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 …

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Thought I'd read up some QC (I don't feel like working at the moment).

In this comic strip he says:

Before you send me angry, tear-stained e(mo)mails, let me just say that you are perfectly entitled to enjoy listening to any of the bands that Marten and Faye …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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[Ankur@localhost SRPMS]$ yum search Food

Loaded plugins: auto-update-debuginfo, fastestmirror, presto, protectbase, refresh-packagekit

Found 121 installed debuginfo package(s)

Enabling fedora-debuginfo: Fedora 13 - x86_64 - Debug

Enabling rpmfusion-nonfree-debuginfo: RPM Fusion for Fedora 13 - Nonfree - Debug

Enabling rpmfusion-free-updates-debuginfo: RPM Fusion for Fedora 13 - Free - Updates Debug

Enabling rpmfusion-nonfree-updates-debuginfo: RPM Fusion for Fedora …

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We coders/developers/geeks are lazy. It's no secret. We like to get maximum work done with minimum effort, which is beautiful. Being lazy, and busy at the internship, I wasn't getting much exercise. My internship finished two days back, and it's time for me to go home and get …

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I just came across surfraw. It's awesome!

yum install surfraw

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I've just started using GNUCash for my meagre accounting needs. I joined up the user's mailing list to learn a little bit more. A recent thread:

"How do you pronounce GNU-Cash"

:D

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Frankly, we're working pretty slow. That's the reason, we're not going to deny it at all. But YES, we do have valid reasons (excuses) for this. I'll try to convince you that it isn't really our fault.

The fedora-tour project relies heavily on clutter and the graphics support from our …

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