Andrey Vystavkin Blog

If you don’t know what’s Vim, then:

1. You’re Windows IDE’s fan
2. You’ve never used Linux

An option “you’re using Emacs” is not included - you would have definetely known Vim. You’d hate it for the sake of “holly wars”.

I’m not an Emacs lover, neither those huge IDE’s with bunch of boxes, bookmarks, you name it. Most of these things are useless when you need to code something fast, so I just stuck with Vim: simple, light, fast, and have a lot of functionality. Here are just few tips of speeding up coding process I’ve been using lately:

If you got some repetitive function calls or anything you’re not bothered to print just fire up:

Comments:

Printing

or

will paste initial comment pattern.

Minus another dozen of lines to be typed.

Text search:

You can

which will enable incremental search for you, or use regexp, like:

will find you “agent” in current file.

Using ftp:

These are just basics, Bram Moolenaar, the developer of Vim, got a good article on how to optimize your work with Vim, and David Rayner with his page of Vim tips. Compulsory to learn for Vim beginners!

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Good news, KDE team started migration of original KDE applications for Windows platform. Concerning windows.kde.org, users of Windows XP/2000/2003 can easily install famous apps like Konqueror, Kate and others on their machines, via KDE-installer.

If some of the applications don’t work from the beginning, just add KDEDIRS and Path in your Control Panel, as it’s described in the manual.

So far, I found only one minor thing: I couldn’t manage applications via Konqueror, however it needs some googling.

In general, lots of positive feelings for this great move of KDE, because some of the apps in KDE can’t be compared with Windows scanty alternatives.

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Here is a Linux Virus scanner for you:

References go to Ubuntuforums

Updates: First add-on for Linux Antivirus released, just add few lines at the bottom of the code:

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Heck! I was expecting some power consumption improvements, but still 4 hours XP vs. 2 hours Gusty.

Trying to make this post useful, follow these lines:

And remember: the more you misspell these three lines the longer upgrade will be! Be aware of grammar mistakes, folks!

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I’ll try to make things short by quoting Richard Stallman:

Control over the use of one’s ideas really constitutes control over other people’s lives; and it is usually used to make their lives more difficult.

Watching these patent wars between Novell, Red Hat versus IP Innovation just makes me wondering: how hard will it be to distribute ideas in the world where everything is patented?

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It’s been a while since these talks started. There have been a lot of “for” and “against” opinions concerning the creation of a particular operating system which can be called Russian.

On the 15th of September, in Sochi, the Academy of Information Technologies and Federal Bureau of Technical and Export Control authorized Mandriva Linux distro as a stable Linux version for corporate use.

As the result, Mandriva now can become a “standard” version of Operating System for governmental sectors in Russia.

Personally, I’ve never used it and can’t compare its functionality with other OS’es, but the worst nightmares of ROS didn’t appear to be true, like:

• Creating a brand new OS from scratch
• Upgrade MSVS distro of Linux

Will Mandriva be an only version of Linux distro used in government sector or not - that’s the question, but a good thing is that Linux is acknowledged as OS alternatives on government levels.

Measuring the level of Linux integration, a good example is a massive integration of Linux in China - project Red Flag Linux. Hopefully, this first step in Russia will make Open Source systems more popular then now.

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