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Updating Grub 2 -  If you want to change your grub configuration (reorder, change, remove etc) - there are TWO steps 1. Make The Change 2. Update Grub   For example, If you want to change the selected OS to boot from (usually the first one is selected by default). rohit@lenovo:~$ sudo gedit /etc/default/grub  rohit@lenovo:~$ sudo update-grub Generating grub.cfg ... The steps above, essentially means, I opened the grub file in a text editor, made changes and saved it. Then I ran update-grub to cement my changes. Done

I have been an avid Ubuntu user for 4 years and Linux user for 10, there have been significant several improvements over the years that have made it a pleasure to use Linux 80% of the time. But listing these will help guide the next few releases and help early adopters understand the risks.   TOP 5 Missing Features in UBUNU (and Linux) 5. Speed Ubuntu boots up way faster than Windows XP, Vista and Win7. However, once Gnome (or KDE) startsup the user-perception of performance lags. Ubuntu/Gnome and Kubuntu are markedly slower to start applications than Win Xp or Win7. 4. Office 2010-like features OpenOffice and OfficeLibre don't compare with Microsoft Office 2010. Features like One Note and Smart Art, MS Visio (yes, it's still better than Dia), has left the open source community challenged to meet or beat the new features provided in Office.  3. Better screen real estate utilization Screen real-estate is precious, and Win Xp did an awesome job on rendering the toolbars and icon...

Here are my 3 rules to understand people's attitudes and actions.   Rule #1. If you want to understand people's attitudes, first understand their motives. Rule #2. If you want to understand people's actions, understand their incentives. Rule #3. If you want to understand people politics, read Rule #1, Rule #2.   ---- Case in point   

Ubuntu 10.10 has an issue when you run Gnome and KDE. On startup KDE prompts  'KDE Daemon' has requested to open the wallet 'kdewallet'. The solution is to install WICD rohit@lenovo:~$ sudo apt-get install wicd   [sudo] password for rohit:  Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree        Reading state information... Done The following extra packages will be installed:   python-iniparse python-wicd wicd-daemon wicd-gtk The following NEW packages will be installed:   python-iniparse python-wicd wicd wicd-daemon wicd-gtk 0 upgraded, 5 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 562kB of archives. After this operation, 3,121kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!   python-wicd python-iniparse wicd-daemon wicd-gtk wicd Install these packages without verification [y/N]? y Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/u...

This is a snippet from a 2004 article that I never publicly published, but is serves as a good case study relevant in 2011 (and beyond). In 2004, weather.com site served more than 50 million pages on stormy days, and it ran almost entirely on open-source software and commodity hardware. The Atlanta-based Web site’s adoption of a new architecture and open source products “has slashed IT costs by one-third and increased Web site processing capacity by 30%”  (King 2004). However cost slashing was not their primary goal of switching to an open source product. The quality of open source products was its main “selling” point. Weather.com claimed that their transition from IBM’s server software product to open source Apache Tomcat to run their website served correct operations, ease of use and better quality attributes overall. Of course, there are different organizational dynamics that lead to a decision to drop COTS (and support) to an open source solution. Performance and scalabi...

Impoverished Leadership Style Uninvolved: Is not involved with the effort at hand Unmotivated: Does not motivate and is not moved by the effort Indifferent: Does not care about the outcomes or your efforts Noncommittal: Does not provide straight answers and is not ready to support the effort. Resigned: Is not positive about the effort and is basically non caring. Apathetic: No emotion, no enthusiasm. Have you worked for a manager in your career that you thought was disconnected and unmotivated? The LeaderShip Grid (developed by Ohio State University) defines what they call the "Impoverished Leadership Style". Rest assured - this is a common leadership patter in dysfunctional organizations.

Live Writer works like Microsoft Office (or OpenOffice Writer), once you're done writing your document, you can simply Save, and/or Publish to your blog. I have Live Writer installed on my XP slice that I run on my linux laptop. Running Virtual Box does take away CPU when running XP - and frankly I wanted to be able to use Linux for all my needs. I was disappointed. After using several offline desktop oriented blog clients for Linux , the verdict is that none of them offer the features that LiveWriter does. GnomeBlog (Blog Entry Poster)   This is the User inteface - it is minimal, does not have off line save options, cannot be used by any serious blogger.     If you're looking to post casual updates, almost tweets or micro blogs - from your desktop then this may be a fit. But why bother? Just get a Twitter account and use TweetDeck that runs on Adobe Air. GTKBlog For some reason GTK blog looked attractive but would never run on Ubuntu10.10 - I did not...