Posts Tagged “Unix”

Open large files in Vim with care

If you want to load a large file in Vim you should disable the swap file to speed things up. It’s simple to do as well: Vim -n file.txt If a file is over 4096K or so and I have enough system RAM (not usually a problem) I’ll do it this way as it avoids [...]

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Death and Divorce Unix style

When you break up with your significant other you go through the motions of living your life, but in a daze. At some stage you need to let go and move on, no matter how hard it is. (from xkcd) PS. Congrats Elly on the move to WordPress! A pity this cartoon wasn’t published before [...]

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Digital Camera Support for UN*X

From the ILUG mailing list, this page looks like a very informative paper on general digital camera and computer use as well as driver support for various Unix systems. Worth reading the first few paragraphs even if you don’t use Unix.

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