Writing Resumes

Here's a cool link specifically for programmers on how to write resumes...
Its a long post but be sure you'll be entertained all along the post...The poster's sense of humour is simply amazing! Have a look yourself... :-)

Ten Tips for a Less Awful Resume

Cheers!

Easy auto mounting NTFS partitions in ubuntu

If you have a dual boot system with Linux and Windows, in all probability you would want your NTFS drives to appear in Linux as well.
You can always edit your /etc/fstab to auto-mount your NTFS drives in Linux..
If you go through the file, you will notice that is is fairly simple to understand the structure and do what this post will describe further (you will need ntfs-3g installed before you can do this too).
It is as simple as adding this line :

/dev/sdax /media/disk1 ntfs-3g defaults,locale=[your locale] 0 0

Here,
/dev/sdax - is the partition to be mounted
/media/disk1 - is the mount point. You can access the files in the partition through this directory
'ntfs-3g' - describes the filesystem
defaults - Uses the default options that are rw, suid, dev, exec, auto, nouser, and async. ( A google serach for the other options might help :) )
locale - the default locale of your system. Can be found by executing 'locale' at the terminal.
The last two numbers stand for 'dump' and 'fsck'.
A 0 in the 'dump' column means the partition will not be backed up.
0 in the 'fsck' column tells the fsck to ignore checking the filesystem, else the number in this column would indicate the order in which the filesystems are checked.

You can do this for each of your NTFS partitions...
However, there is always a possibility of non-geeks ( euphemism :P ... no offence :) ) messing up their fstab...

There is however a clever tool available which will mount your NTFS drives for you at startup, without you having to manually mount them ( a double-click isn't that hard, but then again, you wouldn't even need to do that :) )

In ubuntu,
go to Application | Add/Remove...
Search for 'ntfs configuration tool'
and install it...
unmount any ntfs drives that you may have mounted at this point...
Then, go to Applications | Sytems Tools | NTFS Configuration Tools

At this point you should be presented with a screen asking you to assign mountpoints... just key in the name of the directory where you want the drive mounted. The directory need not exist, it will be created later in the /media directory
Then, after you are done here, make sure you have both the options ticked on the next screen and you are done!

Keeping this post small as there is really nothing much to write...
Will try to make a better one tomorrow...till then...
Cheers! :)

Grub Error 17: Cannot mount selected partition ! --> The Solution!

I recently had the misfortune of having to re-install Windows XP on my dual-boot PC. After the Windows installation I repaired GRUB and tried booting into my Ubuntu Installation but had this error pop on to the screen :

Error 17: Cannot mount selected partition
Press any key to continue ...

This happens because sometimes Windows can do funny things with your computer without you knowing!!

Here's a way to make everything normal -

First, at the GRUB screen, press 'c' to get into the GRUB CLI.
At the CLI, type

find /vmlinuz

You will get an output similar to

(hdx,y)

Note x and y

Next, insert your LiveCD and boot from the CD

Open a terminal, mount your "root" ( / ) of your Linux installation somewhere
and open the file :

/boot/grub/menu.lst

with admin privileges (" sudo" if you are working with Ubuntu )

Go to the section where u see something similar to :

## ## End Default Options ##

title Ubuntu 8.04.1, kernel 2.6.24-21-generic
root (hdx1,y1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-21-generic root=UUID=ef9d3ff9-0f14-4eab-879b-11c517ab26c1 ro splash quiet
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-21-generic
quiet

Replace the x1,y1 with the x,y pair we just found above, save the file and you are done! :)

(Note : "title" can be different and depends on your distro. That is not the important part, the "root" part is! :) )

Now you can reboot your system and happily boot into your Linux installation :)