1. Boot your ubuntu from live cd, mount drive where ubuntu were installed then open terminal from applications->accessories->terminal. Type grub-install -v. This will prompt your installed grub version.
2. mount | tail -1 verify that you mount the correct drive. If it’s ok then following output will be shown /dev/sda2 on /media/0d104aff-ec8c-44c8-b811-92b993823444 type ext4 (rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=devkit)
3. To make sure this is indeed the Ubuntu boot partition, run ls /media/0d104aff-ec8c-44c8-b811-92b993823444/boot
4. In either case, the output should be something like this:
   config-2.6.18-3-686 initrd.img-2.6.18-3-686.bak System.map-2.6.18-3-686
grub lost+found vmlinuz-2.6.18-3-686
initrd.img-2.6.18-3-686 memtest86+.bin
5. Now that everything is mounted, we just need to reinstall GRUB by specifying the correct directory and the correct drive name: sudo grub-install –root-directory=/media/0d104aff-ec8c-44c8-b811-92b993823444 /dev/sda
6. If all went well, you should see something like this:
   Installation finished. No error reported.
This is the contents of the device map /boot/grub/device.map.
Check if this is correct or not. If any of the lines is incorrect,
fix it and re-run the script `grub-install'.(hd0) /dev/sda
7. Reboot, making sure to boot to your hard drive and not to the live CD. Grub should be installed and both Ubuntu and Windows should have been automatically detected and listed in the menu.The Master Boot Record will execute Grub as the initial boot-loader. The Windows boot-loader is contained within the Windows partition and will then be chainloaded by the Grub boot-loader.

Enjoy!

Here is some screenshots (Click images for larger view).

How to install?

To install the latest burg boot loader just follow the steps below.

• Setup software sources from System/Administration/Software Sources (or insert those two lines to /etc/apt/sources.list)
• Now copy this two lines and add them individually as shown in above pictures (if you did it in /etc/apt/sources.list via text editor then skip this step).

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/bean123ch/burg/ubuntu lucid main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/bean123ch/burg/ubuntu lucid main

• Now open terminal and write this command or copy and paste it in terminal

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install burg

• Confirm if it ask anything during installation.

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Macbuntu

If you’re a fan of Mac OS X’s GUI and also if you are using Ubuntu Linux, Then this Macbuntu will install all the necessary apps, icons, and other resources to make your Ubuntu desktop looks like Mac OS X.

Macbuntu  usually  Mac OS X Transformation Pack. Similar to Mac4Lin but dedicated to Ubuntu Linux. It can also be used in other OS based on Debian/GTK.

Features in this Release:

Added:

• Google Chrome/Chromium theme package GTK Leopard Chrome Theme manual installation
• Thunderbird theme package Leopard Mail-Default-Aqua manual installation
• Firefox theme packages Vfox3_Basic and MacOSX Theme manual installation
• Login Screen logo applelogo-black.svg
• Login Screen cursor settings
• Compiz Decoration settings
• Compiz customized animation library Genie Effect
• Top Panel entries
• Docky launchers list
• Terminal settings
• System check
• Home screen Mac OS X folders

Macbuntu

Changed:

• Login Screen font to Lucida Grande Medium 9
• Login Screen theme to Macbuntu
• Macbuntu theme base to GTK Leopard
• Cursor size to 28
• Cursors to Macbuntu based on Mac4Lin_Cursors_v1.0
• Icons to Macbuntu based on Mac4Lin_Icons_v1.0
• Nautilus location bar to buttons as default

How to install:

• Open Terminal window from applications->accessories->terminal or press Alt+F2 and then type gnome-terminal. Press enter.
• Write wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/macbuntu/files/macbuntu-10.04/v2.0/Macbuntu-10.04.tar.gz download or just copy and paste in terminal.
• tar xzvf /tmp/Macbuntu-10.04.tar.gz -C /tmp unzip in temporary folder.
• cd /tmp/Macbuntu-10.04/ go to the temp folder and then the extracted Macbuntu-10.04 folder as well.
• ./install.sh now run this command to install. This will do the rest of the job.

Confirm if it ask for anything and you are done.

After installation if you ever decide to go back to the regular GNOME desktop, you can easily uninstall the theme by retyping the above commands, replacing ./install.sh with ./uninstall.sh instead.

This is the copy of my another post.

Thanks.

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defaultDate: null,
changeMonth: true,
changeYear: true,
yearRange: '2000:2020',
dateFormat: 'dd-mm-yy',
numberOfMonths: 1,
onSelect : function(dateText, inst){
var epoch = $.datepicker.formatDate('@', $(this).datepicker('getDate')) / 1000;
$('#date').val(epoch);
}
});
});

Let’s start.

