Problems in Linux

Hi guys,its been a long time i thought about using Linux operating system as i was busy with the windows os with my project and now as my project is getting ready to completion ,i was thinking of getting back to Linux and learn some thing new in it and i thought of the problems i faced while using the Linux os a while ago and i thought i may share with all of you. I usually use Fedora core ,i don't know why but i like it .so here goes the story

Installing Linux

The First and foremost problem was installing the Linux in a new partition in my system.I started installing the Fedora core from the cd's i downloaded from the internet,it was going on fine till the step came for selecting the partition for installing Linux,as i was new to it,i didn't know what to do and selected automatic selection.

The Setup asked me to whether to use the free space in the hard disk or use a window partion and or use a old linux partition.I didn't have the last 2 options in my hand and so i thought of trying the first one and the setup showed the free space in all the existing partitions but i had data in it so i could not even use them .so i stopped the installation


What actually went wrong in the installation was that i should have created empty partition first in the windows itself or should have known to use the manual partition setup

Easy Installation of Linux

Follow these steps for easy installation

• Boot your system in windows
• Select an existing partition which you can wipe out and move the needed data's to other partition
• The size of the partition should be at least 5 GB,i recommend 10 GB for good usage
• Use a partition software like Partition Magic and delete the partition and restart
• After restarting ,the partition should be gone form the system
• Now boot your system from the Linux CD and go through the installation process
• At the stage of selecting the partition ,use automatic and select the option of using existing free space
• Now the setup will take free space we have created by deleting the partition
• Go through the rest of the setup and install Linux.

Manual Installation

Manual installation differs slightly for different versions of linux,mostly all the linux needs 3 partitions namely

1. Boot Partition with a minimum of 100 MB size
2. Swap Partition with a minimum of 128 MB size
3. Root Partition with a minimum of 4 GB size

There will be a partition software in the setup,use the new ,edit and delete to create these partitions and it looks like this


Delete any existing partition which is not needed and create these new partitions and select the partition type as ext3 which is the Linux partition type for boot and root partition's and swap partition if of swap partition type itself.

For the mount point type you need to select /boot for boot partition and / for root partition and for swap you don't have mount point itself. After creating all these partitions ,you can also create a extra partition if you want like the D and E partitions in Windows os.just create a new partition and select any mount point other than / , /boot.

The newer versions of the Linux now don't need the boot partition but need the remaining 2 partitions.

Wealth of India - The Golden Temples

I don't think India as a poor country and those who think like that,just look at these temples and tell me ,is India actually poor or it's being deprecated like that ...

There are 3 golden temples in India as of now and each have its own origin and own history and here is a little bit of info about those temples for you,

The Tirupathi Golden temple

This temple is for the God Sri Venkateswara located on the seventh peak, Venkatachala (Venkata Hill) of the Tirupati Hill, and lies on the southern banks of Sri Swami Pushkarini in the state of Andra Pradesh.This temple's origin goes to 9 th century Pallavas of the Kanchipuram and then it was followed by lot of the rulers who enchanted the temple's prosperity and one of the most significant ruler in that list is Sri Krishnadevaraya of Vijayanagar dynasty.

It 's one of the holiest pilgrim spot of the hindu's and it attracts lot of devotees from all over the world,for more info about the place click here

The Golden temple of Amritsar

The Golden temple of Amritsar belongs to the Sikh religion of the Punjab's.It's history goes to 1577 AD of the fourth Guru of Sikhism, Guru Ram Das, excavated a tank which subsequently became known as Amritsar which means Pool of the Nectar of Immortality , giving its name to the city that grew around it. In due course, a splendid Sikh edifice, Harmandir Sahib which means The Abode of God , rose in the middle of this tank and became the supreme center of Sikh's.

The Golden temple of Vellore

The Golden temple in Vellore was built just a year ago, to be exactly accurate it was opened for public on August 24,2007 and its getting popular day by day. The temple is built for the Goddess Mahalakshmi.The Rs 600-crore gold temple is located on 55,000 sq ft of land on a 100-acre salubrious stretch in Malaikodi, about 6 km from Vellore in north Tamil Nadu.

The temple is built almost similar to the Golden temple in Amritsar,the temple is in middle of a pond and there is a star pathway with inscriptions from Gita and various other holy scripts written all over it.Even the pillar are built with gold making the temple richest of all in whole continent of Asia.

Some more photo's of the new Golden temple ....

With a deck of Cards (contd .....)

Ass

I think most of the people like this game just for its sound but its really a good one,so here are the rules for the games,this game should be played with a single deck and with jokers removed from the deck.

Aim

To get rid of all the cards in hand

Rules

• Distribute the deck of cards evenly among the players.
• The one who gets Ace spade has to start first.
• He can put down any card he wants first,the other players if they have a card in that design has to put down ,if he doesn't have a card in that design ,he can put the largest card which he has in the other design,this is called as giving a cut.
• If some one gives a cut all those cards goes to person who dropped the card of the highest point in the design which was started.
• The one who still has the cards at the last is the ass and for the next game he gets the Ace spade In this game ,the cards have their points according to their number expect the Ace which is the highest followed by the King ,Queen ,Jack & rest of the cards in descending order.

With a deck of Cards.....

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Proxies for browsing

Proxy,i came to know about this word in one of my subjects in 2nd semester but never know the real use of it till the next semester,but after that proxies became an inevitable part of my hostel life due to firewall installed by my college.All the sites for fun where blocked especially orkut,so we searched for some way to break the firewall and one of the friend came with the idea of trying some proxy sites.

