USB Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon install tutorial

This is a tutorial which helps you to put Ubuntu 7.10 on to your USB flash drive.

This content is copy righted material from www.pendrivelinux.com.

Do try it out and enjoy carrying Ubuntu anywhere you want....!

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USB Ubuntu 7.10 install from Linux: This tutorial enables you to install, boot and run Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) from USB. In addition to installing Ubuntu to a USB device and then booting Ubuntu from USB, this tutorial will enable you to automatically save your changes and settings back to the stick and further restore them on each boot using a second "casper-rw" persistent partition. The tutorial was written for those already familiar with working from Ubuntu or another Linux desktop environment. If you do not have access to or prefer not to use a Windows computer, this Ubuntu Linux on a stick tutorial is for you.

Ubuntu 7.10 takes slightly longer to boot than previous releases. However, once it's up and running, it performs much better than running from the Live CD.

USB Ubuntu 7.10 Essentials:

• Ubuntu7.10 ISO
• CD Burner
• 1GB USB flash drive (2GB+ recommended)
  
• U710fix.tar

Ubuntu 7.10 USB installation tutorial:

Hint: You can drastically speed up the install by Copying (Ctrl+c) and Pasting (Ctrl+v) commands into the terminal instead of manually typing them out. With the exception of replacing X with your drive letter.

1. Grab the Ubuntu 7.10 ISO and burn it to a CD
2. Insert the CD and your USB flash drive
3. Reboot your computer into Ubuntu from the Live CD
4. Open a terminal window and type sudo su
5. Type fdisk -l to list available drives/partitions. Note which device is your flash drive (example: /dev/sda) Throughout this tutorial, replace x with your flash drive letter. For example, if your flash drive is sdb, replace x with b.
6. Type umount /dev/sdx1
7. Type fdisk /dev/sdx
   • type p to show the existing partition and d to delete it
   • type p again to show any remaining partitions (if partitions exist, repeat the previous step)
   • type n to make a new partition
   • type p for primary partition
   • type 1 to make this the first partition
   • hit enter to use the default 1st cylinder
   • type +750M to set the partition size
   • type a to make this partition active
   • type 1 to select partition 1
   • type t to change the partition filesystem
   • type 6 to select the fat16 file system
   • type n to make another new partition
   • type p for primary partition
   • type 2 to make this the second partition
   • hit enter to use the default cylinder
   • hit enter again to use the default last cylinder
   • type w to write the new partition table
8. Type umount /dev/sdx1 to ensure the 1st partition is unmounted
9. Type mkfs.vfat -F 16 -n ubuntu710 /dev/sdx1 to format the first partition
10. Type umount /dev/sdx2 just to ensure the 2nd partition is unmounted
11. Type mkfs.ext2 -b 4096 -L casper-rw /dev/sdx2 to format the second partition
12. Remove and Re-insert your flash drive
13. Back at the terminal, type apt-get update
14. Type apt-get install syslinux mtools
    
15. Type syslinux -sf /dev/sdx1
16. Type cd /cdrom
17. Type cp -rf casper disctree dists install pics pool preseed .disk isolinux/* md5sum.txt README.diskdefines ubuntu.ico casper/vmlinuz casper/initrd.gz /media/ubuntu710/

Ignore any "cannot create symbolic link" errors


18. Type cd /home/ubuntu
19. Type wget pendrivelinux.com/downloads/U710fix.zip
20. Type unzip -o -d /media/ubuntu710/ U710fix.zip
21. Restart your computer, set your BIOS or Boot menu to boot from the USB device and reboot again.

You should now have a USB Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon flash drive that should automatically save your changes, restoring them on boot.

Note: If your having trouble getting Ubuntu to boot, your memory stick may have a corrupted MBR. To repair the MBR of your USB device, at the terminal type sudo apt-get install lilo then type lilo -M /dev/sdx (replacing x with the letter of your flash device)

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A huge resposibility accomplished successfully!

