neuroscience/fedora/musings
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 …
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 …
Hello!! Do you send out fedora media to people? Do you distribute fedora to your classmates and colleagues? Do you hold and attend events to help distribute fedora to more and more people? Most of us do, and are therefore a part of the Fedora Distribution Team. The Distribution team …
I have been working on odin, on and off this semester as my mini-project. Odin is a simple zero sum game. I've currently implemented a two player and a single player mode, where you can play against a simple minimax based AI. It's autotoolized, so easy to install and set …
As the title reads, my system crashed in the morning today. It's not the hard disk. It looks like the mother board is fried. The system has been sent for repair. Therefore until I get a new system, or this one repaired, I will not be able to respond to …
Transmission-2.12 is going to be released in a few days. However, it's not going to be a general bugfix release. There is going to be removal of some features in that one. Since we didn't want to push the 2.12 release to F14 users, we went "cherry picking …