neuroscience/fedora/musings
A few of us got together a few days back to edit up and show some love to the fp.o wiki. We concentrated more on the Category:Distribution pages. We archived obsolete ones and marked quite a few out dated pages as {{needs love}}. Sometime in the near future …
Recently, I found myself wondering what the easiest, laziest way of toggling the screen saver state would be.
You're not interacting with your system, but, you are still using it. You may be watching a film, or taking notes off a document or website. I frequently need to refer …
I recently read this blog post which describes how to paste to the KDE pastebin from the terminal using pastebinit. It is worth mentioning that we have two pasting utilities in fedora at the moment, one is fpaste, the other is the nautilus-pastebin plugin which you can use for uploading …
Fedora 15 will see evolution 2.92 which has the remove-duplicates in it. Since Fedora 14 will not see the 2.92 series, I've built the plugin for Fedora 14 and created a fedorapeople.org repo.
I've had "contribute to RPMFusion" on my TODO list for a while now. I've finally gotten down to it. I'm going to start packaging "frets on fire". If you have some cycles to spare, have a look at http://rpmfusion.org/Wishlist for a package that interests you.
Evolution has moved to using the XDG standard for user directories. Your evolution data is now stored in ~/.local/share/evolution instead of ~/.evolution. If you weren't already aware, it's time to update your backup confs. The change happened in 2.32 iirc.
I have recently been busy helping my elder sister with her literature review. I can not help her much in collecting matter etc. since I know nothing about her subject (biotechnology), but I have been doing the formatting of her review using LaTeX. A lot of her citations are from …
Apparently, there's a new document format in the air. It's called "xps". Frankly, I did not know about this one. Someone I know unknowingly managed to use it for their travel tickets and I had to do the looking up to somehow print these documents. OpenOffice does not support the …
