How UP can lead India to knowledge based economy.

BJP has won UP assembly poll by huge margin, Yogi Adityanath has started office on war footing. In manifesto, BJP has announced that UP government would distribute free laptop and 1 Gb data connection with it. If this program is implemented in right way, UP may lead India to knowledge based economy.I have a few suggestions in this regard.

• Laptop should have AMD processor instead of Intel. This will save money.
• Money saved in processor should be used to provide as big hard drive as possible.Hard disk capacity of distributed laptop should be at least 512 Gb, preferably 1 Terabyte.
• I assume laptop would have some sort of Microsoft Windows operating system. It will take some time when Linux will be at par with Windows.For time being its alright.
• The laptops should have Libreoffice as office suite as it is free and open source. Features of Libreoffice are suffice for more than 99% of users who use Microsoft Office. https://www.libreoffice.org/download/download/
• The laptops should also have photo editing open source application GIMP installed on machines. GIMP is open source and free application instead of Photoshop. https://www.gimp.org/
• The laptops should have Wikipedia installed on it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download
• Students from 5th class should try to learn shell programming. To make this happen complete install of Cygwin should be available on the laptops. https://www.cygwin.com/
• The laptops should have free and open source text editor Notepad++ installed.Notepad++ have a lot of features including regular expressions. https://notepad-plus-plus.org/
• Laptops should have XAMPP installed. Students should be encourged to learn PHP and Mysql. So, e-books should be provided to do so.Students from class 8 should be encouraged to learn PHP and Mysql. https://www.apachefriends.org/
• Laptops should also Java installed on it.e-books for Java should be provided as well.Students from class 11th should be encouraged to learn Java. https://www.java.com/en/
• Laptops should have open source IDE (Integrated Development Environment) Eclipse installed with plug-in for Java and PHP. https://eclipse.org/ide/
• Laptop should also have Open Live Writer installed. It is a desktop blogging tool and supports Wordpress as well as Blogger. http://openlivewriter.org/
• There should be e-book to configure Blogger with own domain name and putting Google Adsense on it.
• E-books should also be available on laptop to provide information about Internet Marketing and various affiliate programs.
• E-books should also introduce students about internet real estate aka Domain Names and how to make money from it.
• Laptops should also have all free books like Gita, Mahabharat, Ramayan, Premchand’s work etc so that students may read it in free time.

Some Useful Links
http://www.warriorforum.com – For internet Marketing
http://www.domainstate.com – Domain Name Forum
http://www.inforum.in – Domain Name Forum dedicated to .in extension
http://www.idnforums.com – Domain Name Forum dedicated to IDN domains
http://www.digitalpoint.com – Internet Marketing etc forum
http://www.opensourcecms.com – Listing and demo of content management systems based in PHP and Mysql
http://www.javaranch.com – Place to learn Java
http://www.fiverr.com – One may get a job worth 5 USD by this website.
http://www.elance.com – One may bid for projects posted on the website.
http://www.odesk.com – Similar as elance.

I am sure the change will get reflected in UP economy within 2 years if laptop distribution is done in right way. What’s your opinion? Feel free to add more meat to it.

XAMPP for Windows Installation and Configuration

I had used LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP) since long. My main laptop is dual boot with with good old Windows XP and Ubuntu.I use a few critical tools that need Windows and these tools runs almost all the time. Hence, working with LAMPP was not an options. I needed something similar on Windows. I wanted Apache with PHP and MySQL support. An easy to use environment where I can experiment with Joomla in short term and PHP and MySQL. As it would be an development environment, security was an non-issue.

XAMPP a easy to use (Apache, PHP, MySQL, PHP and Perl) environment was the thing I needed. Best thing is it comes for Linux, Windows,Solaris and Mac. Windows version have a few option as well.XAMPP for Windows exists in three different flavors:

Installer

Probably the most comfortable way to install XAMPP.

ZIP:

For purists: XAMPP as ordinary ZIP archive.

7zip:

For purists with low bandwidth: XAMPP as 7zip archive.

I did choose 7zip format. Extracted in a folder E:\xampp and ran the program E:\xampp\xampp-control.exe. This program is known as XAMPP control panel. As the name suggests you can start  or stop the server component that comes with XAMPP.

I started the Apache and MYSql server and worked with dowloaded Joomla code as well as Phpxref for Joomla code documentation (using Perl). It worked with charm. No configuration was needed. This is great development environment on Windows. Also did use MOD_REWRITE with apache and result was pleasant.

I would highly recommend this environment to people who are looking for LAMPP (Linux, Apache, MySql, PHP and Perl environment on windows.

how to disable autorun feature to stop being infected from USB virus and malware

As per a study by Pandalabs 25% of worms are specially targeted to spread through USB storage devices.I think in India, scenario is worse,most of the cybercafés and home computers are inadequately secured.USB connected devices spread virus and worm from one computer to another.

How it works

autorun.inf is text file in Windows that is used by autorun and autoplay feature of the Windows. The file should be kept in root of the volume.This file specifies which file to run automatically when volume is available on Windows machine.Crooks modify this file to automatically run malware on USB drive and corrupt the computer.

 

What to do?

• disable auto-run feature on system to stop being infected from USB virus.This is useful just in case your computer is not up-to-date with antivirus and antimalware software
• create a blank directory named autorun.inf on your USB drive, this will help in case you use your USB drive on multiple computers like cybercafe,home and office.

How to disable auto-run feature on Windows XP professional

Microsoft have a group policy editor in Windows XP professional.Group policy editor can be used to disable auto run feature.Login as a user who has administrative privileges.

•   At “start” –> “Run” –> gpedit.msc .It will open group policy editor.

• Under Computer Configuration, expand “Administrative Templates”-> Double click on “System” – > In the right pane look for setting “Turnoff auto play”.Double click it.

• Now choose “Enabled” and from drop down “Turn of autoplay on:”, choose “All drives”.Click okay.All done.

How to disable auto-run feature on Windows 7 or Windows XP home 

You will need to edit registry settings of these operating system.Follow Microsoft directions.

Disabling auto run feature will prevent your computer from being corrupted by USB malwares, which rely on auto run feature.However, Its good idea to secure your USB drive as well so that autorun.inf based malware may not use your USB drive to spread these viruses and malwares.

On a good Windows system,which is virus free, insert your USB drive.Explore your USB drive and look for any autorun.inf file.If found,delete it.Now create a blank folder and name it to autorun.inf in root of USB drive file system. Now, whenever you will take your USB drive to cyber cafe , the infected computers may still copy malware on USB drive but they can’t write to autorun.inf. Hence, your USB drive will be not used to spread autorun.inf based virus and malware.