neuroscience/fedora/musings
A gentle reminder on the deadlines for the elections:
The questionnaire closes on May 23 at 23:59 UTC.
The nominations close on May 25 at 23:59 UTC.
Please add your questions and nominations to the wiki pages before the period runs out.
Naming will close tonight, May 22 …
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It doesn't really matter how old you are. It doesn't really matter what you studied at school or what you majored in. If you're looking to learn a lot of new cool stuff, and meet amazing (knowledgeble and fun!) people in the process, just …
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I've been trying to get rygel to work on my system. It's been slightly difficult since it uses a dynamic port by default and you need to open these ports each time you want to use a client over the network. At the moment, the firewall-config GUI doesn't mention rygel …
I generally only update once beta is released. This time however, I really wanted to play with GNOME3.8 and well, "accepted my fate" as anaconda puts it. Fedora 19 is pretty stable for me already. I did a fresh install. Anaconda worked well. The first glitch was both anaconda …
I was looking to well, "beautify" my system a little. I get these urges from time to time, yes. I found one that was in the Fedora fonts packaging wish list called "Anka Coder Fonts". They do look really good. I prefer them to the default Gnome3 monospace font. I …
I need to use the PR2-simulator package on my groovy installation. One must first set up gazebo for this.
Installing gazebo is pretty straight forward as described in this post.
If you used the instructions from the ros wiki, you'd have a ros workspace set up.
A few devel packages …
I needed to install the openni_camera ROS Groovy package on my Fedora 18 system. I ran into a few issues which I managed to solve. Documenting it all here for any one else who might need it:
You need to clone the git repository in your catkin workspace src directory …
I absolutely love my laptop. I spend pretty much my entire day at my laptop, whether I'm working on Fedora related tasks, or on my research tasks. Now, spending this much time with my laptop has generated a special affection in me for this object. Generally, the laptop does reciprocate …
On my previous blog post, a comment pointed out that nautilus has limitations for developers since it doesn't have version control support. I found rabbitvcs on digging up, and it works really well. This post is intended to just get it a little more visibility. Here's how to set it …