<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 TRANSITIONAL//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=UTF-8"> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="GtkHTML/3.10.1"> </HEAD> <BODY> On Thu, 2006-06-15 at 14:34 +0530, Vilas Sukhadeve wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <PRE> I am used to Ubuntu 5.10 for almost an year and I despise using MS programmes. I am not any software man rather I am "computer illiterate".And whenever I faced any problem with operating any programme, all of you have helped me. This is very nice with, I will call our community. (I wanted to make our community bold but in Evolution these icons are not functioning, can anybody tell me how to activate them ?) </PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> Sure. "Normal" plain text email is just text, no formatting whatsoever, so all the functions for bold, font type/size/color and so on just don't apply. However, you can also send email in HTML format. After changing the format to HTML, the buttons for formatting then become active. (When writing the email, go to the 'Format' menu and select HTML) WORD OF WARNING though: A lot of people don't like receiving e-mail in anything but plain text. HTML encourages bloated emails and too much formatting, making things harder to read.. (Ever receive an email with 300 smileys jumping up and down...) Especially for posts to mailing lists, using HTML is usually not appreciated. This may be a losing battle though, I may just be old-fashioned in these things. <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <PRE> Here I would like to know why different commands have to be used in Terminal. e.g. sudo, apt-get, chmod, mkdir, #, I know only these commands so far. What these different commands stand for ? If you feel this is just child like query but still as a responsible parent please tell me just for my information. </PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> Terminal commands are a different way of using/managing your computer. 25 years ago, there basically WERE NO nice graphical environments with things to click.. Everything was text-based, and doing anything required typing commands. Even today, especially in the Unix/Linux world, when you have to do certain advanced things, often the only (or best) way is to use terminal commands. There's LOADS of them. The ones you mention (sudo, apt-get, chmod and mkdir) can also be handled in the graphical environment just fine, so chances are that terminal commands will be used less and less. Still the tendency on this forum is to answer a question 'the terminal command way'. Partly this is because the most knowledgeable people seem to prefer the terminal, partly it's because it's a lot easier/shorter to explain something in email using terminal commands, which are after all also text. Suppose I had to explain how to change file permissions.. Just writing 'chmod 755' is easier then writing the whole story of right-clicking a folder, selecting 'properties', then go to the 'permissions' tab, then check the box for.... etc. However personally I wish people would explain the graphical way whenever possible. I always try to explain things using the graphical user interface whenever possible, even when it's more work to type! (And to read.. :) Cheers, Chanchao </BODY> </HTML>