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In the previous article we discussed how parental control software’s help protect your kids from harm’s way, offline and online. This article discusses in detail the several useful parental control features in Windows Vista and 7.
Set up limited user accounts
Microsoft made amends for ignoring parental control options in Windows XP and previous versions, by including a fully functional parental control suite in Windows Vista and 7.
Before starting out with parental control options, make sure you’re logged in as the administrator. Now create Standard User accounts, one for each family member or each child, from the Add or Remove User Accounts option in the Control Panel.
It is advisable to create limited or standard accounts for your children and not allow complete or administrator access as it will be difficult for you to restrict access to certain programs and secondly, it will increase your PCs vulnerability to online attacks. Malwares can cause unlimited damage through administrator accounts while their ability to cause evil is restricted in limited user accounts on account of partial access to the PC.
Configure parental controls in Vista and 7 user accounts
After the required user accounts have been setup, go to Control Panel à User Accounts and click Set up Parental Controls. You can set up parental controls for all user accounts or only some of them. After you have entered the administrator username and password if prompted, select the user account for which you would like to turn on the parental control settings.
Now select On, enforce current settings.
To regulate Web access of your child’s account, click on Windows Vista Web Filter under Windows Settings.
There are four options to choose from. You can block specific Web sites or content, allow only Web sites that are on the allow list, use the built-in filter to auto regulate Web site access based on the content rating or you can even block all file downloads while allowing limited or unrestricted Web access.
Choose the appropriate level of access for each family member as you deem fit.
Set time limits for PC use
Under Windows Settings click Time Limits.
The white blocks depict the time during which your child can use the computer, while the blue blocks indicate the restricted hours when you want Toby or Mary to concentrate on his or her studies or on some other activity. Once the limit expires your kid will be auto logged off if using the computer and will not be allowed access if not logged on already.
Set the time limits accordingly.
Wild games can be tamed
Feel your kid’s playing games inappropriate for his/her age and understanding? Now you have help at hand. Just click Games under Windows Settings.
You can regulate the games your child plays in two different ways.
Click Set game ratings to allow or disallow games with specific or no ratings. You can completely block games that do not have any ratings and can allow only games with specific ESRB ratings. You might want to block games that contain blood, gore or adult content.
You can even block games that have ratings associated with them but you consider the content inappropriate. Click Block or Allow specific games or click Always Block for games that you never want your kids to play.
View activity reports
To get daily reports of your child’s computer activities select On under Activity Reporting. You can then view detailed reports by clicking View activity reports and modify the user account access based on the information in these reports.
Summing up
While parental control software can be your child’s guardian angel, your freedom loving kids can also view it as unwanted interference in their privacy. So it’s best to first make them understand that such filters are there to protect them from harm and not to snoop around or ruin their PC experience. Once they understand this, control might gradually transform to self-regulation.
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Vimlaksh G
vimlaksh@hotmail.com
Just like a knife, the net can be dual edged too. It can educate, entertain your kids but at the same time it can titillate or trap them as well. And kids being kids they need a guardian angel to look after them while they browse the big bad online world out there. But can you, the parent, look after or guide your kids every time they surf the net? Seems nearly impossible. And that’s precisely why you need parental control software’s.
So what are parental control software’s?
Parental control or internet filter software’s like Net Nanny, CyberProtect, SafeEyes, ContentProtect and others regulate the internet and overall computer activity of your kids using different means. These software’s can prevent or restrict access to sites that you consider harmful like adult Web sites, con sites, gaming sites and even social networking sites.
Yes, internet filter’s can even block social networking sites like Facebook, You Tube and MySpace. After all, majority of the child predators usually lurk on these sites and make easy prey of innocent kids. Parental control software’s can also prevent chat access and illegal file sharing through torrents.
If you or your kids, usually the latter, consider these measures extreme, then you could even opt for moderate measures like setting the internet surfing times, enabling mobile and email alerts whenever your kid accesses any restricted feature, keeping a record of your child’s net activity and more.
Parental control software’s can even prevent access to protected files, folders and programs on the PC, for instance, you might want little Johnny or Mary to pay more attention to studies and cut back on the time spent on gaming.
