This weekend, Ancestry.ca held another of their "freebies", with access to Canadian Military records for the past 5 or so days. In general, I assumed that I already have most of the information s...
https://qulogic.blogspot.com/2013/11/index-to-commonwealth-war-graves.html
Way back in 2010, I attended the GSoC Mentors Summit. I thought that would be a perfect time to get a new GPG key signed by a lot of people. Unfortunately, I decided to do this the night before f...
It's been a busy week, but my poster for AGU is finally printed and ready to go. Here's a small copy of it: Note, ImageMagick doesn't seem to convert to colours exactly correct, so you may w...
https://qulogic.blogspot.com/2012/12/agu-fall-meeting-poster.html
One of the bugs I encountered after upgrading to Fedora 17 is that my music library seemed to have disappeared in Rhythmbox. In fact, everything appeared in the Missing Files view. The strange th...
https://qulogic.blogspot.com/2012/06/missing-library-in-rhythmbox-on-f17.html
So, a new release of Fedora was set free just last week, the so-called "Beefy Miracle". A couple of releases ago (or maybe last release), I had really thought I might wait at least a month a...
https://qulogic.blogspot.com/2012/06/fedora-17-beefy-miracle.html
Video editing is one of those domains for which there are some expensive options and several attempts at open source alternatives. Unfortunately, few efforts have even gotten past the first few ...
https://qulogic.blogspot.com/2012/05/video-editing-in-linux.html
Sometimes, things just break. Maybe it's planned obsolescence; I don't really know. But I don't want to be wasting things just because they "seem" to not work anymore. Speaking of things not wo...
Okay, so maybe I'm not entirely sure about the second one, but it certainly could be fun depending on your interests. Writing translations is probably one of the simplest ways to contribute to an...
https://qulogic.blogspot.com/2011/06/translating-for-fun-and-profit.html
Over the past few weekends I've been trying out GNOME3 via the Fedora 15 Beta . I've already read many a blog post in opposition to various things, so I was not overly surprised when I tried it ...
https://qulogic.blogspot.com/2011/05/adventures-in-gnome3-land.html
Last weekend was Skule Nite , a "musical sketch comedy revue". Quite hilarious, of course. Just for your listening fun, here are most of the songs on which the parts were based. You're going to j...
Or something to that effect. Just been really busy with schoolwork, vacation to India, sleeping...
In case you haven't heard, there was a little fork of the OpenOffice project not too long ago. They can explain the reasons for it a whole lot better than I can, so I'm not going to. Normally, I...
https://qulogic.blogspot.com/2010/11/trying-out-libreoffice-build.html
So this weekend was another College Puzzle Challenge . Just as fun as last year , but slightly different. There were no waves, so we got all the puzzles at the beginning. I guess that has i...
https://qulogic.blogspot.com/2010/11/another-college-puzzle-challenge.html
Fedora 14 was released just a day or two ago. I figured I'd be cutting-edge and upgrade on pretty much the day it came out. Of course, as with last time , I'm trying to do so on a laptop with l...
https://qulogic.blogspot.com/2010/11/jumping-on-fedora-14-bandwagon.html
Last weekend was the GSoC Mentors Summit . As a mentor for the Pidgin, Finch and libpurple project, I attended for the first time this year. It was pretty interesting and a lot of fun, but I ...
https://qulogic.blogspot.com/2010/10/fun-at-gsoc-mentors-summit.html
I probably should have gotten around to finishing this post a while ago, but anyway... So Nuit Blanche was this weekend. I don't think it was as fun this year as the last time. Of course, the ...
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And by that, I mean I gave it back to my manager. Of course, what I really mean there is that work is over! I'd say it was an interesting experience. So writing documentation is probably not wh...
Update: The ModemManager rule should really only apply to the USB device, not the TTY. I updated the rule below to be a bit more specific. Around the end of July, I ordered a Bus Pirate fr...
So I recently had to create a whole bunch of invites. Not a huge number like a thousand, but more than enough that I didn't want to make each one individually. Anyway, I decided to make them in S...
https://qulogic.blogspot.com/2010/08/writing-invites-with-scribus.html
Round about last week, I switched my desktop from Gentoo to Fedora . It took a few days to get everything the way I wanted. But it only took that long because I had lots of data to backup and (s...
https://qulogic.blogspot.com/2010/08/switching-from-gentoo-to-fedora.html
This is Part 2 of my look into some Facebook spam. First post is here . DECYPHERING THE CODE I was bored, so I tried to decipher the code. What is this x69x6Ex6Ex65... stuff? Well, that's easy....
https://qulogic.blogspot.com/2010/07/deconstructing-facebook-spam-part-2.html
I split this into a couple posts because it's a bit long. THE PITCH So someone (let's not point any fingers) "suggested" I might like "How to know who blocked me ?", a random Facebook Page. Now...
https://qulogic.blogspot.com/2010/07/deconstructing-facebook-spam.html
So in case you aren't in Toronto, we had a little bit of a power outage . Downtown, power went out about quarter to 5, though it didn't affect my work's building. But then when we got back home a...
https://qulogic.blogspot.com/2010/07/all-about-power-outages-again.html
That is to say, did you notice the earthquake? I almost didn't recognize it. Since I'm working from home due to the G20, I don't have the benefit of a tall building that would react to the move...
https://qulogic.blogspot.com/2010/06/feeling-little-unsteady.html