1. Power up your computer.
2. Press ESC at the grub menu.
3. Press e for edit.
4. Highlight the line that begins “Ubuntu, KERNEL ………” and press e.
5. Go to the end of this line, add rw init=/bin/bash and press enter.
6. Press b to boot your system.
7. Your system will boot up to a passwordless root shell.
8. Type in passwd username where username is the username you lost the password for.
9. Set your password.
10. Type in reboot.

That is it! you can now log in using your new password. You can even reset your root password here but cannot login with it at the login screen.

If you are using a Windows Mobile phone you will get the “The remote party has terminated this connection” message.

UPDATE: The EDGE network is up and running as of sometime around 6:15pm.

Action	Shortcut	Alternate Shortcut
Cut	Ctrl+X	Del+Shift
Copy	Ctrl+C	Insert+Ctrl
Paste	Ctrl+V	Insert+Shift

These are kind of confusing so I’m sticking to the Ctrl+ shortcuts. For those who use different keyboard layouts like Dvorák the X, C and V keys are placed far apart and awkward to use. In such cases the alternate shortcuts maybe easier to use.

2. Click on Add.

3. On the Basic tab, Use the following settings under Login Options:

Protocol: XMPP
Screen name: google id (everything before the @ symbol)
Domain: gmail.com (use googlemail.com if your email ends in @googlemail.com)
Password: your password
Remember Password: check for automatic login

The Resource and Local Alias fields are not required

4. On the Advanced tab,

Force old (port 5223) SSL: Checked
Allow plaintext auth over unencrypted streams: Unchecked
Connect Port: 443
Connect Server: talk.google.com
Proxy type: Use Global Proxy Settings

5. Click the Save button.

Troubleshooting:
If you’ve tried a number of settings prior to this guide and are still unable to connect,

1. Click the Save button and not the Register button after modifying any settings.
2. The Enable checkbox next to your account in the Accounts window needs to be checked.

For the time being, I’d like to leave you with a gem from sayidna Abu Bakr As Siddiq (ra) who said:

Run away from greatness and greatness will follow you.

If you want to keep the fast user switching feature enabled as well as have the option to forcefully “boot off” other users freeing up memory for yourself, Process Explorer from sysinternals is a great program. Its basically a version of the default Task Manager with an over dose of steroids. Its main feature is to show “which program has a particular file or directory open” and give “you information about which handles and DLLs processes have opened or loaded.” The logging off feature is a small feature of this program. Under the “Users” menu you will be given a list of all users that are logged in and under each username will be an option to log them off. I should mention that logging off a user with any applications running WILL cause any unsaved work to be lost. So use with care.

Other areas at first seem to be picked at random but everything seems to fall in place when one notices that most of the mountainous regions of Balochistan are also included in the update. Jacobabad, Sukkur, Rohri, Rahim yar Khan, Okara, Gujranwala are some of the other cities included too.

I have confirmed this but you may have to install the beta version of Google Earth to be able to view these places. I may be wrong. If you are able to view these places with the older version, please let me know.

1. May 28 at 9:18 am (GMT) [12:18 pm local Makkah time], and
2. Jul 15 at 9:27 am (GMT) [12:27 pm local Makkah time].

Similarly, the Sun is BELOW THE KABAH (in Makkah) only two times.

1. Jan 13 at 9:29 pm (GMT) [00:29 am local Makkah time], and
2. Nov 28 at 9:09 pm (GMT) [00:09 am local Makkah time].

The direction toward the Kabah can be easily determined by finding the direction towards (or away from) the Sun at the instants when the Sun is ABOVE (or BELOW) the KABAH.

The Qibla direction would be TOWARDS THE SUN, at the instant WHEN THE SUN IS ABOVE THE KABAH. The Qibla direction would be AWAY FROM THE SUN, (in the direction of the SHADOW of a vertical rod) at the instant WHEN THE SUN IS BELOW THE KABAH.

The only obvious requirement is that the Sun should be visible at that instant. Nearly half of the world would be able to see the Sun at these times. The other countries would not be able to see the Sun, because the Sun would be below their local horizon, at those times.

For more details you can visit Dr. Mohib N. Durrani’s website who details his findings of over 8 years on this matter. Dr. Durrani is the National Coordinator (Since 1987), for Astronomical Information for the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), Islamic Shura Council of North America, Shariah Scholars Association of North America (SSANA). The algorithms used in most of the qibla direction programs found on the net including the one used in Qiblalocator.com use Dr Durrani’s mathematical formula.

After spending a little bit of time I came up with a list of things one has to do or the topics one can write about to make it to the front page. This is by no means a sure shot way but it does seem to have worked from what the numbers show.

1. Add “AMAZING” to the title (more than 20 pages in the past 60 days)
2. Apple related(25 in the past 2 days)
3. Google related(10 in past 2 days)
4. Gaming Consoles (PS3, Wii and Xbox 360 combined) related (28 in past 2 days)
5. AJAX (5 in past 2 days)
6. Firefox (3 in past 2 days)
7. A “howto” for just about anything (23 in the last month)
8. CSS related

Try it out for yourself. See how far you get. But don’t submit any junk articles. I’m sure you’ll get much more than the usual 8 – 12 Diggs I’ve previously gotten.
Digg if you agree.