Fedora 20 elections: Townhall scheduler emails are out
I just finished sending out the emails requesting nominees to fill out their preferences for the various town halls (on whenisgood). If you’re a nominee and haven’t received your email, please contact...
View ArticleYin and yang: dd and testdisk
Well, almost. I maintain an external hard disk which has 2 partitions. One is dedicated to backups where deja-dup backs up once a day. The other is where all my TV/Films etc. go in. A few minutes back,...
View ArticleNew GPG key
I’ve revoked my older GPG key today and generated a new one. If you had my key in your keyring, please sync it with the public servers so that your keyring is up to date. Revoked key: 0767EB08 New key:...
View ArticleFedora 20 Elections: FESCo townhall confirmed
The nominees have all marked their preferences on whenisgood. At the moment, only the FESCo nominees have managed to find a slot that suits them all. The FESCo townhall will be held on June 10, 2013 at...
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A small Ask Fedora update and request for more community participation
Status update For any one who doesn’t already know, Ask Fedora is our community based troubleshooting that’s an askbot instance. Along with #fedora on Freenode and fedoraforum.org, Ask Fedora is one...
View ArticleFedora 20 Elections: FAmSCo and Board town halls confirmed
I’ve just finished sending out e-mails to the nominees confirming the timings of the Board and FAmSCo town halls. The Fedora Board town hall for the Fedora 20 election will be held at June 13 2013 at...
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Fedora 20 elections: FESCo town hall logs
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Fedora 20 elections: FAmSCo townhall logs
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Fedora 20 Elections: Board town hall logs
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View ArticleFedora 20 elections:Voting!
The Fedora 20 election cycle enters the final voting phase tomorrow! (June 17 at 00:00 UTC)! To vote, please head to the Fedora voting application and vote for your preferred FAmSCo, FESCo and Fedora...
View ArticleFedora and journal writing
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...
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Monitoring your Fedora tasks on the IRC
This is probably common knowledge by now, but I thought I’d put it up anyway. Fedmsg is a great method that infra uses to get updates on what’s going on in Fedora. One can use the gnome shell extension...
View ArticleOn building a ROS Groovy Software collection for Fedora
ROS currently has two stable versions: Fuerte and Groovy; with another one coming out: Hydro. All of them are designed to run in parallel. Having all three of them available in Fedora is difficult,...
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What have I been up to in Fedora lately?
The general stuff This is stuff that I do all year around, mostly on a daily basis. This comprises of: Package maintenance: updates/bugfixes etc. Testing: Giving karma to packages from updates-testing...
View ArticleThe 406 error conundrum!
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...
View ArticleFedora medical IRC meeting today
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...
View ArticleMinutes from last night’s Fedora Medical IRC meeting
Summary The meeting last night was a really good one. We got quite a few details sorted. We’re finally moving towards creating a live image that we can give out to folks to try and give us feedback on....
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Fedora 20: first impressions and more
I accepted my fate. 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!...
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Donate to 0ad today!
Kill them all! 0ad is an awesome awesome awesome game! For anyone who’s played an Age of empires style game, you absolutely must try 0ad! On Fedora, run: sudo yum install 0ad #and start playing! Game...
View ArticleHello research world!
It’s been just about a year since I started my research career as a masters student here at the University of Technology, Sydney. I’m working on bio-mimetic navigation for this course, focussed around...
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