neuroscience/fedora/musings
This week was slow from the GSoC perspective. My tasks were to reorganize the wiki and to begin helping out with reviews. I'm working on helping out with the vxl review request at the time and will probably have something on it by tomorrow night. The wiki will also be …
Somy proposal for the GSoC got selected this year. I'm working with Fedora Medical this time. Even though we're supposed to begin work sometime in May, we've decided to give ourselves a head start and begin work. My task for week 1 was to shift the packaging task info …
Yes, your talk time is carried forward when you recharge to increase your validity. But, it only happens if you recharge *before* your validity expires. This is unlike cell phone connection providers, who let you have your talk time if you recharge within a certain period (generally 3 months) after …
So you don't go banging your head around the next time you try to use a static variable in a class in C++ : http://weblogs.asp.net/whaggard/archive/2004/11/05/252685.aspx
Precise reason : http://weblogs.asp.net/whaggard/archive/2004/11/05/252685.aspx#2342841
I've just gotten over the phone with Dell Sales. I've almost ordered my new system, which is a Dell Vostro 3400 Laptop. Here is the package:
I had initially begun with my non technical blog. After a while, I gave it up and moved to this tech blog. Now, since college is almost over, and I'll be going places (I hope to), I've resurrected the blog. It's not going to be on planet.fp.o because …
I prefer reading a pdf in evince than the .doc or .od? in OO.o. Evince is much lighter than OO.o. In order to convert your .od? files to .pdfs, you can export them from OO.o. Here's another way of doing it, and you don't need to run …
Yes, it's a rant.
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Recently, I came across this article on text-messaging, and how this simple method of communication was taking over the world with more and more users turning to their thumbs for communication. (I can't recall where I came across the article sadly).
Well, text-messaging might be …
For quite sometime now, I've been pondering over this issue: vim-latex wouldn't load when I began writing a new .tex file. As a result, I'd get errors such as ":TTemplate command not found". I found the "bug" today. From the vim-latex site:
" OPTIONAL: Starting with Vim 7, the filetype of …
I recently posted that I'd be out for a week with a fried motherboard. It just got worse. It's beyond repair and the only thing to do is to get myself a new laptop. Since I have end semester exams from next week, I'm going to be too busy to …