Some Windows based parental control options
If you thought you only have third party software’s to fall back on to regulate your kids net activity, think again. The humble Web browser can also offer limited assistance to you in this regard. Let’s look at how to enable parental control on Internet Explorer (IE) for instance.
Navigate to the Content tab by first clicking on the Tools button on the toolbar and then Internet Options. Click on the Enable Content Advisor button in the Content pane.
For each of the ICRA3 rating level (depicted by the red rectangle), you can set the usage level by moving the slider (depicted by the blue rectangle) from left to right in the increasing level of severity. There are three levels that you can set: None, Limited and Unrestricted.
It goes without saying that if you have more than one Web browser you’ll have to set internet filters on each, but one parental control software can easily regulate all browsers and programs installed on the PC.
Parental Control on Windows Vista and 7
Microsoft has included parental controls in its Windows Vista and 7 operating systems. In Windows Vista, parental control forms part of the User Accounts and Family Safety control panel settings. In both these OS’, you can regulate your kids computer and internet usage.
You have the flexibility to set specific weekly and daily time slots within which your child can access the PC or surf the net. You can even completely block undesirable Web sites, movies, programs that you consider harmful to your kids.
What’s more, you receive a complete activity report for the week or day of your kids PC usage. You can then review or alter the parental control settings based on the activity report stats. But obviously, just don’t give the master password away or set one that your smart kids will easily discover!
To know more about parental control on Windows Vista and 7 continue to the second part of the article….
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Vimlaksh G
vimlaksh@hotmail.com
We just moved mldserviceslex.com to a new Virtual server at Godaddy, and when we went to setup our email we started getting bounce backs with the error 554 Message refused. (in reply to end of DATA command)
Great! What could the problem be? Went to godaddy’s support site, and really did not find much except for setup info and all looked to be OK.
Went out to Google and typed in the error plus godaddy vps server like this:
554 Message refused. (in reply to end of DATA command) +godaddy +vps
Wow! Look at the results and some of you all are just down right mean. Some go as far as accusing Godaddy of knowing an issue exists and that they were not going to fix the problem. So now I am afraid to call support, because I figure that I am going to hear the same response!
Well not this time. I dealt with two fantastic support people and within 20 minutes the problem appears to be resolved.
The tech had me shut down Spamassassin on my VPS and send an email and it went through!!
service spamassassin stop
Sent test message from my mldservices account to an yahoo account. Working.
Next up I am told is to do an update to Spamassassin.
sa-update
Now I am told to restart Spamassassin.
service spamassassin restart
Now another test. WooHoo!! It still works!
Great Job by the GoDaddy support staff.
Matthew L Davidson
Lexington, KY
We all have heard of the popular saying, “there’s nothing called a free lunch”. But does the same apply to anti-virus products as well, particularly the protection offered by the free variety? One visit to CNET reveals that thousands of netizens happily download popular free anti-virus software’s like AVG, AVAST, Avira every week. And the downloads aren’t stopping, no matter how effective—or ineffective—these software’s are. Of course, budgetary constraints are the single major factor that determines whether people go for free or paid antivirus programs.
But anti-virus software’s offer more than just monetary benefits that determine their usefulness, at the same time they also have some shortcomings. So what are these, let’s find out.
Pros of Anti-virus software’s
The first is the most obvious advantage: they’re free. Many individuals and small business owners can’t afford costly proprietary antivirus programs like Norton or McAffee and make do with the free ones.
But apart from this obvious advantage, free antivirus programs offer other benefits as well. As per tests carried out by AV-Test.org on 3 different free anti-virus scanners—AVAST 4, AntiVir Personal Edition and AVG Free Edition—the results were quite a revelation. All three detected wild or zoo viruses quite effectively and also detected the root kit viruses that are generally the most troublesome and rampant. This implies that free antivirus programs can also effectively detect the most potent viruses.
Another advantage of free antivirus software’ is that they are regularly updated, obviously, some are more frequently updated. But on the whole you need not worry about the current status of your anti-virus definitions.
These free antivirus programs also comparatively take up much smaller memory space as compared to their paid cousins. Not that this really matters in the modern age of almost limitless storage, but there are people who still run Windows 98 and have to make do with at most 40GB storage space. Guess, every byte has its bite.
