Visual *block* mode Instead of just regular visual mode 'v', you can use CTRL-v for visual block mode. I tend to use this as a quick way to comment out lines. type [0] for beginning of line, then [CTRL-v], arrow down, [Shift-i], [#], then [Esc] and it will stick a # at the beginning of the every line in the visual block. But one of the nice things is that you don't have to be at the beginning of a line. You can indent everything after column 40, for example, across your selected lines and it will move everything after your visual block. It's also very handle for visually selecting a single column of text in a file and then using the [x] to delete it.
<< and >> In normal mode, hitting the key [>] twice will indent the whole current line (or visually selected area) to the next tabstop.
[v][i][p] This visually selects the current paragraph in its entirety (a paragraph being lines of text separated by a blank line). One that I type all the time is [v][i][p][=] because I have my "equalprog" value set to perltidy and this reformats my current block of code. I just prefer not to run perltidy across a whole file of my code at once. I also use this one a lot with shell commands like !sort.
And a couple for your ~/.vimrc:
map zz za I use folds a lot and I just find it more convenient to hit zz to open/close the current fold.
nmap:wincmd w If you use split windows a lot, this let's you just hit the Tab key while in normal mode to switch through regions.
Geez, I just noticed my ~/.vimrc file is up to 29K...
It wouldn't be over an IMAP connection, since it's offline IMAP all the messages are on the local disk already, and can be searched without any internet connection.
If I needed to search that amount of data, I suppose I'd install Beagle. There, problem solved.
True, but now you've lost your previous boast about it being accessible from anywhere. You'll able be able to perform searches on a machine where you've downloaded all your mail. The other person's comment about server side imap searching isn't a very good comparison anyway. Even if your client supports that feature, do you really think it's going to be as good or as fast as google search? Very, very doubtful.
And you've obviously never actually run beagle before. It's bad news.
Since no imap client even comes close to the power of using the google search engine in gmail, it is hardly pointless. I have ~170,000 messages in my gmail box, try search that over an imap connection and then call gmail pointless...
I like his comment about "rotating" media. What a disdainful term that will become. It immediately made me picture my nine-yr-old son teasing me in 10 years because I still have stuff on my lame rotating media.
We noticed. We were using their dynamic ip range list so we started noticing it pretty quickly.
As for the extortion fee for getting off their list, we never had to pay it. We would explain the problem, note that we took steps to correct the issue, and they'd remove us with no fee. On one occasion where it really was our fault for fat fingering something and they really wanted to charge us the extortion fee, we just whimpered and cried and bowed and scraped a little bit and they took us off anyway with no fee. But, like you mentioned, they're irrelevant now anyway, without that useful dynamic range list.
When an isp gets a subpoena, they're required to be able to tap your internet traffic basically at a moment's notice. The law enforcement agency will then receive a full packet trace of literally every bit of your network traffic.
Granted, this is meaningless on a stand-alone pc that's not connected to the internet, but the instances where they'll want to install gov't spyware on this type of system has got to be far, far less often.
Who would want to call themselves a "blogger"? Yet thousands do, and think themselves quite important to boot.
It doesn't surprise me that they think of themselves as important. Every news outlet refers to bloggers like they're some sort of recognizable authority on the topic of the day. So they sign up for a livejournal account, post one entry littered with hooked-on-phonics style spelling errors, and suddenly they're part of that group recognition.
There's now a million monkeys with a million keyboards and their blogging is nothing like Shakespeare.
How does weblog get shortened to 'blog' anyway... Silly.
I think it holds a special annoyance for me because it reminds of when I used to work with some people that thought it was awfully cute to refer to their computer as "My Puter" and I really did want to throttle them in their sleep.
Well, as entertaining as it is to read battle-of-the-press-release-links threads, it isn't really necessary is it. There is already FIOS in the areas covered by the press release you posted. I don't need a press release to conclude the obvious.
And you make it seem as if Verizon is pulling out of Maine entirely. Wrong. From the press release you posted:
The transaction does not include the services, offerings or assets of Verizon Wireless, Verizon Business (former MCI), Federal Network Systems LLC, Verizon Network Integration Corp., Verizon Global Networks Inc., Verizon Federal Inc. or any other Verizon businesses in these states.
