How to create student webpage in IITB website

Visit the link 
https://stab-iitb.org/wiki/Using_Bighome

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Sources: 
http://www.ee.iitb.ac.in/wiki/labs/pclab/faq#website
http://www.ee.iitb.ac.in/eesa/homepage/
 
All the students of Electrical department, IIT Bombay have the facility to host their homepage on the EE server. The objective behind this is clearly to enable you to have your homepage with a worldwide access.

For Windows users
Visit http://www.ee.iitb.ac.in/eesa/homepage/

For Linux users

1. Go to terminal (Cntrl + Alt + T).
2. Type ssh -X eeusername@sharada.ee.iitb.ac.in (M.Tech students have 500MB storage space allowed).
3. Give the ee-mail password when asked (EE department students will get separate mail id and password. (Apart from the LDAP user id and password)).
4. Type nautilus. It will provide you the graphical user interface and you may modify your files there.
5. Go to public_html folder in the window newly opened.
6. Inside that folder you can keep your .html files images etc. needed for your home page.

Once you finished the above steps link to your home page should appear in the students list available in EE department website. (Eg: http://www.ee.iitb.ac.in/web/people/student_list/mtech/micro )

Note: In case of any problems you may contact admin@ee.iitb.ac.in

Installing Dropbox in Ubuntu

Courtesy: http://learningemperor.wordpress.com/2011/10/27/dropbox-needs-proprietary-daemon-solution/
  

1. Go to 'Synaptic package manager' and  type 'python-gpgme' in the search bar and install it.
2. Check whether your Ubuntu is 32 bit or 64 bit
1. Go to terminal and type 'uname -a'
1. Result for 32 bit:
   Linux discworld 2.6.38-8-generic #42-Ubuntu SMP Mon Apr 11 03:31:50 UTC 2011 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
2. Result for 64 bit:
   Linux discworld 2.6.38-8-generic #42-Ubuntu SMP Mon Apr 11 03:31:50 UTC 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
3. Download the daemon tool provided by the Dropbox
   32bit: http://www.dropbox.com/download?plat=lnx.x86
   64bit: http://www.dropbox.com/download?plat=lnx.x86_64
4. Extract the downloaded files in 'home' folder
5. Go to 'home' folder and  press 'cntrl+h'  to view the hidden files
6. Double click '.dropbox-dis'
7. Double click 'dropboxd'
8. Click 'run in Terminal', if it asks what to do with the file
9. Set up your proxy settings and click 'reconnect'
10. Create Dropbox account and enjoy sharing