Flipside of Free Antivirus Software’s
Free antivirus software’s generally are not as effective at detecting and preventing spyware and adware. So you will need to dig into your pocket, after all, to purchase some standalone adware and spyware remover if you desire complete PC security and not just the basic anti-virus protection offered by the free products. This won’t apply to users who don’t use the web at all, but these form an ever dwindling minority.
If you would like some support services along with your free antivirus software, then you’re in for some disappointment.
As releasing any free software is revenue foregone, firms cannot provide dedicated support for their products. Even if they do, as in the case of AVAST, it’s generally paid support that could soon turn out very costly and nullify any savings obtained from using the free antivirus software.
Verdict
All said, free anti-virus products can be a viable alternative for those who either cannot afford paid software’s or who use the internet only sparingly. And considering that even the paid ones cannot guarantee complete protection, the free products will continue to be used by many and happily so.
But if your system is already infected with any malware that your anti-virus program, whether free or paid, is unable to resolve, then you’ll need to go beyond these software’s and seek expert antivirus advice on how to free your PC of malware infections and protect it from future attacks. Automated intelligence has its own limits, after all.
Vimlaksh G
vimlaksh@hotmail.com
If you happen reached this page DIRECTLY, kindly check the FIRST part here Remember The Milk… (1)
So, in the last part of Remember the Milk we asked what we can do to the task we have just added, namely,”Completing the Computer Science assignment”.
Got a check at the checkbox beside your task?
Excellent.
Now, did you see the list box where written in: More Actions…? This is where our first start will be.
What we will mainly deal with here is sending the task.
So, make sure that the checkbox beside your task is checked, and let us try to send the task.
Send To…
This is the first action.
What about it?
Let us go ahead and click on it and see what happens.
Aha. You are supposed to get the following now:
- A message at the top with an orange background stating the following: Sending “Completing the Computer Science assignment” to…, with two buttons, Send and Cancel, provided that the Send button doesn’t work.
- A message at the bottom in blue font stating the following: You have no contacts. You should invite some!
A reasonable note, isn’t it?
We want to apply a send action, but to whom?!
So, what to do now?
You can click at the Add Contact link at the right side of the page. Try and enter an email address in the text box that shows, and then click at the checkbox beside that address.
If the person you want to make a send to is NOT a “Remember The Milk” member, you will get a message with an orange background at the top of the page stating the following: That person doesn’t appear to be a Remember The Milk member. Would you like to invite them?
Yes, exactly. As long as you insist you want to send to that person, let us click at the Would you like to invite them? link.
You will now be directed to a new page starting with the following: Send an invite to…
Now, simply fill out the required details, and press the Send invite button, and that’s it.
Look at the top of the page. You will notice a message with an orange background confirming the sending of the invitation to the entered email address beginning with the name that you have entered.
Click at the Tasks link at the top of the page, so you get directed to your tasks.
Try the process of sending once again. What did you notice?
WHAT?! THE SAME MESSAGE AGAIN?! IT IS NOT WORKING?!
Calm down… Calm down…
We have to wait a while for the Invitee. The person you have just sent an invitation to, to join “Remember The Milk”.
What will be happening at the other side? The invitee’s side.
Good question.
The invitee (The person you have invited) will find a new message in his mailbox.
That new message will have the following characteristics:
1- Sender: Remember The Milk.
2- Subject: “Your name” has invited you to join Remember The Milk.
Now, when the invitee opens the message, he will be directed through a link to a page that will enable him to sign up for a new “Remember The Milk” account.
After he finishes signing up his new account he will get another message in his mailbox …etc.
I think you already know the rest of the story since you went through this process while signing up.
Assuming the invitee has went through those processes and got his “Remember The Milk”account ready, let us go ahead and try to make a send to him once again and see what happens.
Ready?
So, simply go to your tasks, and then click at the checkbox of the task you are intending of sending, which is as we agreed for the convention of this article is, Completing the Computer Science assignment. And, definitely, you can have other task(s).
After that, go ahead and choose Send To… from the More Actions… list box.