Step-01. First make directory under /var/www/ folder. Suppose a folder name ‘smronju’. You can do it in command line like
sudo mkdir -p /var/www/smronju

Step-02. As a best practice, many people install the symfony framework files in the lib/vendor directory. Let’s create these directory:
sudo mkdir -p lib/vendor

Step-03. Download the symfony 1.4 project files from here and after that put the archive under the freshly created lib/vendor/ directory, un-archive it, and rename the directory to symfony

cd lib/vendor
tar zxpf symfony-1.4.0.tgz
mv symfony-1.4.0 symfony //You can use any name instead of symfony as you want
rm symfony-1.4.0.tgz

You can check symfony version using this command.
php lib/vendor/symfony/data/bin/symfony -V // note that capital V.

Step-04. Project creation
From the smronju directory run the symfony generate:project task to create project.

php lib/vendor/symfony/data/bin/symfony generate:project myproject //Change myproject to your own project name.

Step-05. Application creation

Now create the frontend application by running the generate:app task
php symfony generate:app frontend

Before trying to access our newly created project, we need to set the write permisstions on cache/ and log/ directories to the appropriate levels, so that our web server can write to them
sudo chmod 0777 cache/ log/

That’s it we are almost done. Finally we will create virtual host for it. Go to the /etc/apache2/sites-available/ folder and make a file named ‘smronju’. Open it using text editor or medit. Paste the following code snippet in it.


<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster@smronju.com
ServerName local.smronju.com
DirectoryIndex index.php
DocumentRoot /var/www/smronju/web
<Directory /var/www/smronju/web>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
allow from all
</Directory>
Alias /sf /var/www/smronju/lib/vendor/symfony/data/web/sf
<Directory "/var/www/smronju/lib/vendor/symfony/data/web/sf">
AllowOverride All
Allow from All
</Directory>
ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/smronju.error.log
LogLevel warn
CustomLog /var/log/apache2/smronju.access.log combined
</VirtualHost>

Make this available to sites-available using this command sudo a2ensite smronju

Finally restart or reload your apache server using sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 reload. Now test symfony by typing local.smronju.com in your browsers address bar. If everything goes well you will see below image.

Any bug please comment and happy coding

Make sure that you have install pear if not installed yet just run this command

sudo apt-get install php-pear

Okay lets get started with Symfony. Below command will setup the channel where you are going to download Symfony using pear PHP module.

sudo pear channel-discover pear.symfony-project.com

sudo pear install symfony/symfony-1.4.6

Almost finished! You have installed symfony on your system for use. Now setup a sample project for personal use. In my case the project name is ‘symfony’. Lets make it. First go to the /var/www directory and make a folder named ‘symfony’. Now initialize a new project named ‘symfony’ and create a new front end (Using command will do it for you).

cd /var/www

mkdir symfony

cd symfony

creating project
symfony generate:project symfony

if you need to connect database run below command
symfony configure:database "mysql:host=localhost;dbname=dbname" username password

frontend creation
symfony generate:app frontend

Next we have to create a symlink this will allow the new project we created to use the Symfony libraries and elements installed earlier. With me you are still in /var/www/symfony

cd web/

ln -s /usr/share/php/data/symfony/web/sf/

That’s it. Now you can visit your site. Enter in browser address bar http://localhost/symfony/web/

If everything is okay then you will get the image below.

Symfony

Root user has all the administrator privileges so whenever you need to edit system files or configuration from within Gnome, you will feel the need to login to Ubuntu as a root user. But the question is here is “How to login to Ubuntu as a root user?”

Just follow the steps below:

1. Open the terminal and type: sudo passwd root
2. When you see the prompt that says “Enter new UNIX password”, enter the password you want for the root user and confirm it.
3. Type: sudo gedit /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf
4. Locate the line that says “AllowRoot=false”. Change it to “AllowRoot=true”.
5. Save the file
6. Exit gedit, logout and then reboot.

I used the same method when I wanted to login as root user to edit configuration files of my graphics card and everything worked great. However the only issue in this case is that by logging to Ubuntu as root you are making your operating system more vulnerable.

For Ubuntu users it is recommended to use the account which they created on time of install and use the “sudo” command while in terminal to execute commands as root user.

Stop the MySQL server with this command in terminal

sudo /etc/init.d/mysql stop

Now restart MySQL, disabling network communication and skipping the authentication procedure.

sudo mysqld –skip-grant-tables –skip-networking &

To Reinitializing the password follow the steps below….

sudo mysql mysql -u root (To get connected to the system database 'mysql' of MySQL)

Type the following command and reset your password

UPDATE user SET password=PASSWORD('newpassword') WHERE user="root";

If you didn’t go through the first step, to validate the changes simply type

FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

If you started MySQL manually(bypassing the authentication process), the server must be restarted:

sudo /etc/init.d/mysql restart

Now you are done. Enjoy

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Just download and use it. I am sure that you won’t be sorry.

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