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Things To Know

Here is another series of Things to know

Open SUSE 11 released
Wine 1.0 Released
Banshee 1.0 released
Firefox 3.0 released and makes a world record

Looks like this is a vey release full Time………

Java is completely open now

At JavaOne in May, 2006, Sun Microsystems announced they were going to release Java as free software under the terms of the GPL. The size of the task (6.5 million lines of code) was only eclipsed by the size of the opportunity for Java as a free and open technology.
At JavaOne in May 2007, Sun [...]

Synaptics Touchpad in Fedora 9

I have been using Fedora 9 from a long time and it really kick’s ass but i was facing the problem that my Touchpad was not working with it but the i found the solution here
Here is how to do it
The easiest was will be to install the package http://atrpms.net/dist/f9/synaptics/
or you can do it manually [...]

Installing ndiswrapper on ubuntu 8.04

I installed Ubuntu 8.04 today and faced this problem of WiFi again but ths time even installing ndiswrapper diddnt worked so had to find a way to make WiFi work on boot and here it is
For this First You need to install ndiswrapper, no need for net coz the packages are included in the CD [...]

Things you should know

Its been a long time since i have posted on LUG’s Blog coz i have been bit busy sorry for that, but now i have decided that apart from creating all the posts and writing stuff on my on I will start giving out links to outer blogs/sites which have some good articles so here [...]

Schedule For Web Designing and Development Workshop

Date: 25th March, Tuesday to 29th March, Friday
Venue: NLH 204
Time: 5:30 PM
Day 1 - HTML ( basic information about HTML and creating simple Static web pages )
Day 2 - Advanced HTML and introduction to server side scripting
Day 3 - PHP
Day 4 - PHP and intro to MySQL
Day 5 (extended) - MySQL (DataBase Concepts)
Update: Workshop’s [...]

Configuring WiFi with Ndiswrapper on Debian

Ok so lets start, you need module-assistant as you have to build the ndiswrapper from the source seperately, so type
apt-get install module-assistant
then prepare the build environment
module-assistant prepare
this will download the kernel-header and setup the symbolic links, now install the ndiswrapper-source package
apt-get install ndiswrapper-source
if you have internet access only via WiFi the download the packages from [...]

Enabling Wifi on Lenovo R60 in Linux

So yesterday after hunting for the solution of the wifi problem in Lenovo R60 so quite sometime i finally decided to try DJays solution to build Madwifi and it worked like a charm. I was thinking that there will be a total Open Source solution of the problem but well i just hope that ath5k [...]

3D effects on ubuntu 7.10 on ati 1250

Well after going through a large number of guides like this i finally thought about giving guide at cchtml a try, well the hings mentioned are really great but not all steps are needed so here is a simplified version
Here i assume that you have not done any of this step before and are doing [...]

Linux Directory Structure

Well most people migrating from Windows to Linux have a very big problem, and that problem is understanding where there files are or where there drives is so here i have the basic information about the Directory Structure so that it will help you understand more about Linux and be comfortable with it, so here [...]