After My parents returned back to home on 17th Oct from Theertha yatre , My responsibility of taking care of our house has been successfully accomplished!

But during the tenure I did two blunders.

1>One day I forgot to close the local water tap which turned our house into a water pool! however I cleaned the whole mess, spending a whole one and a half hour trying to clean it.

2>Another day when I was trying to cook myself a decent meal using the steam cooker, due to some technical snag in it , it just blew up in front of me ! Fortunately the safety valve saved me from tasting disaster. The metal in it just melted down and came out. This halted all the kitchen activities for almost half a day.
However that wasn't my fault since it was a technical snag!
Even after doing these blunders I managed to keep our home intact! The house is safe and clean(that's very important!).

After successfully accomplishing the responsibility, I've now earned the certificate that I'm a GROWN UP!

The Torture called Sivaji

This is an interesting post I found on this blog.

he's a Chennai based blogger who calls himself 'ada-pavi'.
This review of Sivaji the boss actually tells what I wanted to say 2months ago when I saw Sivaji.
If you feel the same do post in ur comments.
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In one word, Sivaji sucks. The movie can be divided into the post interval and pre interval portions. When Rajini romances Sherya it sucks, its plain unwatchable. And the movie is loaded with Rajini’s usual style. He has lost it, his style too now sucks, its unwatchable.

Now there is a 60 year old man. As is the case with any 60 year old man, Rajini’s face resembles Indian roads. To make him look younger, extensive make up is used, the make up sucks. For two reasons, first every time a close up of his face is shown, it looks like a wall which has been painted with cheap whitewash. Now this wall if it rains will absorb water and some portions will be lighter than the others. That’s how Rajini’s make looks.

Another fall out of this make up is that his face becomes expressionless. How is it possible to express when one has white cement on their face? When Rajini romances Sherya, he uses his trademark style. To carry it off it requires his face to be expressive. He is an expressive actor, but with white cement on his face, none what so ever is visible. Its terrible and plain unwatchable. In Pudhu Kavithai, Thambiku Endha Ooru, Nallavanuku Nalavan, even Padayappa there are closeup shots of Rajini’s face, and the expression is visible. This is even in scenes where he sight-adichifies the heroine, that expressive face is now missing. Rajini is a shadow of his former self.

Pre-interval, its not even worth writing about. This movie has one of the most pathetically scripted comedy scenes ever in a Rajini movie, plain torture.

In the post interval it’s the usual masala chase sequences. That is entertaining, its watchable. But the hype over Rajini and his style in the movie makes me want to puke. There is too much emphasis on Rajini and his Superstar status. Every bloody scene reinforces Rajini’s super star status, and the need show his style. The beauty with his style, be it the swagger or the smoking or the punch dialogues was that it seamlessly blended in with his character, Rajini’s status never stood out, here his status as superstands out in every scene, it kills the movie. The previous movie where Rajini’s status stood out was Baba, and we all know the status, with white cement on his face, Sivaji might follow Baba’s status. What is even more audacious is Rajini comparing himself to MGR. Mottai Boss says M G Ravichandran, MGR, clearly indicating he is as big as MGR. That is audacious, MGR even today, 20 years after his death can win elections. The only reason JJ wins in some areas of south TN is because voters vote for the “Rettai Elai” the symbol of MGR, not for JJ. Rajini can never match that feat. Both MGR and Rajini share some common traits, their loyal fan base. Towards the later end of his career, only MGR fans could sit through his movies, Rajini now is in that stage of his career, only those who want to see him on screen can sit through his movies, apart from this they have nothing in common. Rajini is no MGR.

Songs? Shankar’s grandeur has killed them. I feel like puking, the picturisations suck.

