Problem: Low contrast VIM on SSH and Telnet If you work over SSH or telnet on VIM (VI) text editor, then you are probably experiencing a low contrast page that’s very hard on the eyes. I searched all over the net and VIM’s wiki but didn’t find a fix. Solution: Change setting in VIM’s config [...]
Free and Legal Method for Acquiring a Reliable USA IP Address For Testing and Surfing While Outside the USA. Q. You’re located outside the USA and need to test what your website looks like to your USA visitors. What’s the easiest way to accomplish this for free an without pesky and unstable ip cloaks and [...]
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Puppy Arcade – Have your Puppy Linux and Play Games too (with awesome speed)! We’ve been singing the praises of Puppy Linux (Review) for some time now. We love to hear about applications and new ways to use this great and fast linux distribution. Scott Jarvis sent us info on his just released Puppy Arcade [...]
Overview Ever need a quick and free tool for accessing a non-responsive computer? Have you wanted an easy way to partition multiple drives with a simple graphical tool? Do you like running Linux from RAM? If you answered yes to any of the above questions, you’ll want to give this nifty tool a closer look. [...]
Good news for those of us who have been using Firefox as a last resort in our Linux machines. Google has announced the beta release of the mouch-touted browser for the Linux platform. Chrome is said to be faster and lighter than Firefox. I’ve been using Chrome in pre-beta for quite some time without incident. [...]
IE Does Not Behave Like Firefox for Many PHP Variables Forget it, IE doesn’t pass on the PHP referer variable. You cannot rely on IE for the referer variable. What’s really frustrating for LAMP programmers is that we often test in Firefox and things look great, and then you jump over to a Windows machine [...]
Face it, we live in a Windows world. The Windows 7 OS has been on shelves for nearly two weeks, and according to various reports, it already has taken a 2% market share of all installed OS in the world. By comparison, Linux OS, in all its flavors and variations, holds less than a 2% [...]
An Instant Home Server SLAMPP 2.0 is a “simple solution for home server” based on Zenwalk 6.0 and using the Slackware package repository. Slampp is released as a Live DVD that can also be installed on your hard drive. Slampp claims to enable users to install an ‘instant home server’. Slampp v.2.0 – (Kalinda) was [...]
CrunchBang – Fast Linux with Many Customization Options CrunchBang Linux 9.04 is an Open-Box distro based on Ubuntu with Gnome packages. CrunchBang promises performance and ultimate customization options. Version 9.04.01 was released a couple weeks ago, and we decided to give it a test drive. CrunchBang Standard vs. Lite CrunchBang is offered in standard and [...]