Now, click at the Add Contact link and enter the invitee’s email address and click at the checkbox beside the invitee’s email address.
So, having added the address of the invitee and checked the check box beside the invitee’s address, what will happen?
AMAZING…
You will get a message at the top of the page with an orange background saying something like:
Sending “Completing the Computer Science assignment”. Couldn’t send task to “invitee” because they don’t have you in their contacts list.
What now?
Now, the invitee is supposed to add you in his contact list.
The invitee should simply hit the Contacts link at the top of the page, click at the Add Contact link, and finally add your email address or your Remember The Milk user name.
After the invitee adds you to his contact list, go ahead now and try sending the task using the same steps we have done earlier.
AT LAST, your task is being sent and moved to Sent in Remember The Milk. Notice that the following message appears at the top of the screen with an orangebackground.
Sending “Completing the Computer Science assignment”. Done. Moved to Sent.
Abder-Rahman Hasan Ali
abder.rahman.ali@gmail.com
You may be wondering, “What is this title supposed to do at this Technology oriented blog? I’m expecting to find Technology stuff here“.
Don’t worry, you certainly came to the right blog, and this topic is totally related to the blog. At all, you are not mistaken.
Remember The Milk…
What about it?
Do you have tasks here and there and every where you should get done?
Want to manage those tasks, but the traditional ways are not working for you?
You are here, at the right place, reading the right article.
So, let us go ahead and discover what “Remember The Milk” is meant to be and meant to do.
“Remember The Milk” is a web application intended to ease your way in managing tasks.
I think that the best way to know “Remember The Milk” is to go ahead and delve inside further. Ready for it?
So, where to go first?
1- Go ahead to this web address: http://www.rememberthemilk.com
2- Click at the “Signup Now!” button.
And, yes, a wonderful thing out there. Do you know what? It is FREE. Totally FREE.
Fill the fields at the “Signup” page, read and accept the “Terms of Use“, and finally, click at the “Signup“button, and that’s it for creating your “Remember The Milk” FREE account.
Just simple as this.
Now, let us login to our account. You can find the “Login” link at the top-right of the page.
Simply enter your “Username” and “Password” and hit the “Login” button.
Now, you may be thinking: “What is that screen in front of me?”
This screen is called the “Overview screen“.
Overview screen?!
Well, this screen is what you will normally see every time you login to your account, you will be able to view what is due today, tomorrow, or have been missed. Yes, everything in front of your eyes.
Add to that the “Weekly Planner” link that will enable you to see your upcoming tasks in a printable format.
You may ask:”But, I really don’t want this page to appear to me every time I login to my account, I just want to go straight ahead to the tasks“.
So simple. Simply click at the “Always skip this page” link.
Now, let us click the “Continue to Tasks” button, or simply at the “Tasks” link at the top right of the page.
What do we have here? Now, you are at the “Tasks screen“.
Let us go now for example to the “Study” tab.
What will we do here?
Good question. Remember that we are on the “Tasks screen“? So, we will be mainly dealing with adding tasks here.
When you have navigated to the “Study” tab, you will notice a Text box having this written in it at the right side of the box: << Add a new task.
Yes, from there we will begin.
So, let us now for example in that box type the following: Completing the Computer Science assignment. Then, hit the “Enter” button at your keyboard.
What are you supposed to see in order to say that you have completed this successfully?
You are supposed to see this happening:
1- An orange rectangle appearing at the top of the page confirming that the task you have typed in the text box has been added.
2- The task shown below in green with a check box beside it.
Notice that the top orange rectangle and its content will disappear after seconds and the green one will just have the color disappear.
Was that the case with you? Excellent, you are done with adding your first task using Remember the milk.
Now, you may be wondering:”I have added my task now. What is the big deal? Just adding it and that is it?”
If that was the case, I wouldn’t have written this article at all.
So, what to do now?
You are supposed now to be having the task: “Completing the Computer Science assignment” along with a checkbox beside it.
What can we do now?
