Facebook applications saying "Who viewed your profile?" are fake

It has been few days, I am seeing many of my friends applications, that are claiming to show who has viewed your profiles along with the statistics how many times they have visited it. Also few facebook apps says that, there are total this much of views out which this much is visited by male and female. All such applications are fake and they have been spamming.

According to the official FAQ of facebook.com, it clearly states that facebook does allow any such information to any application. If any application claims it, will be banned if report it to facebook.




Please find, Official URL of Facebook FAQ page http://www.facebook.com/help/faq/

Microsoft Office Background Image Tiled While Printing Problem [SOLVED]

I had never thought that it would take my complete day to put a background image in word. Initially, I have used background image, everything looked well and fine. I got into trouble when I printed it to PDF, using PDF printer. I saw background image is tiled.

I goggled it, saw many people having same problem. I have gone through many posts, but had no luck to solve this.

Finally, I found work around for it. Here it goes.

1. Insert > Header > Edit Header, cursor will appear in your header section.
2. In Tool Bar, you will see "Picture" icon, click on it and select the background you wanted to put.
3. Then go to "Text Wrap", choose "Behind the text".
4. Now adjust the background image, according to your need.

Done

Now you can print it, it will be same as what you see.

Cheers!!!

Issue #3 of The init magazine published

This issue of magazine has covered lots of national & international FOSS related events and news. Tips & Tricks, Q&A sections are really helpful and has something to teach. Besides these there articles related to hardware and softwares too.
For more details download and read it

You can download it from the links mentioned below
Direct Link: http://ioefoss.ioelive.com/theinitmagazine/theinitmag03.pdf
Mirror: http://www.meronepalma.com/initmag

Please do send your articles and suggestions at
ioefossnewsletter@gmail.com

We have Q&A section in the magazine so for any problem you are facing, you can send to us in the email above.
Please forward the link of the magazine to your friends.

Freedom has been moved to Advanced

I am talking about the new chapter of FOSS-Nepal has been established in the Advanced College of Engineering And Management.
Yesterday (December 2, 2008) I, Jitendra & Kailash has given presentation on FOSS introduction in the college. There were Department Head of Electronics and Computer department, teachers and more than 80 students from first to fourth year present in the presentation. The presentation was all about FOSS introduction,why we need it?, what are the available FOSS? and all. Teachers and students were enthusiastic to know about FOSS. They put on lots of questions about it.
Finally we had a talk with Head of Department of Electronics and Computer Department. He was very positive towards our motive. We were pleased to know that their server was in Linux and some labs do have Linux in their computers.
He promised us to install Linux in most of their computers.

FOSS Nepal SFD 2008 - competition winners!!!

FOSS Nepal has won the best SFD 2008 award. Its the second time in row, we are awarded best SFD.Its all hard work and efforts of the volunteers that make it possible. I would like to appreciate Bibek Paudel for his impressive report.

SFD (Software Freedom Day) is world wide celebration of Free and Open Source Software that is celebrated every year on third Saturday of the September. It was celebrated on the 20th September this year. Over 500 teams in almost 90 countries has celebrated SFD this year.

The theme “Create, Share, Collaborate” was chosen for this year's SFD.
If you have missed it, you can have a glance of it here.

Installing Grub From Linux Live CD

Actually one of the frequently asked questions to me is grub problem. It is the solution to Linux users who get grub error or whose Linux boot option disappears.

Cause

• When you install Windows after installing Linux. Because grub installed at MBR is overwritten by the Windows MBR ( without considering the other OS)
• Some time grub file get corrupted
• You add the new hard disk then mounting point might change

Solution

1. Boot From Linux Live CD (Ubuntu or some other distro)
2. Go to Applications -> Accessories -> Terminal
3. Type sudo grub you will prompted to grub prompt
4. Type "find /boot/grub/stage1" at grub prompt it will return hd?,? where '?' = 0 - 9
5. Now type root (hd?,?)
6. Then type setup (hd?)
7. Finally quit and then reboot

The init Magazine Issue #2 released

Second issue of The init magazine has been released on 15th of Nov. Issues of the magazine is released on 15th of every month according to English calendar.
It is published by the IOE FOSS Community.


You can grab your copy from
Link: http://ioefoss.ioelive.com/theinitmagazine/theinitmag02.pdf
Mirror: http://www.meronepalma.com/initmag/

You can download the older versions too from
Link: http://ioefoss.ioelive.com/theinitmagazine

Please send your articles/suggestion at ioefossnewsletter@gmail.com