Q. http://www.usatoday.com/money/economy/employment/2009-03-08-immigrant-jobs_N.htm#
Illegal immigrants might get stimulus jobs, experts say
By William M. Welch, USA TODAY
LOS ANGELES â Tens of thousands of jobs created by the economic stimulus law could end up filled by illegal immigrants, particularly in big states such as California where undocumented workers are heavily represented in construction, experts on both sides of the issue say.
Studies by two conservative think tanks estimate immigrants in the United States illegally could take 300,000 construction jobs, or 15% of the 2 million jobs that new taxpayer-financed projects are predicted to create.
They fault Congress for failing to require that employers certify legal immigration status of workers before hiring by using a Department of Homeland Security program called E-Verify. The program allows employers to check the validity of Social Security numbers provided by new hires. It is available to employers on a voluntary basis.
JOBS FORECAST: Where the jobs are, state by state
STOCKS RECOVERY: Could take years
"They could have deterred this, but they chose not to," said Steven Camarota, director of research for the Center for Immigration Studies.
He said a federal requirement that employers use E-Verify would have reduced, if not eliminated, the hiring of immigrants in this country illegally.
An advocacy group for immigrants, illegal and legal, did not disagree with the 300,000 estimate. Camarota says the estimate is based on data from the U.S. Census Bureau's Current Population Survey and other independent findings that 15% of all construction workers in the USA are either illegal immigrants or lack the status of legal immigrant authorized to work.
But Jorge-Mario Cabrera, director of education for the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles, said it is impossible to predict with certainty because it is unknown how many jobless immigrant construction workers may leave the U.S., frustrated by the economic recession, before the new spending produces jobs.
He questioned the Center for Immigration Studies' motives.
"Those are fear tactics. ⦠'The immigrants are here to take your job,' " Cabrera said. "I think that we really should be focusing on economic progress for all."
The center is a Washington policy organization that, its website says, "seeks fewer immigrants but a warmer welcome for those admitted." Cabrera says his group believes unauthorized immigrants working in this country contribute to the economy.
A similar hiring estimate was produced in a report in February by the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank. Senior research fellow Robert Rector wrote, "Without specific mechanisms to ensure that workers are U.S. citizens or legal immigrants authorized to work, it is likely that 15% of these workers, or 300,000, would be illegal immigrants."
The version of the stimulus bill passed by the House of Representatives included a provision requiring employers to check immigration status with the E-Verify system before hiring. The Senate did not include such a provision, and it was not in the version sent to President Obama. The Obama administration has delayed until at least May 21 a Bush administration executive order requiring federal contractors to use the E-Verify system in hiring. It had been scheduled to take effect in January. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce filed suit seeking to block the requirement, joined by the Associated Builders and Contractors and other business organizations.
The business groups and immigrant advocacy groups argue that the E-Verify database is riddled with errors that could result in millions of workers being wrongly identified as not authorized for work. They say requiring its use before hiring would impose a cost burden on employers and open them to lawsuits.
Camarota said illegal immigrants working in construction are concentrated in California, Arizona and Texas along the border with Mexico, as well as Florida, Illinois, New York, New Jersey, North Carolina and Georgia.
Illegal immigrants might get stimulus jobs, experts say
By William M. Welch, USA TODAY
LOS ANGELES â Tens of thousands of jobs created by the economic stimulus law could end up filled by illegal immigrants, particularly in big states such as California where undocumented workers are heavily represented in construction, experts on both sides of the issue say.
Studies by two conservative think tanks estimate immigrants in the United States illegally could take 300,000 construction jobs, or 15% of the 2 million jobs that new taxpayer-financed projects are predicted to create.
They fault Congress for failing to require that employers certify legal immigration status of workers before hiring by using a Department of Homeland Security program called E-Verify. The program allows employers to check the validity of Social Security numbers provided by new hires. It is available to employers on a voluntary basis.
JOBS FORECAST: Where the jobs are, state by state
STOCKS RECOVERY: Could take years
"They could have deterred this, but they chose not to," said Steven Camarota, director of research for the Center for Immigration Studies.
He said a federal requirement that employers use E-Verify would have reduced, if not eliminated, the hiring of immigrants in this country illegally.
