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Linux Open Week

LUG Manipal is organizing a Linux Open Week sponsored by Fedora from 23rd-28th and 30th March. As the name says, this event stretches for one whole week. It is aimed at increasing awareness about FOSS and also how linux can be useful for people from all spheres of life rather than just a handful of [...]

LUG meet on 13/08/2008

We scheduled a LUG meet on the above mentioned date at 5:30 PM in NLH 404 (that led Ankur to include a nice pun in the poster) which had to be later shifted to 405. Both rains and the nuisance created by some members of a certain club taking down our posters in a lot [...]

“now playing” Status in Pidgin

Some of the guys posted in the forums as to how to go about it, hence this post. Going by the list of available plugins to do the same it would seem a cakewalk. But it isn’t as you would be often stranded with a plugin that won’t support the media player you would be [...]

Preventing atheros card from being disconnected often

Found out this solution at ubuntu forums after googling a bit. I was totally fed up with the connection acting out randomly. The solution lies in locking the network interface to a specific 802.11 a/b/g mode. Edit your /etc/rc.local file and add the following lines before exit 0 modprobe ath_pci (sleep 10 && /sbin/iwpriv ath0 [...]

LUG officially registered

Our LUG has been included in the official list at linux.org . Check it out here

Installing WAMP on your Windows system

WAMP (now known as WampServer) is like a AIO package that allows you to setup a web server on your local machine to simulate any project that you may run on a remote server. WampServer 2.0 includes: Apache 2.2.6 MySQL 5.0.45 PHP 5.2.5 Download it from here. Installation is a piece of cake. There are [...]