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2024

Mon 25 November 2024
Accessing UCL VPN using OpenConnect on Linux systems
Fri 06 September 2024
Week 27--36 update
Mon 01 July 2024
Week 26 update
Fri 21 June 2024
Week 25 update
Mon 17 June 2024
Week 24 update
Tue 11 June 2024
Week 23 update
Mon 03 June 2024
Week 22 update
Tue 28 May 2024
Week 21 update
Mon 20 May 2024
Week 20 update
Fri 10 May 2024
Week 19 update

2023

Sat 02 December 2023
Vit aliases to view tasks over different periods

2022

Sat 29 October 2022
Isolating Tmux windows to prevent systemd-oomd from killing the server

2021

Tue 12 January 2021
Restarting regular Fedora India meetings

2020

Sat 04 April 2020
20200404: What I did this week
Sun 15 March 2020
A Vim script function to select signatures in Neomutt

2019

Sun 27 January 2019
Useful DuckDuckGo bangs
Thu 24 January 2019
New maintainers needed for these packages
Sun 13 January 2019
NeuroFedora updated: 2019 week 2
Sun 06 January 2019
NeuroFedora update: 2019 week 1

2018

Fri 21 December 2018
On vacation
Sun 09 December 2018
NeuroFedora update: week 49
Sun 02 December 2018
NeuroFedora update: week 48
Sat 24 November 2018
NeuroFedora update: week 47
Sat 17 November 2018
NeuroFedora update: week 46
Sat 10 November 2018
NeuroFedora update: week 45
Sat 03 November 2018
NeuroFedora update: week 44
Sat 27 October 2018
NeuroFedora update: week 43
Sat 20 October 2018
NeuroFedora update: week 42
Sat 13 October 2018
NeuroFedora update: week 41
Sat 06 October 2018
NeuroFedora: towards a ready to use Free/Open source environment for neuroscientists
Fri 22 June 2018
Using the Connfa open source conference management software set: the CMS
Thu 07 June 2018
Next round of Fedora classroom sessions: call for instructors
Sat 12 May 2018
Testing out Sumatra: a tool for managing iterations of simulations/analyses
Sun 25 March 2018
Building TeX Live from source
Sat 24 March 2018
Fedora Join is now on Telegram and Matrix

2017

Mon 25 December 2017
Managing tasks, time, and making sure one takes a break: Integrating Taskwarrior, Timewarrior, and Gnome Pomodoro
Sat 16 December 2017
Transitioning to Neomutt and friends for e-mail
Sat 07 October 2017
Fedora Classroom: Git 101: report
Tue 19 September 2017
Writing LaTeX well in Vim
Sat 26 August 2017
Setting up an IRC bouncer (ZNC) on Amazon AWS and connecting to it using Irssi
Thu 10 August 2017
Fedora Classroom: Command Line 101: report
Wed 12 July 2017
Bringing together Gitter, IRC, and Slack channels in one place on Riot
Mon 26 June 2017
A channel for neuroscientists on Gitter
Wed 21 June 2017
Giving Qutebrowser a go - a fantastic keyboard-focused browser
Tue 23 May 2017
Fedora Join meeting - 22 May 2017 - Summary and updates
Wed 17 May 2017
A well filed software issue considerably improves the chances of the issue being fixed quicker
Sat 04 March 2017
Fedora Free Media programme group refresh
Tue 28 February 2017
Using Wallabag to manage your online reading list
Sat 18 February 2017
Finally checking out FlatPak
Wed 08 February 2017
An update on the migration of Fedora Free Media to Pagure
Sun 05 February 2017
Fedora Join meeting 30 January 2017 - Summary and updates
Tue 10 January 2017
Python - analysing large files - some notes to self

