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Archive for November, 2009
Vimtutor: Learn vim the easy way
Nov 24th
I learned vim the hard way e.g. started with nano, kept hearing from my seniors about vim, tried it once in a while, shifted to it and tried to survive, kept learning stuff with the need and time and now i know vim enough for my daily use. Lucky you, you now know vimtutor, go on, open a terminal window, and run this, its a great resource to get you started.
Interface Aliases: a great concept
Nov 24th
Recently i came across a scenario where we have a huge LAN of windows machines and we wanted to have some of them become unable to locate/browser/view other machine on network. There were a lot of solutions possible but i went with the interface aliases, created a new eth0:0, assigned static IP, assigned windows IP, used the IP of alias interface as proxy to browsers (as squid does run on the reserved, which in my case is a given most of the time.) and voila, everything works as required.
WordPress wins Open Source CMS Award
Nov 18th
I was very excited last week to learn that WordPress has been awarded the Overall Best Open Source CMS Award in the 2009 Open Source CMS Awards. This is a landmark for us, as it is the first time we’ve won this award, and it marks a shift in the public perception of WordPress, from blog software to full-featured CMS. No small contest, the Open Source CMS Awards received over 12,000 nominations and more than 23,000 votes across five categories.
/etc+git: great redundant backup solution
Nov 17th
I love backups, and specially redundant backups. Right now i have duplicity which takes encrypted backups of my systems and transfers it to my lappi. (more…)
Karmic and Intel 82915G/GV/910GL Graphics
Nov 15th
There is this buddy of mine, Mohsin Hijazee, who got resolution issues when he upgraded to karmic. Now that he has fixed those issues he actually went ahead to make a blog post to help other people. This is what i expect of everyone, be an active contributor to the community.