Again, stop with the FUD. I'll happily point and laugh at you when FIOS comes to Maine, but spreading this crap hurts the state.
Keep in mind that Maine has NO next generation broadband. No FIOS. And it won't get it, EVER. Verizon is selling off it's Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine lines to Fairpoint, whose motto is "128K DSL is the wave of the future." The closest FTTP type deployment in Maine is in Lewiston / Auburn via Oxford Networks, who's idea is to use fiber to deploy 2M MAX service (which is slower than available cable / DSL). Business users only have a 1M option. The brilliant Oxford Networks execs are running around wondering why nobody is buying...
So yeah. Go Maine. Unfortunately it doesn't mean jack shit because the available broadband is pathetic.
Wrong. Verizon is selling their residential telephone service to Fairpoint, that's it.
Part of the reason is there is so much competition now, Verizon is ready to get out of that line of business in such . Not just mobile phone companies, from big places like Time Warner Cable and small places like GWI and their VOIP offerings. And if you don't like Fairpoint's DSL offering, buy it from someone else. IIRC, GWI's DSL service was $35 for 3/768 and their coverage area is getting quite extensive.
As for FIOS, I'm sure that will be like everything else, it will take a little longer than heavily populated areas. But FIOS is already available in some pretty rural areas of NH just across the border, so I doubt we're very far behind. I've certainly seen plenty of White Mountain Cable trucks running fiber along a great many roads in this area. I'm drawing a blank on the other telecom construction contractor that operates in Maine (Mainelink is it?), but I've even seen their trucks pulling fiber even in places like Standish.
Maine doesn't need FUD like this, so don't start it.
It's questions just like the one posted here on slashdot that made me question why that whole process was kept secret. If every project deals with conflicts in a secretive fashion, how can anyone else benefit when they have to deal with problems of their own?
Here's a slightly pared down version of my Perlmonks post:
... why is it that when the going gets rough, core principles of the whole movement are abandoned? Open source, open discussion, open participation and contribution, learning from each other, whether it's our successes or failures. This suddenly turns into conditional agreements of absolute silence, closed mediations, secrecy, and barely explained personnel changes. The pithy voice in my head is trying to remember whether it's the white smoke or the black smoke that lets us know about the change.
I can read between the lines like anyone else, but who can deny that some of the best, most enlightening discussions here on PerlMonks have been heated. Someone feels strongly about something and they end up providing great detail about their reasons. Regardless if you agree, you've probably learned something.
Catalyst has become a very significant project. Aren't we missing the benefit of how such a project is lead? Wouldn't we benefit from the technical details such as how changes impact other projects? Wouldn't we also benefit from seeing other's passion for their projects? At minimum, maybe it would expand our awareness of the community as a whole.
Definitely gotta have my.vimrc too. It's followed me for a long time.
What I do is keep sort of a manifest-slash-backup-script of my important stuff. I never want to backup my entire home dir because directories like ~/.kde can produce some very undesirable results when restoring it. So I just keep a script like:
I just use an nfs or sshfs mount as my destination. So when I restore it, I can just install my core apps and be ready to roll.
I do other things to make my visual tweaks faster. For example, I like to rotate my backgrounds often amongst a collection of wallpapers, so I have a directory ~/Documents/Pictures/Wallpapers/rotate which contains symlinks to my favorite images so I can just go in and select-all in that directory.
I use a combination of google's browser sync (for cookies and such) and yahoo's toolbar (really just for bookmarks) so my browser is instantly usable even if I don't keep my entire ~/.mozilla directory.
Probably a good testimony to how well that works for me is when my laptop hd died a couple of months ago. While the new drive was in transit, I was just booting from the kubuntu cd and running linux from there. I had enough space on the ram disk to install firefox and a couple of the other packages I needed and it worked fairly well.
tar xzvf does not work on bzip2 compressed tar files.
Since bzip2 compressed tar files are not gzip compressed tar files, this behavior should be expected. tar jzvf, on the other hand, works just fine on bzip2 compressed tar files.
I've just completed my first 30 days with kubuntu. Normally I use FreeBSD, but I wanted to try some newer bells and whistles like the 3d gl mode desktop. I installed opensuse 10.2, but that only lasted ten days before yast became unusable and the zen package manager did an impromptu mindwipe of its own.
