neuroscience/fedora/musings
We coders/developers/geeks are lazy. It's no secret. We like to get maximum work done with minimum effort, which is beautiful. Being lazy, and busy at the internship, I wasn't getting much exercise. My internship finished two days back, and it's time for me to go home and get …
I've just started using GNUCash for my meagre accounting needs. I joined up the user's mailing list to learn a little bit more. A recent thread:
"How do you pronounce GNU-Cash"
:D
Frankly, we're working pretty slow. That's the reason, we're not going to deny it at all. But YES, we do have valid reasons (excuses) for this. I'll try to convince you that it isn't really our fault.
The fedora-tour project relies heavily on clutter and the graphics support from our …
There's an ongoing discussion on 64bit flash on the fedora-test list. I learnt that Adobe had yanked the 64bit flash plugin (*I call it "meh!!", and it will be henceforth referred to as "meh!!" in this post*). I went back to the fedora flash page on the wiki and installed …
The Department of Computer Science and Automation at the Indian Institute of Sciences held a one day workshop to provide an insight to faculty and students into the PhD programme. Luckily, I'm interning here at the department and had the chance to attend it!
Here's the schedule that was followed …
I recently announced the availability of loki-0.1.1, the first release. I've added the notification bubble to it, and made the Autotools etc adhere more to the conventions/standards. I've also set up a temporary yum repo for F13 so you folks can try it out! The repo file …
I have a ricoh webcam inbuilt in my dv6000 laptop. I had an awful time getting it to work , seeing the bad condition of support for Linux. Well,better webcam was a feature for F10 and really got a lot of cameras working. Well, my turn's finally here. Firmware for …
Blobby volley 2 recently saw its 0.9b release. It truly is addictive!! I built and pushed an update to F-13 a few minutes back. Happy volleying :)
A screenshot is available here
We had shortly discussed an app that notifies the user of a new comic strip at the recent FAD. I got down to it last week and have come up with a release. I call it "loki". It's really raw right now. It uses libcurl and libconfig to read from …