Okay, so this is maybe a little unusual, but today’s “*nix Tip of the Day” isn’t about Unix/Linux/etc. at all. Instead, it is about their antiquated archenemy: VMS. First, a little bit of history: <History> Way back in 1970, the PDP-11 was hot stuff. Ken Thompson, Dennis Richie, Brian Kernighan, and others at Bell Labs [...]
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*nix Tip of the Day: vim modelines
As you may know, in the editor wars, I come down firmly on the side of vim. Vim is a lean and effective modal editor, contrasted with emacs. One of the features of Vim that I enjoy using (but did not know about until recently!) is modelines. A modeline is a small piece of text [...]
OS X Tip of the Day: Twitterific and QuickSilver
There are a few tips online as to how to use Twitter and QuickSilver together, but they’re lame. Particularly because they send your Twitter password over a nice non-https connection. And because I don’t like to have to choose between getting prompted to grant access to my Twitter password every time I post from QuickSilver [...]
*nix Tip of the $TIME_PERIOD: mutt
Another *nix tip; this time, focusing on the mutt mail client
Firefox 3
So, I got bored this weekend and installed Firefox 3 (beta 5, if it matters to you). It works pretty well — it’s certainly faster than Firefox 2. However, there are a couple of annoying bugs that I’d like to post the solutions to for posterity: If you use a dark theme (like I do), [...]
