- Published:
- May 18, 2007 – 6:47 am
- Author:
- By Dave
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 succeeded in showing you why they (we) stick to it, and you should at least be able to understand its power, even if you prefer to stay away from it. I first used vi around 1996 and it is still my preferred text editor while working with configuration files or even light coding. It sort of defied logic, but me, as well as unix geeks around the world, feel compelled to continue using it. This article is a great writeup for the advocacy of a great text editor.
Categories: Configurations,Programs,System Administration
Tagged: unix
- Published:
- May 4, 2007 – 9:44 pm
- Author:
- By Dave
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 your keys to send the correct signal to your terminal. Change it from the default system function to “send string” and the following strings: PageUp = \033[5~ PageDown = \033[6~ \033 is a shortcut for the ESCAPE key (esc) since in some programs you can’t type in the actualy escape key. Here are some other codes as well in case you need to remap keys. Pause = \032 Macro = \003 # Break (Shift-Pause) Home = \033[1~ Insert = \033[2~ Remove = \033[3~ # Delete End = \033[4~ In SecureCRT the area to remap your….
Categories: Configurations,Linux,Programs,System Administration
- Published:
- February 16, 2007 – 1:54 am
- Author:
- By Dave
If you are looking for a great Java based IRC client, I would suggest PJIRC. It is really easy to integrate into your web pages; and includes the html code that you need to embed it onto a page. It is very flexible, for example you can tell it to automatically join a server that you specify, and have it automatically execute a command, such as joining a channel. It’s a small download, and runs really quickly, which was always a downside of the other IRC Java applets I’ve tried. The GUI really isn’t too bad. It has tabs for different channels, a full scroll window, right click ability for whois, op, de-op, and more. Download PJIRC
Categories: Programs,Webdesign
Tagged: GUI, HTML, java
- Published:
- January 22, 2007 – 1:44 pm
- Author:
- By Dave
Check out Clicky web stats. After you register, you add a piece of code to the bottom of your page and start collecting your stats. It’s really easy to set up, and the stats you get in return are awesome. You can see your stats by visitor, search term, page, etc. It is very clearly shown, and not as hard to figure out as some of the other webstats programs which really bog you down in data that you don’t need. I hate to say it, but it looks a lot nicer than Google Analytics. It is currently free – although I don’t see how they turn a profit at this point (it is in beta still) so I would look for either a pay service in the future, or maybe ad supported. Check it out and see what you think! This stats service is great for simple blogs and….
Categories: Programs,Site Updates
Tagged: Google, search term, web stats
- Published:
- October 28, 2006 – 1:22 pm
- Author:
- By Dave
If your Mozilla Thunderbird is slow to open the inbox, or any other folder for that matter, there are two things that you can do to try to fix this problem. Step #1: The first thing is to try to compact the folder. This should help if you have a large inbox. If you can’t even get to this step, or if it is just too slow, try step #2. Step #2: The .msf “index” file is corrupted. If this file gets corrupted, you could see a slow initial loading of your inbox, messages will not open, you can not delete messages, etc. You may also see a message in the status windows when you open Thunderbird that says something about rebuilting index. The solution to this is to first close out of Thunderbird, then delete the inbox.msf file. If this is for a different folder name, you will see….
Categories: Configurations,Email,Programs
- Published:
- October 27, 2006 – 11:54 am
- Author:
- By Dave
Problem: Checking the apache server status with the command “apachectl status”, “service httpd fullstatus” or by viewing http://server/server-status I get the message: “The requested URL /server-status was not found on this server” or your alternative 404 page not found error. Answer: Assuming you have the module loaded and set up per the documentation of mod_status, this is this most likely a VirtualHost problem. If you use NameVirtualHost *:80 directive, or any *:port, to run multiple name based virtual hosts, this configuration does not allow server-status on any of the publicly accessible addresses. This is because the first Virtual Host in the directive is considered the “Default Virtual Host”, any unknown entries on the NameVirtualHost space – in this example anything accessing port 80 on any IP address, will default go to this virtual host and hence you will get a 404 page not found error. Furthermore you can not place….
Categories: Configurations,Programs,System Administration
Tagged: apache
- Published:
- October 24, 2006 – 10:12 pm
- Author:
- By Dave
Hey, Firefox 2.0 is out! Get it here. Improved tabbed browsing, additional customization, feed enhancements, and security improvements. If you haven’t tried Firefox before, there is no better time than now!
Categories: Programs
