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Control S in vim hangs

Another vim tip,
In vim, if you press control s and the screen freezes, press control q to unlock the screen. This is an xterm thinggy.
cheers.

Xen Guest, Dom U - dont use LVM

I dont see any reason why one should use lvm in xen guest. The whole idea of using lvm is to have the ability to resize disk size easily and resizing a xen guest can be done easily without using LVM. Actually, having LVM in xen guest complicates the process of resizing… You can google [...]

Configure Mutt to receive mail via POP3

1. install ‘fetchmail’ to get mail from POP3 server.
2. under home dir, create .fetchmailrc and use following syntax (assuming no ssl)
poll [SERVER] with proto [PROTOCOL]
user [REMOTE_USER] there with password [REMOTE_PASSWORD] is [LOCAL_USER] here
3. Start getting mail using “fetchmail -v”
4. mutt tips:
# view html within mutt
auto_view text/html
# press I to auto fetch mail
macro index I ‘ [...]

10 Checklist For Starting A Software Business

I am eager to write something based on my experience in the software business. Hey, it is a good reminder for me in the future as well!
1. Backup Plan
Do you have a software or script to backup both database and raw files regularly?
2. Failure Plan
What do you do when things fall apart? How do you [...]

Command Line Blogging - Wordpress

I am using command line most of the time because of the nature of my work. Normally, when I discovered new techniques to do things, solved a problem or had a cool idea, I would write them down on my exercise book. It soon became clear that I needed something more concrete as copying lines [...]