Nick_C

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by Nick_C 15y ago
FYI, there is a setting (which I can't remember but I've always had it) to make all your Vim command completions case-insensitive. :h cmdline-completion, it's possibly the ignorecase option.
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by Nick_C 15y ago
I write a lot of shell scripts and C where $UPPER_CASE variables are common. Is it still worth remapping Caps-Lock? (The problem is it would be remapped system-wide, not just in Vim.)
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by Nick_C 15y ago
On the fit: - the sleeve length should be to your hand when your hand is bent back 90 degrees. It can be slightly shorter for a casual jacket. - there should not be any bunching or lifting on the area under the collar at the back when yo
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by Nick_C 15y ago
An interesting analysis of how to find which file is affected by a bad sector. I found it useful to see an example of using debugfs. (I don't know how to do the equivalent for NTFS.)
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by Nick_C 15y ago
For new-ish unix users, just pointing out that cat ... | grep ... is a classic mistake (it's in the faq). Grep can do line numbers with -n.
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Make blog site mobile-friendly with sed(nickcoleman.org)
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by Nick_C 15y ago
Heh, I never realised IANA supports example.com and example.org. Did you all know that already and forget to tell me?
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by Nick_C 15y ago
It was a special, but one that they offer regularly, in the sense that every so often they offer say 1,000 of them until the offer is filled up. Then it is closed off until the next round. Disk space is 10GB and traffic is 500GB. I found t
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by Nick_C 15y ago
> $15/year? is it an OpenVZ (advanced chroot jail) VPS? As far as I can tell (from the kernel name), it is OpenVZ. I only discovered that last night, coincidentally. It is tiny, only 256MB, bursting to 512MB, of RAM. But at that price
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by Nick_C 15y ago
> The interesting thing is that this means shared hosting, usually with a well-supported but language constrained environment, is actually becoming the premium hosting option. VPSs, formerly the high-end option, are now the cheap stuff.
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by Nick_C 15y ago
Oh, ok, I did know about that one. Why I use NotScripts: the extension lets you enable JS temporarily or permanently for a particular website with just a mouse click. As well, at the same time, you can do the same thing for any third-part
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by Nick_C 15y ago
I can't find anything that provides those features. Can you let us know where it is? (Chrome 13.0.782.112 on Linux)
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by Nick_C 15y ago
Well, to be fair, flying a heavy is vastly different from a light plane. You don't have the seat-of-the-pants feel, centre-of-gravity varies greatly during the flight with fuel burn-off, at cruise you are flying only a few knots over the s
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by Nick_C 15y ago
> I'm pretty sure all major airlines require a ton of hours on smaller planes... That used to be true, and may be right now, but the trend is towards airlines accepting simulator time in lieu. The trouble with that is that simulators a
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by Nick_C 15y ago
> Total Commander ... multiple-jobs-in-movecopy-queue functionality Try xplorer2. I've been a very happy user for about a decade.
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by Nick_C 15y ago
These are design decisions which were built in eons ago; there was a valid reason for it that was explained to me once but I forget now. Anyway, there is this in the default vimrc: " Professor VIM says '87% of users prefer jj over esc',
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by Nick_C 15y ago
There are US-based shippers that redirect your delivery to international. http://www.hopshopgo.com is one that my brother-in-law uses without problems to ship to Australia.
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by Nick_C 15y ago
I know it is not tech, but serendipitously, I just watched a documentary on Shanghai last night. Ten years ago, number of billionaires was zero, today is 7,000 . Just in Shanghai alone.
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by Nick_C 15y ago
> It would make for a fun app though Like this one? http://orbit.medphys.ucl.ac.uk/ Orbiter is a space sim with accurate orbital mechanics (including the Oberth effect ;). It's a lot of fun. You can use realistic current vehicles fo
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by Nick_C 15y ago
Just be aware it may not execute the command you think. man bash for HISTIGNORE. Personally I never use it with sudo; it's too dangerous.
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by Nick_C 15y ago
>constantly fiddling with your Linux machine for it to continue working flawlessly. Upgrades tend to break things, Eh? I've run Slackware for years and it works fine, including upgrades. No fiddling either. Maybe you're thinking of Ub
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by Nick_C 15y ago
> # silly macros I get shell access on one of my webhosting companies (DreamHost), so I scp data up to it a lot, but the path is a bit of a pain to type, except for this shortcut: # ctrl-d ctrl-h is a mnemonic for DreamHost '\C-d
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by Nick_C 15y ago
I recently bought the same for $15/year. Care to share your squid.conf? I just want a non-caching anonymous forwarding proxy and am finding the huge amount of options a bit of a muddle to work through. Seeing yours would be a help, if you
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by Nick_C 15y ago
In my experience, it's from some GNU folk who like their god-forsaken abomination that is info docs.
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by Nick_C 15y ago
man docs have a specific format, a followed by b followed by c, etc. Examples are towards the end, near bugs and author. It may not be how you want it, but at least it's consistent. shift-G will take you straight to the end, with hopeful
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by Nick_C 15y ago
> @seldo: how do I find out about "apropos"? > shell should offer a tutorial by default on first login. > 'help' should probably be a built-in FYI, OpenBSD has all these. I don't know why the various Linux distros don't.
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by Nick_C 15y ago
I've often wondered before about this. How do you plug in a big generator set without disturbing the power company? I imagine they would get pissed if all of a sudden they are getting weird frequency or voltage perturbations down the line
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by Nick_C 15y ago
> the pain of editing Unix files on Windows (the only reason why Wordpad exists) An FYI for anyone who might have this problem, Notepad2 is a drop-in replacement for notepad and can handle Unix/Windows line-ending conversions (plus a fe
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by Nick_C 15y ago
LinkedIn are terrible. I have tried half-a-dozen times to stop getting their stupid "Top Headlines in Computer Software" emails (which I never subscribed to), but I can't find the "don't send me any more emails" option anywhere in my prefe
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by Nick_C 15y ago
> nuclear sub crews who protect their launch enablers with bicycle locks. I can't see anything about bicycle locks on that website. Do you have another link? (Very interesting, by the way.)

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