Linux Users Group Manipal

LUG meet on 13/08/2008

anomit — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 08:24:29 +0000

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 of places contributed to a low turnout, which was around 30. But, this time, I may proudly add, that it felt like what an actual LUG meet should be. All of those present contributed a lot of ideas regarding the future course of events to be organized by the LUG. So we drew up a list of the things on which we will be conducting workshops and talks:

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.

Forums Update

Swaroop — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 09:21:00 +0000

Hi all,

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Things To Know

Ankur — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 16:23:32 +0000

Here is another series of Things to know

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

Java is completely open now

Ankur — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 16:16:14 +0000

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 announced that the work was largely completed and so OpenJDK was launched. What was less newsworthy was the fact that on release - OpenJDK still relied on code that was encumbered - between 4 and 5 percent of the code was closed, non free source that Sun didn’t own.

Synaptics Touchpad in Fedora 9

Ankur — Fri, 30 May 2008 11:34:42 +0000

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 here

edited the /etc/X11/xorg.conf
gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Added the following to the ServerLayout Section
InputDevice “TouchPad” “CorePointer”

add a new section:
Section “InputDevice” Driver “synaptics” Identifier “TouchPad” Option “SendCoreEvents” Option “Protocol” “auto-dev” Option “SHMConfig” “on” Option “TapButton1″ “1″ Option “TapButton2″ “2″ EndSection

all done logout and login again and everything should be working fine

Update: found the rpm package here

Installing ndiswrapper on ubuntu 8.04

Ankur — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 18:22:18 +0000

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 / DVD of Ubuntu just go to System>>Administration>>software sources then uncheck all downloadable from internet, Third party and Update repo’s only select Installable from CD-ROM/DVD. Now open a Add/Remove from Applications>>Add/Remove.. there select all avaliable appliactions in show, now seach for ndis you will see Windows Wireless Drivers select it and click Apply changes it will ask you for the CD insert the CD and it will get installed, now you just have to install the drivers of your card for this open System>>Administration>>Windows Wireless Drivers and install the windows wireless drivers ( bcmwl5.inf for hp6515b bcm4312) now follow these steps, type
sudo -i now you must be as root then type
nano /etc/rc.local the file should read
rmmod ndiswrapper rmmod ssb modprobe ndiswrapper exit 0
all done now just reboot and enjoy your Linux……..

Things you should know

Ankur — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 04:00:21 +0000

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 are a few things you should know

The Sleeping Giants Awaken

ayush — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 10:17:47 +0000

Finally ,guys, our editorial team seems to have woken up and decided to come out with the greatly awaited and highly anticipated e-Magazine. Its been a long time coming so hopefully it will live up to our expectations and will be worth the wait. This is something to which all of us should contribute by way of articles. so guys pull up your socks , put on your thinking hats and write a few worthy articles. Need not be Linux related articles . Any tech article is welcome.Send in your articles before the 19th of April. The e-Magazine should be out sometime next week.

Hoping for a good response!!!

PHP Competition

Manish — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 20:48:05 +0000

LUG Manipal brings out a new competition open for all students of MIT- ” PHP Competition”. The first round will include Multiple Choice Questions with only one correct option. There are not registration charges and registration is also not required, its like a walk-in-test. You may need to enter your name in a sheet provided during the test.

The details of the Competition are:

Venue: NLH 104

Date: 7th April

Time: 6 PM

For more details of the events please visit the link http://phpcompi.lugmanipal.org

Check the Wiki Page: PHP Competition

Prizes are sponsored by Racked Hosting LLC

Schedule For Web Designing and Development Workshop

Ankur — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 10:11:53 +0000

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 PHP and MySQL Portion Syllabus

Update on 25th March: Download Slides of Day 1 of the Workshop (HTML)