The Definitive Blog on All Things Vague

Somedays, I do not like to be rushed. That way, Coursera is pretty reasonable.

I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and  professional like gnu)  Shivers. Read on.

Gnome Shell 3.5.5 just released. The changelog does not inspire a compulsion to change. Here's a photo of my desktop anyhow.

If Git Hub stands for "Social Coding", then the Top Languages chart must say something about how social your language is. Funny to see who's at the bottom of the list. Draw your own conclusions.

If you try to compile the Linux kernel from source using make gconfig it will probably not work on Fedora 17 spewing a message similar to:  * * Unable to find the GTK+ installation. Please make sure that * the GTK+ 2.0 development package is correctly installed... * You need gtk+-2.0, glib-2.0 and libglade-2.0. *                  Although libglade2 is present by default on Fedora 17, this error comes up because gtk internally needs the headers for libglade-2.0 So, you need libglade-devel. Yum it. As root:  # yum install libglade-devel

  Last week, I forget which day it was, some folks at office invited two academicians / entrepreneurs from Stanford to talk about Biodesign – essentially the science and art of developing medical technology and products. An occasional sift from my lazy self, I took some notes. And so I thought I will put this out on the net, since it does not contain any hush-hush secrety stuff. Needless to say, if there is something inaccurate in the notes below, it is most likely the manifestation of my ignorance and consequential misinterpretation.