Ubuntu is an operating system consisting of free and open source software. Today I received the ubuntu 6.06 LTS CDs package (8 PC, 1 Mac, 1 64-bit PC copies) through courier. After registering in the http://shipit.ubuntu.com website around the month of June of this year, I almost forgot about the CDs. Ordering is free. Even shipping charges are also not collected.
As my HDD partitions are NTFS and there was not much space in my 10 GB HDD, I tried the Live CD Option. Installation was just a breeze and within minutes ubuntu gnome desktop was in my screen. I didn’t know using Linux would become this easier. I last used the Mandrake Linux distribution some 3 years back and discarded it as my obsession for Windows XP became more.
But I also experienced some problems with installing my serial mouse which has become a ‘legacy device’ according to the community. Some how I managed to find among the ubuntu community forums as to how to install my serial mouse which has been overlooked by the auto-detect of ubuntu installation.
If you are also bugged by this same problem just do the following stuff and you’ll get your serial mouse up and running in ubuntu:
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In my house I’m the only person who uses the computer full time. My sister rarely uses it to check mail. Nowadays she doesn’t even do that as she is in 12th std.
I was recovering from surgery for the past 4 months, so there was no one using or cleaning the PC at the time. My poor computer was at the corner of the room untouched… for months accumulating so much dust and cobweb.
As I use the PC all the time, I don’t have the habit of using dust covers. Neither the cabinet cover is present because of frequent HDD transfers and stuff like that. These made the matters worse.
I was using the PC in this poor state for the past few weeks as i was so tired to clean it. Only a day before I thought the time has come to clean the mess out of it. So I disconnected all the wires and started dusting. I thought I could clean it better if I removed the motherboard from the cabinet…. then the processor from the motherboard…. the fan from the processor and so on…. Soon I was in a recursive loop and ended up completely dis-assembling the system. I did not regret as I can easily re-assemble them… I’ve did that before.
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