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Wed 01 December 2010

A new Dell Vostro 3400 Laptop

Posted by ankur in Other (182 words, approximately a 1 minute read)

I've just gotten over the phone with Dell Sales. I've almost ordered my new system, which is a Dell Vostro 3400 Laptop. Here is the package:

  1. Intel® CoreTM i5-560M Processor (2.66GHz,Turbo Boost 3.2Ghz, Dual Core, 4T, 3MB L3)
  2. No pre-loaded OS. Free Dos for the time being …

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Mon 29 November 2010

Some troubleshooting links

Posted by ankur in Tech (254 words, approximately a 2 minute read)

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 …

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Sun 28 November 2010

Text messaging woes

Posted by ankur in Other (339 words, approximately a 2 minute read)

Yes, it's a rant.

<rant>

Recently, I came across this article on text-messaging, and how this simple method of communication was taking over the world with more and more users turning to their thumbs for communication. (I can't recall where I came across the article sadly).

Well, text-messaging might be …

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Sun 28 November 2010

vim : copying to the system clipboard

Posted by ankur in Tech (267 words, approximately a 2 minute read)

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 …

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Tue 23 November 2010

Out for the month :(

Posted by ankur in Other (103 words, approximately a 1 minute read)

I recently posted that I'd be out for a week with a fried motherboard. It just got worse. It's beyond repair and the only thing to do is to get myself a new laptop. Since I have end semester exams from next week, I'm going to be too busy to …

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Tue 23 November 2010

The fedora distribution process needs your help!

Posted by ankur in Tech (166 words, approximately a 1 minute read)

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 …

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