An advocacy group for immigrants, illegal and legal, did not disagree with the 300,000 estimate. Camarota says the estimate is based on data from the U.S. Census Bureau's Current Population Survey and other independent findings that 15% of all construction workers in the USA are either illegal immigrants or lack the status of legal immigrant authorized to work.
But Jorge-Mario Cabrera, director of education for the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles, said it is impossible to predict with certainty because it is unknown how many jobless immigrant construction workers may leave the U.S., frustrated by the economic recession, before the new spending produces jobs.
He questioned the Center for Immigration Studies' motives.
"Those are fear tactics. ⦠'The immigrants are here to take your job,' " Cabrera said. "I think that we really should be focusing on economic progress for all."
The center is a Washington policy organization that, its website says, "seeks fewer immigrants but a warmer welcome for those admitted." Cabrera says his group believes unauthorized immigrants working in this country contribute to the economy.
A similar hiring estimate was produced in a report in February by the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank. Senior research fellow Robert Rector wrote, "Without specific mechanisms to ensure that workers are U.S. citizens or legal immigrants authorized to work, it is likely that 15% of these workers, or 300,000, would be illegal immigrants."
The version of the stimulus bill passed by the House of Representatives included a provision requiring employers to check immigration status with the E-Verify system before hiring. The Senate did not include such a provision, and it was not in the version sent to President Obama. The Obama administration has delayed until at least May 21 a Bush administration executive order requiring federal contractors to use the E-Verify system in hiring. It had been scheduled to take effect in January. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce filed suit seeking to block the requirement, joined by the Associated Builders and Contractors and other business organizations.
The business groups and immigrant advocacy groups argue that the E-Verify database is riddled with errors that could result in millions of workers being wrongly identified as not authorized for work. They say requiring its use before hiring would impose a cost burden on employers and open them to lawsuits.
Camarota said illegal immigrants working in construction are concentrated in California, Arizona and Texas along the border with Mexico, as well as Florida, Illinois, New York, New Jersey, North Carolina and Georgia.
A. This is why I am fighting with our commissioners to make it mandatory for e-verify for all contract workers. No illegal should be given any job. Them and their families should be given deportation and heavy punishments. Americans see any illegals working, we need to report more to ICE and start with your county commissioners on this subject and then work your way up. Only way to rid us of these lawbreakers.
Is this the end of the road for America ?
Q. By Ambrose Evans-Pilchard, International Business Editor
Published: 8:52PM BST 15 Jul 2010 for UK-Telegraph
C/P
The euro rocketed to a two-month high of $1.29 and sterling jumped two cents to almost $1.54 after the Fed confessed that the US economy may not recover for five or six years. Far from winding down emergency stimulus, the bank may need a fresh blast of bond purchases or quantitative easing.
Usually the dollar serves as a safe haven whenever the world takes fright, and there was plenty of sobering news from China and other quarters on Thursday. Not this time. The US itself has become the problem.
"The worm is turning," said David Bloom, currency chief at HSBC. "We're in a world of rotating sovereign crises. The market seems to become obsessed with one idea at a time, then violently swings towards another. People thought the euro would break-up. Now we're moving into a new phase because we're hearing alarm bells of a US double dip."
Mr Bloom said a deep change is under way in investor psychology as funds and central banks respond to the blizzard of shocking US data and again focus on the fragility of an economy where public debt is surging towards 100pc of GDP, not helped by the malaise enveloping the Obama White House. "The Europeans have aired their dirty debt in public and taken some measures to address it, whilst the US has not," he said.
The Fed minutes warned of "significant downside risks" and a possible slide into deflation, an admission that zero interest rates, $1.75 trillion of QE, and a fiscal deficit above 10pc of GDP have so far failed to lift the economy out of a structural slump.
"The Committee would need to consider whether further policy stimulus might become appropriate if the outlook were to worsen appreciably," it said. The economy might not regain its "longer-run path" until 2016.
"The Fed is throwing in the towel," said Gabriel Stein, of Lombard Street Research. "They are preparing to start QE again. This was predictable because the M3 broad money supply has been contracting for months."
The Fed minutes amount to a policy thunderbolt, evidence of how quickly the recovery has lost steam. Just weeks ago the Fed was mapping out withdrawal of stimulus.