So my next stop was kubuntu. Although the package management system has some bugs of its own, it's been great so far. Everything just works with very little hassle. My touchpad, my wireless, the gl desktop. Very little difficulty. I hadn't ever touched a debian based distro and I had a bit of a learning curve with that. There seems to be a different set of issues with each package management tool, adept, apt-get, synaptic, aptitude, but it's not bad once you learn your way around and I haven't found myself in dependency hell yet.
Thanks for the tip. How about another tab, rather than another window?
Tab Mix Plus is an excellent plugin that can accomplish this for you. Much better than Firefox's built-in tab management. Though, personally, when I'm popping out a message like this, I WANT it in another window because 90% of the time it's because I want to look at some other message or web page while I'm typing.
I thought it was pretty amusing when I clicked into my spam folder and the WebClips feature started show me SPAM related ads, recipes for SPAM dishes you can cook, things like that.
GMail is by far the best client, IMHO. It has very advanced AJAX, context-sensitive ads, good mouseover stuff, keyboard shortcuts, excellent mail and chat log search, conversation sorting (were it kinda cascades the original message and replies back and forth like playing cards, which you can click to expand), and all kinds of handy stuff.
Absolutely agree. I started using my gmail account just for the mail searching alone. I'm on a ton of mailing lists and gmail is absolutely ideal for this purpose. Even for mailing lists in which you don't want to actively participate, having the messages handy for searching can be invaluable. Especially since most mailing lists have crappy archive searching mechanisms. I even wrote a bit of perl that could deliver an entire mailman archive to my gmail acct so that I could search it more easily.
The only downside is that when you actually have a ton of messages in your gmail account, it's very buggy when trying to do things such as marking all messages as read. It's very difficult to prune down your mailbox selectively when you get close to your quota.
ISP's keep logs anyway. When we get a subpoena from the feds for "any and all" logs related to a customer's usage, they know they're just going to get things like dhcp logs and mail server logs. On the *extremely* rare occasion where they require full blown network activity, they get a network trace dump. I remember one instance where the person's network traffic was fairly light, so the dump was a few hundred MB for a couple of days. While in another instance, we were required to trace someone's traffic for four or five days and it was almost 10 GB. 10 GB, for one single user's mail and web traffic.
Besides, I only had three, maybe four subpoenas for that level of monitoring in the last ten years, how badly do they really need this level of detail for *all* users on the internet?
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Here's some that I a lot...
Visual *block* mode
Instead of just regular visual mode 'v', you can use CTRL-v for visual block mode. I tend to use this as a quick way to comment out lines. type [0] for beginning of line, then [CTRL-v], arrow down, [Shift-i], [#], then [Esc] and it will stick a # at the beginning of the every line in the visual block. But one of the nice things is that you don't have to be at the beginning of a line. You can indent everything after column 40, for example, across your selected lines and it will move everything after your visual block. It's also very handle for visually selecting a single column of text in a file and then using the [x] to delete it.
<< and >>
In normal mode, hitting the key [>] twice will indent the whole current line (or visually selected area) to the next tabstop.
[v][i][p]
This visually selects the current paragraph in its entirety (a paragraph being lines of text separated by a blank line). One that I type all the time is [v][i][p][=] because I have my "equalprog" value set to perltidy and this reformats my current block of code. I just prefer not to run perltidy across a whole file of my code at once. I also use this one a lot with shell commands like !sort.
And a couple for your ~/.vimrc:
map zz za
I use folds a lot and I just find it more convenient to hit zz to open/close the current fold.
nmap :wincmd w
If you use split windows a lot, this let's you just hit the Tab key while in normal mode to switch through regions.
Geez, I just noticed my ~/.vimrc file is up to 29K...
Do your labels show up as imap folders?
If I needed to search that amount of data, I suppose I'd install Beagle. There, problem solved.
True, but now you've lost your previous boast about it being accessible from anywhere. You'll able be able to perform searches on a machine where you've downloaded all your mail. The other person's comment about server side imap searching isn't a very good comparison anyway. Even if your client supports that feature, do you really think it's going to be as good or as fast as google search? Very, very doubtful.
And you've obviously never actually run beagle before. It's bad news.
