22 Sep 08 First Post from a BlackBerry
Well, this is a test post from a BlackBerry – not sure if it will work.
Called up M1 a couple of days ago and changed the APN from mobilenet to sunsurf and performance has improved a lot. Trying to see if it works better with Wordpress.
16 Sep 08 Customisation for Vim Editor
When doing some simple programming, I like to use the Vim editor instead of using a full-blown IDE. It’s a good editor but I want to use it more efficiently. Some of the things I customise for myself are:
- auto indentation – this is a must for programmers
- tab size – to indent I use the tab key but different applications represent the tab character with different number of spaces; I like mine to be 4
- I like my colours to be different
These settings are saved in a file named .vimrc in each user’s home directory. Simply save the vi commands in this file to have your customisation. But remember to remove the semicolons. Below is my .vimrc contents to achieve my customisation.
set tabstop=4
set autoindent
colorscheme wombat
wombat is a colour scheme file which I saved in the directory /usr/share/vim/vim71/colors/.
P.S. While searching for some help on setting the file types in Vim, I found this page in wikibooks.org that describes the tips a programmer would use. It’s unbelievably useful. Do check it out if you use vi editor!
Another page with some useful tips is http://tips.webdesign10.com/general/vim
Tags: tips
08 Sep 08 Finally, A New Desktop!
I’ve finally got around to buying a new desktop for home use. Nothing fancy, but because I want the best bang for my buck, I’ve put off the purchase for quite sometime now. Being an IT guy, of course I chose to have my system assembled from the shops in Sim Lim Square instead of a PC vendor.
So, like any decent programmers/IT specialist will do, I analysed my requirements first. My needs are simple:
- It has to be at least dual core – I run VMware so nothing less than a dual core for me.
- It cannot be an overkill – I’ve seen too many instances where money is really put to waste. (Raise your hand if you’ve heard someone bought a quad-core processor to do word processing.)
- Plenty of hard disk space and running SATAII but must also support IDE drives,
- It must be supported by Linux and be able to run Compiz/Compiz Fusion.
- I prefer Gigabyte motherboard – been using it since my first desktop and never had any problems with it.
With my requirements listed carefully, I settled for Gigabyte motherboard GA-G31M-S2L, which has Intel GMA 3100, Realtek 8168B PCI-Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller, I specifically mentioned these two components because they have been my biggest worry if I were to use LInux.
