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Mcabber Update

Friday, August 28, 2009

The only thing I wanted to add to this, It’s nice to filter you list of users based on their status. If someone is offline, for example, I don’t want to see them in my list. Likewise if they’re away. from inside mcabber, type: /roster hide_offline or, set an entry in your configuration. From the [...]

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My Xresources

Thursday, August 27, 2009

I put this in a file, .Xresources, in my home directory. It is loaded automatically each time I create a new shell, I’m not sure if it’s enabled by default or if something I installed did it. ! rxvt settings rxvt*font: 12X15 rxvt*saveLines: 1500 rxvt*scrollBar_right: true # Index color index cyan black ~l # Mailing [...]

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Use RXVT With Cygwin

Wednesday, August 26, 2009

I’m starting a series of posts about my cygwin setup. One of the main reasons, if not the main reason for installing cygwin is employ the use of a bash shell.  By default cygwin provides a link to the cygwin bash shell in the Start menu and on the desktop. The default cygwin shell is [...]

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Revert to Console for IM – Gtalk Example using Mcabber

Wednesday, June 17, 2009

I can finally sleep at night now that I have a command-line solution for Google Talk. What’s needed (for a poor windows user): Mcabber, a jabber client from http://mcabber.com Cygwin, http://cygwin.com Ssh package for cygwin, if you need to install mcabber elsewhere and then connect to it remotely. If cygwin and ssh are new to [...]

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Basic Pine Gmail Config

Tuesday, June 16, 2009

I always forget this, and periodically find myself setting up a new pine client. So rather than digging around on the web each time, I’m adding my notes here: Create a .pinerc file, maybe a custom one for gmail like .gmailpinerc POP3 smtp-server=smtp.gmail.com/user=user@gmail.com/ssl inbox-path={pop.gmail.com/pop3/ssl/user=user@gmail.com}inbox IMAP smtp-server=smtp.gmail.com:587/tls/user= user@gmail.com inbox-path={imap.gmail.com:993/ssl/novalidate-cert/user= user@gmail.com}inbox There are a host of other options that [...]

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“Revert to Console” for Language Translation

Wednesday, March 11, 2009

So you might be sitting around asking yourself, “Do I really need a web browser or collection of clunky travel dictionaries to translate to and from different languages of the world? Isn’t there a command line tool that can do the same thing and make my life easier, while making me even more awesome at [...]

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My Screen

Friday, January 23, 2009

Screen is a great tool for command-line usage, and is also available for cygwin. If you enjoy using the command line, and haven’t checked out screen, I highly recommend it. I found some of the commands and configuration changes a little difficult to remember, so I’m adding them here. First of all, the main screen [...]

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Emacs Macros 101

Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Macros are really useful for programming, but since adopting Eclipse I haven’t been using them as much, much to the detriment of my fingers. For a while I used Notepad++ for macros. Macros are easy to use with Notepad++, but unfortunately you’re limited to trivially simple macros- for example, you can’t “search” your way through [...]

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OpenSuse

Wednesday, November 12, 2008

I have officially started working with OpenSuse. Bluetooth, wireless, and sound all worked after the install, which was great. The flash plugin was easy to install. I’ve added a repository to Yast for software management, although I wasn’t able to find emacs via Yast and resorted to an unmanaged rpm. I added jdk1.6 and eclipse [...]

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Moving On From Windows

Sunday, November 9, 2008

I can’t stand the thought of using Vista. I am an XP user; by which I mean to say I get by using cygwin and some of the Windows apps. But I’ve used Vista enough for me to know that I must draw the proverbial line in the sand there. XP will be the last [...]

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