• An installfest spanning two days for those yet to find a foothold in the linux world. The distro to be installed is Fedora 10 Cambridge.
• A user’s day which would consist of sessions taken by various LUG members on different softwares like office suites, productivity tools etc. available on the linux platform that’d help the new users in making the transition from Windows to Linux.
• Another couple of days have been devoted to Developer’s Day which would be about getting interested programmers started off with development in the Linux environment. It’s no secret that Linux is the development environment of choice around the world because of it’s open nature and no self-respecting programmer in Manipal would want to miss out on these two days!
• Finally, the last day would be a Hackathon to bring out the hacker in the participating coders. They’d be trying to make a firefox extension for a certain web service which would be decided on the spot. Needless to say, it’d be fun. The choice of the software to be hacked on remains flexible though and the enthusiasm and the coding expertise of the participants will also be taken into account

Do checkout the event wiki page for further details.

These are the awesome posters that have been put up around Manipal for the Open Week promotion and kudos to Sheeladitya for the awesome work

• Shell scripting on bash
• Mobile development
• Yet another installfest including the very important part of configuring the network interfaces
• Cubing (solving Rubik’s cube)
• Working with development tools like gcc and vim
• Basics of assembly language programming

….and a lot more!

Keep looking for our posters in the campus for any upcoming events.

Install mpd using your package manager (apt for Debian or Ubuntu users, yum for fedora and so on). Now comes the part of configuring it. If you would run mpd as root, it would read the configuration files from /etc/mpd.conf or otherwise from ~/.mpdconf . You won’t need to make any big changes in the conf file other than the location of music directory. Open up the conf file in an editor and see the line that reads music_directory. Just change the directory to your audio collection. As you would notice, the conf file is commented and it says ‘You can put symlinks in here, if you like.‘ This is pretty useful if your collection is spread over multiple directories. You can always start it by typing mpd at the terminal and kill it using mpd –kill. Remember it would read the appropriate conf file depending on how you are starting the process i.e. as a normal user or as the root.

Note: Your home directory ~ may not contain a .mpdconf directory by default after mpd is installed. In that case create one and for an example conf file, copy the mpd.conf file from /etc/ to ~/.mpdconf

anomit@deadbox:~$ cp /etc/mpd.conf .mpdconf/


Now comes the part of installing a client that would interact with the daemon and play music for you. Install ncmpc, a ncurses based client for mpd using your package manager. Then just start it using ncmpc at the terminal. There is also a GTK+ based client called Sonata which would appeal to you if you are more of a GUI person.

If you would like your current track to be displayed in your pidgin status message and also scrobble to your last.fm account if you have one, install mpdscribble using your package manager and download music tracker, the plugin for pidgin from here.

Configuring mpdscribble
To configure it, you need to compute the md5sum of your last.fm account password. Execute the following at the terminal:

$ echo -n "your-password"|md5sum>file-name.txt
Get the md5sum value from the file and add the follwing lines in the /etc/mpdscribble.conf file

username = user-name
password = md5sum


Now just type mpdscribble at the terminal whenever you want the scrobbling service to start and press Ctrl+C to end it.

Installing musictracker plugin

Extract the contents of the file and cd to the directory where it has been extracted. Run the following commands to install it:

./configure
make
make install

Just check the plugins list in pidgin and enable the musictracker plugin. Configure it according to your wishes.

P.S. By default mpd runs on port 6600 on your system. Could someone try connecting to a running daemon using ncmpc from another laptop on your lan? The appropriate command would be:

ncmpc --host=ip-address --port=6600
where ip-adress would be of the system running the daemon.

Edit your /etc/rc.local file and add the following lines before exit 0

modprobe ath_pci
(sleep 10 && /sbin/iwpriv ath0 mode 3) &


Actually it uses the iwpriv mode X command to lock the card to a specific mode, where
X=0, for a/b/g
1, for a
2, for b
3, for g
You add this to /etc/rc.local to make the change permanent, so that these settings are loaded every time you boot into ubuntu.

Source

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 no complexities involved. At one point it will ask for the SMTP server address and the e-mail address needed for the PHP mail() function. Do what you choose to do with them, or leave them at their default values. You can anyways change it later.

After installation is complete, choose Firefox( Internet Explorer FTL!) as the browser to be used with WampServer and then start the WampServer service. Windows Firewall will give a warning about blocking the apache HTTP server. You won’t be blocking it, otherwise you wouldn’t have been reading this dumb tutorial, so Unblock it.

Once the WampServer is started, check if all is correct by pointing to http://localhost in your browser. You’ll see lot of information about the version of apache and mysql installed. You’d be seeing something called phpMyAdmin. Actually it is a tool developed in PHP that allows the remote administration of MySQL databases through a browser. Click on it or visit http://localhost/phpmyadmin .

Now you would like to create a new user.

*NOTE* I found creating a new user a pain with phpMyAdmin (or maybe I have a personal grudge against the GUI). There are a lot of fields you will grow tired of clicking on or even better, become confused. I’ll explain it the command line way. Navigate to D:\wamp\bin\mysql\mysql5.0.45\bin> assuming you have installed WAMP at D:\wamp. Now type in the command:

mysql -u root

You would be logged in as the root and you’d be at the mysql> prompt now. The very first thing you should do is specify a password for the root with the command:

SET PASSWORD FOR ‘root’@'localhost’ = PASSWORD(’yourpassword’);

Remember to end every command with a ‘;’ (semicolon if you didn’t know). Now create a new user with the following command:
CREATE USER user [IDENTIFIED BY [PASSWORD] 'password']

One thing to be kept in mind is that the [] brackets signify optional parameters, like you could skip the whole IDENTIFIED BY field to create an user account without password.

Now, you can specify the username as anomit or anomit@localhost, the former would allow ‘anomit’ to login from ay computer but the latter would allow ‘anomit’ to login from ‘localhost’ only. So the former isn’t exactly recommended from the viewpoint of security.

Here is an example:
CREATE USER anomit@localhost IDENTIFIED BY 'passwd' ;

What i am going to do is create a user account that can only SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE and DELETE for each database. Since you already have a root account, you don’t need another with the same escalated privileges. Anyways, its your wish to what you want.

So, I grant the privileges by:

GRANT SELECT,INSERT,DELETE,UPDATE ON *.* TO anomit@localhost IDENTIFIED BY 'passwd';

Now, for logging into a password enabled user account, you should use the command:

mysql -u username -p

There you are done with a new user account. Use ‘help contents’ at the mysql prompt to know more about the commands. Have fun!