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How Manipal got its first Linux (fedora) server

It all started with a failing Student’s Teacher Feedback System, designed by few fourth year students of college, in oct-nov 2008 the system was not able to scale and everything was reverted back to paper, it was then when i was contacted by a teacher from my Department ( Information and Communication Technology ), regarding [...]

Python Workshop Slides

Python Workshop slides have been uploaded and can be downloaded
Python Workshop Slides 1
Python Worshop Slides 2
We thank everyone who attended the workshop and Happy Hacking…..

Python Workshop

LUG Manipal is organising a workshop on Python, which is a dynamic object-oriented programming language that can be used for many kinds of software development. It runs on Windows, Linux/Unix, Mac OS X, OS/2, Amiga, Palm Handhelds, and Nokia mobile phones. It comes with extensive standard libraries, and can be learned in a few days.
The [...]

LUGM Open Week — What are you Doing???

Linux User’s Group Manipal is organizing a Open Week, which will comprise of a number of different activities with Install Fest as the base, event informating could be found at http://wiki.lugmanipal.org/LUGM_open_week discussion regarding Open week are now open at http://forums.lugmanipal.org/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=190
There are lot of things that need to be done so if you are willing to [...]

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 [...]