To be continued… PART [2]
Abder-Rahman Ali
abder.rahman.ali@gmail.com
Microsoft does spring new surprises now and then, for instance, it has launched the Silverlight 4 Beta client for Facebook. This opens a world of opportunity for developers to develop rich internet apps and high quality media that is visually stunning and more functional for the users. Silverlight Facebook client will enable snazzy Facebook interfaces that will hold users interest for a longer time than the default and rather boring white and blue Facebook interface. So there’s something for everyone in this Facebook client.
Silverlight 4 Client for Facebook Requirements:
To install Silverlight4 Client for Facebook you require a working internet connection, web browser, Windows or Mac OS and you will need to first download and install Microsoft Silverlight 4 beta, which is a small 7.6 MB download on Windows or Mac.
This step-by-step instruction guide will facilitate you to install Silverlight 4 Client for Facebook in a matter of few clicks.
Before you can install the Silverlight 4 Client for Facebook, you will need to install Silverlight 4 beta.
Silverlight 4 beta Installation:
 Silverlight 4 Beta client for Facebook To begin the Microsoft Silverlight 4 installation, click on the Install now button.
 Silverlight 4 Beta client for Facebook Installer The Silverlight update dialog box appears. If you want Silverlight to be updated automatically, let the Enable Microsoft Update check box remain selected and click Next.
 Silverlight 4 Beta client for Facebook Installer continued Once installation is complete press F 5 to refresh your browser Web page and continue to the next step.
 Accept license terms and install After you refresh the Web page, the Microsoft Silverlight 4 Beta Client for Facebook installation will start. Click to accept the license terms and begin the installation.
 A security warning dialog box appears. Select the locations for placing the Silverlight Client shortcuts and click Install. A security warning dialog box appears. Select the locations for placing the Silverlight Client shortcuts and click Install.
 The installation successful screen appears. You can now use Silverlight 4 Beta Client for Facebook. The installation successful screen appears. You can now use Silverlight 4 Beta Client for Facebook.
 On clicking the Silverlight Client for Facebook icon, the Facebook integration page appears. On clicking the Silverlight Client for Facebook icon, the Facebook integration page appears. Now you just have to Sign up or Log in to your Facebook account and get started with the Silverlight 4 Beta Client!
Quick Review of Capabilities:
 Once you log into your Facebook account your profile will seem unrecognizable, so complete is the transformation with the Silverlight 4 Client. Once you log into your Facebook account your profile will seem unrecognizable, so complete is the transformation with the Silverlight 4 Client. The default interface switches from the staid white and blue to peppy shades of black with brightly illuminated icons in white and blue. All this make for a visually stunning experience.
The live feed or the news feed is at the top, just like in Facebook default and you can switch between different views: full feed—the default mode, grid and photos feed.
 The Silverlight client seamlessly merges your inbox, photos, status and event updates, links, and videos on the same page. Photos Feed View
The Silverlight client seamlessly merges your inbox, photos, status and event updates, links, and videos on the same page so you can browse Facebook without visiting the site itself, although, you will have to do so if you want to use any Facebook apps.
Impressions:
The Silverlight4 Facebook Client combines an attractive interface, feeds and photo updates seamlessly, which is its USP. In the previous beta version you couldn’t use the mouse wheel to scroll through the page, but now you can. So the client is improving all the time. Although it doesn’t present any new features nor does it dispense with the need for visiting Facebook—you still need to visit the site to access many web apps—but it combines the already existing features to present them in a more useful manner. For instance, all your friends’ links are presented on one page and the videos on the links page play more smoothly than on the default Facebook player.
Another useful feature is the people tab. Once you click on it all your contacts are listed alphabetically and their photo updates appear on the right side, and the status updates at the centre. So you need not visit different pages, rather you can view the status and photo updates on a single screen, which is a very useful feature.
 Another useful feature is the people tab. Obviously, Facebook lacks this functionality.
Even the inbox has an uncluttered look and reading and replying to messages is pretty straightforward. By clicking on the Photos tab you can view your and your friends’ recent photo albums on the same page, thus doing away with the need to visit each friend’s individual profile.
 By clicking on the Photos tab you can view your and your friends’ recent photo albums on the same page, thus doing away with the need to visit each friend’s individual profile. But on the flip side, the Silverlight4 Facebook client does not support third-party apps as of now, so you are left with no choice but to visit Facebook if you want to access your favorite apps.