Goldman Sachs said it expects the euro to rise to $1.35 by the end of the year. The yen will appreciate to ¥83, through the pain barrier for most of Japan's big exporters. The new twist is that SAFE, China's $2.4 trillion fund, has begun buying record amounts of Japanese bonds, a shift in reserve allocation away from the dollar.
The signs of a deep and sudden slowdown in the US are becoming ever clearer as the "sugar rush" from the Obama fiscal stimulus wears off and the inventory boost fades. California, Illinois and other states are cutting spending, tightening US fiscal policy by 0.8pc of GDP.
Thursday's plunge in the Philadelphia Fed's July index of new manufacturing orders to â4.3 suggests that the economy may have buckled abruptly, as it did in mid-2008. The Economic Cycle Research Institute's ECRI leading indicator has tumbled, reaching â8.3pc last week. This points to a sharp slowdown or recession within three months.
While US port data looked buoyant in June, the details were troubling. Outbound traffic from Long Beach fell from 139,000 containers in May to 116,000 in June. Shipments from Los Angeles fell from 161,000 to 155,000. This drop in exports is worsening the US trade deficit, eroding the dollar.
The US workforce has shrunk by a 1m over the past two months as discouraged jobless give up the hunt. Retail sales have fallen for the past two months. New homes sales crashed to 300,000 in May after tax credits ran out, the lowest since records began in 1963. Mortgage applications have fallen by 42pc to 13-year low since April. Paul Dales at Capital Economics said the "shadow inventory" of unsold properties has risen to 7.8m. "The double dip in housing has begun," he said.
Alcoa, CSX, Intel, and JP Morgan have reported good earnings, but they mostly did so in July 2008 just before their shares collapsed. Such earnings rarely catch turning points and can be a lagging indicator. Profits have been boosted in this cycle by cost-cutting, which is self-defeating for the economy as a whole.
The minutes confirm the Fed is split down the middle over QE. Fed watchers say the Board in Washington wants to be ready to launch another round of bond purchases if necessary, pushing the banks balance sheet from $2.4 trillion towards $5 trillion, but hawks at the regional banks are highly sceptical.
A study by the San Francisco Fed said the interest rates need to be â4.5pc to stabilise the economy under the Fed's "rule of thumb". Since this is impossible, massive QE needs to make up the difference.
Tim Congdon from International Monetary Re
Published: 8:52PM BST 15 Jul 2010 for UK-Telegraph
C/P
The euro rocketed to a two-month high of $1.29 and sterling jumped two cents to almost $1.54 after the Fed confessed that the US economy may not recover for five or six years. Far from winding down emergency stimulus, the bank may need a fresh blast of bond purchases or quantitative easing.
Usually the dollar serves as a safe haven whenever the world takes fright, and there was plenty of sobering news from China and other quarters on Thursday. Not this time. The US itself has become the problem.
"The worm is turning," said David Bloom, currency chief at HSBC. "We're in a world of rotating sovereign crises. The market seems to become obsessed with one idea at a time, then violently swings towards another. People thought the euro would break-up. Now we're moving into a new phase because we're hearing alarm bells of a US double dip."
Mr Bloom said a deep change is under way in investor psychology as funds and central banks respond to the blizzard of shocking US data and again focus on the fragility of an economy where public debt is surging towards 100pc of GDP, not helped by the malaise enveloping the Obama White House. "The Europeans have aired their dirty debt in public and taken some measures to address it, whilst the US has not," he said.
The Fed minutes warned of "significant downside risks" and a possible slide into deflation, an admission that zero interest rates, $1.75 trillion of QE, and a fiscal deficit above 10pc of GDP have so far failed to lift the economy out of a structural slump.
"The Committee would need to consider whether further policy stimulus might become appropriate if the outlook were to worsen appreciably," it said. The economy might not regain its "longer-run path" until 2016.
"The Fed is throwing in the towel," said Gabriel Stein, of Lombard Street Research. "They are preparing to start QE again. This was predictable because the M3 broad money supply has been contracting for months."
The Fed minutes amount to a policy thunderbolt, evidence of how quickly the recovery has lost steam. Just weeks ago the Fed was mapping out withdrawal of stimulus.
