Thursday, March 19, 2009

EW-FSUG's successfull BOOT!


Reception of Guest



Introduction by HOD


Keen audience(in full hall)


Some command line demonstrations

Today we successfully inaugurated the EWIT-Free Software Users Group in our campus. The efforts behind it span from as long as 2 years as I know.Long back our seniors did have an un-official LUG, which never met even once!But we some how managed to BOOT the FSUG after 4 semesters of repeated attempts. The weired part about this group is that it was initiated by a set of Electronics students like me.

Our group was inaugurated by Dr.Renuka Prasad and addressed us about the Free Software philosophy and showed us some interesting alternatives to proprietary software.Later Madhusudhan and Santosh(from BMSCE) inspired and motivated us by sharing their experience they had in GSoc and FOSS with us. But the time crunch made the talk shallow.

Totally it turned out to be a good start for our group.In the near future our group plans to promote Free Software in our campus including our hostel.


Tuesday, March 17, 2009

20 years of......

On 16th March I have managed to complete 20 years of my life!
But looking back, what's the suitable title I can give to those 20 years?
1>20 years of Excellence?-NO
2>20 years of Simplicity?-may be not
3>20 years of achievement?-NO way!
4>20 years of elegance?- --ditto--
5>20 years of dormancy?-probably
6>20 years of negligence?-hmmm.....
7>20 years of worthlessness-hell yeah!

Monday, March 2, 2009

USB Ubuntu 8.10 install:tutorial


Every time Canonical Inc comes up with a new release candidate of Ubuntu, it keeps getting better. Even with Interpid Ibex 8.10 its no different. This tutorial shows 'How to' install Ubuntu 8.10 on to a flash media and carry it in your pocket. Earlier I had done a 'How to' install Ubuntu 7.10 on a USB which was completely through command line . Now that Ubuntu 8.10 has new feature of doing it through the GUI, I thought it was worth doing a post. The best part about making USB boot disk is that you dont really need to install it to do all this. A simple Live Cd will do the trick. So here it is:



Step1:System->Administration->Create a USB boot disk




Step2:Insert Ubuntu X.XX CD(haven't checked for other distros)





Step3:Insert Flash drive and set space required for persistent feature




Step4:Watch it happening



Step5: After completed reboot from USB or insert USB elsewhere and boot from USB.

I wish you Happy Hacking!