Friday, August 5, 2011

Cloud Computing-Ubuntu One

Below is a caption I enclosed for getting a PDF file from a web hosting service in America.

"Assuming that there is no power outage or failure and download speed is instant and fast (both these premises are hard to come by and ensure in the Third World) cloud computing is the next best thing that happened after World Wide Web. 

This can be better utilized in a school setup or in a University (I call it the Virtual University where everybody is a graduate or undergraduate). 

The potential is enormous once the infrastructure is laid down and maintained with a stable cloud".

I have decided to support Ubuntu Unity and Ubuntu One.
I hate the Free Books often outdated (especially in Science and IT) by 30 years dished out by the Education Department and the recently politicized new entrants (inculcation) discipline program (Yes Men and Yes Sir Program).
It is an insult to freedom of thought and exercise of free mind in creative work.
That is another reason for promoting Ubuntu One.
Without duplicating of information Cloud Computing can bring whole world together.

I am believer it can be done cheaper than the Government's Free Text Book Program.
I hope Mark Shuttelworth, the Guru can initiate it in South Africa and take few  of  our teachers from here for training there (instead of the English Instructors we got from India to teach English to teachers of English) and send them back with Ubuntu Unity CD/DVD (No more free CDs from Canonicals now) and IT and English Training.
He does not have to spend South African Money.
All he has to do is to give a free laptops to all opposition MPs with music streaming charged at 10 times the priming price instead of the basic customer price. 
That alone is enough to finance the project and voters get money back guarantee.
The money we pay them as pension after five yeas and pay while they are not doing anything except fighting for the top post-leader of the opposition).

They are not doing anything except singing local Baila (variety of song in this island and also use as substitute for lies -usually used by policemen) instead of actively engage in voter / consumer based politics.

Regards to the MPs in power who are more often abroad without even not knowing how to fill airport form in English should be sent to moon or given a satellite telephone to keep in contact with aliens.
The money for those utilities should come from President Fund to which our Lottery money is diverted.
All of them have become alien to the average voters needs.

But the language of instruction has to be Universal and it cannot be Sinhala or Tamil.

I hope present day parents, teachers and above all students should realize this.
We do not want to be like frog in a deep (Enclosed Island) well.

UnetBootIn-Update-Using Vinux booted Ping Eee on USB

I am posting this with Ping Eee booted from USB.
How I did it.
Steps.

1. Booted Vinux from my laptop (It has Pinguy with UnetBootIn, too).

2. Clicked UnetBootIn

3. Selected Ubuntu for Booting from Menu

4. Attached the Hard Disk mounted on USB enclosure (this was the hard disk I removed the other day when I upgraded my laptop with a 500 GiB SATA).

The partitions were formatted with gParted with Knoppix Live On booted and  the USB enclosure attached.
5. Loaded the DVD with multiple Linux images (copied previously)

6. Give the path for the image (Ping Eee on this occasion) in the DVD.

7. Selected Ping Eee and clicked OK after selecting the partition in hard disk where the live image should be installed, mounted on a tray/bay USB enclosure.

Partition used was not FAT but Ext 4.
8. Waited 10 Minutes for automatic installation of the Live Script.

9. Shut down Vinux and Restart with Internet cable attached.

10.Ping Eee up and running and Firefox activated and my fingers doing the rest.

I will Install Ping Eee if the laptop has a free partition but remember I stated above that I have already installed Pinguy (Not Ping Eee).

This post is to put the record straight and my previous post on UnetBootIn is now no longer valid and redundant.

The UnetBootIn has fixed most of the problems which I had when I booted PClinux on a Pendrive 3 months ago.
Thanks guys and girls who updated UnetBootIn and Vinux and Pinguy/Ping Eee for including UnetBootIn in the distribution.
I will load few more distributions in my USB hard disk for future installations On the move / On the fly.

It is cool and cute way Linux works for me.

Can Apple Mac match this feet?

I don't think so, Kevin in Home Alone, says so!