Dual Boot : XP after Ubuntu

aboSamoor | November 29, 2007 | 11:41 pm

I faced the problem to install XP over Ubuntu, and as you know our usual source of problems is M$, their NTLOADER overwrites the Master Boot Sector MBR without any detection for other Operating systems, so the grub loader will disappear :(

If you download Linux after windows the grub loader will detect the existence of windows :) , but not the other way, to fix the problem after installing Windows, you have to :
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Error: The installer was unable to check for a valid password file. Your Mathematica installation may be incomplete or corrupted

Mustafa | November 25, 2007 | 3:15 pm

Many people face this error when they try to install Mathematics on Linux :

Error: The installer was unable to check for a valid password file. Your
Mathematica installation may be incomplete or corrupted.

it is because some libraries are missing , just download these :

sudo apt-get install build-essential

sudo apt-get install libstdc++5

Mustafa Mustafa

ENJOY!

How to resize a bunch of photos ( images ) together ?

Mustafa | November 13, 2007 | 5:49 pm

first of all download this nice program ,
sudo apt-get install imagemagick

make a new file
gedit newfilename

and past this code in it :

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