Monthly Archives: March 2007

Vim Copying Issues

Posted on March 21, 2007 by Jethro Carr

I came across an interesting issue today – I opened a file in Vim, and yanked (copied) around 140 lines. Then I opened up another file and pasted those lines – however I only ended up with 49 lines! This … Continue reading →

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Posted on March 18, 2007 by Jethro Carr

Remember that MacMini I recently brought? Well, unfortunately it turned out that the optical drive was faulty as I found a number of CDs and DVD (which worked fine on other computers) would have serious read errors. :-( So I … Continue reading →

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kernel.org git server

Posted on March 8, 2007 by Jethro Carr

Recently a separate git server was setup for kernel.org. (see the news section on kernel.org) Here’s some photos of how it arrived after passing though FedEx. :-O Amazingly the system booted first time, and is now in production use without … Continue reading →

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Choosing the right Linux distribution

Posted on March 6, 2007 by Jethro Carr

I’ve written an article giving advice on choosing a suitable Linux distribution for your needs. The article can be found on ReallyLinux.com.

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Evolution Broken on Ubuntu 6.06

Posted on March 2, 2007 by Jethro Carr

So I had just sat down at my computer, with pizza, ready to relax, and clicked on Evolution expecting to read my email…. but alas, it fails to start. :-( After running it from the CLI, I got the error: … Continue reading →

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