How Gnome is Awesome!!! - How I installed Ubuntu Gnome 13.10 and configured it for my use

About my laptop

1. Model - Dell Studio 1555 laptop that I bought in India.
2. Processor - Intel Centrino Core 2. 
3. RAM - 4GB
4. Hard disk - 500 GB 
• Of which a 64 GB partition contains just Windows OS installation. ( only 5.7 GB is free)
• 10 GB for GNU/Linux alone. 
• And rest of the partition is NTFS, which I share between GNU/Linux and Windows.
5. Graphics - ATI 4570HD 512MB

The Operating system Installation

I wanted to install the version of  Ubuntu or Fedora that had the new kernel - 3.11 . It has some good power management code for the ATI graphics card. I want to use the open source driver because I had random issues with the proprietary driver in the past and I don't play games in my laptop. It was a bad decision I made when I purchased this laptop some years ago. To this day I regret buying this model that had this proprietary graphics card. I tried Fedora 19 for some time. It was rock solid. It never broke down between updates like Ubuntu used to. But couldn't do most of the simple things that Ubuntu could through a GUI. I have four android devices (2 phones and 2 tablets) at home and I wanted to play movies and music from my laptop when it is ON. I tried the basic share available in Gnome 3.6 in Fedora 19. I was not able to find a client in Android to use it. I couldn't even access it in my other netbook that had Elementary OS in it. So tried using samba. And it also didn't work. I didn't try any commands on the terminal. Because I was spoilt by the GUI provided by Ubuntu which I was used to.

Gnome Shell Vs Unity

It's really amazing to see how open source software development works. It's too natural. Open software is the only place where one can observe socialism and evolution in its true practical sense. It unites people from various cultures and countries and make a big nation where everyone can be proud and be a part of it . I love open source for this very reason. I never felt this, because it's free or it is more powerful than the commercial counterparts(Well it is in some cases). Open source  is like a tree. The trunk will be very strong to support it's branches. As the tree grows some branches may be weak and some will be strong. But this tree will never stop growing.

The first distribution I used was Redhat. And that's when I came to know about Gnome and KDE. After using both for sometime, it was very clear ,Gnome for its simple design was the best DE for GNU/Linux. And ever since I have been

HOW TO reinstall grub

Most of the time I install any OS on my computer, I search google to get a guide to recover grub. I forget how to do it every single time. So I thought I'll put in online.

Note:This works for ubuntu 10.10.

Insert install disc and

Automate downloads in Ubuntu

I live in India. And broadband service in India is mainly provided by BSNL. The connection (BBGFN 500) I have taken gives me 2 GB download/upload cap at normal hours and unlimited download from 2AM to 8AM. But the problem is to wake up at that time. So one should schedule downloads using various tools. And since I use Ubuntu 10.10 ,there is already a tool called crontab to schedule programs. For GUI use just install gnome-schedule from the Ubuntu Software Center.

First the network connection is