2016

Sun 27 November 2016
Cancelling my Times subscription - not as easy it should have been
Sat 26 November 2016
Two new planets for neuroscientists
Mon 07 November 2016
Fedora Join meeting 7 November 2016 - Summary
Mon 24 October 2016
Fedora Join meeting 24 October 2016 - Summary
Mon 17 October 2016
On jargon
Sat 15 October 2016
Hello Fedora 25! (and the Wayland test day)
Tue 11 October 2016
Fedora Join meeting 10 October 2016 - Summary
Wed 05 October 2016
Fedora Join Meeting 26 September 2016 - Summary
Sat 24 September 2016
Fedora Join meetings to begin this week
Sun 11 September 2016
Some notes on programming languages and web development
Fri 02 September 2016
Using NEURON - Part II
Sat 27 August 2016
Quickly scripting a grid-search for parameter tuning
Fri 05 August 2016
Using NEURON - Part I
Thu 04 August 2016
Tinkering with OpenLayers and JS - Cajal - a hacked up neuroscience research map
Thu 02 June 2016
Checking your LaTeX sources for spelling errors with Hunspell
Tue 31 May 2016
Some tips and tricks for running simulations on a cluster
Sun 13 March 2016
My business card in LaTeX
Sat 05 March 2016
Calliope - helping you keep a diary - in LaTeX!
Wed 02 March 2016
sli.vim - syntax file for the NEST simulator's SLI language
Sun 28 February 2016
New Zaphod release - v0.5.7
Sat 13 February 2016
Zaphod - a LaTeX change tracking tool
Tue 19 January 2016
List of bugzilla headers

2015

Wed 30 December 2015
#SaveTheInternet - did you e-mail TRAI yet?
Sun 25 October 2015
Learning to swim as an adult: Part I - Learning to not drown
Tue 13 October 2015
Fedora Join Meeting on Friday October 16
Fri 25 September 2015
Hello from Fedora 23!
Tue 15 September 2015
Pelican and github pages - a quickstart
Sun 06 September 2015
Copr repository for neuroscience related packages
Fri 14 August 2015
CNS 2015 - Workshops
Fri 14 August 2015
CNS 2015 Day 2 and 3
Thu 30 July 2015
CNS 2015 - Day 1
Wed 29 July 2015
CNS 2015 - Day 0
Sat 27 June 2015
Fedora 22 - Gnome - do not disturb - is now an extension
Fri 26 June 2015
Scripting in Scribus
Wed 24 June 2015
F-I curves for the AdEx neuron model - tonic spiking without adaptation
Wed 24 June 2015
pdfpc - now in the Fedora repositories
Tue 16 June 2015
Fedora 22 - workstation - Gnome - Do not disturb
Mon 15 June 2015
pdfpc - A presenter console with multi-monitor support for PDF files
Fri 12 June 2015
Using Vim for C/C++ development efficiently
Fri 29 May 2015
Letter to the Fedora council - is the Fedora community forgetting its primary goal?
Thu 28 May 2015
Appstream data for RPMFusion - now available!
Mon 25 May 2015
Appstream data for RPMFusion
Mon 25 May 2015
So long, and thanks for all the fish.
Sun 17 May 2015
Fedup to Fedora 22 - works like a charm!
Sun 29 March 2015
On chilli
Mon 02 March 2015
[How to] set up your Pelican based static blog
Sun 01 March 2015
Moved my blog to Pelican
Fri 20 February 2015
Extracting small chunks of data from EXTREMELY LARGE files - say hello to memory mapped files

2014

Fri 05 September 2014
Be careful: Not everyone is good
Thu 31 July 2014
Taskwarrior, Taskwarrior-server and Mirakel - syncing and carrying your taskslist with you
Wed 25 June 2014
Released the code I wrote for my masters research
Tue 03 June 2014
FUDCon Beijing - Day 2
Fri 30 May 2014
FUDCon Beijing - Day 1
Thu 29 May 2014
FUDCon Beijing - Day -1 and Day 0
Wed 09 April 2014
Managing tasks and generating timesheets using taskwarrior
Sun 06 April 2014
ROS/RPM IRC workshop series
Fri 21 February 2014
Gnome 3.12 (3.11.90) on Fedora 20: A peek!
Tue 18 February 2014
NEURON simulator on Fedora

