neuroscience/fedora/musings
Quite a bit actually! I've recently moved to Sydney to pursue a Masters of engineering (research) course. It's a two year course, which will probably be followed by a Ph.D. I guess I'm in this for the long haul now. I've been thinking of blogging since I got here …
I'm due to join university to start my masters course later this month. I'm currently busy readying everything to move to Sydney, and will be busy with orientation and getting settled once I get there. I will therefore be unavailable till the end of July. Please e-mail me at my …
I got my father an Android today: an HTC Explorer. (The Blackberry 3G plans here in India are too expensive). Of course, he had years of contacts built up in his Blackberry and I needed to migrate them. Here's how I did it:
1. Install barry
# yum install barry
We've all run into people who are interested in contributing. Quite a few times, these folks are completely new to F/LOSS: the environment, the workflow, the mailing lists. To make it a little easier for folks looking to contribute, we've set up dedicated channels where they can talk to …
Hello folks!
We've been recently looking to reduce the learning gradient that new folks need to hike up when they look to contribute to Fedora. Users looking to give back to the community is amazing. I feel we need to go out and give them as much help as we …
I've been meaning to write this post for quite a while now. Ever since I attended the session that Victor(Ting Chong Victor Yap) took at FUDCon KL 2012. It was a most interesting session. I really wanted to attend it, because the number of questions I get about creative …
The second session of the FAmSCo townhall will be held later today, May 28 2012 at 1700 UTC at #fedora-townhall, #fedora-townhall-public on Freenode
The entire schedule is available here.
This year's candidates for FAmSCo are:
It's time for stage two of the Fedora Elections: The townhalls! The candidates have answered the questionnaires. Now, it's your turn to ask them your queries in person!
The first FAmSCo townhall will be held later today, May 27 2012 at 1600 UTC at #fedora-townhall on Freenode
The entire schedule …
I'm a big fan of byobu. Even though folks have moved over to using tmux as the backend, I still use gnu screen. It works for me. Now, another tool that I'm a huge fan of is midnight commander, or as it's referred to "mc". Using the default keybindings that …