Droid fonts are cooked
…and ready to be eaten:
http://amoradi.fedorapeople.org/rpms/droid-fonts-1.0-1.fc10.noarch.rpm
Droid fonts are google android fonts, some of them are cool, but I packaged it mostly because I didn’t have anything better to do and I’m interested in their monospaced fonts. I haven’t tried it yet, but it shouldn’t be bad. Right now, I use Inconsolata as my monospaced font.
Anyway, I’m going off-topic. Enjoy the extra fonts!
Vote identi.ca
http://march.shoeboxed.com/
here, vote for identi.ca, the free solution to micro-blogging needs!
using maps to get to destination
How can I start this post? I can’t think of any “proper” way, so I will just jump in.
If you are fed up with pressing Esc every time, you can change it to something more “useful,” like Caps Lock. Doing it is very easy:
- in your ~/.Xmodmap file enter these lines: (if it doesn’t exist, create it)
clear Lock
keycode 0×42 = Escape
and if you restart X, you will have your new Esc key!
note: thanks to heftig (#fedora-social @ freenode) for telling me about this.
How to shoot yourself in the foot
Jay Dobies Commented on the last post about coding and religion, and I thought the link he posted was worth another blog post in its own right.
How to shoot yourself in the foot
Of all of those, I really enjoyed the “Unix” one:
Unix
% ls
foot.c foot.h foot.o toe.c toe.o
% rm * .o
rm: .o: No such file or directory
% ls
%
And Perl:
Perl
You shoot yourself in the foot, but nobody can understand how you did it. Six months later, neither can you.
Anyway, if you are at all interested in programming languages, it’s worth a read. It certainly made the joke of the day for me!
Some GTK+ themes
Any chance of getting these themes (from Ubuntu 9.04) into Fedora? Not to be shipped, of course, just as a package somewhere!
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Ubuntu-9-04-039-s-New-Themes-106961.shtml
self.take_note(git)
getting git running is a bit odd if you don’t know your way around. After some fighting, I figured it out, and so, here is a note to self in case I need to refer to it later.
$ git init
$ git remote add origin git@example.org/project.git
$ git add my_folder file1 file2
$ git commit -m ‘commit message’
$ git push origin master
$ git push
coding and religion
What would you call your favorite programming language if it was a religion?
http://www.aegisub.net/2008/12/if-programming-languages-were-religions.html
I just found it funny and wanted to share it 
Happy Nowrooz everyone!
Nowrooz, Iranian new year is coming very close. It will be the new year in about 12 hours (I think) at 8:00 in Halifax, Canada time zone (my time-zone). You can check the times at http://calendar.mozillafirefox.ir/newyear.html (I can’t make it a hyperlink in QuickPress, so just copy/paste).
On a second thought, it looks like our Iranian friends in Fedora have put a lot of effort in setting up fedoraproject.ir. It’s still in the early stages, but it will get better as time goes. Anyway, Kudos goes to the Iranian Fedora community for their great contributions to the Fedora project.
raptor packages ready to be tested
In short, Raptor-menu packages (that menu you thought is dead!) are ready to be tested and enjoyed! Install it and you can add them by:
1) cashew nut > add widget
2) Raptor application launcher
Bug reports go into nowhere yet (they are not ready for bug reports)
DISCLAIMER: This package is HIGHLY experimental, USE AT YOUR OWN RISK (but I had fun with it!)
worthy of news
First and foremost, March-break has started! yay for that!
But jokes aside, we will have a Persian New Year celebration next Saturday (I believe)! It is the first day of spring, and it will still be march-break which will make it even more fun! Happy new year to all Iranian readers
Also worthy of news, I was introduced to a website last night by a friend of mine. That is StackOverflow. I’m sure a lot of you should be familiar with this site, but I thought it’s worthy of news. It’s a very cool website that people ask and answer questions and it’s community-run which makes it even cooler. You get points to have good answers and all that. Check it out, I subscribed to their ‘python’ tag rss, and since then (one night) I learned a whole lot already!
Now, if you got this far in this post, you deserve a treat here are the updated konversation 2 packages, available for both x86_64 and i386, and also as a src.rpm.