2013

Mon 16 December 2013
Time and task tracking
Thu 03 October 2013
Hello research world!
Thu 19 September 2013
Donate to 0ad today!
Wed 18 September 2013
Fedora 20: first impressions and more
Wed 04 September 2013
Minutes from last night's Fedora Medical IRC meeting
Tue 03 September 2013
Fedora medical IRC meeting today
Fri 30 August 2013
The 406 error conundrum!
Thu 29 August 2013
What have I been up to in Fedora lately?
Tue 27 August 2013
On building a ROS Groovy Software collection for Fedora
Mon 26 August 2013
Monitoring your Fedora tasks on the IRC
Sun 23 June 2013
Fedora and journal writing
Sun 16 June 2013
Fedora 20 elections:Voting!
Fri 14 June 2013
Fedora 20 Elections: Board town hall logs
Wed 12 June 2013
Fedora 20 elections: FAmSCo townhall logs
Tue 11 June 2013
Fedora 20 elections: FESCo town hall logs
Tue 04 June 2013
Fedora 20 Elections: FAmSCo and Board town halls confirmed
Mon 03 June 2013
A small Ask Fedora update and request for more community participation
Fri 31 May 2013
Fedora 20 Elections: FESCo townhall confirmed
Wed 29 May 2013
New GPG key
Tue 28 May 2013
Yin and yang: dd and testdisk
Mon 27 May 2013
Fedora 20 elections: Townhall scheduler emails are out
Sat 25 May 2013
Reminder: Fedora 20 election nominations and questionnaire close today!
Wed 22 May 2013
Reminder: Questionnaire and nomination dead lines
Wed 15 May 2013
It's always the right time to join Fedora and start contributing!
Wed 15 May 2013
Fedora Board, FESCo, FAmSCo and Fedora 20 name election process has begun!
Sun 12 May 2013
Setting up rygel on your Fedora system
Thu 02 May 2013
Fedora 19 and a few bugs I've run into
Wed 10 April 2013
A set of new monospace fonts: Anka-Coder fonts
Mon 08 April 2013
Installing gazebo with your ros groovy install on Fedora 18
Mon 08 April 2013
Installing the openni_camera ros groovy package on Fedora 18
Sun 07 April 2013
Extracting raw data from ros topics
Sat 06 April 2013
New blog and website
Thu 04 April 2013
Of laptops and workstations
Thu 28 March 2013
ROS groovy on Fedora 18
Thu 14 March 2013
Adding version control to nautilus
Thu 07 March 2013
I really like Gnome3
Fri 22 February 2013
Free-media in Australia: Pricing
Sun 17 February 2013
Integrating mpd better with Gnome Shell
Sun 10 February 2013
Free-media in Australia

