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Thoughts on Brothers — A tale of two sons

“ Beautiful, charming, funny and touching. One of the best games I’ve played in years. 10/10 would recommend.” This is how I posted my review of the game on steam just after I played it, not much of a review I agree, which is par for the course in Steam…

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Thoughts on The Man in the High Castle

I had never heard about this book until I saw trailers for the Amazon show. I must say I am impressed. This book falls in the genre of alternate history/high concept asking ‘what-if’. This particular book asks the question what if the Axis powers won the second…

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Migrating Blog from Wordpress to Jekyll

Recently I became quite active on GitHub mostly thanks to my class projects and a few personal projects. While creating a web page for one of my VR projects on GitHub, I found that it allowed us to host custom Jekyll-based project as well as personal web…

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GitHub Subtrees

I have been familiar with git ever since I started using Linux. I used ‘git clone’ quite a bit to compile and install latest versions of software, but that’s where most of my ‘familiarity’ was limited to. I did mess around with creating local repositories and committing but that’s all. We used SVN…

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Install Spotify in Fedora 23

I have had an interest in Spotify ever since it launched but never got to try out as it is not available in India. So, I never understood what the buzz was all about. But, I recently moved to US to start Grad School at University of Florida. So, finally I was able to try out…

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GNOME — Restore default folder icons

Recently, my laptop battery got drained completely and the system shut down incorrectly. This resulted in my NTFS data drive not getting unmounted properly. The videos, music, pictures and documents folders in my NTFS drive are linked to the Home folder in my…

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F23 — Printing and Scanning

Recently, my parents bought this new HP Deskjet 1510 AIO for printing, scanning and photocopying stuff. I’ve never had a scanner before and the printer I used to have was a Samsung ML-1610(or something similar), which was very inconsistent in working with Linux distributions. It…

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Fedora 23 and screen tearing

As I mentioned in my Fedora 23 review, I am very happy with this new release. So, I was a bit disappointed when I notice the issue with screen tearing. Now this is probably an issue with my particular set up and a lot of people may not run into this issue.

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Thoughts on Spectre

Spectre, the 24th entry in the James Bond film series, is most likely the last Bond film starring Daniel Craig as the suave super-spy. After the serious tone of the previous three Craig starrers, this movie takes a much lighter note. Seriously, at one point the movie had Q (played by Ben…

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Fedora 23 Workstation

What!? Two posts in a single day! That has (almost) never happened! Yes, in keeping with my promise in the previous post, here’s my thoughts on the new Fedora 23 Workstation release.

Fedora was the first Linux distribution that I ever used; Fedora 7 it was, I…

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