Goldman Sachs said it expects the euro to rise to $1.35 by the end of the year. The yen will appreciate to ¥83, through the pain barrier for most of Japan's big exporters. The new twist is that SAFE, China's $2.4 trillion fund, has begun buying record amounts of Japanese bonds, a shift in reserve allocation away from the dollar.
The signs of a deep and sudden slowdown in the US are becoming ever clearer as the "sugar rush" from the Obama fiscal stimulus wears off and the inventory boost fades. California, Illinois and other states are cutting spending, tightening US fiscal policy by 0.8pc of GDP.
Thursday's plunge in the Philadelphia Fed's July index of new manufacturing orders to â4.3 suggests that the economy may have buckled abruptly, as it did in mid-2008. The Economic Cycle Research Institute's ECRI leading indicator has tumbled, reaching â8.3pc last week. This points to a sharp slowdown or recession within three months.
While US port data looked buoyant in June, the details were troubling. Outbound traffic from Long Beach fell from 139,000 containers in May to 116,000 in June. Shipments from Los Angeles fell from 161,000 to 155,000. This drop in exports is worsening the US trade deficit, eroding the dollar.
The US workforce has shrunk by a 1m over the past two months as discouraged jobless give up the hunt. Retail sales have fallen for the past two months. New homes sales crashed to 300,000 in May after tax credits ran out, the lowest since records began in 1963. Mortgage applications have fallen by 42pc to 13-year low since April. Paul Dales at Capital Economics said the "shadow inventory" of unsold properties has risen to 7.8m. "The double dip in housing has begun," he said.
Alcoa, CSX, Intel, and JP Morgan have reported good earnings, but they mostly did so in July 2008 just before their shares collapsed. Such earnings rarely catch turning points and can be a lagging indicator. Profits have been boosted in this cycle by cost-cutting, which is self-defeating for the economy as a whole.
The minutes confirm the Fed is split down the middle over QE. Fed watchers say the Board in Washington wants to be ready to launch another round of bond purchases if necessary, pushing the banks balance sheet from $2.4 trillion towards $5 trillion, but hawks at the regional banks are highly sceptical.
A study by the San Francisco Fed said the interest rates need to be â4.5pc to stabilise the economy under the Fed's "rule of thumb". Since this is impossible, massive QE needs to make up the difference.
Tim Congdon from International Monetary Re
A. End of the road? No.
End of the American Century? Possibly.
End of the American Century? Possibly.
I need help installing ubuntu on windows XP?
Q. I burned the image onto a cd, put it in my computer, restarted it. and it didn't run before start-up. so i went into my computer and tried to run it. it didn't work. i keep getting an error message telling me to check something about wubi. so i copy and paste the thing and then run it. and i get his message:
07-27 00:37 INFO root: === wubi 9.04 rev128 ===
07-27 00:37 DEBUG root: Logfile is c:\docume~1\owner\locals~1\temp\wubi-9.04-rev128.log
07-27 00:37 DEBUG root: sys.argv = ['main.pyo', '--exefile="D:\\wubi.exe"', '--cdmenu']
07-27 00:37 DEBUG CommonBackend: data_dir=C:\DOCUME~1\Owner\LOCALS~1\Temp\pylD.tmp\data
07-27 00:37 DEBUG WindowsBackend: 7z=C:\DOCUME~1\Owner\LOCALS~1\Temp\pylD.tmp\bin\7z.exe
07-27 00:37 DEBUG CommonBackend: Fetching basic info...
07-27 00:37 DEBUG CommonBackend: original_exe=D:\wubi.exe
07-27 00:37 DEBUG CommonBackend: platform=win32
07-27 00:37 DEBUG CommonBackend: osname=nt
07-27 00:37 DEBUG CommonBackend: language=en_US
07-27 00:37 DEBUG CommonBackend: encoding=cp1252
07-27 00:37 DEBUG WindowsBackend: arch=i386
07-27 00:37 DEBUG CommonBackend: Parsing isolist=C:\DOCUME~1\Owner\LOCALS~1\Temp\pylD.tmp\data\isolist.ini
07-27 00:37 DEBUG CommonBackend: Adding distro Xubuntu-i386
07-27 00:37 DEBUG CommonBackend: Adding distro Xubuntu-amd64
07-27 00:37 DEBUG CommonBackend: Adding distro Kubuntu-amd64
07-27 00:37 DEBUG CommonBackend: Adding distro Mythbuntu-i386
07-27 00:37 DEBUG CommonBackend: Adding distro Ubuntu-amd64
07-27 00:37 DEBUG CommonBackend: Adding distro Ubuntu-i386
07-27 00:37 DEBUG CommonBackend: Adding distro Mythbuntu-amd64
07-27 00:37 DEBUG CommonBackend: Adding distro Kubuntu-i386
07-27 00:37 DEBUG WindowsBackend: Fetching host info...
