Archive for the ‘Linux’ Category

Synaptics Touchpad in Fedora 9

Friday, May 30th, 2008

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/ ...

Creating a Simple Chat Application with Python

Thursday, May 1st, 2008

Creating application with Python is very simple, here is a simple chat application made by using the socket module, it has 2 parts First Server and Second client, you run the server first and then connect the client to it, here is the code Here is the Server Code #!/usr/bin/env python from socket ...

Making Xml dump of MySQL

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008

Yesterday when i was trying/searching for a way to generate XML file from PHP so as to use it in Project 11, i came across a way to make a direct database/table dump from mysql and its damn easy all you have to do is type mysqldump -u username -p --xml ...

Configuring WiFi with Ndiswrapper on Debian

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008

Note :- If you want the way to make ndiswrapper work just skip the first paragraph its total crap Well as i have a Broadcom BCM4312 on my HP 6515b laptop, i face a lot of problems with WiFi and the only solution that i know of is using ndiswrapper with ...

Enabling Wifi on Lenovo R60 in Linux

Monday, February 25th, 2008

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 ...

LUG Manipal has a WIKI now

Thursday, February 7th, 2008

LUG is a collaborative project with people coming from all walks of life to work to work together for a common project or cause. Inspired by Wikipedia’s success as a collaborative project we thought of having a wiki at our site so that we can have a platform for working ...

Fedora 8 Install Fest in MIT Manipal

Monday, January 28th, 2008

For the First time in History of Manipal a Linux ( Fedora 8 ) Install Fest took place on the Campus, it was organized by Linux user Group Manipal. It was Basically a 2 Day Fest, on 24th a Pre-Install Fest / Meet was there where participants were Informed about ...

3D effects on ubuntu 7.10 on ati 1250

Saturday, December 29th, 2007

Well after going through a large number of guides like this i finally thought about giving guide at cchtml a try, well the hings mentioned are really great but not all steps are needed so here is a simplified version Here i assume that you have not done any of this ...

Making a local Ubuntu / Debian repository on Fedora

Monday, December 24th, 2007

So now i know how to make a local Ubuntu / Debian LAN repository on Fedora using apt-cacher, apt-cacher as the name says caches all the packages with it when ever any client requests a package from it, it checks if the package that is there with it is latest ...

Stuff.txt

Tuesday, December 18th, 2007

I reached home 2 days ago and i have already completed 1/3 of my To-Do list's task but still a lot remains to be done. the things that i have completed are, First setting up of a LAMP server and MediaWiki on that >> done this with a Fedora 8 based ...