently you live in an ice cave in Siberia. Or maybe just Pomona. More @ Geekweek 2. Bad BitDefender update clobbers Windows PCs Users of the BitDefender antivirus software started flooding the company's support forums Saturday, apparently after a faulty antivirus update caused 64-bit Windows machines to stop working. More @ NetworkWorld 3. The future of display advertising The first online display advertisement — a simple, clickable image — appeared online over 16 years ago. Fast forward to 2010. You're likely to see display ads — image, text, video and rich-media formats — on most of the websites that you visit. These ads are crucial to the Internet. They provide information about thousands of products, services and businesses. More @ Googleblog 4. Ditch the LPs and build your own 3D scanner 5. Historian finds tech bubble that didn't pop (180 years ago) Histories of speculative bubbles are popular these days, in large part because they have driven our economy for the last two decades. First came the tech bubble, whose quasi-utopian promises drew in billions of investment dollars, only to pop its cork in 2000, dragging the United States into a recession. More @ ArsTechnica 6. Would Linux Be Better Off Without the FSF? Suppose the FOSS community wanted to hire a group to serve as its public relations department -- would the Free Software Foundation be right for the job? Responses to that one range from gratitude for defending GPLs and GNU to accusations that it makes the FOSS community look like whiny children. More @ LinuxInsider 7. The 5 Toughest Internet Scams Online scams continue to be the scourge of the Internet and there seems to be no end to the "imagination" of these criminals. As part of its annual wide-ranging look at Internet crime, the Federal Bureau of Investigation took a look at the top Internet scams of 2009. More @ PCWorld 8. Virtobot scanner performs 'virtual autopsies,' no body-slicing necessary 9. How To Set Up WebDAV With Apache2 On OpenSUSE 11.2 This guide explains how to set up WebDAV with Apache2 on an OpenSUSE 11.2 server. WebDAV stands for Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning and is a set of extensions to the HTTP protocol that allow users to directly edit files on the Apache server so that they do not need to be downloaded/uploaded via FTP. More @ HowtoForge 10. Top 10 Places You Don't Want To Visit In previous lists we have looked at amazing holiday destinations – today we are looking at the bottom ten; these are ten places you don't want to visit! Having said that, maybe the curious would get a thrill from visiting some of these strange and dangerous places, but for most of us, reading about it is quite enough. More @ Listverse  |
| Installing Ubuntu Linux on a Netbook Posted: 21 Mar 2010 08:00 PM PDT  Installing Ubuntu Linux on a Netbook: Do you want to install Ubuntu or any other Linux distribution on your netbook? If yes, then allow me to show you the necessary steps needed in order to do so.Installing Ubuntu on a netbook is pretty easy but before taking the plunge, it's important to do a little more research on whether your netbook's hardware such as webcam, Wi-Fi, and trackpad among others are well supported. But if you are ready, then let's get down to business: 1. First, you will need to download an Ubuntu ISO installer from HERE. If you want, you can also check out some other Linux distributions for netbooks. Also, make sure you have an empty USB thumbdrive that we will use later on. 2. Next up, download and install UNetbootin. It's available for Windows and Linux systems, and you can get it from HERE. 3. After installing Unetbootin, let's use it to create a bootable Ubuntu Live USB installer. The Unetbootin GUI has a very simple GUI.  Just select or specify a distribution (in this case Ubuntu), disk image, and target drive, and then press "OK". 4. Now relax and let Unetbootin extract and copy the files and install bootloader. After that, you will be asked to reboot. 5. While your netbook is starting, press the necessary button (usually F1, F2, F12, ESC, or backspace) to get to the BIOS boot menu, and then select USB drive as the boot target. After that, Ubuntu should load and you can either test Ubuntu or install it right away. During installation particularly while partitioning, you will be given an option to dual boot Ubuntu together with Windows (or whatever OS your netbook has) or to completely replace that OS. Ubuntu is really easy to install (easier than installing Windows) so you should have no problem whatsoever. But still, it's essential to back-up all your important files. You may want to use any of the backup software for Linux. Are you still thinking or apprehensive about installing Ubuntu Linux on your netbook? -Just do it!  |
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