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 …

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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 …

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Just a screen shot of what I've been trying to do with `"hleahtor"`_. It's coming along, but will take sometime before it's usable enough for a release.

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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 …

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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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[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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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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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 …

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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 …

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