Unless one is a Rajini veriyan, stay away. Even for a veriyan, my advice would be get a DVD of Rajinis 80s movies, and watch them. Rajini rocks in them. Now he should stop acting and play with his grandchildren. Or else if he acts, he should act as an old man. That’s what makes Padayappa rock, Rajini with the beard and Kurta rocks. None of that is there in Sivaji.

Actually, a long time fan of Rajini, who has seen his movies from the Aborva Ragangal, would feel let down. Ratha kaneer varum. Sivaji magnifies all the short comings of Rajinikanth. The Rajinikanth who acted in Padayappa, Baasha, Annamalai, Mr Barath, Nallavanuku Nallavan, Naan Maahan Allai, Thani Kattu Raja is dead. The Rajini in Sivaji is a pitiable shadow of his former self, yet he tries to act like his former self. Its sad. Rajini’s time is up, he should ideally pass the baton onto the next generation of actors, still carrying the baton is terrible. Or else he should accept his age and act in movies as a 50 year old, a-la Padayappa where in second half, as an old man he rocks. Now as a young man, Rajini Sucks, plain sucks.

I wonder whether the Executive Producer S.P Muthuraman must have been sleeping while working on this movie. This guy knows how to write a good script, and he has directed some memorable Rajini movies like Muruttu Kalai and Netrikan. He should have had the sense to read the script and clean it up, because the script is by Shankar. Shankar is an idiot who restricts to just one issue and recycles his script, so its understandable he will write bullshit, but Muthuraman is no idiot, the bugger should have cleaned up the script, the only explanation for him not doing so is that he was probably sleeping or Shanker being arrogant decided not to use Muthuraman's knowledge during the making of Sivaji.

In one word, Sivaji Sucks! Its Terrible and Plain unwatchable. Sivaji is just one notch above Baba, it has to be amongst Rajini’s worst movies. This movie is strictly for those who just want to see Rajinikanth on screen. Im sure a two hour documentary tracing Rajini’s career released in theatres would be more watchable than this crap.

The movie is an insult to the vibrant tamil flim industry which churns out movies like Mozhi and Chennai 600028. The producer and director assumed that with Rajini on screen and a pre-release hype, there will be enough idiots willing to watch the movie and therefore it will make money, and issues like script, dialogue acting dont really matter. I strongly believe that any creative venture has to be driven by the burning desire to engage in that venture. Movies should be made because the all the parties involved have the burning desire to make the movie. Once it is driven by money, the quality drops, actually there is no quality. Using this logic, one can conclude that the driving force to make Sivaji for all those involved was money and not the desire to make a good movie. This clearly is visible in the end product, which sucks.

PS: If one wants entertainment, and can stand TR on screen, Veeraswamy is way more entertaining than Sivaji, Sivaji is torture. If you want to kill someone, and the person is not a Rajini Veriyan, buy them a ticket for Sivaj
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Tamilnadu Youths deprived!

On 11th October 2007 the Karnataka Governor (who's ruling us now....) declared holiday on behalf of the Mourning of Bommai's death(The heaven holds the faithful departed) who was the then CM of karnataka . As a part of the glorious student life I enjoyed the holiday.

Since two decades there are many CMs coming and in our state due to political turmoil, dirty politics etc. So when each of these Dudes die we get a holiday!

But the poor, unfortunate Tamilnadu counterparts can get only two holidays at the most!
The reason being that Tamilnadu has only two CMs alive right now. In every election the Dudes get either Dummi akka(ಡುಮ್ಮಿ ಅಕ್ಕ) or Kurudanidhi(ಕುರುಡಾನಿಧಿ) as their CM. Whats the use of it kanna ?

When they pass away the TN students can get a maximum of two days holiday thats it! But we karanataka youths..... can get so many holidays since we have so many CMs in the list, first being(the list has been overwritten after Bommai's death)Devegowda :p.
So the karnataka Students are luckier than the TN kiddos.... ha ha ha ha ha....

Set Reset Bommai R.I.P.

This Idea was originally inspired by my friend Ullas R Naik of EWIT.