Trashing from the terminal : non destructively!
I've got this habit of using rm and Shift + delete when I come across a file that I'm not using. It's been costly at times when I've removed files that I would later need. Now, since I've paid dearly a few times, I've decided that the following are a must …
Another Fedora experience, a different Fedora experience
Hello all, I received some feed back from one of the folks whose ticket I had accepted this month as a part of my free-media duties. It's another amazing experience that being a member of the Fedora community has earned me. I requested the sender to let me share this …
Fedora India : Give the gift of Fedora!
In spite of a large contribution from the Fedora India Free
media volunteers this month (We've managed to accept and send out around
80 already, which is awesome!), we still have another 80 unaccepted
tickets waiting to be accepted. Can some folks please sign up for the
Fedora Free Media …
Mailer for the free-media program
A mailer envelop for the Fedora free-media programme.
Getting your tablet to work on F13 using WizardPen
As a lot of you would remember, HAL was dropped in favour of udev in Fedora 13. (More info here). I own a "UC-LOGIC Tablet WP5540U" which I had successfully configured on Fedora 12 using HAL. Since I upgraded, and the HAL configuration worked no more, a new configuration was …
Some free-media statistics
I was housekeeping the new free-media tickets from India this morning. Since I was manually going over tickets, I thought I'd spend some more time and collect some statistics for this month's tickets. I'm not going to make any deductions from these, I'll let the numbers do the taking. If …
Weekly update
This week till 3/9/10.
Here's what I've been up to this week.
Fried Chicken ROCKS!
I've been eating aLOTof chicken this week. I'm having this awesome INR 65 combo from the "Asian Flava" Stall at the Food Court. It carries:
- a plate full of rice.
- A …
Oh! my system had a remote I had forgotten about!!
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I've to present a seminar as part of my syllabus for the semester. I was looking for one of those remote controllers to make the seminar COOLER. Weirdly enough, I remembered that my laptop came with a remote …
How to request media from Fedora Ambassadors
In the wake of a long thread on the Fedora India mailing list, I've drafted a page that tries to explain the steps to be taken to request Fedora Media from an Ambassador. This page hopes to encourage users to use methods other than the free-media programme (India is receiving …