vim folding or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Fold

sup people i wanted to write a quick article on why i love folds in vim especially in config files. vim folding gives you the ability to temporarily hide parts of files while leaving only certain lines visible. this helps a ton when you are elbow deep in the muck that are certain files. i … Read More

bootchart fun

since i had to rebuild some stuff on my laptop, i wanted to see how long it took to get to the login prompt and since i dont use a login manager i have to specifically run : pybootchartgui –crop-after=login   Click to enlarge: What bootchart doesn.t show you is that its actually 12 seconds … Read More

updated vim screenshot with some explanations part one

howdy all i have been away from a while battling dragons and you know…. that whole work thing. one question that i do keep getting on pissedoffadmins is about the vim screenshot and the rc file that i use. in this article i am going to explain some of the real big things in my … Read More

vim screenshot

just felt like posting a screenshot of my term while in vim. enjoy click to enlarge EDIT 20141126 as per Alex : here are the plugins i use. here is a copy of my vimrc.

Vim plugins that i use

so for the few of you that have seen my vim setup, here is a list of some of the plugins i use and a link to my vimrc file for all to use. Plugins: Vundle: or vim bundle which is a plugin manager Rainbow parenthesis: Highlight matching parens in a rainbow of colors Syntastic: … Read More

samsung s4 gt-i9500

so i recently got my hands on the samsung s4 gt-i9500 (exynos octa) and i must say… it is fucking annoying. not that the phone itself is bad or that i hate samsung, on the contrary i love samsung phones. its the fact that this phone never hit a mass audience that is annoying, which … Read More

multiple window managers in primary window manager

so for my day to day usage, i run as minimalistic a window manager as possible (evilwm or in gentoo : x11-wm/evilwm), but every now and then i have to debug or test things in other wm’s which is a pain in the ass depending on what login manager you are using or just depending … Read More

gentoo spotify from deb file

this is how i got spotify to work on my install of gentoo. YMMV. grab a copy of the deb from here. just make sure to grab one for your respective build (x86 or amd64). at the time of writing, spotify-client_0.9.1.55.gbdd3b79.203-1_amd64.deb was the version available. now lets uncompress the file : ar x file.deb which … Read More