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Tue 28 May 2013

Yin and yang: dd and testdisk

Posted by ankur in Tech (300 words, approximately a 2 minute read)

Well, almost.

I maintain an external hard disk which has 2 partitions. One is dedicated to backups where deja-dup backs up once a day. The other is where all my TV/Films etc. go in. A few minutes back, in the excitement of updating my EEE to Fedora 19, I …

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Mon 27 May 2013

Fedora 20 elections: Townhall scheduler emails are out

Posted by ankur in Tech (62 words, approximately a 1 minute read)

I just finished sending out the emails requesting nominees to fill out their preferences for the various town halls (on whenisgood). If you're a nominee and haven't received your email, please contact me ASAP.

As soon as we have the town hall schedules set out, I'll begin looking for moderators …

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Wed 15 May 2013

Fedora Board, FESCo, FAmSCo and Fedora 20 name election process has begun!

Posted by ankur in Tech (104 words, approximately a 1 minute read)


Sun 12 May 2013

Setting up rygel on your Fedora system

Posted by ankur in Tech (344 words, approximately a 2 minute read)

rygel

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 …

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Thu 02 May 2013

Fedora 19 and a few bugs I've run into

Posted by ankur in Tech (613 words, approximately a 3 minute read)

Fedora 19 alpha banner

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 …

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