neuroscience/fedora/musings
I personally like Gnome3 quite a bit. It works really well for me. That's a story for another day, however.
I've been looking for ways to integrate mpd (Media Player Daemon) better with gnome-shell to improve my GUI experience. I use ncmpcpp in my terminal instance, but it's always nice …
I haven't been active with the free-media programme since moving to Australia towards the end of last year. I've been quite busy with university and settling down. Now that I'm no more new here, I'm going to try and restart my contribution to the free-media program and send out DVDs …
Attention all fedorians!
This is an urgent but gentle reminder that the nomination period for the elections ends today (November 13 at 2359 UTC). Please update the wiki page with your nominations before the nominations period ends later today if you'd like to be considered and voted for! All the …
Earlier today, I attempted to update my BIOS to the latest version that Dell provides me with. My system doesn't suspend correctly, and this was an attempt at covering all my bases that Adam suggested in this bug report. Alas, it didn't work - my system still doesn't suspend correctly. Nevertheless …
It's often handy to create hand-outs for your presentations. (I need them for my master's assessments at the moment). It's really simple to make hand-outs. What we do is first create a presentation, like we normally do. Then, since the presentation generally contains overlays (the pause command and more), we …
This isn't so much as for others as it's a "note to self".
I've recently begun actual work at my research course. Obviously, I prefer to use Octave to Matlab. Here's how to use the SURFmex toolkit for Matlab with Octave:
Download the source and unzip it someplace. You can …
Quite a bit actually! I've recently moved to Sydney to pursue a Masters of engineering (research) course. It's a two year course, which will probably be followed by a Ph.D. I guess I'm in this for the long haul now. I've been thinking of blogging since I got here …
I'm due to join university to start my masters course later this month. I'm currently busy readying everything to move to Sydney, and will be busy with orientation and getting settled once I get there. I will therefore be unavailable till the end of July. Please e-mail me at my …
I got my father an Android today: an HTC Explorer. (The Blackberry 3G plans here in India are too expensive). Of course, he had years of contacts built up in his Blackberry and I needed to migrate them. Here's how I did it:
1. Install barry
# yum install barry