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Mon 16 December 2013

Time and task tracking

Posted by ankur in Tech (1003 words, approximately a 5 minute read)

Being a research student is really tough. I mean tough. The most difficult part is keeping up the self discipline, day after day, week after week. As a research student, you make your own schedule, you even make your own syllabus pretty much. I handle the syllabus part just fine …

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Wed 18 September 2013

Fedora 20: first impressions and more

Posted by ankur in Tech (342 words, approximately a 2 minute read)

[caption id="attachment_1445" align="aligncenter" width="638"]I accepted my fate. I accepted my fate.[/caption]

I went ahead and updated to Fedora 20 using the Alpha RC3. One reason is to help test it, provide karma etc., the other is that I simply couldn't wait to use the new shiny packages!

Installation

I …

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Tue 03 September 2013

Fedora medical IRC meeting today

Posted by ankur in Tech (188 words, approximately a 1 minute read)

A fedora-medical IRC meeting will be held in #fedora-meeting/-1/-2 later today. Please join us if you're interested in the SIG. The meeting will discuss the current state and what we must do to quickly get an unofficial spin out to collect feedback. This is my mail to the …

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Fri 30 August 2013

The 406 error conundrum!

Posted by ankur in Tech (237 words, approximately a 1 minute read)

Some of you may have noticed that my blog wasn't coming up on the planet recently. No? *sigh*. Well, Ralph(threebean) finally dug out the "bug" earlier today. The first clue was the error from the planet that Kevin was nice enough to get for us:

ERROR:planet.runner:Error …

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Sun 23 June 2013

Fedora and journal writing

Posted by ankur in Tech (423 words, approximately a 2 minute read)

I've kept a journal for a long time. Initially, I used to write in a diary. Since I started grad school and got my laptop though, I've been writing it in text files. It works for me in general, with a YYYYMMDD.txt file name. I've since started by masters …

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