How to change the default OS Entry on Ubuntu 9.10 - Karmic Koala

Grub2, the new boot menu installed by default with Ubuntu 9.10

Ubuntu 9.10 ships with the new GRUB (Grand Unified Boot Loader 1.97 beta) in plain words its the software that boots the operating system you choose when you boot the computer. In earlier versions of Ubuntu / Grub to change the menu on the grub screen, one had to edit the /boot/grub/menu.lst file. In the new system this a little different from just editing the one file. 

  1. First be root sudo su
  2. Edit the file /etc/default/grub
  3. Change the GRUB_DEFAULT value to number your default operating system
    1. in My case
    2. 0. Linux kernel ******
    3. 1. Linux Recovery ****
    4. 2. Memory Test bla bla...
    5. 3. Memory Test bla bla bla...
    6. 4. Windows 7 Loader....
  4. I have set GRUB_DEFAULT = 4 for Windows 7
  5. Change GRUB_TIMEOUT to change the default timeout if you want to. 
  6. Run update-grub
-- output -- like
Generating grub.cfg ...
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-14-generic
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.31-14-generic
Found memtest86+ image: /boot/memtest86+.bin
Found Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition on /dev/sda1
done
You can verify your default boot entry changed or not by viewing the following file 
sudo cat /boot/grub/grub.cfg


It showed set default="4" to me for my case .
Enjoy !!!

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Google Wants to Speed Up the Web With New Protocol

Google has just announced that it is working on a new protocol that will minimize latency and speed up the Web experience for users. SPDY (pronounced "speedy") is not meant to replace HTTP, the protocol that allows Web servers and browsers to talk to each other today, but it does augment HTTP. The new protocol incorporates features like multiplexed streams, request prioritization and HTTP header compression.

Google has already developed a prototype Web server and a version of Google Chrome with built-in SPDY support.

Google claims that pages loaded 64% faster in lab tests in which the research team downloaded the top 25 websites. Now that the SPDY team has developed workable prototypes, Google decided to open up the process and is soliciting the "active participation, feedback and assistance of the web community."
spdy_chart_1.pngIn today's announcement, Google stresses that SPDY is not a replacement for HTTP. It uses HTTP methods and headers, but it overrides the parts of the protocol that manage connections and data transfer formats.
Google will soon release its open-source SPDY-enabled Web server. The source code for the SPDY-enabled version of Chrome can be found here.

Creating a Faster and More Secure Web

According to the SPDY white paper, the project's goals are to reduce page load times by 50%, minimize deployment complexity and avoid the need for website owners to make any changes to their sites to implement SPDY. Instead, all the hard work will happen in the client and the Web server.
The team also wants SPDY to allow many concurrent HTTP requests to run across one TCP session and to make SSL the standard transport protocol.
Google clearly has an interest in making the Web experience as fast and secure as possible for its users. One of the reasons Google released its own browser was to get every other browser developer to focus on speed again. SPDY is even more ambitious. With SPDY, Google wants to change one of the most fundamental protocols on the Internet.
According to Google, these are the basic improvement of SPDY over HTTP:
  • Multiplexed requests. There is no limit to the number of requests that can be issued concurrently over a single SPDY connection.  Because requests are interleaved on a single channel, the efficiency of TCP is much higher.
  • Prioritized requests. Clients can request certain resources to be delivered first.  This avoids the problem of congesting the network channel with non-critical resources when a high-priority request is pending.
  • Compressed headers.  Clients today send a significant amount of redundant data in the form of HTTP headers.  Because a single Web page may require 50 or 100 subrequests, this data is significant. Compressing the headers saves a significant amount of latency and bandwidth compared to HTTP.

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How to restore windows vista on lenovo Y410 laptop

Due to virus unable to logon on to system,
Needs to restore your windows vista to the manufacturing settings.

If you have not deleted the Recovery Partition then Turn of your computer and start your computer by "novo" key instead of power button.

which initiates OneKey recovery, and follow the on-screen dialogue. If your data is not important then you can delete all the partitions other then Recovery Partition, then follow the OneKey recovery process....

It doesn't matter how many partitions do you have or you have changed the partitions, as soon as you have not touched your recovery partition everything will work fine - with your OneKey recovery process.

Lenovo takes $45 - $50 OR1250 INR, India - for the recovery, if you don't have recovery partition.

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ubuntu 9.10

Ubuntu 9.10 is here......




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Labels which doesn't contain unread Items will be hidden and shown under More tag,.... ;-)
visit Official Gmail Blog for more details.....
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Skype 2.1 for Linux has been released...

Finally skype announced a new beta version for Linux, with extra features and better sound and video quality. This release comes with High Quality Video and super wideband audio that have been exciting features of our Windows and Mac versions; so now the special people in your world will feel much closer and clearer on your Skype calls.
  • Skype's SILK codec for outstanding sound quality
  • High Quality Video
  • PulseAudio
  • Send SMS messages
  • Organise your contacts with contact groups
  • Improvements to chat (typing indicator, new emoticons and message editing)
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