neuroscience/fedora/musings
Being a research student is really tough. I mean tough. The most difficult part is keeping up the self discipline, day after day, week after week. As a research student, you make your own schedule, you even make your own syllabus pretty much. I handle the syllabus part just fine …
It's been just about a year since I started my research career as a masters student here at the University of Technology, Sydney. I'm working on bio-mimetic navigation for this course, focussed around computational modelling of head direction cells. This post is a traditional "Hello world!" post and documents my …
0ad is an awesome awesome awesome game! For anyone who's played an Age of empires style game, you absolutely must try 0ad!
On Fedora, run:
sudo yum install 0ad #and start playing!
Game development isn't easy, and 0ad is requesting donations. I just donated the little that I could. If …
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I went ahead and updated to Fedora 20 using the Alpha RC3. One reason is to help test it, provide karma etc., the other is that I simply couldn't wait to use the new shiny packages!
I …
The meeting last night was a really good one. We got quite a few details sorted. We're finally moving towards creating a live image that we can give out to folks to try and give us feedback on.
The links that zodbot generated for us are:
A fedora-medical IRC meeting will be held in #fedora-meeting/-1/-2 later today. Please join us if you're interested in the SIG. The meeting will discuss the current state and what we must do to quickly get an unofficial spin out to collect feedback. This is my mail to the …
Some of you may have noticed that my blog wasn't coming up on the planet recently. No? *sigh*. Well, Ralph(threebean) finally dug out the "bug" earlier today. The first clue was the error from the planet that Kevin was nice enough to get for us:
ERROR:planet.runner:Error …
This is stuff that I do all year around, mostly on a daily basis. This comprises of:
This is probably common knowledge by now, but I thought I'd put it up anyway.
Fedmsg is a great method that infra uses to get updates on what's going on in Fedora. One can use the gnome shell extension to get a set of updates from it. I don't use …