To our great surprise ,those proxy sites where not blocked at that time and so we started seeing all the sites using those proxy sites.Here are the best two proxy sites i used,

www.kproxy.com
www.ninjaproxy.com

Our enjoyment did not last long ,as our system administrator found out the usage of these sites some how and blocked them too,so we started our search for some other cracks in the firewall and we found one too and this was amazing than those sites,its nothing but a proxy software called Your Freedom


Its a client like software that runs on your system and connects to some proxy sites that run some where in the world through the existing internet connection,we just have to direct our browser to the local host instead of the original proxy setting and now we can use internet as if a firewall doesn't exist ,the only disadvantage in this is the download is done limited bytes and connection exists only for 1 hour and one has to reconnect it after 60 minutes so downloading large files cann't be done .

For more info regarding this your freedom server ,check out the link below

www.your-freedom.net

As the download of size greater than 25 mb where blocked by the system administrator and your freedom wasn't too help full in the matter of download's,my search continues for some crack in the firewall,so till i find such a crack in the firewall ..........

Warcraft

Warcraft is a stratergy game which i came to know about by my friend in the hostel and what i didn't know at that time was that i will become addicted to this game in future.I have been playing this game for almost 4 years and i am still not bored on playing this ,that to especially in my collage LAN with my friends.

Here is some info about this wonderful game which i have been playing all these years.

There are basically four Races in this game,the Humans,the Orcs,the Undead and the Night Elves.In the starting the Humans and the Orcs as usual fight against themselves,then the Undead raises from the hell and they call the demon,the night elves who are guardians of the nature ,join hands with the humans and the orcs and defeat the demon from destroying the tree of life.

The way in which the campaign takes us through this story is really amazing and we have 4 heroes in each race and we also have a little of role playing attached to this game in the campaigns

A little intro about the races....

	Relatively speaking, Humanity is one of the youngest races of the world. Unlike Elves and Dwarves, Humans live brief lives full of change and strife. Thus, Humanity pushes itself to achieve great heights in empire-building, technology, and magical study. It is for this reason that Human kingdoms have expanded so drastically in such short periods of time. Overall, Humanity values virtue and honor and seeks only to safeguard itself against the forces of darkness. Aided by the Holy Light, Humanity has fought the hardest and suffered the most during the war against the Orcish Hordes.

	The savage, green-skinned Orcs are one of the most prolific races of the Warcraft world. Born on the hellish world of Draenor, the Orcs were brought into the kingdom of Azeroth through the dimensional gateway known as the Dark Portal and forced to make war upon the Humans. The Orcs are typically believed to be brutal and mindless, possessing no humanity or empathy for other races. Although few are aware of it, the Orcs once cultivated a noble, Shamanistic society on the world of Draenor. Yet the proud Orc clans were corrupted by the Burning Legion and used as pawns in the Legion's invasion of Azeroth. In recent years the Orcs have begun to release themselves from the Demons' corruption, and rekindle their ancient, noble traditions.

	The reclusive Night Elves were the first race to awaken in the World of Warcraft. These shadowy, immortal beings were the first to study magic and let it loose throughout the world nearly ten thousand years before Warcraft I. The Night Elves' reckless use of magic drew the Burning Legion into the world and led to a catastrophic war between the two titanic races. The Night Elves barely managed to banish the Legion from the world, but their wondrous homeland was shattered and drowned by the sea. Ever since, the Night Elves refused to use magic for fear that the dreaded Legion would return. The Night Elves closed themselves off from the rest of the world and remained hidden atop their holy mountain of Hyjal for many thousands of years. As a race, Night Elves are typically honorable and just, but they are very distrusting of the 'lesser races' of the world. They are nocturnal by nature and their shadowy powers often elicit the same distrust that they have for their mortal neighbors.

The horrifying Undead army called the Scourge consists of thousands of walking corpses, disembodied spirits, damned mortal men and insidious extra-dimensional entities. The Scourge was created by the Burning Legion for the sole purpose of sewing terror across the world in anticipation of the Legion's inevitable invasion. The Undead are ruled by Ner'zhul, the Lich King, who lords over the icy realm of Northrend from his frozen throne. Ner'zhul commands the terrible plague of undeath which he sends ever southward into the human lands. As the plague encroaches on the southlands, more and more humans fall prey to Ner'zhul's mental control and life-draining sickness every day. In this way, Ner'zhul has swelled the ranks of the already considerable Scourge. Though Ner'zhul and his Undead Scourge are bound to the will of the Burning Legion, the Lich King constantly strives to free himself and gain vengeance upon the demons for damning him so completely.

Ip Messenger

IP Messenger is one of the awesome tool which allows you to chat on LAN or network with other people if they are using the same software. The software slowly detects people who are using the it in the network and adds to them your list with the name set in the software. Its an open source, multi platform messenger based on TCP/UDP.

Features of Ip Messenger :-

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• Multi Platform ( Windows, MacOS X and Unix ).
• Open source and Free download.
• Allows File and Folder transfer along the network.
• Supports Broadcast Messages to a range of IP address.
• You can lock your message with a password when its sent to other user.
• You can even set your status.
• Supports NIC extension in the latest version.
• Messages can be logged in case you accidentally close the message box.
• Shows the Ip address, login user, machine name of the other users.
• Send message from command prompt like this

Command Line support
ipmsg.exe [port] /MSG [/LOG][/SEAL]
ex) C:\> ipmsg.exe /MSG /SEAL localhost Hello.

Its an excellent software which we are using in office without any problem. It provides us an easy solution because its fast and we don’t get any complains from our mail servers too. So if you are looking for a chat software which works on LAN, this could be your answer. Its free and if I missed its available in languages like Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Portuguese also.

Here are some Images to give you a preview of how it looks like :

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Resources for Ip Messenger :

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• Download Link for all platforms and languages. Size 102 KB approx.