VIM Cheat Sheet
Posted by Random | Filed under How To
Becoming a VIM ninja is no easy task. Watching someone who has mastered the VIM text editor is like watching Lance Burton levitate members of the audience and cause giant airplanes to disappear right in front of you. I am convinced that one of the major reasons people like to use text editors like VIM and Emacs is because of the fear and awe they inspire in their onlookers.
However, when you are working on your VPS or some other server box without a window manager, VIM can save your bacon. Using VIM involves memorizing many keyboard shortcuts; some intuitive, and some not. Recently I came across a great VIM cheat sheet by Nana Långstedt that I wanted to share. I like this one in particular because it includes a few commands, like “open line above” that are sadly missing from many other cheat sheets.
So whether you are on the road to becoming a VIM ninja, or just need to do some remote text surgery, Nana’s VIM cheat sheet is where it’s at.
Tags: vim text editor cheat sheet programming
Using Windows Server 2008 workstation - Audio Stutters?
Posted by Mr. ANSI Pants | Filed under How To
With Microsoft’s recent launch of Windows Server 2008, there seems to be some buzz about using it as a workstation OS. There was a recent post on OS news linking to Using Windows Server 2008 as a SUPER workstation OS (by Vijayshinva Karnure, apparently a MS employee). Not many days after the post on OS news, at work we got our MSDN subscription activation codes.
How could I resist?
Tags: audio, stutter, windows server 2008, workstation
Design and Build Your Own Computer
Posted by Random | Filed under How To
Building a computer can be fun. You usually save money and end up with a better computer by building one yourself. Although building your own computer is easier than you might think, it does take a little more time than picking up a PC from one of the big vendors. I will discuss some serious time-savers that make the process a lot smoother than it would be without them. And once you gain some experience, it won’t take you much time at all to put together a new machine.
Expect to spend a few hours designing your computer as well as an hour or two assembling it. You will also need about an hour for installing your operating system (e.g., Windows or Linux).
Ready? Let’s get started…
Install QEMU on Gentoo
Posted by Mr. ANSI Pants | Filed under How To
A few months ago I decided I needed to install QEMU on my laptop. I assumed it would be a cinch. Wrong was I. You see, my laptop is running Gentoo. I’m a longtime (4 years is longtime, no?) aficionado.
(As an aside, I recently did a quick install of Ubuntu on my workstation at work, and I’m surprised to find how much I like it. This is a topic for another post…)
It turns out that QEMU is finicky about who compiles it. Not just any old version of GCC will do. On my system, I got it to compile and install with gcc-3.3.6-r1. Without further ado, here are the steps I took.
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echo "=sys-devel/gcc-3.3.6-r1" >> /etc/portage/package.keywords -
emerge -a =sys-devel/gcc-3.3.6-r1 -
gcc-config -l -
gcc-config 1(or whichever one corresponds to 3.3.6) source /etc/profile-
emerge -a qemu -
gcc-config 2(or whichever one corresponds to 4.x) -
source /etc/profile
There you have it. I tried to make it as straightforward as possible. This worked for me. I also passed it along to The Code Lisperer and it worked for him. As always, YMMV.
-Mr. ANSI Pants
Spam Assassin on Exchange 2003
Posted by Random | Filed under How To
At work we use Exchange 2003 as our email server, mostly because it was just so darn convenient to set up. Outlook and Exchange are pretty decent at filtering spam once you’ve installed the latest service packs. However, the amount of completely useless emails making it to my inbox recently spiked (Valentine’s Day may have had something to do with it). Time to bring out the big guns. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: email, exchange, spam, windows server