In spite of these minor aberrations, the Silverlight4 Client for Facebook presents a Spartan interface with many useful capabilities to enhance your Facebook experience and if you consider that this is the beta release, then things are surely bound to improve in the final release and with it your Facebook experience as well!
 How to create envelopes, labels and other merged documents using Word 2007 and Excel 2007.
With the release of Office 2007 I see more and more people who have purchased the “Home and Student” version of Office, which is a great product, and it comes at a great price, but it lacks Outlook and Access.
You might say that is not a big deal, but what if I want to perform a mail merge? Well Word 2007 includes a great wizard that will walk you through the merge of existing data, such as an address book, to labels or envelopes, and you can keep your data in a comma separated values file in Excel!
Download this tutorial as a PDF file.
You can create your own data file with Excel or download this example file to get yourself started.
Note: Download the file and then do a Save As and choose CSV from the file type drop down.
If you happen reached this page, please start the series from the beginning EPISODE [1], as it is important to begin the journey from the start and follow up consequently, since there are things you must be packed up with. Have a safe journey…
The three teams reached the Ubuntu 9.10 island safely. They are conducting a small meeting out there in the woods and thinking:”We have reached this island after too much effort, we’ll not just turn our backs and return to where we came from just like that. We came here to discover. To discover this island that really took much effort to reach. So, yes, it is time to discover the Ubuntu 9.10 island guys”.
We are now in this island. Everything is calm. Too much things out there…
Let us just begin.
BE READY EVERYONE…
See that orange colored background out there? [Look at the following figure]
This is the Ubuntu 9.10 desktop.
Look it that, at the left most part of the window.
Did you see that flag (Logo)? [Something similar the following figure]
Yes, exactly, it has Applications written beside it.
It is on a place called: GNOME Panel Menubar. This panel menubar is the main point of access to GNOME.
Let us just click at it and see what happens.
WOW…
Look it all those applications out there. Seems we can do plenty of functions from here.
Yes. The Applications menu is used to launch applications.
LOOK, LOOK. It is a box out there.
What is that written on it?
We should remove that dust away first. It says, “Acc..”, Aha, it says Accessories.
I wonder what we will find in that box. Let us open it an see.
ONE, TWO, THREE… HERE WE GO…
WOW…
Plenty of stuff here, come on and see…
What is that?
Let me see…
A Calculator. A calculator? Seems like the calculators we know, right?
Yes, I can see it is just an ordinary calculator. But, seems that there are some new things in this calculator.
If you go to the Edit at the menu bar, just take a look at the last line saying: Insert ASCII Value…
I think this is something new. Do you?
And, look it the View at the menu bar and look it all those features out there. I think those are new things as well.
But, how can we gain more knowledge about that?
Oh, look. Look at the menu bar, there is a Help option, from were we can gain more detailed information about this and other features. No worries then.
What is that other thing in the Accessories box?
A CD/DVD Creator? What is that supposed to be?
Well, let me see…
Ummm…
Seems really interesting.
But, how does it work?
Oh, look it that, a Help option at the menu bar. That is really wonderful. Seems that every application here has that Help option that guides us to the way of using the applications. Wonderful…
So, let us go to the Help option at the menu bar. Then, let us choose Contents.
There are many topics as you can see. But, I think what matters most here is the topic: 6.10. Writing CDs or DVDs.
Let us go ahead and choose this one.
Everyone of you here I think knows why we use CDs or DVDs. Yes, like backing up some important documents for example.
Here guys, I want everyone to check that he has a CD or DVD writer.
How can we do that in this island?
Oh, look it that note: “A simple way to check what sort of CD or DVD drive your computer has is to choose Places -> Computer from the top panel menubar.If the icon for your CD drive has terms like “CD-RW” or “DVD(+-)R” in its label, then your computer is able to write discs“.
Everyone go ahead and check this out.
Everyone done?
All right. We are ready to the go.
This application, CD/DVD Creator enables us to Create Data Discs. Weird? Don’t worry, let us begin our work into that.
It says here that there are some steps to follow for creating data discs.
The first thing guys is to have your CD/DVD Creator open. All has that?
