neuroscience/fedora/musings
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 …
As the title reads, my system crashed in the morning today. It's not the hard disk. It looks like the mother board is fried. The system has been sent for repair. Therefore until I get a new system, or this one repaired, I will not be able to respond to …
First install the required package:
$ yum install ImageMagick
Then,
$ cd /path/to/photos/to/resize $ for i in *.JPG ; do convert $i -resize 25% new$i; done
That's pretty much it! This is very very simple. You might have to check if the file names have spaces etc. (my camera …
I've got this habit of using rm and Shift + delete when I come across a file that I'm not using. It's been costly at times when I've removed files that I would later need. Now, since I've paid dearly a few times, I've decided that the following are a must …
I'm a regular vim user. Recently I came across the c-vim package which adds support to vim for C and C++. Most of you are already aware of this, for those who aren't here's a start.
You can get it here : http://vim.sourceforge.net/scripts/script.php?script_id=213 …