neuroscience/fedora/musings
I'm a vim junkie (In spite of Sindre's numerous events to convert me into an Emacs person!). I'm also a LaTeX junkie. There are quite a few reasons behind my love for LaTeX:
Most recently, I did my laundry ;). The transition from a college student to a corporate employee is taking me longer than it does most people. Since I'm due to start my post graduate courses in a few months, I guess I'm subconsciously resisting the transition. I can't wait to get …
To start with, the organization application deadline is March 9, which is right around the corner. If you have some ideas for this year's program, it's time to get them up on the wiki!
I was a participant last year. Based on my experience, here are some things that you …
Hello Fedorians!
We need you to make a recommendation for the APAC FUDCon ASAP:
ATTENTION AMBASSADORS
If you haven't already, please read Robyn's mail to the fudcon-planning list[1] stressing that the APAC FUDCon will need to be deferred to next year if a decision is not made quickly. It …
I've been a package maintainer for quite a while now. Yet, it was just about a minute ago, that I learnt of the "easyfix" key word. Here's how I ran into it:
20:27 Is there a way to identify fedora bugs on bugzilla which can be dealt by people …
Most package maintainers already know this (or use something way easier), but this is how I go about updating all my fedora package git folders:
[ankur@ankur ~]$ cd Documents/work/repos/others/fedora-packages/ [ankur@ankur fedora-packages]$ ls aeskulap dcm4che-test fpaste hiran-perizia-fonts libmpd memaker OpenNL python-hl7 subversion trash-cli cmake detex freemedforms …
I've been having trouble with the wordpress web interface lately. It doesn't work well with Pentadactyl (a firefox VIM add-on I can't survive without). I'm testing out new blog clients, starting with blogtk. Hello world!?
I got a feature request for the free-media tool that I've been working on. Benedikt Schäfer asked me if resolving a ticket in the tool could also change the ticket status on the trac. While this is on the TODO already, I sat up last night and looked into it …
Of late, I've had to deal with the fact that people believe that the driving force behind me applying for the fedora medical GSoC last year was only money. I address the matter in this post.
Susmit had initiated the fedora medical SIG in an attempt to make a fedora …
I've managed to get most of the functionality coded up. Here's what ffmtool -h looks like now (on my system):
[ankur@ankur ~]$ ffmtool -h
[+] Parsing available options from config file: /home/ankur/.config/fedora-free-media-tool/config.cfg
Usage: ffmt [Options] [args]...
A tool to assist Fedora free-media contributors.
Without options, it …