07-27 00:37 DEBUG WindowsBackend: registry_key=Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Wubi
07-27 00:37 DEBUG WindowsBackend: windows version=xp
07-27 00:37 DEBUG WindowsBackend: windows_version2=Microsoft Windows XP
07-27 00:37 DEBUG WindowsBackend: windows_sp=Service Pack 3
07-27 00:37 DEBUG WindowsBackend: windows_build=2600
07-27 00:37 DEBUG WindowsBackend: gmt=-8
07-27 00:37 DEBUG WindowsBackend: country=US
07-27 00:37 DEBUG WindowsBackend: timezone=America/Los_Angeles
07-27 00:37 DEBUG WindowsBackend: windows_username=Owner
07-27 00:37 DEBUG WindowsBackend: user_full_name=Owner
07-27 00:37 DEBUG WindowsBackend: user_directory=Owner
07-27 00:37 DEBUG WindowsBackend: windows_language_code=1033
07-27 00:37 DEBUG WindowsBackend: windows_language=English
07-27 00:37 DEBUG WindowsBackend: processor_name= Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.53GHz
07-27 00:37 DEBUG WindowsBackend: bootloader=xp
07-27 00:37 DEBUG WindowsBackend: system_drive=Drive(C: hd 4048.27734375 mb free )
07-27 00:37 DEBUG WindowsBackend: drive=Drive(C: hd 4048.27734375 mb free )
07-27 00:37 DEBUG WindowsBackend: drive=Drive(D: cd 0.0 mb free cdfs)
07-27 00:37 DEBUG WindowsBackend: drive=Drive(E: hd 5.328125 mb free ntfs)
07-27 00:37 DEBUG WindowsBackend: uninstaller_path=C:\ubuntu\uninstall-wubi.exe
07-27 00:37 DEBUG WindowsBackend: previous_target_dir=C:\ubuntu
07-27 00:37 DEBUG WindowsBackend: previous_distro_name=Ubuntu
07-27 00:37 DEBUG WindowsBackend: keyboard_id=67699721
07-27 00:37 DEBUG WindowsBackend: keyboard_layout=us
07-27 00:37 DEBUG WindowsBackend: keyboard_variant=
07-27 00:37 DEBUG CommonBackend: locale=en_US.UTF-8
07-27 00:37 DEBUG WindowsBackend: total_memory_mb=2045.984375
07-27 00:37 DEBUG CommonBackend: Searching ISOs on USB devices
07-27 00:37 DEBUG CommonBackend: Searching for local CDs
07-27 00:37 DEBUG Distro: checking whether C:\DOCUME~1\Owner\LOCALS~1\Temp\pylD.tmp is a valid Ubuntu CD
07-27 00:37 DEBUG Distro: does not contain C:\DOCUME~1\Owner\LOCALS~1\Temp\pylD.tmp\casper\filesystem.squashfs
07-27 00:37 DEBUG Distro: checking whether C:\DOCUME~1\Owner\LOCALS~1\Temp\pylD.tmp is a valid Ubuntu CD
07-27 00:37 DEBUG Distro: does not contain C:\DOCUME~1\Owner\LOCALS~1\Temp\pylD.tmp\casper\filesystem.squashfs
