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Fri 04 November 2011

FUDCon India Pune: Day 1

Posted by ankur in Tech (99 words, approximately a 1 minute read)

It's been amazing! I've

  • met loadsa people, jsmith, azneita, jsimon, and a lot of my fedora india colleagues
  • GPG signing party
  • attended many talks!
  • took many photo
  • worked on my sessions for tomorrow
  • even did a package review!
  • tweeted about all of it
  • ate great food!

It may come down …

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Sun 16 October 2011

RPMFusion packages that need co-maintainers

Posted by ankur in Tech (93 words, approximately a 1 minute read)

RPMFusion

Some portion of Nicolas' mail on theRPMFusion devel list

To sum-up, the currently orphaned packages, searching for a new owner are:
ushare-freeworld.
libdlna
xmms-freeworld , see https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1963

Theses packages would another owner also:
(As I don't have news from Chen Lei supercyper)
smpeg …

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Fri 14 October 2011

My keys

Posted by ankur in Tech (61 words, approximately a 1 minute read)

http://www.indiatalkies.com/images/success-key-8522s.jpg

I've created new ssh and gpg keys for my fedora accounts as was required.

My public ssh key is:

ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAADAQABAAABAQDk/TkU8aihoIEuNWQSZ7gA7B1U/TjHzU9aUIDmVuS1i3HPwPbmdGAS4+Nx/9yK2tRMNUWBowc3mss8GpD7rRhZGuNb8Ik41t0qBdgtssNTEEZxpwI/9UQ7Ueduqc23U3f1LbgVSkHJ40pHEh0WGD5+Ed9KgXQJk6elGXZ7M2NP+WvIXDiqFH46oUwGRf1yOD+wgOxT2sbGoVe1E2lO87Hq+aLRkanVbg7rbeqlacA/sg4z3K0RnTJs1t6Nyd03Kbja2ywKeyiI1mw8+YvbY4zhEQaB20Iyw6Vsl9HBraJ1jl8SYqQITejMp/08WN2DlgSQEmPfh4OTxtJjScd2+kvf ankur@ankur.pc

I'm going to sign my emails using GPG. If the option is available …

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Wed 05 October 2011

How in heaven's name did my language change?

Posted by ankur in Tech (73 words, approximately a 1 minute read)

I checked for an update. FF7 was available. I ran yum update. On reboot, I got this:

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(Click the image to see it full size)

I swear I did not change the system language. I have no clue how it happened. Not so surprisingly, I have no clue how I …

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Tue 04 October 2011

FTP usage

Posted by ankur in Tech (148 words, approximately a 1 minute read)

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At the end of my last post, I had mentioned that a combination of swiFTP and ftp is  a convenient way of syncing your notes. Now, I make it even easier! Write a script like so:

cd ~/.local/share/gnote/

ftp -n $1 2121 << EndOfCommand123
user myswiftpusername myswiftppassword
cd sdcard …

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