There's an antivirus called ubuntu

I stumbled upon this thread in ubuntuforums.org today: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1412150

The question been asked is:

"A frient of mine heard of a program that will make you never get viruses again.
Its called Ubuntu. I go to the site and download the program, but it wont install.
How do I install it. I got like a lot of viruses and dont like that it makes my computer slow and sends stuff to friends.
I just want to chat with my friends and internet without getting viruses.
This is the good site to ask about this, right.
Srry for my bad english."

The people in the forums have answered him, welcoming him to the linux world, telling him that Ubuntu is an operating system - not an antivirus, etc. And at one point the problem poser says:

"Wubi. I download it and click install. Its busy now.
Thank you for the help.
I don't know what a operating system is. I hope just the viruses are gone.
I think this is what my friend got."

He is just another typical example of a normal computer user who doesn't want to know the inside out of a computer, but just use it for his day to day tasks.

"It isn't windows. I didnt know that. Just dont want viruses anymore.
I can chat and use internet with ubuntu. Youtube, facebook, msn. Yes."

Ubuntu will be the best choice for him. It's very good that he chose ubuntu forums. Just to know that you have a whole community to help you when in trouble, that's lovely!

We meet lots of people having similar problems - who don't know what an operating system is, who just want to know how to get their surfing and wordprocessing done hazzle-free. All we people need to do is to carefully guide them in their transition to Ubuntu, without burdening them with technical stuff. Just make their life in ubuntu wonderful and exciting!

There's an antivirus called ubuntu

Installing TrueType fonts in Ubuntu

Switched to linux and feeling the lack of fonts? Not to worry. Installing ttf fonts is fast and easy. Here's how to do it in Ubuntu. Hope it doesn't vary much for other distros.
The first step, of course, is to download some ttf fonts to be installed. Or perhaps, you can copy them from your Windows drive, given you have one remaining. One of my favourite places for fonts is the Fonts section in http://www.gnome-look.org.
Once the fonts are downloaded, copy them to somewhere like Desktop. In case of zipped fonts, you have to unzip them to get .ttf versions.
Now open up a terminal and dive to the fonts directory.

cd /usr/share/fonts/truetype

Now that you may perhaps install dozens of fonts in the future, it's a good idea to keep them separated from the pre-installed ones. So let's keep the new arrivals in a new directory.

sudo mkdir myfonts    cd myfonts

Note that you will be required to give the password in creating the new directory, if you're not logged in as the root.
The next step is to move our new fonts to their new home.

sudo mv /home/<username>/Desktop/*.ttf .

Replace <username> with your username. Also take note of the dot (.) at the end of the statement, indicating that the files have to be moved to the current directory.
Now we have to notify ubuntu about the new arrivals like this:

fc-cache -f -v ~/.font

Done! Now go to your favourite word processing application (AbiWord in my case) and enjoy the newly installed fonts to your heart's content!

Installing TrueType fonts in Ubuntu

Most people do it. When their products are not meeting the expected sales, they change the name of the product. Why shouldn't I?
This blog was so far named Techno Blog, and it was very recently I found out that it was one of the worst names a blog can have. Don't mean that Thameera's Column is the best of the names, but it's better. What do you think about the new look and feel?

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Now spending most of my time in Ubuntu Linux 9.04, I found out several interesting tricks to speed up the things in Linux. And the best of them is that to copy paste some text from one place to another, you don't need to select it right click and select copy, and all the boring stuff. All you have to do is select the text and middle-click in the place where you want it to paste. Isn't that a simple plan?