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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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Fri 30 September 2011

What is Ask Fedora?

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

Ask fedora is a question-answer style user forum where everyone can solve their queries. It's incredibly easy to use! Sign up using one of the many log in methods (including open id, google accounts) and start asking questions today!

Many thanks to mether, pjp, praveen and a host of others …

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