Great, I finally got my Ubuntu 9.04 up and running.

Ubuntu 9.04 Desktop

I am an Ubuntu user and I make sure that I always have the latest version installed on my computer.

However luck was not by my side during the latest release of Ubuntu – 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope)

After having installed Ubuntu while starting the new system the computer froze with Caps Lock and Scroll Lock LEDs blinking. I was really disappointed… I felt like crippled since i perform most of my productive tasks on Ubuntu…

I made a lot of researches in order to solve the problem, tried removing and reinstalling it, tried installing the nVidia drivers still nothing worked. Then and angel smiled at me…

I came across this forum which gave me my life saving answer…

So here is the explanation about the Kernel panic:

The default kernel installed on Ubuntu 9.04 is the 2.6.28-11 version which for some unknown reason was not compatible with my hardware configuration… (well that’s an assumption since it was working fine on other computers according to the other Ubuntu users)

I then read the forum post and chose the Optimal way (Part C with reference to the forum post) to repair the kernel panic problem.

The solution was to install the latest version of Kernel released for 9.04 but it seems it is not yet available on the repositories (Version 2.6.29-3)

Since my gnome desktop was not reliable i had to log on using recovery mode and chose the netroot option.

I then downloaded the three packages for i386 system:
$ wget -c http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v2.6.29.3/linux-headers-2.6.29-02062903-generic_2.6.29-02062903_i386.deb

$ wget -c http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v2.6.29.3/linux-headers-2.6.29-02062903_2.6.29-02062903_all.deb

$ wget -c http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v2.6.29.3/linux-image-2.6.29-02062903-generic_2.6.29-02062903_i386.deb

I then installed the downloaded packages using dpkg:
$ sudo dpkg -i linux-headers-2.6.29-02062903-generic_2.6.29-02062903_i386.deb linux-headers-2.6.29-02062903_2.6.29-02062903_all.deb linux-image-2.6.29-02062903-generic_2.6.29-02062903_i386.deb

After installation I restarted the computer on the new Kernel and it now works really great…

I am currently publishing this post from my Ubuntu 9.04…

From underneath the trees, we watch the sky
Confusing stars for satellites
I never dreamed that you’d be mine
But here we are, we’re here tonight

Singing Amen, I, I’m alive
Singing Amen, I, I’m alive

[Chorus:]
If everyone cared and nobody cried
If everyone loved and nobody lied
If everyone shared and swallowed their pride
Then we’d see the day when nobody died

And I’m singing Amen

Amen I, Amen I, I’m alive
Amen I, Amen I, Amen I, I’m alive

And in the air the fireflies
Our only light in paradise
We’ll show the world they were wrong
And teach them all to sing along

Singing Amen, I, I’m alive
Singing Amen, I, I’m alive
(I’m alive)

[Chorus x2]

And as we lie beneath the stars
We realize how small we are
If they could love like you and me
Imagine what the world could be

If everyone cared and nobody cried
If everyone loved and nobody lied
If everyone shared and swallowed their pride
Then we’d see the day when nobody died
When nobody died…

[Chorus]

We’d see the day, we’d see the day
When nobody died
We’d see the day, we’d see the day
When nobody died
We’d see the day when nobody died

A song i really like with the lyrics…

Some of the parts i have liked:

If everyone cared and nobody cried
If everyone loved and nobody lied
If everyone shared and swallowed their pride
Then we’d see the day when nobody died

What u think of this? What he actually mean by this?

And as we lie beneath the stars
We realize how small we are
If they could love like you and me
Imagine what the world could be

This is so true…

Dear friends,

Thanks for your answers concerning life… I got bookish definitions of life…  Some did told me abt their own views about life… What kind of life they like and what makes their life meaningful…

Lets have a look at some definitions of life as said by our friends:

• One friend said 42… Not yet read the article… LOL
• Got a definition of life from another friend:

Life is a characteristic of organisms that exhibit certain biological processes such as chemical reactions or other events that results in a transformation. Living organisms are capable of growth and reproduction, some can communicate and many can adapt to their environment through changes originating internally

• One reply was: Je pense, donc je suis… Quite and obvious answer…
• Others defined life as a lesson or as a movie where each of us has our own role
• One answer was that life is a punishment where we are sent to try to become a better individual… That’s one nice aim of life

Alright now my own view on life:

It has no concrete definition. It is all up to us as how we see it, it’s all up to how we live it. For me life is an opportunity where we experience pains, sorrows, happiness, love, attachments, bonds and we learn from all those experiences which help us actually travel the time of our lifetime.

What kind of life do i like to live?

When i was a kid, i once watched a scene on a tv serial about a small story of wizards and all, A guy had to answer three questions of a guradian so that he would be set free. I don’t remember the other two but the one i still remember today is: What is life? And the answer was:

Life is what has been lived for others…

I tried to figure it out what it means… And today, i do realise in fact it’s completely true… What that use of such a life which has not been any use to anybody (apart from our own self of course)? What the use of a life which has never given any happiness to anybody?

