neuroscience/fedora/musings
I recently read this blog post which describes how to paste to the KDE pastebin from the terminal using pastebinit. It is worth mentioning that we have two pasting utilities in fedora at the moment, one is fpaste, the other is the nautilus-pastebin plugin which you can use for uploading …
Fedora 15 will see evolution 2.92 which has the remove-duplicates in it. Since Fedora 14 will not see the 2.92 series, I've built the plugin for Fedora 14 and created a fedorapeople.org repo.
I've had "contribute to RPMFusion" on my TODO list for a while now. I've finally gotten down to it. I'm going to start packaging "frets on fire". If you have some cycles to spare, have a look at http://rpmfusion.org/Wishlist for a package that interests you.
Evolution has moved to using the XDG standard for user directories. Your evolution data is now stored in ~/.local/share/evolution instead of ~/.evolution. If you weren't already aware, it's time to update your backup confs. The change happened in 2.32 iirc.
"Somethings are meant to happen".
My newly ordered laptop got held up at Calcutta due to some missing paperwork required by the authorities to let it enter Jharkhand state, where I reside. It was expected to take at the least a week more for the confusion to clear up. I …
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I've been off the blogosphere for almost a month now. No, it wasn't self-control, I just didn't have a system to work on! My new laptop arrived two days back, and I've jumped into completing …
I recently posted mylist of irssi aliases that come handy on the fedora IRC channels. Today, I was experimenting and found something new. Suppose you head into #fedora, and ask for help. Someone asks you to fpaste something, lets say :
$ lsusb | fpaste
Now, instead of changing to another terminal …
I've just gotten over the phone with Dell Sales. I've almost ordered my new system, which is a Dell Vostro 3400 Laptop. Here is the package:
