neuroscience/fedora/musings
To maintain tradition, I installed beta on my system yesterday. Fedora 17 beta is pretty good. It gave me both some pleasant and unpleasant surprises. I'm just going to note some of them down here to give them some visibility.
I'm really not …
Note: This is at best, a hack.
Currently yumdownloader does not download x86_64 packages on an i686 host. The --archlist argument is not sufficient, and setarch x86_64 does not work. The --archlist argument doesn't work because yum picks up repository information from the configuration files where $basearch is expanded to …
I've submitted a package review for PyCscope which is Cscopefor Python files. Cscope on it's own isn't designed for python files at all. It doesn't work very well according to my google searches.
I've roped in Praveen to review it for me, so expect it in the repositories sometime …
I've been looking to get my finger print reader working on Fedora for quite a while now. Alas, fprint hasn't gotten down to writing drivers for my hard-ware yet. However, someone else did the work for them. The code isn't included in the libfprint mainline yet. I've filed a bug …
Parcellite is a stripped down, basic-features-only clipboard manager with a small memory footprint for those who like simplicity.
Of late it's been annoying me: It would copy any text that I selected to the clipboard! I'll explain: Let us assume that I have a url on the clipboard to be …
I'm a vim junkie (In spite of Sindre's numerous events to convert me into an Emacs person!). I'm also a LaTeX junkie. There are quite a few reasons behind my love for LaTeX:
Most recently, I did my laundry ;). The transition from a college student to a corporate employee is taking me longer than it does most people. Since I'm due to start my post graduate courses in a few months, I guess I'm subconsciously resisting the transition. I can't wait to get …
To start with, the organization application deadline is March 9, which is right around the corner. If you have some ideas for this year's program, it's time to get them up on the wiki!
I was a participant last year. Based on my experience, here are some things that you …
Hello Fedorians!
We need you to make a recommendation for the APAC FUDCon ASAP:
ATTENTION AMBASSADORS
If you haven't already, please read Robyn's mail to the fudcon-planning list[1] stressing that the APAC FUDCon will need to be deferred to next year if a decision is not made quickly. It …
I've been a package maintainer for quite a while now. Yet, it was just about a minute ago, that I learnt of the "easyfix" key word. Here's how I ran into it:
20:27 Is there a way to identify fedora bugs on bugzilla which can be dealt by people …