I have always wanted to bring happiness and be of any use i could be to my friends, my loved ones so that atleast i could do something which makes my life really worth it. I get a strange kind of peace when am able to bring a smile on someone’s face. This is how i want to live my life: making it useful for my loved ones and all those who would really deserve it. And when it comes about myself, i accept my life as it comes but i do make sure i never hurt anybody even though i have done it quite some times, sorry to alle those i have hurt unknowingly or out of anger… But anyway, i like to see the world around me beautiful, and one way to make it beautiful is happiness thus what i been trying to do

Adding something more is that I like to live a life where I can get a lot to learn by experience, where everyday is a new lesson to learn, full of adventures

And what makes my life meaningful is all those beings whom i have been able to make a difference, they are my identity, my strength and they are the ones who give a meaning to my life and therefore the aim and the motivation to live this life full of challenges.

Thanks to all those who gave a meaning to my life…

Hello friends,

Today i want to ask my dear readers some questions about life:

1. What is life for you?
2. What kind of life you like to live?
3. What you really think of that can make your life meaningful?

I want to know some opinions on life… Thanks a lot for ur answers

I was checking my Google Reader and stumbled upon this blog which i wanted to share with you… Just have a look at this blog…

Laptop Hunters $1000 – Lauren Gets an HP Pavilion

We really need to think about it, It’s true maybe MAC are better than PC’s yet we always choose the PC because it’s cheaper and it does all the work that a MAC can… Well am not against MAC in fact even I want to own a MAC… But in today’s world I think we better focus on affordable prices rather than style when it comes to IT…

Referring to my last post about “Why we make friends?” I now wish to give my own opinions… There were really nice answers i got from my friends, even on my facebook, the most common answer was so that we drive away our loneliness, and many other answers related to this… And most of you had no specific criterias to choose ur friends, nor any choice… You made friends just like that…

The answers that all my friends gave for my last post is part of the reason why I make friends….

Have we ever thought more beyond that? And one of the main reason why i make friends is:

I like to see some special persons of my life whom i call my friend happy. Whenever they need me, even if they do not ask for it I will always try to be there to help them and guide them

That’s true you might find it weird how i can say this? But this is how my friends have been my identity. I simply try to be a good friend… that’s all

And it feels really great when u are able to do something for someone… Of course who is really worth it… This is why i asked the criteria on how u all choose ur friends…

I do agree that this might not be applicable to everybody since there are also some people who claim to be our friends but might backstab us… So i have always chosen friends who are sincere. And today I am proud to say that I am really lucky i did not make any wrong choice till now as far as my close friends are concerned…

Sometimes i do wonder what are friends for? That’s something true that loneliness fades away as we make friends… But there is something called how to fulfill our friendship and this is what i try to do

No friend will ever cheat another friend. If he does, he is not even worth being called a friend and he was never one…

I have always asked many questions to myself about life… Some things which might seem obvious to eveyone… but I still have some questions…

Today my question is: Why do we make friends?

Why you guys, you readers make friends and how u choose your friends?

Can i have some answers please? Only then I would be able to continue my post. I count on you dear readers…

Today morning I got really pissed… I took my bus for port louis from home  around 06:45. I reached the Victoria Bus stand around 07:20. While reaching there i saw a huge crowd of people entering the Rose  Hill Express bus which had just reached. In no time the bus was full and some had to be left outside since there was no more place even for standing… Well i let that go and waited for the next bus… It took around 20 minutes for the next bus to arrive… and Again in those 20 minutes a huge crowd of passengers were already gathered waiting for the bus… Again there was a struggle to enter the bus… eventually i was left again… Finally i was able to struggle into the next bus… I was really pissed since I left home early and now am reaching at work after 08:30. Luckyly i got the habit of reaching work at 08:00… so i can say I was just in time

But when i think of the bus and the way i have to struggle to get into the bus i realise the service is not really good… Before, during the college holidays i used to get the bus easily… but now… Phew…

I just hope they improve their service and try to solve the problem of having a huge crowd at the bus stand… LOL… But seems they don’t even care…

Anyway hope i don’t get this problem tommorrow…

Last year (2008) has been full of adventures including both good and bad experience…

Some important incidents of my life:

1. Graduated (BSc Computer Science and Engineering)
2. Went to India with my mum (she was really happy, she wanted to go there from a long time and a lot to times it had been canceled, finally we were able to go there after completing my studies and exams)
3. Got a place at Accenture (still a trainee though)
4. Came to know the importance of friends (Thanks for being there, gonna miss my uni friends)
5. Learned from a lot of experience.
6. Made many new friends… (I am lucky to always have really nice and sincere friend and i thanks god and my friends for that – Sorry if i have been rude and hurt you all so much)
7. Had been unfortunately very bad…

Well for the coming year (2009) I have not confirmed anything yet, however here are some things i would like to do:

1. Make even more friends and will always be there whenever they need me
2. Try to be nice… (Difficult task though…)
3. Try to be less lazy (That’s even more tough… )
4. Be myself… And try to share happiness all around hence “Pramod”

God Bless You All Friends

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2009

!!!ENJOY!!!

***CHEERS***

Those using Vista might know the features of the My Computer Window, where u get the details of the Local Hard Drives…

I downloaded this tool which is really cool… and gives a graphical info of the capacity of hard drives..

Vista Drive Icons

It does not consume too much of memory space (around 3MB)