neuroscience/fedora/musings
I took my end semester exam today on the design of theUnix operating system. Most of it was a breeze. However, before the exam, a little confusion cropped up regarding the "working set" algorithm in "on demand paging". I had initially thought that it was just a regular LRU …
Came across this page while surfing/reading around on the internet. Boy, I sure won't forget the difference now.
I recently posted mylist of irssi aliases that come handy on the fedora IRC channels. Today, I was experimenting and found something new. Suppose you head into #fedora, and ask for help. Someone asks you to fpaste something, lets say :
$ lsusb | fpaste
Now, instead of changing to another terminal …
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:
Edit : There's a list ofcommand line clients for dict.org here already, came across if after I had written the script. What a pity :/
So,
$ su -c 'yum -y install dictd' $ dict -f fedora 3 definitions found dict.org 2628 gcide The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0 …
Most of us who hang around on #fedora have a number of aliases that come in handy while troubleshooting. I thought I'd put them up here so people could have a look. You can place these in your ~/.irssi/config file.
fedoraYumConfig = "/me points $0 to http://fedorasolved.org/post-install-solutions …
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 …
Copying a file off vim to paste some place is sometimes a problem. If you have line numbers enabled, you must disable them before selecting the text, plus you manually need to re-compose your lines that broke during the paste etc. I was pretty sure that there would be an …