neuroscience/fedora/musings
The Department of Computer Science and Automation at the Indian Institute of Sciences held a one day workshop to provide an insight to faculty and students into the PhD programme. Luckily, I'm interning here at the department and had the chance to attend it!
Here's the schedule that was followed …
I recently announced the availability of loki-0.1.1, the first release. I've added the notification bubble to it, and made the Autotools etc adhere more to the conventions/standards. I've also set up a temporary yum repo for F13 so you folks can try it out! The repo file …
I have a ricoh webcam inbuilt in my dv6000 laptop. I had an awful time getting it to work , seeing the bad condition of support for Linux. Well,better webcam was a feature for F10 and really got a lot of cameras working. Well, my turn's finally here. Firmware for …
Blobby volley 2 recently saw its 0.9b release. It truly is addictive!! I built and pushed an update to F-13 a few minutes back. Happy volleying :)
A screenshot is available here
We had shortly discussed an app that notifies the user of a new comic strip at the recent FAD. I got down to it last week and have come up with a release. I call it "loki". It's really raw right now. It uses libcurl and libconfig to read from …
I've been using vim since I began using Fedora/Linux. Today I came across new stuff. They're worth taking look at :
Have fun!
F13 just released a while back. An awesome release that's being discussed everywhere!! Folks here in Bangalore had been really itching to celebrate this one with a release party. Rangeen and Deependra took the initiative on this one and announced the release party a few days back on the fedora-india …
I just finished installing a F13 i386 on VirtualBox to use for testing and other purposes. Here's a screenshot :)
I've been around the Fedora Community for a while now. It's been almost two years since Rahul took an irc workshop that got me started into packaging and growing into a contributor. In all this while, I've been to a foss.in, a GNUnify where I've met up with more …
Today is Day 1 of my 2 month internship at the IISc.
I'm at the department of Computer Science and Automation and the place is awesome! The corridors are filled with labs. They have white boards citing quotes from scientists and contributors. I came across quotes from Stroustrup, CAR Hoare …