I had to, I had no choice
I really had no choice. I really wanted to stick to nouveau for my nvidia card, but it was holding up on development of the fedora-tour (see my numerous posts regarding the bug and segmentation faults). I finally gave in and switched to kmod-nvidia from RPMFusion. No segmentation fault now …
Some free-media statistics
I was housekeeping the new free-media tickets from India this morning. Since I was manually going over tickets, I thought I'd spend some more time and collect some statistics for this month's tickets. I'm not going to make any deductions from these, I'll let the numbers do the taking. If …
Weekly update
This week till 3/9/10.
Here's what I've been up to this week.
Fried Chicken ROCKS!
I've been eating aLOTof chicken this week. I'm having this awesome INR 65 combo from the "Asian Flava" Stall at the Food Court. It carries:
- a plate full of rice.
- A …
Oh! my system had a remote I had forgotten about!!
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I've to present a seminar as part of my syllabus for the semester. I was looking for one of those remote controllers to make the seminar COOLER. Weirdly enough, I remembered that my laptop came with a remote …
End of dormant spree
I've been just a teenee bit busy in the past few days. (Exams and other things that had to be taken care of). I think I've managed to clear it all out so I can get back to my normal work schedule (which has a lot of Fedora work in …
From QC
How to request media from Fedora Ambassadors
In the wake of a long thread on the Fedora India mailing list, I've drafted a page that tries to explain the steps to be taken to request Fedora Media from an Ambassador. This page hopes to encourage users to use methods other than the free-media programme (India is receiving …
If the recent upgrade "wiped" your accounts from Empathy
The recent upgrade caused my Empathy client to somehow forget the accounts that I had configured. (The ~/.mission-control/accounts/accounts.cfg file is intact). A quick post to the devel list, here is what you need to do to get it working again:
chcon -t bin_t /usr/libexec/mission-control* /usr …
loki renamed "hleahtor"
I finally got down to work.
1st order of the day -> rename loki.
My first search gave me the answer. Loki will now be called**Hleahtor**. "Hleahtor" is a synonym for "laughter". It's archaic English and isn't used a lot any more. I am a hundred percent sure there isn't …
