Month: June 2015 (Page 3 of 5)

Get Windows 10!

Hey there you guys. How are you keeping? I hope you are doing good!
I have an update to report!
And it’s regarding Windows 10!
I will be posting a special coverage about Windows 10 until the release date. Then some  hands on reviews..

I know it’s super late. And I admit that I only open Windows to defrag every Wednesday and to backup my Android phone 😛
And due to very slowInternet I couldn’t update my system for about a month or so. I managed to update it recently. And that’s where I came across this beauty! (This icon is legit! Not a virus or whatever!).

My heart was racing! I know I had nothing nice to say about Windows 10. But getting it for free was worth the excitement I had! After all Windows hold nearly 90% of the personal computer market share and Windows 10 is supposed to be that 90% !!
When I clicked the white icon this is what popped up!

 

How this free upgrade works

From here I was supposed to “Reserve” my license for the time to install. Meaning that 3 Gigabytes will be downloaded from the Internet to my device for the upgrade to complete. ( Will be breaking this pop-up in detail in following posts!)
I felt like a bucket of cold water was poured on me! With such poor Internet and often power cuts, how am I supposed to download the update? It took me 2 days to download the 8.1 upgrade!!
That’s for me to figure out and for you to find out later. As the update is supposed to install on the release date of Windows 10.
Did you get this icon / pop-up? If you did let me know in the comments section below.
And if you didn’t, don’t be frustrated! Just wait for my next post 😉
Have a nice day!!

A fix to many of ubuntu’s boot problems!

Ubuntu's Logo

Hey there you guys, How are you keeping?

I hope you are doing good!
I’ve been quite busy these days! Many things happening and I am struggling to keep up. One of these things is my brother’s laptop!
My brother is a new Ubuntu user. He spent all his life using Windows then he decided to take the jump. I advised him to take his time and study it thoroughly. Because using a new operating system takes time to get used to. He did what I told him and he was more than happy to have Ubuntu, but that’s when problems started to happen!!

At first. It was the “Press S to escape problem”. The option I didn’t do anything and the usually bullet fast Ubuntu boot took 10 minutes! And none of the fixes I came across on Askubuntu fixed it. There I had to do the unforgivable!

I formatted the drive and reinstalled Ubuntu! I thought that would fix the problem. Sadly I was mistaken!
Press S to skip mounting or M for manual recovery!

A new problem emerged! This time it was the dreadful ”error reading sector 0xx Problem in HD 0” . I ignored it and tried a workaround! (That’s after checking the drive using Gparted) I was faced back with the “Press S to escape problem” again!!
At this point, I was losing it totally!!
I tried some fixes and the problem went away! Soon after he came to me and said he couldn’t install anything!
For the third time in two weeks I took the computer to repair it. And after a day and a night I was hopeless!
The system isn’t responding to any repair attempt. And it’s driving me insane.
After some lucky Googling it turns out that the problem was in the HDD itself! A quick test using Partedmagic boot disk confirmed my doubts! We had to throw out the old HDD and get a new one.
Now I’m hoping that this would finally solve his problem! So I can find some time to do other things, say post to this blog maybe 😉
Anyway while I worked on it I learned many things and tricks that will help me with Ubuntu even more. And it made me consider re-writing a post I made some time back. Can you guess what it was?
Ubuntu is a great system, and all these problems didn’t make me lose faith in it. I felt like sharing what was I up to so you guys know!

And if you get any of the error code mentioned above. Take a look at the HDD. It could save you tons of time!!

 

What did you think of this post?  Did you ever have these problems?
Let me know what you have in mind in the comments section below!

Happy Ramadan to all!

Happy Ramadan to all
Hey there dear fans. How are you keeping?
I want to wish you all (wherever you are) a very happy and blessed Ramadan. And that it brings us peace.


I haven’t been able to post as often due to power cuts and the Internet is affected with it.
I’ll try to keep updating the blog as often as possible.

28.000 views and going strong!

Hey there you guys 😀
I have reached a nice milestone. Not as fast as last week. But it’s better than most weeks :p


I have many posts labeled under work in progress. I might go a tad slow as it’s Ramadan in a few days (Happy Ramadan to you =3 ).
So that’s that.. Stay tuned for more posts really soon!
Stay safe!

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