2012

Tue 13 November 2012
Nomination period for fedora elections closes today! Have you nominated yet?!
Tue 06 November 2012
Updating your BIOS when you're not running Windows
Sun 07 October 2012
Beamer: making hand outs for your presentations
Thu 23 August 2012
Compiling the cp210x module for use with the NAO
Wed 22 August 2012
Using SURFmex with Octave
Thu 09 August 2012
What have I been upto?
Sat 07 July 2012
Unavailable till the end of July
Sat 30 June 2012
Migrating your contacts from your Blackberry to Android using Linux
Sat 23 June 2012
Integrating byobu/screen's copy buffer with X/Gnome clipboard
Sat 16 June 2012
Announcing: Fedora Join SIG!
Thu 14 June 2012
Fedora Join SIG: what do you think?
Mon 28 May 2012
Open source creative applications
Mon 28 May 2012
Fedora Elections: FAmSCo townhall #2
Sun 27 May 2012
Fedora Elections: FAmSCo townhall #1
Thu 24 May 2012
Byobu and mc
Wed 23 May 2012
FUDCon Kuala Lumpur Day 2
Wed 23 May 2012
Fedora Elections questionnaire responses are up!!
Tue 22 May 2012
Fedora elections 2012 questionnaire due today!!
Sun 20 May 2012
FUDCon Kuala Lumpur: Day -1, 0, 1
Tue 15 May 2012
Ready! Get set!! Go!!!
Sun 13 May 2012
Installing Fedora 17 on my EEEpc using a kickstart!
Fri 11 May 2012
Presentations for FUDCon KL
Wed 09 May 2012
Fedora Tour meeting minutes: Tuesday May 8 2012
Wed 09 May 2012
Fedora Elections: Nomination period has begun!
Fri 04 May 2012
Fedora Tour meeting May 3 2012
Thu 03 May 2012
On "Spherical Cow"
Mon 30 April 2012
More mpd madness!
Sun 29 April 2012
Cast your vote!
Thu 26 April 2012
Are you a newbie looking to contribute to Fedora? Look at Easyfix!
Wed 25 April 2012
I'm going to FUDCon Kuala Lumpur! Are you?
Wed 25 April 2012
Updating byobu
Wed 25 April 2012
A bad day with free-media in India
Fri 20 April 2012
Fedora Tour needs web developers
Thu 19 April 2012
Change in behaviour of livecd-tools: Testing required
Sat 14 April 2012
Fedora 17 beta
Wed 04 April 2012
yumdownloader: downloading x86_64 packages on i686 systems
Sat 24 March 2012
pycscope - Generates a cscope index of Python source trees
Fri 23 March 2012
138a:0008 Validity Sensors, Inc. VFS300 Fingeprint Reader on Fedora 16
Wed 21 March 2012
A small parcellite tip
Wed 21 March 2012
How I got my first (semi) black eye
Tue 13 March 2012
LaTeX, vim and Fedora
Sun 11 March 2012
What I've been up to recently
Fri 02 March 2012
Google Summer of Code 2012: Some "things to remember" for prospective mentors
Sat 25 February 2012
FUDCon APAC Recommendations
Thu 23 February 2012
The "easyfix" key word for bugzilla
Thu 23 February 2012
Updating all your fedora package git directories
Sun 19 February 2012
Test from blogtk
Sat 18 February 2012
My library
Fri 17 February 2012
Fedora free-media tool: making modifications to the trac?
Thu 16 February 2012
On my relationship with fedora medical
Thu 16 February 2012
Fedora free-media-tool version 0.2alpha
Tue 14 February 2012
Gnote, Snowy, Tomdroid
Sun 12 February 2012
Burgers at thulp!
Wed 08 February 2012
The status of free-media program in India: A quick update
Thu 02 February 2012
Using askfedora correctly
Wed 25 January 2012
HOGGburger
Tue 24 January 2012
Fedora free-media ready to ship
Wed 18 January 2012
I'm on strike too!
Tue 17 January 2012
VIM Classroom for beginners repeat for APAC
Tue 10 January 2012
An informal get together @forum food court, Koramangla on Saturday, 11am

