Following on from Paul’s excellent Vim Masterclass: Tabs post, I thought I would touch on a few nice keymaps that you can add to your .vimrc file to make the tab functionality within vim a little more friendly. .vimrc file … Continue reading →

Vim has the ability to load multiple files at once. The command vim a.txt b.txt will load the files ‘a.txt’ and ‘b.txt’ into Vim’s memory. Once loaded, you can switch to the next file with the ‘:n’ command. This will … Continue reading →

So, after making the assumption that I had now backed up everything I needed from my old  server, I gave the hosting company the word to rebuild the server and crossed my fingers……the next morning there was an email in … Continue reading →

The latest round of linux updates brought up one specific issue with perl, the error in question was: dualvar is only available with the XS version of Scalar::Util at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/Mail/Reporter.pm line 14 BEGIN failed–compilation aborted at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/Mail/Reporter.pm line 14. Compilation … Continue reading →

Security researchers have revealed that a bank account-raiding worm has started spreading on Facebook, stealing login credentials as it creeps across the site. The worm, called Ramnit, originally discovered in April 2010 by the Microsoft Malware Protection Center (MMPC) is … Continue reading →

At 6am GMT an attempt at the world record for the most comments on an online news item in 24 hours began. http://www.trefor.net/2012/01/05/world-record-attempt-for-most-comments-on-an-online-news-item-in-24-hours-has-started-comment24-rnli/ According to Guinness World Records® 100k unique comments are needed – that’s just over 1 comment a … Continue reading →

NTP is an internet protocol used to synchronize the clocks of computers to a time reference. NTP can be installed via your operating systems repository and the standard “ntpd” package will provide you with a script to synchronise the time … Continue reading →