07-27 00:37 DEBUG Distro: checking whether C:\DOCUME~1\Owner\LOCALS~1\Temp\pylD.tmp is a valid Kubuntu CD
07-27 00:37 DEBUG Distro: does not contain C:\DOCUME~1\Owner\LOCALS~1\Temp\pylD.tmp\casper\filesystem.squashfs
07-27 00:37 DEBUG Distro: checking whether C:\DOCUME~1\Owner\LOCALS~1\Temp\pylD.tmp is a valid Kubuntu CD
07-27 00:37 DEBUG Distro: does not contain C:\DOCUME~1\Owner\LOCALS~1\Temp\pylD.tmp\casper\filesystem.squashfs
07-27 00:37 DEBUG Distro: checking whether C:\DOCUME~1\Owner\LOCALS~1\Temp\pylD.tmp is a valid Xubuntu CD
07-27 00:37 DEBUG Distro: does not contain C:\DOCUME~1\Owner\LOCALS~1\Temp\pylD.tmp\casper\filesystem.squashfs
07-27 00:37 DEBUG Distro: checking whether C:\DOCUME~1\Owner\LOCALS~1\Temp\pylD.tmp is a valid Xubuntu CD
07-27 00:37 DEBUG Distro: does not contain C:\DOCUME~1\Owner\LOCALS~1\Temp\pylD.tmp\casper\filesyst
07-27 00:37 INFO root: === wubi 9.04 rev128 ===
07-27 00:37 DEBUG root: Logfile is c:\docume~1\owner\locals~1\temp\wubi-9.04-rev128.log
07-27 00:37 DEBUG root: sys.argv = ['main.pyo', '--exefile="D:\\wubi.exe"', '--cdmenu']
07-27 00:37 DEBUG CommonBackend: data_dir=C:\DOCUME~1\Owner\LOCALS~1\Temp\pylD.tmp\data
07-27 00:37 DEBUG WindowsBackend: 7z=C:\DOCUME~1\Owner\LOCALS~1\Temp\pylD.tmp\bin\7z.exe
07-27 00:37 DEBUG CommonBackend: Fetching basic info...
07-27 00:37 DEBUG CommonBackend: original_exe=D:\wubi.exe
07-27 00:37 DEBUG CommonBackend: platform=win32
07-27 00:37 DEBUG CommonBackend: osname=nt
07-27 00:37 DEBUG CommonBackend: language=en_US
07-27 00:37 DEBUG CommonBackend: encoding=cp1252
07-27 00:37 DEBUG WindowsBackend: arch=i386
07-27 00:37 DEBUG CommonBackend: Parsing isolist=C:\DOCUME~1\Owner\LOCALS~1\Temp\pylD.tmp\data\isolist.ini
07-27 00:37 DEBUG CommonBackend: Adding distro Xubuntu-i386
07-27 00:37 DEBUG CommonBackend: Adding distro Xubuntu-amd64
07-27 00:37 DEBUG CommonBackend: Adding distro Kubuntu-amd64
07-27 00:37 DEBUG CommonBackend: Adding distro Mythbuntu-i386
07-27 00:37 DEBUG CommonBackend: Adding distro Ubuntu-amd64
07-27 00:37 DEBUG CommonBackend: Adding distro Ubuntu-i386
07-27 00:37 DEBUG CommonBackend: Adding distro Mythbuntu-amd64
07-27 00:37 DEBUG CommonBackend: Adding distro Kubuntu-i386
07-27 00:37 DEBUG WindowsBackend: Fetching host info...