2011

Sat 24 December 2011
Happy holidays!
Wed 14 December 2011
Logs for the Fedora classroom on VIM
Fri 09 December 2011
A Fedora Classroom on VIM.
Fri 09 December 2011
Free-media vs LocalContacts: what is the difference?
Thu 08 December 2011
Fedora Ambassadors' survey
Thu 08 December 2011
This is not a rant.
Wed 07 December 2011
Reviving the India Local Contacts program
Wed 07 December 2011
indimpc: A minimalistic MPD client with support for the gnome-shell indication system and multimedia keys.
Sun 04 December 2011
OpenNero packaging
Mon 07 November 2011
FUDCon India Pune
Mon 07 November 2011
FUDCon India Pune: Day 2
Fri 04 November 2011
FUDCon India Pune: Day 1
Thu 03 November 2011
LaTeX: the open source document system for academia
Mon 31 October 2011
The experience that was Metallica
Wed 19 October 2011
FUDCon India Pune: Booklet
Sun 16 October 2011
RPMFusion packages that need co-maintainers
Fri 14 October 2011
My keys
Thu 13 October 2011
Dennis Ritchie passes away.
Tue 11 October 2011
I AM GOING TO FUDCon INDIA 2011: Are you!?
Wed 05 October 2011
How in heaven's name did my language change?
Tue 04 October 2011
FTP usage
Fri 30 September 2011
What is Ask Fedora?
Fri 30 September 2011
Using your gnotes on your android phone
Sat 24 September 2011
vimperator
Sat 03 September 2011
mpdE (0.0.2 release): A daemon that picks the currently playing song from mpd and sets it as your Empathy status
Sun 28 August 2011
Easily autotoolizing a project
Sat 20 August 2011
Fedora GSoC: Report
Mon 15 August 2011
Fedora GSoC: Week 16
Sat 13 August 2011
If your wireless stops working after the kernel update
Sat 13 August 2011
Restoring single files with deja-dup
Sun 07 August 2011
Fedora GSoC: Week 15
Mon 01 August 2011
Fedora GSoC: Week 14
Mon 25 July 2011
Fedora GSoC: week 13
Sun 17 July 2011
Fedora GSoC: Week 12
Sun 10 July 2011
Fedora GSoC: Week 11
Mon 04 July 2011
if sealert is still broken for you
Sun 03 July 2011
Fedora GSoC: Week 10
Sun 26 June 2011
Fedora GSoC: Week 9
Mon 20 June 2011
Keyboard shortcuts to control mpd
Sat 18 June 2011
Fedora GSoC: Week 8
Tue 14 June 2011
Fedora GSoC: Week 7
Sun 05 June 2011
Fedora GSoC: Week 6
Mon 30 May 2011
Fedora GSoC : Week 5
Wed 25 May 2011
F 15 turns on hot russian girls?!?
Sun 22 May 2011
Fedora GSoC : Week 4
Sat 21 May 2011
Counterstrike : Condition Zero on Fedora !
Thu 19 May 2011
A qemu quickie!
Sun 15 May 2011
Fedora GSoC : Week 3
Mon 09 May 2011
Fedora GSoC : week 2
Mon 02 May 2011
GSoC : Fedora Medical week 1
Sun 24 April 2011
If empathy stops working for you after the first update of F15 beta
Tue 19 April 2011
Automating creation of free-media envelopes
Sat 16 April 2011
Task updates
Tue 15 March 2011
Tata Photon+ users : Something you should know
Wed 09 March 2011
My first batch of free-media for the month
Sat 26 February 2011
Playing your music from the terminal : mpd setup
Wed 23 February 2011
A complete rtorrent setup
Mon 21 February 2011
Using torrent RSS feeds with rtorrent
Wed 16 February 2011
Folding in vim
Thu 10 February 2011
Tata Photon+ on Fedora 14
Mon 07 February 2011
Note to self: static member variable in C++
Thu 03 February 2011
How I came about learning awk
Thu 27 January 2011
Statistics from the IRC sig meeting
Tue 25 January 2011
A remote mini FAD 2
Mon 24 January 2011
A remote mini FAD
Fri 14 January 2011
Turning your gnome-screensaver on and off with a single click!
Fri 14 January 2011
My first ever parking ticket
Wed 12 January 2011
I did 19 review requests this past year!
Tue 11 January 2011
fedora : using pastebins
Tue 11 January 2011
MeMaker - an avatar creator for linux
Fri 07 January 2011
evolution-remove-duplicates for F14
Fri 07 January 2011
Contributing to RPMFusion
Fri 07 January 2011
Evolution user dir change
Fri 07 January 2011
wiley2bibtex: Converting onlinelibrary.wiley citations to BibTeX