Since no imap client even comes close to the power of using the google search engine in gmail, it is hardly pointless. I have ~170,000 messages in my gmail box, try search that over an imap connection and then call gmail pointless...
Sounds appropriate to me. It certainly seems as if Piers Anthony is in charge of Ubuntu's naming scheme.
I like his comment about "rotating" media. What a disdainful term that will become. It immediately made me picture my nine-yr-old son teasing me in 10 years because I still have stuff on my lame rotating media.
We noticed. We were using their dynamic ip range list so we started noticing it pretty quickly.
As for the extortion fee for getting off their list, we never had to pay it. We would explain the problem, note that we took steps to correct the issue, and they'd remove us with no fee. On one occasion where it really was our fault for fat fingering something and they really wanted to charge us the extortion fee, we just whimpered and cried and bowed and scraped a little bit and they took us off anyway with no fee. But, like you mentioned, they're irrelevant now anyway, without that useful dynamic range list.
Since no one else has mentioned it...
CALEA.
When an isp gets a subpoena, they're required to be able to tap your internet traffic basically at a moment's notice. The law enforcement agency will then receive a full packet trace of literally every bit of your network traffic.
Granted, this is meaningless on a stand-alone pc that's not connected to the internet, but the instances where they'll want to install gov't spyware on this type of system has got to be far, far less often.
And it only took them 570 days to catch up. http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/12/03/ 1759224
Who would want to call themselves a "blogger"? Yet thousands do, and think themselves quite important to boot.
It doesn't surprise me that they think of themselves as important. Every news outlet refers to bloggers like they're some sort of recognizable authority on the topic of the day. So they sign up for a livejournal account, post one entry littered with hooked-on-phonics style spelling errors, and suddenly they're part of that group recognition.
There's now a million monkeys with a million keyboards and their blogging is nothing like Shakespeare.
How does weblog get shortened to 'blog' anyway... Silly.
I think it holds a special annoyance for me because it reminds of when I used to work with some people that thought it was awfully cute to refer to their computer as "My Puter" and I really did want to throttle them in their sleep.
Now that I've bothered to look, FIOS is *already* available in Kittery. Oh wait, now you'll show me press release, they seceded from Maine. ;)
Well, as entertaining as it is to read battle-of-the-press-release-links threads, it isn't really necessary is it. There is already FIOS in the areas covered by the press release you posted. I don't need a press release to conclude the obvious.
And you make it seem as if Verizon is pulling out of Maine entirely. Wrong. From the press release you posted:
The transaction does not include the services, offerings or assets of Verizon Wireless, Verizon Business (former MCI), Federal Network Systems LLC, Verizon Network Integration Corp., Verizon Global Networks Inc., Verizon Federal Inc. or any other Verizon businesses in these states.
Again, stop with the FUD. I'll happily point and laugh at you when FIOS comes to Maine, but spreading this crap hurts the state.
So yeah. Go Maine. Unfortunately it doesn't mean jack shit because the available broadband is pathetic.
Wrong. Verizon is selling their residential telephone service to Fairpoint, that's it.
Part of the reason is there is so much competition now, Verizon is ready to get out of that line of business in such . Not just mobile phone companies, from big places like Time Warner Cable and small places like GWI and their VOIP offerings. And if you don't like Fairpoint's DSL offering, buy it from someone else. IIRC, GWI's DSL service was $35 for 3/768 and their coverage area is getting quite extensive.
As for FIOS, I'm sure that will be like everything else, it will take a little longer than heavily populated areas. But FIOS is already available in some pretty rural areas of NH just across the border, so I doubt we're very far behind. I've certainly seen plenty of White Mountain Cable trucks running fiber along a great many roads in this area. I'm drawing a blank on the other telecom construction contractor that operates in Maine (Mainelink is it?), but I've even seen their trucks pulling fiber even in places like Standish.
Maine doesn't need FUD like this, so don't start it.
FreeBSD is looking better all the time
Absolutely. Especially now that the Xorg has finally been updated and beryl/aixgl is even available. FreeBSD can be downright flashy now. :)
Remember the Catalyst debacle a while back?
It's questions just like the one posted here on slashdot that made me question why that whole process was kept secret. If every project deals with conflicts in a secretive fashion, how can anyone else benefit when they have to deal with problems of their own?
