October 10, 2009 – 1:43 am
After two months of no interaction with the freshmen of the college, we at LUG Manipal thought what better way to begin than to introduce open source among them. So we organised an install fest of Ubuntu 9.04 remastered version from 6th -9th October.
First day of the fest, we had a huge turnout of [...]
October 6, 2009 – 1:07 am
LUG Manipal is organising a Linux Install Fest aiming to introduce GNU/Linux to people who haven’t experienced a type of operating system which is crash-free , virus-free , with power of absolute customization and which is also being used by Google , NASA ,NSA and others.
This will be a 3 days install fest Starting on [...]
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 [...]
This has been around for quite sometime now. This post is intended to make everyone aware of Preupgrade’s existence and to answer any queries regarding it.
What is Preupgrade?
Downloading a new Fedora release, burning the DVD and reinstalling the entire thing is very time taking and requires enough bandwith . Preupgrade is an application that [...]
November 3, 2008 – 4:52 pm
LUG Manipal is organising a Linux Install Fest aiming to introduce GNU/Linux to people who haven’t experienced a type of operating system which is crash-free , virus-free , with power of absolute customization and which is also being used by Google , NASA ,NSA and others.
This will be a 3 days install fest Starting on [...]
April 27, 2008 – 11:52 pm
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
February 25, 2008 – 7:26 pm
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 [...]
January 24, 2008 – 2:01 pm
After a long awaited time, finally the Install fest started off on 24th January. Since this Install Fest was scheduled to be held for two days. Yesterday we people guided the people to defragment their hard disks, scan disks for erros, laptops batteries charged all those necessary stuffs.
We had collected DVD’s from all of [...]
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