neuroscience/fedora/musings
On my previous blog post, a comment pointed out that nautilus has limitations for developers since it doesn't have version control support. I found rabbitvcs on digging up, and it works really well. This post is intended to just get it a little more visibility. Here's how to set it …
The subject says it all. Since Gnome3 was released, or even in the works, all I've read about it is negative. I assume there must be posts that compliment it too, but forever reason, I've only run into what is now termed "Gnome bashing". I'm not going analyse why people …
I finally got down to getting my infrastructure set up to send out media here in Australia. I've bought and burnt the DVDs already. I went out to the post office today and found out what the cheapest method of mailing single DVDs would be. Here's a cost breakup:
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I personally like Gnome3 quite a bit. It works really well for me. That's a story for another day, however.
I've been looking for ways to integrate mpd (Media Player Daemon) better with gnome-shell to improve my GUI experience. I use ncmpcpp in my terminal instance, but it's always nice …
I haven't been active with the free-media programme since moving to Australia towards the end of last year. I've been quite busy with university and settling down. Now that I'm no more new here, I'm going to try and restart my contribution to the free-media program and send out DVDs …
Attention all fedorians!
This is an urgent but gentle reminder that the nomination period for the elections ends today (November 13 at 2359 UTC). Please update the wiki page with your nominations before the nominations period ends later today if you'd like to be considered and voted for! All the …
Earlier today, I attempted to update my BIOS to the latest version that Dell provides me with. My system doesn't suspend correctly, and this was an attempt at covering all my bases that Adam suggested in this bug report. Alas, it didn't work - my system still doesn't suspend correctly. Nevertheless …
It's often handy to create hand-outs for your presentations. (I need them for my master's assessments at the moment). It's really simple to make hand-outs. What we do is first create a presentation, like we normally do. Then, since the presentation generally contains overlays (the pause command and more), we …
This isn't so much as for others as it's a "note to self".
I've recently begun actual work at my research course. Obviously, I prefer to use Octave to Matlab. Here's how to use the SURFmex toolkit for Matlab with Octave:
Download the source and unzip it someplace. You can …