Awesome article on using vi/vim: Do whatever you want. Don’t learn it if you feel it’s too much effort just for nothing. Learn emacs instead. Or stay in your IDE using a lousy editor. Whatever. But in any case, don’t ever claim again that those ‘vi guys are nutheads’ – I hope that I have [...]
Categories: Configurations,Programs,System Administration
Tagged: unix
I happened upon a great site for a list of names. The list is meant to be used to get pet names, however I happened across this when I was looking for a list of themed names for servers. It includes both self-hosted pages and also links to other lists of names. List of names [...]
Categories: System Administration,Webdesign
If you use a windows ssh terminal client, or even macosx’s terminal.app, the functionality of your page up and page down key may not behave like you want it to. For example, in SecureCRT using pageup will actually page up your scroll buffer, and pagedown will scroll down your page buffer. You’ll need to remap [...]
Categories: Configurations,Linux,Programs,System Administration
Here is the problem: you have a DVR/HTPC hooked up to your TV downstairs, but you have other televisions in your house you wish to use to access the HTPC. How do you distribute the Audio/Video signal to these other television sets? One solution to this problem is Crossbar MediaCaster, which was kindly provided to [...]
Categories: Hardware,Reviews,Site Updates
Tagged: cable network, Cable TV, Comcast, entertainment network, HDTV, internal network, Motorola, Wireless Remote
If you have an HTPC which uses software such as BeyondTV you can use a remote for the majority of the time but there are times where you will want a good old fashioned keyboard, for surfing the web or other PC maintenance tasks. Sure you could use a wired keyboard or mouse, but who [...]
Tagged: internet browser, SnapStream Store, Typical wireless keyboards, USD, Wireless Keyboard, Wireless RF Keyboard
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