iTune installation failure on Vista

Today, I received my iTouch, and as I tried installing iTune from Apple, I could not believe when the installation failed. I tried again, and it failed again. It kept on happening for some more tries (between the multiple reboots I did). But it did not installed on my Lenovo having Vista Home Premium. As I double click on 70 MB+ files I downloaded freom Apple's website, a DOS window disappears as soon as it appears. I am at my wits ends!!! I have been able to install softwares of my choice on this laptop, and never before, had a problem. I think there are many many Vista users who are having the trouble with new version of iTune. Help me if you know the problem and the solution. Meanwhile, I am downloading the previous version of iTune for installation.

[Update] - Installation of iTune 7.7 was successful; however, when I connected my iTouch, it refused to work with it, saying v8 or later is required! I then updated iTune from its Help menu option. The update was of 85 MB, and it went well. I connected my iTouch, and it immediately recognized it. No problems faced this time!

How Google Is Showing Off Chrome

The Google home page has been ransacked. The familiar, colorful logo is upside down. The search box and the "I'm Feeling Lucky" tab have been uprooted and now point up at a rakish angle, jutting into white space. Other links have tumbled from the top navigation bar and lie in a heap on the side of the browser. What on earth is going on? Have the hackers taken over?



The screwy design is part of a new series, Chrome Experiments, that Google is launching on Mar. 18 to demonstrate the potential of Chrome.
The jumbled home page is actually a program called Google Gravity. British interactive design firm Hi-Res! recreated the search giant's regular home page, giving users the ability to wreck the joint. With the mouse, a user can spin the traditional elements into space. They soar, they careen, they bounce, until they settle higgledy-piggledy at the bottom of the browser window.

Links: Business Week Chrome Gravity Experiment Chrome Gravity Experiment

[Vista] Change or Modify the Drive Letter and Paths

In Windows Vista, if for whatever reason the drive letter or paths assignment to a disk-drive, CD/DVD drive, USB flash memory disk drive, or external hard disk drive needed to be changed or modified, users can use Disk Management console to manage the volumes and drives on the computer, including changing the drive letter and paths.

To change the drive letter or paths in Windows Vista, just follow these simple steps:

1. 1. Right click on Computer and select Manage to open and access Computer Management Console.
2. Navigate to and expand the Storage section, and click on Disk Management to access Disk Management Console.
3. Disk Management Console display the details of all available volumes and disk drives in the computer configuration in the right pane.
4. Right click on the volume or disk drive that you want to change the drive letter, and select 'Change Drive Letter and Paths'.
5. Then click on 'Change' button.
6. Use the drop down list to select the new and your desired drive letter to assign to the disk volume.
7. Click OK.
8. Click Yes to confirm.
   

Any letter between C and Z can be assigned to a hard disk drive, CD drive, DVD drive, portable external hard disk drive, or USB flash memory key drive, while floppy disk drives use up letters A and B. Beside, the drive letter for the system volume or boot partition cannot be modified or changed. And if you install some applications or programs in the drive that you have just changed the drive letter, they may not functioning properly after the change due to the possibilities that the programs will also refer to the specific drive letter or original path used when installation as environmental variables.

[Humor] Customer Care in 2020

Operator : ‘Thank you for calling Pizza Hut . May I have your….’

Customer: ‘Helloo, can I order..’

Operator : ‘Can I have your multi purpose card number first, Sir?’

Customer: ‘It’s eh…, hold….......on…...889861356102049998-45-54610’

Operator : ‘OK… you’re…... Mr Singh and you’re calling from 17 Jalan Kayu. Your home number is 4094! 2366, your office 76452302 and your mobile is 0142662566. Which number are you calling from now Sir?’

Customer: ‘Home! How did you get all my phone numbers?

Operator : ‘We are connected to the system Sir’

Customer: ‘May I order your Seafood Pizza…’

Operator : ‘That’s not a good idea Sir’

Customer: ‘How come?’

Operator : ‘According to your medical records, you have high blood pressure and even higher cholesterol level Sir’

Customer: ‘What?...... What do you recommend then?’

Operator : ‘Try our Low Fat Hokkien Mee Pizza. You’ll like it’

Customer: ‘How do you know for sure?’

Operator : ‘You borrowed a book entitled ‘Popular Hokkien Dishes’ from the National Library last week Sir’

Customer: ‘OK I give up… Give me three family size ones then, how much will that cost?’

Operator : ‘That should be enough for your family of 10, Sir. The total is $49.99’

Customer: ‘Can I pay by! credit card?’

Operator : ‘I’m afraid you have to pay us cash, Sir. Your credit card is over the limit and you owe your bank $3,720.55 since October last year. That’s not including the late payment charges on your housing loan, Sir.’

Customer: ‘I guess I have to run to the neighbourhood ATM and withdraw some cash before your guy arrives’

Operator : ‘You can’t Sir. Based on the records, you’ve reached your daily limit on machine withdrawal today’

Customer: ‘Never mind just send the pizzas, I’ll have the cash ready. How long is it gonna take anyway?’

Operator : ‘About 45 minutes Sir, but if you can’t wait you can always come and collect it on your motorcycle…’

Customer: ‘ What!’

Operator : ‘According to the details in system ,you own a Scooter,...registration number 1123…’

Customer: ‘ ????’

Operator : ‘Is there anything else Sir?’

Customer: ‘Nothing… by the way… aren’t you giving me that 3 free bottles of cola as advertised?’

Operator : ‘We normally would Sir, but based on your records you’re also diabetic….... ‘

Customer: #$$^%&$@$%^

Operator : ‘Better watch your language Sir. Remember on 15th July 1987 you were convicted of using abusive language on a policeman…?’

Customer: [Faints]

[Received in an email]

How to get CPU utilization for Unix OS?

You may use top and ps commands.

Display the process utilizing the most cpu and quits to sh: top -b -n -1

Display CPU Utilization: sar -u

And use ps to display processes with the highest CPU utilization: ps -eo pid,pcpu,args | sort +1n

Read man pages of each of the above commands to get more details and supported options.

Copy/Paste the block of text in vi/vim

• Mark the location of the first character of the block of text you want to copy by pressing mx
This marks the begining of the text to be copied into a buffer 'x'.
• Move the cursor over the last character of the block of text you want to copy and press (shift)+x
By pressing shift you are moving all the characters from mark to the current position into a buffer.
• To copy (or, in vi terminology, to yank the buffered text) press y'x
This will yank everything from the buffer x. ('tick' character ' is command in vi to read from the named buffer)
• Now move the cursor above the location where you want to paste the yanked text and press p
p (for paste) will insert the copied (yanked) text at the line below the cursor.

[vi/vim] Save on Exit

I see a lot of people using 'wq' a lot but never a form 'x'.
In vi and vim, if you want to save and exit with a simple key stroke simply use:
:x