07-27 00:37 DEBUG WindowsBackend: registry_key=Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Wubi
07-27 00:37 DEBUG WindowsBackend: windows version=xp
07-27 00:37 DEBUG WindowsBackend: windows_version2=Microsoft Windows XP
07-27 00:37 DEBUG WindowsBackend: windows_sp=Service Pack 3
07-27 00:37 DEBUG WindowsBackend: windows_build=2600
07-27 00:37 DEBUG WindowsBackend: gmt=-8
07-27 00:37 DEBUG WindowsBackend: country=US
07-27 00:37 DEBUG WindowsBackend: timezone=America/Los_Angeles
07-27 00:37 DEBUG WindowsBackend: windows_username=Owner
07-27 00:37 DEBUG WindowsBackend: user_full_name=Owner
07-27 00:37 DEBUG WindowsBackend: user_directory=Owner
07-27 00:37 DEBUG WindowsBackend: windows_language_code=1033
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07-27 00:37 DEBUG WindowsBackend: processor_name= Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.53GHz
07-27 00:37 DEBUG WindowsBackend: bootloader=xp
07-27 00:37 DEBUG WindowsBackend: system_drive=Drive(C: hd 4048.27734375 mb free )
07-27 00:37 DEBUG WindowsBackend: drive=Drive(C: hd 4048.27734375 mb free )
07-27 00:37 DEBUG WindowsBackend: drive=Drive(D: cd 0.0 mb free cdfs)
07-27 00:37 DEBUG WindowsBackend: drive=Drive(E: hd 5.328125 mb free ntfs)
07-27 00:37 DEBUG WindowsBackend: uninstaller_path=C:\ubuntu\uninstall-wubi.exe
07-27 00:37 DEBUG WindowsBackend: previous_target_dir=C:\ubuntu
07-27 00:37 DEBUG WindowsBackend: previous_distro_name=Ubuntu
07-27 00:37 DEBUG WindowsBackend: keyboard_id=67699721
07-27 00:37 DEBUG WindowsBackend: keyboard_layout=us
07-27 00:37 DEBUG WindowsBackend: keyboard_variant=
07-27 00:37 DEBUG CommonBackend: locale=en_US.UTF-8
07-27 00:37 DEBUG WindowsBackend: total_memory_mb=2045.984375
07-27 00:37 DEBUG CommonBackend: Searching ISOs on USB devices
07-27 00:37 DEBUG CommonBackend: Searching for local CDs
07-27 00:37 DEBUG Distro: checking whether C:\DOCUME~1\Owner\LOCALS~1\Temp\pylD.tmp is a valid Ubuntu CD
07-27 00:37 DEBUG Distro: does not contain C:\DOCUME~1\Owner\LOCALS~1\Temp\pylD.tmp\casper\filesystem.squashfs
07-27 00:37 DEBUG Distro: checking whether C:\DOCUME~1\Owner\LOCALS~1\Temp\pylD.tmp is a valid Ubuntu CD
07-27 00:37 DEBUG Distro: does not contain C:\DOCUME~1\Owner\LOCALS~1\Temp\pylD.tmp\casper\filesystem.squashfs
07-27 00:37 DEBUG Distro: checking whether C:\DOCUME~1\Owner\LOCALS~1\Temp\pylD.tmp is a valid Kubuntu CD
07-27 00:37 DEBUG Distro: does not contain C:\DOCUME~1\Owner\LOCALS~1\Temp\pylD.tmp\casper\filesystem.squashfs
07-27 00:37 DEBUG Distro: checking whether C:\DOCUME~1\Owner\LOCALS~1\Temp\pylD.tmp is a valid Kubuntu CD
07-27 00:37 DEBUG Distro: does not contain C:\DOCUME~1\Owner\LOCALS~1\Temp\pylD.tmp\casper\filesystem.squashfs
07-27 00:37 DEBUG Distro: checking whether C:\DOCUME~1\Owner\LOCALS~1\Temp\pylD.tmp is a valid Xubuntu CD
07-27 00:37 DEBUG Distro: does not contain C:\DOCUME~1\Owner\LOCALS~1\Temp\pylD.tmp\casper\filesystem.squashfs
07-27 00:37 DEBUG Distro: checking whether C:\DOCUME~1\Owner\LOCALS~1\Temp\pylD.tmp is a valid Xubuntu CD
07-27 00:37 DEBUG Distro: does not contain C:\DOCUME~1\Owner\LOCALS~1\Temp\pylD.tmp\casper\filesyst
A. Uninstall WUBI in the add/remove program under the control panel. Remove it like any other app.
You would have to fix your MBR (master boot record) because GRUB can't find Ubuntu after you remove WUBI
Pop your windows xp installation disc into your CD/DVD drive and boot from it thru BIOS
Start it up as you would going to do a reformat but instead of choosing reformat you select 'Recovery Console', then type and hit enter the following
fixboot
fixmbr
That'd restore the default Windows Boot Loader.
Now try install Ubuntu again
You would have to fix your MBR (master boot record) because GRUB can't find Ubuntu after you remove WUBI
Pop your windows xp installation disc into your CD/DVD drive and boot from it thru BIOS
Start it up as you would going to do a reformat but instead of choosing reformat you select 'Recovery Console', then type and hit enter the following
fixboot
fixmbr
That'd restore the default Windows Boot Loader.
Now try install Ubuntu again
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