Fedora Board, FESCo, FAmSCo and Fedora 20 name election process has begun!
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I've been trying to get rygel to work on my system. It's been slightly difficult since it uses a dynamic port by default and you need to open these ports each time you want to use a client over the network. At the moment, the firewall-config GUI doesn't mention rygel …
I generally only update once beta is released. This time however, I really wanted to play with GNOME3.8 and well, "accepted my fate" as anaconda puts it. Fedora 19 is pretty stable for me already. I did a fresh install. Anaconda worked well. The first glitch was both anaconda …
I was looking to well, "beautify" my system a little. I get these urges from time to time, yes. I found one that was in the Fedora fonts packaging wish list called "Anka Coder Fonts". They do look really good. I prefer them to the default Gnome3 monospace font. I …
I need to use the PR2-simulator package on my groovy installation. One must first set up gazebo for this.
Installing gazebo is pretty straight forward as described in this post.
If you used the instructions from the ros wiki, you'd have a ros workspace set up.
A few devel packages …
I needed to install the openni_camera ROS Groovy package on my Fedora 18 system. I ran into a few issues which I managed to solve. Documenting it all here for any one else who might need it:
You need to clone the git repository in your catkin workspace src directory …
I've finally taken the leap and gotten myself some hosting space. I've set up a wordpress instance and moved my blog data already. I just changed the planet feed.
To personal hosting space! Cheers!
I absolutely love my laptop. I spend pretty much my entire day at my laptop, whether I'm working on Fedora related tasks, or on my research tasks. Now, spending this much time with my laptop has generated a special affection in me for this object. Generally, the laptop does reciprocate …
ROS is the Robot Operating System. It provides a huge set of software that can be used to robotics research. It provides simulators, algorithms and well, a lot more. For example, it lets one interface with the PR2 robot!
I've only learnt of ROS now, during …
On my previous blog post, a comment pointed out that nautilus has limitations for developers since it doesn't have version control support. I found rabbitvcs on digging up, and it works really well. This post is intended to just get it a little more visibility. Here's how to set it …