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I've been off the blogosphere for almost a month now. No, it wasn't self-control, I just didn't have a system to work on! My new laptop arrived two days back, and I've jumped into completing …
I took my end semester exam today on the design of theUnix operating system. Most of it was a breeze. However, before the exam, a little confusion cropped up regarding the "working set" algorithm in "on demand paging". I had initially thought that it was just a regular LRU …
Came across this page while surfing/reading around on the internet. Boy, I sure won't forget the difference now.
I recently posted mylist of irssi aliases that come handy on the fedora IRC channels. Today, I was experimenting and found something new. Suppose you head into #fedora, and ask for help. Someone asks you to fpaste something, lets say :
$ lsusb | fpaste
Now, instead of changing to another terminal …
Edit : There's a list ofcommand line clients for dict.org here already, came across if after I had written the script. What a pity :/
So,
$ su -c 'yum -y install dictd' $ dict -f fedora 3 definitions found dict.org 2628 gcide The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0 …
Most of us who hang around on #fedora have a number of aliases that come in handy while troubleshooting. I thought I'd put them up here so people could have a look. You can place these in your ~/.irssi/config file.
fedoraYumConfig = "/me points $0 to http://fedorasolved.org/post-install-solutions …
Copying a file off vim to paste some place is sometimes a problem. If you have line numbers enabled, you must disable them before selecting the text, plus you manually need to re-compose your lines that broke during the paste etc. I was pretty sure that there would be an …
Hello!! Do you send out fedora media to people? Do you distribute fedora to your classmates and colleagues? Do you hold and attend events to help distribute fedora to more and more people? Most of us do, and are therefore a part of the Fedora Distribution Team. The Distribution team …