neuroscience/fedora/musings
Hi folks,
There has been a change in the way livecd-iso-to-disk works when using a
DVD image. In the past, you had to have one bootable partition on the
USB media you chose to use, and livecd-iso-to-disk would use it to set
up the media. It would copy the required …
To maintain tradition, I installed beta on my system yesterday. Fedora 17 beta is pretty good. It gave me both some pleasant and unpleasant surprises. I'm just going to note some of them down here to give them some visibility.
I'm really not …
Note: This is at best, a hack.
Currently yumdownloader does not download x86_64 packages on an i686 host. The --archlist argument is not sufficient, and setarch x86_64 does not work. The --archlist argument doesn't work because yum picks up repository information from the configuration files where $basearch is expanded to …
I've submitted a package review for PyCscope which is Cscopefor Python files. Cscope on it's own isn't designed for python files at all. It doesn't work very well according to my google searches.
I've roped in Praveen to review it for me, so expect it in the repositories sometime …
I've been looking to get my finger print reader working on Fedora for quite a while now. Alas, fprint hasn't gotten down to writing drivers for my hard-ware yet. However, someone else did the work for them. The code isn't included in the libfprint mainline yet. I've filed a bug …
Parcellite is a stripped down, basic-features-only clipboard manager with a small memory footprint for those who like simplicity.
Of late it's been annoying me: It would copy any text that I selected to the clipboard! I'll explain: Let us assume that I have a url on the clipboard to be …
Dear life,
I got hit in the eye with a squash ball earlier today. I was trying to coach a tyro. I'm grateful for the positive reinforcement you give me when I make an effort to help people.
Thanks,
Yours,
Ankur
I'm a vim junkie (In spite of Sindre's numerous events to convert me into an Emacs person!). I'm also a LaTeX junkie. There are quite a few reasons behind my love for LaTeX:
Most recently, I did my laundry ;). The transition from a college student to a corporate employee is taking me longer than it does most people. Since I'm due to start my post graduate courses in a few months, I guess I'm subconsciously resisting the transition. I can't wait to get …
To start with, the organization application deadline is March 9, which is right around the corner. If you have some ideas for this year's program, it's time to get them up on the wiki!
I was a participant last year. Based on my experience, here are some things that you …