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Our friend and beloved CR, Ankur Bansal is one of the laziest person on this earth. When he has no work he gets busy with his GF’s. Imagine of the scene what would happened when one of his GF’s messaged him to get online, only when he found that Vikash’s computer had crashed
This happened a long time back. At that time Rock didnt have his laptop and solely relied on Vikash’s desktop for satisfying the unsatisfied lot (Note: pun intended) . Now what can he do? At that time there came an excellent idea in his mind. He just took out an Ubuntu CD which Vikash had ordered long back and booted from it in *Live Mode*. Net works flawlessly out of Box in Ubuntu, which proved out to be a boon.
This story was leaked out by Rwik and he did give an expert comment, which can be well used for publicity of Ubuntu reguarding its ease of use and simplicity. Here I designed the poster highlighting it.

Note: This story is approved by Rock for public display.

So here goes the fourth event of LUG Manipal which will make a special stamp on the history of this newly founded organization. Firstly clubs/organizations in MIT charge hefty amount of sum for attending workshops and all such events where they teach all shit.

What they teach? HTML, CSS using Dreamweaver! OMG! What is so special about it? I feel like banging my head on the wall when people fall prey to these traps. Dreamweaver is an advanced IDE and people go to attend these workshops thinking that its another new language, only to get disappointed. At max they might teach ASP for a server-side scripting even at the days of ASP.NET. All old and useless technologies of these days! Such pathetic situation.

First I want to make it clear that LUG would not take a single penny from its members for any event as registration fees or event fees. If we do anything that costs us, we gladly inform our members about the same and ask them to make their own accomodation. Here too we are organizing a Web Design and Development Workshop for all the students of Manipal. No registration is required, no charges, it all free! All that’s required is commitment.

We will be teaching Open source Web Development Technologies like LAMP/WAMP. We are hoping to give more preference to LAMP. Now question comes why PHP? Just because its one of the best scripting languages and best when it comes to Open Source web scripting language. Why MySQL? Well there is no other alternative and MySQL just rocks. If you are not satisfied better use MS SQL or Oracle if you have enough powerful hardware, PHP supports both of them. But the feel which you would get with MySQL is difficult to achieve on other database softwares. Why Apache? Its the uncrowned king of webservers. Its deployment is around 70-75% of the servers around the world. What else reason you need? Why Linux? To get the real server like feel, using file permissions, PHP and MySQL are specially optimized for running over Linux.

One more question comes into play is Why not ASP? Its not an open source technology and for me its vastly inferior to PHP, no comment on ASP.NET as I havnt used it. What buggs me most is that many people dont know about PHP and ask questions like “What is PHP? I think ASP is more powerful than PHP“. I ask them have you tried? Then how can you say this? They are dumb-struck! PHP has so many third party extendibility like hundreds of frameworks, Templating Engines, PEAR like packages and many many more. There is simply no end to this great programming language. Thanks Rasmus for your creation.

And Yeah! I forgot to mention that the poster was designed by my friend Aavik! Designing a colour poster is a bit easier than designing a black and white one. Using 8-bit grayscale is somewhat challenging and he did it.

Just a year back on this day, I bought this domain with the intention of having my own web presence. Am now happy to announce that am celebrating the anniversary today to mark exact one year of starting this blog too. At that time I bought it just for $1 though this time am paying some 400INR for the renewal. Now I own two domains, the other one is a Technical Blog, on which am not so active these days (not getting time).

Aside from this I am making my 100th post today to even mark the century of my blogging career. On the other blog, I havnt made much progress as far as number of posts is concerned. Hope to improve it in the future.

I just returned from Revels ‘08, the annual cultural fest of my college, I dont want to mention the quality of the shows but still I cant resist. Better any other MITian, I cant say anything much about my college. We were supposed to wear ethnic wear today as the dress code,unlike last year Revels missed the Celebrity show this time. Well, now I damn care, have hundreds of work to complete ranging from small logo designing to making mass SE projects.

Cheers….

Here comes the second episode of POL KHOL serials. This second one is not made by me, but give all the thanks to Rwik. His work is really applaudable and we all hope that he continues with this magnificent work

Rwik has posted two stories of POL KHOL on his blog, both relating to our beloved CR and friend- Ankur Bansal aka Rock. The two posts are:

This is How Rock Woke Up

Guess Who!

Hope you enjoy, wait for more episodes, more and more to come.

And a bit off topic. I missed out the match which was sacrificed due to sessionals paper which too didnt go well. Expecting a single digit no, maybe cross the threshold.

I am heavily inspired by sting operations and Star News Pol Khol serials. Thought why now do the same in my campus. Here is the first episode of the serial. This pic is taken from Rock’s Camera. The image is cropped to remove the sensational factor Courtsey for clicking this pic goes to Suraj.

For my Classmates and Friends: If you cant deduce out what is in the pic, then go drown yourself.

For others: If you wanna really see what it is contact me.

Quiz: You can post who is hidden in the pic. And one more rule for this- You cant post the name as it is. You also have to give a hint to that person’s name. Comments with names will be deleted.

The name says it all. LUG Manipal site is now hosted on a proper domain. Thanks to Swap ( read Swaroop Hegde) from Racked Hosting. Its the same hosting provider where my site is hosted, on a new server, a brand new one! It took some half an hour to move the old blog from my site to this new domain. I had messed up with the permalinks and the blog feeds earlier when the site had gone down for two days.

My own domain has also been moved to the new server.  LUG’s blog now has total of 7 users/authors. All have been posting on it as and when necessary. I hope we get more authors on that blog in the near future. Just authors arnt necessary, posting is more important point. We have got a lot of support from Racked Hosting, they have excellent servers with blazing fast speeds and quality DNS. We will be working with them to organize quality seminars and workshops. For more info about them goto their site http://www.rackedhosting.com

We have many more plans for LUG, this week plans are nearly final for two day workshop on Linux. This is especially for them who got Linux installed on their systems during the Install Fest. The first years have made a lot of requests for a workshop on Web Design and Development, though its possible to organize if it has some relation with Linux and Open Source. I hope we can do something over it next week. Wait and watch. Do give your ideas and feedback.