Now, drag your files and folders that you want to write to a CD or DVD to the CD/DVD Creator folder. You will notice a message on your open window beside the “Write to Disc” button as follows: CD/DVD Creator Folder Drag or copy files below to write them to disc“. Go that everyone?
Hope now that everyone has a writable CD or DVD with him. Insert the writable CD or DVD into the CD or DVD writer device on your system.
Done with that everyone?
See that “Write to Disc” button? Simply just press it.
Aha, did you see that dialog box appearing? The Disc Burning Setup dialog box?
There is an option stating: Select a disc to write to. Here, select the device to which you want to write the CD or DVD from the drop-down list.
As for the Disc name option, simply type a name for the CD or DVD in the text box.
Finally, click the Burn button.
If everything went well, you should have a dialog box titled: Brasero – Creating Image, and in it stating Image successfully created.
Woooh, need some rest after all of that.
It is nearly sunset now. Everyone is looking at themselves. Seems they are thinking the same thing…
Don’t you miss your families guys?
Sure we do.
I think we should at least stop here since there is much to discover. I think we must visit our families because they may be on a worry on us.
What do think guys?
Good idea. I think we must do that.
Oh, Ubuntu 9.10 Island, we will miss you…
And, here, the teams decided to make a visit to their families back home, and continue their journey later on.
Abder-Rahman Hasan Ali
If you happen reached this page, please start the series from the beginning EPISODE [1], as it is important to begin the journey from the start and follow up consequently, since there are things you must be packed up with. Have a safe journey…
Team(3) as we saw in the last episode went to have some rest after completing the somewhat hard and effortful steps. What will happen after they had some rest? Stay tuned.
I really feel much better now, we absolutely needed some rest. Feel much better.
Let us go ahead before night comes.
So, let us now click on the “Forward” button.
Seems that we must fill in our personal details. Seems they need to know our identity. Everyone having the “Who are you?” screen?
Everyone fill in his details so we can complete further.
Done?
So, everyone hit the “Forward” button now.
Did you see that?! They are very aware about security. If you enter a password that is less than eight characters long, you will get a “Use weak password?” dialog box, saying: “You entered a password that consists of less than eight characters, which is considered too weak. You should choose a stronger password“. Wow, I really like that.
How wonderful. Look it that beautiful report we are having here. It is the “Ready to install” screen. It is listing out the settings the operating system (Ubuntu 9.10) will be installed with.
Everyone satisfied?
Now, to the “Install” button, just give it a hit.
I think we can have some tea now and enjoy those beautiful signs here.
Look. what a beautiful scene, blue sky, shining sun, seagulls, the sound of the water, and those beautiful Ubuntu 9.10 signs. How beautiful. It really needs a cup of tea.
See all of those signs? Like it is telling us what we will be expecting at the Ubuntu 9.10 island.
I really cannot wait…
Hope our friends are doing OK now…
LOOK, LOOK, I think we are almost there. I think we are at the gates of the Ubuntu 9.10 island.
Look at that dialog box “Installation Complete“. It is saying:”Installation is complete. You need to restart the computer in order to use the new installation“.
Way to go. We are a button away.
We now have to just click the “Restart Now” button to enter through the Ubuntu 9.10 island’s gate.
Here we go. Hitting the “Restart Now” button…
UBUNTU 9.10 ISLAND, HERE WE COME…
IT IS THE UBUNTU 9.10 ISLAND, IT IS THE UBUNTU 9.10 ISLAND…
WE ARE HERE AT LAST, THANKS GOD…
Oh guys, LOOK OVER THERE, do you see what I see?! IT IS OUR FRIENDS.
HEY, HEY, HEY…
IT IS US, WE ARE HERE, GLAD TO SEE YOU AGAIN…
WOW, what a beautiful moments now at the Ubuntu 9.10 Island. The three teams are at last together again. Tears coming down from their eyes, tears of happiness. They are hugging each other and cannot believe they are together again.
Sun went down. It is night now. And, everything is calm and quite in the island.
But, what will our friends do in this island? Are there adventures to come?
This is what we will see in the next episodes.
To be continued… EPISODE [7]
Abder-Rahman Hasan Ali
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