Here's a slightly pared down version of my Perlmonks post:
I can read between the lines like anyone else, but who can deny that some of the best, most enlightening discussions here on PerlMonks have been heated. Someone feels strongly about something and they end up providing great detail about their reasons. Regardless if you agree, you've probably learned something.
Catalyst has become a very significant project. Aren't we missing the benefit of how such a project is lead? Wouldn't we benefit from the technical details such as how changes impact other projects? Wouldn't we also benefit from seeing other's passion for their projects? At minimum, maybe it would expand our awareness of the community as a whole.
Definitely gotta have my .vimrc too. It's followed me for a long time.
What I do is keep sort of a manifest-slash-backup-script of my important stuff. I never want to backup my entire home dir because directories like ~/.kde can produce some very undesirable results when restoring it. So I just keep a script like:
I just use an nfs or sshfs mount as my destination. So when I restore it, I can just install my core apps and be ready to roll.
I do other things to make my visual tweaks faster. For example, I like to rotate my backgrounds often amongst a collection of wallpapers, so I have a directory ~/Documents/Pictures/Wallpapers/rotate which contains symlinks to my favorite images so I can just go in and select-all in that directory.
I use a combination of google's browser sync (for cookies and such) and yahoo's toolbar (really just for bookmarks) so my browser is instantly usable even if I don't keep my entire ~/.mozilla directory.
Probably a good testimony to how well that works for me is when my laptop hd died a couple of months ago. While the new drive was in transit, I was just booting from the kubuntu cd and running linux from there. I had enough space on the ram disk to install firefox and a couple of the other packages I needed and it worked fairly well.
Since bzip2 compressed tar files are not gzip compressed tar files, this behavior should be expected. tar jzvf, on the other hand, works just fine on bzip2 compressed tar files.
I've just completed my first 30 days with kubuntu. Normally I use FreeBSD, but I wanted to try some newer bells and whistles like the 3d gl mode desktop. I installed opensuse 10.2, but that only lasted ten days before yast became unusable and the zen package manager did an impromptu mindwipe of its own.
So my next stop was kubuntu. Although the package management system has some bugs of its own, it's been great so far. Everything just works with very little hassle. My touchpad, my wireless, the gl desktop. Very little difficulty. I hadn't ever touched a debian based distro and I had a bit of a learning curve with that. There seems to be a different set of issues with each package management tool, adept, apt-get, synaptic, aptitude, but it's not bad once you learn your way around and I haven't found myself in dependency hell yet.
Tab Mix Plus is an excellent plugin that can accomplish this for you. Much better than Firefox's built-in tab management. Though, personally, when I'm popping out a message like this, I WANT it in another window because 90% of the time it's because I want to look at some other message or web page while I'm typing.
I thought it was pretty amusing when I clicked into my spam folder and the WebClips feature started show me SPAM related ads, recipes for SPAM dishes you can cook, things like that.
Absolutely agree. I started using my gmail account just for the mail searching alone. I'm on a ton of mailing lists and gmail is absolutely ideal for this purpose. Even for mailing lists in which you don't want to actively participate, having the messages handy for searching can be invaluable. Especially since most mailing lists have crappy archive searching mechanisms. I even wrote a bit of perl that could deliver an entire mailman archive to my gmail acct so that I could search it more easily.
The only downside is that when you actually have a ton of messages in your gmail account, it's very buggy when trying to do things such as marking all messages as read. It's very difficult to prune down your mailbox selectively when you get close to your quota.
The [End] key does not behave this way for me (Firefox/2.0.0.1 (Ubuntu-edgy)). Perhaps you've got some greasemonkey script behaving unexpectedly?
ISP's keep logs anyway. When we get a subpoena from the feds for "any and all" logs related to a customer's usage, they know they're just going to get things like dhcp logs and mail server logs. On the *extremely* rare occasion where they require full blown network activity, they get a network trace dump. I remember one instance where the person's network traffic was fairly light, so the dump was a few hundred MB for a couple of days. While in another instance, we were required to trace someone's traffic for four or five days and it was almost 10 GB. 10 GB, for one single user's mail and web traffic.
Besides, I only had three, maybe four subpoenas for that level of monitoring in the last ten years, how badly do they really need this level of detail for *all* users on the internet?