Roshan Singh

  • Working at www.srijan.in

    The story began nearly one month back. I had hardly any work and no internship for the coming summer. Debayan forwardrd a mail from ILUG Delhi’s mailing list for an opportunity for an internship to work on Drupal. Since I had PHP knowledge and I had been managing the GLUG website, so I felt I…

  • ScribeFire Plugin for Firefox

    I like to use Firefox because of the add-ons it provides. I mostly use Fast Dial, Webmail notifier, Download Them all, Twitterfox, Google toolbar. Just now I installed ScribeFire blog editor. This is really a cool add-on. You just have to press F8 and you get a nice interface, go ahead and type whatever you…

  • Some things I have been doing these days

    I have become a kind of person who does not care about examinations any more and keep on doing some stuffs. 1. I always wanted to have a bot on our channel (#nitdgplug on Freenode, though we have very less to log, you all are welcome to our channel :P). So i used eggdrop to…

  • How to /boot/grub/menu.lst for network install

    Yesterday I went to help a Professor from Mechanical Department who had mailed me for help. He was really struggling with windows as desperately wanted to get Linux installed as he was not familiar with windows software. He was the first man I have ever met who said that he was struggling with office excel…

  • using java on linux

    This was a problem faced by my friend. He happens to use only JAVA that too JAVAC. He does not like to use Netbeans I don’t know why. And he said that it was the only problem that stopped him from using Linux. So I decided to help him. These were some links which were…

  • mouting network directory as your own directory, NFS

    I manage our local GLUG server. And the server was running out of space. So I was thinking of some alternative, so NFS clicked my mind. I am trying to mirror Ubuntu repo for our college students. There is another server in the college which I happen to manage, so I decided to give NFS…

  • should i try fedora

    Rangeen, who happens to be the only Fedora ambassador in our college did a very good work by creating a local Fedora repository http://lug.nitdgp.ac.in/repository/fedora-local/ . I am an openSUSE user and I am satisfied with it, we also have a local packman mirror http://lug.nitdgp.ac.in/repository/packman/ which happens to be the biggest repo for openSUSE. But the…

  • why do i use linux

    There are many people around me obviously I am talking about Windows users, who ask me this question. I have a very simple answer. 1. I dont have to pay for it and to the various softwares that I use. Yes that is it. I realised this after Abhas Abhinav’s Talk during Mukti [strongest of…

  • server administration is a difficult task

    Just a week back I start to manage our GLUG server and since then it has turned out to be a nightmare for me. Every now and then something happens and people start pinging you. Whenever I go out and come to room I just type the url of the server on my browser to…

  • making direcories and symbolic links in apache web directory

    This made me worried for the past two days. Thanks to IRC I got the solution. Add these lines at the end of your default-server.conf file for apache. On opensuse it is in /etc/apache2/defualt-server.conf <Directory “path to directory like /srv/www/htdocs/download”> options Indexes Includes FollowSymLinks SymLinksifOwnerMatch ExecCGI MultiViews AllowOverride All Order allow,deny Allow from all </Directory>…