2010

Tue 28 December 2010
On the new xps format - hell
Tue 28 December 2010
Fedora 14 on Christmas!!
Mon 27 December 2010
Evolution-rss
Sun 05 December 2010
Setting up irssi on Fedora.
Sat 04 December 2010
Unix : the "working set" algorithm
Sat 04 December 2010
mutex vs semaphore : the toilet example
Fri 03 December 2010
irssi : quickly pasting an fpaste link to a channel
Wed 01 December 2010
A new Dell Vostro 3400 Laptop
Wed 01 December 2010
shell script to get word definitions from dict.org
Mon 29 November 2010
Some troubleshooting links
Mon 29 November 2010
My non technical blog
Mon 29 November 2010
unoconv : a handy tool for converting your OO.o files to pdfs on the terminal
Sun 28 November 2010
Text messaging woes
Sun 28 November 2010
vim : copying to the system clipboard
Tue 23 November 2010
making vim-latex load when you open a new tex file
Tue 23 November 2010
Out for the month :(
Tue 23 November 2010
The fedora distribution process needs your help!
Mon 22 November 2010
Note to self : command line text utils
Thu 18 November 2010
odin (a simple minimax based zero sum game) is almost complete
Fri 12 November 2010
System crash : away for 10 days
Wed 10 November 2010
transmission-2.11-2 for Fedora 14
Tue 09 November 2010
Keep your cool. Always.
Sat 06 November 2010
Resizing pics : A simple command line approach
Wed 03 November 2010
If VirtualBox fails to start for you ...
Wed 03 November 2010
Trashing from the terminal : non destructively!
Mon 01 November 2010
CC++ support on VIM
Thu 30 September 2010
Free-media statistics for the month of September
Mon 27 September 2010
Another Fedora experience, a different Fedora experience
Thu 23 September 2010
Fedora India : Give the gift of Fedora!
Thu 23 September 2010
Mailer for the free-media program
Wed 22 September 2010
Getting your tablet to work on F13 using WizardPen
Thu 16 September 2010
Work in progress
Fri 10 September 2010
I had to, I had no choice
Sun 05 September 2010
Some free-media statistics
Fri 03 September 2010
Weekly update
Sat 28 August 2010
Oh! my system had a remote I had forgotten about!!
Sun 22 August 2010
End of dormant spree
Sat 31 July 2010
From QC
Fri 30 July 2010
How to request media from Fedora Ambassadors
Wed 21 July 2010
If the recent upgrade "wiped" your accounts from Empathy
Sat 17 July 2010
loki renamed "hleahtor"
Sat 17 July 2010
yum doesn't help when you're hungry
Sat 17 July 2010
nutritional software for Linux
Sat 10 July 2010
surfraw
Fri 09 July 2010
An interesting thread:
Thu 08 July 2010
why fedora-tour won't be a Fedora 14 feature
Thu 08 July 2010
meh... flash on 64bit , for chromium
Fri 02 July 2010
IISc- The Dept. of Computer Science & Automation : A workshop to introduce people to PhD
Tue 29 June 2010
loki-0.2.2 announcement
Sun 27 June 2010
My ricoh webcam works!!!!
Thu 24 June 2010
blobby 0.9b release hits F-13
Sun 20 June 2010
loki-0.1.1 release announcement
Fri 11 June 2010
Learning more on vim
Sat 05 June 2010
Fedora 13 release party with FSMK in Bengaluru
Thu 03 June 2010
Fedora within Fedora :D
Tue 01 June 2010
My first FAD ever!
Thu 20 May 2010
Day 1 at the IISc
Thu 13 May 2010
Playing OpenArena after a long time..
Wed 12 May 2010
An applet for cricket lovers
Tue 11 May 2010
My first gnome bug report
Mon 10 May 2010
Backing up and restoring Gnotes in F-13
Mon 10 May 2010
Going F13 beta!
Wed 05 May 2010
nautilus-pastebin now in fedora
Mon 12 April 2010
Fedora tour : getting more folks involved
Thu 08 April 2010
A short "Fedora tour" update
Thu 08 April 2010
A short "Fedora tour" update
Wed 31 March 2010
fedora-tour meet @ April fools day :P
Sun 14 March 2010
"Hello world" (again)
Sun 14 March 2010
"Hello world" (again)
Sat 06 March 2010
GNUnify 2010 at Pune
Thu 21 January 2010
fedora tour mockups
Thu 21 January 2010
fedora tour mockups