Question:

Ok, here's the question...I have a dual-boot of Ubuntu Linux with M$ Vista. M$ Vista is on the C partition, and Ubuntu is on D partition. Is there anyway to later on if I want to get rid of Vista to remove it, and let Ubuntu absorb the space left from it, and remove Vista from the Bootloader? I'm really thinking about, getting rid of Vista.

Answer:

Source: http://linuxdevices.com/news/NS7325827957.html

<!-- 1 -->The LiMo (Linux Mobile) Foundation has announced seven new shipping mobile handsets -- from Motorola, NEC, and Panasonic -- that are said to comply with its mobile phone specification. The consortium also announced 11 new members, including Telecom Italia, Freescale, VirtualLogix, Movial, and PacketVideo.

The seven new models from Motorola, NEC, and Panasonic brings the total number of shipping LiMo-compliant handsets to 21. Although the three companies have already been shipping other LiMo compliant models, the new announcements continue to add to the momentum LiMo has been building since February, when it announced the first wave of LiMo handsets, along with 18 new members.

I recently had to merge an old backup onto a new drive, and of course ended up with a large number of duplicate files scattered all over the new drive. By digging around, I discovered the program "fdupes" which will run through a directory tree and find all the duplicates by calculating the MD5 checksums and comparing these. This is great, as it means that even if the file names are different, it will find it. It even has a -d switch, which will ask you which file to keep and which to delete.

However...... with roughly 12,000 duplicates in my directory tree, I was not going to sit there and answer the same question 12,000 times. So I wrote a little Python program to do the dirty work.

Here's what I did, after installing fdupes via Synaptic:

Question:

When I installed Ubuntu I created an extra partition (which I called 'data'). I would now like to use it to store some files but don't have the required permissions - owner and group are both 'root'.
Having had a rather frightening experience recently when, using the terminal, I managed to change the permissions in one of my directories to 'unrecognised permissions' (thankfully I eventually managed to correct it), I don't want the same thing to happen to a whole partition.
Could someone walk me through the exact process I need to go through so that I can easily access this partition without being root?

Answer:

The EeePC started as a niche product aimed at children. It was a huge hit, which surprised everybody — even Asus. Microsoft noticed it, and started putting pressure on Asus . While reading around, I came across this interview with Benson Lin, which proces once more that Microsoft is tying up Asus and effectively killing the GNU/Linux version of the EeePC.

The interview

The interview touches on several topics, and yet the very beginning is what caught my eyes:

TechTree: States like Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka promote the Linux operating system in its education and government sectors. Will ASUS roll out Linux alternatives for the new 904HD and 1000H models in India?

In a recent article, Ryan Cartwright argued that free software isn’t playing the “same game” as proprietary software is. He’s right—but that begs the question: what game is GNU/Linux playing?

Thirty years of proprietary software thinking have conditioned us to think that marketshare is a critical measure of success, and so we’ve convinced ourselves that we have to “win” against Windows in order to “succeed”. But this is simply not true. GNU/Linux can be a very great success even if it never achieves more than 1% of the installations in the world. The reason is the difference between “power” and “freedom”.