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First there was a Navigator, then there was an Explorer. Later it was time for a Konqueror. Now it’s time for an Imperator, the VIMperator :)

Vimperator is a free browser add-on for Firefox, which makes it look and behave like the Vim text editor. It has similar key bindings, and you could call it a modal web browser, as key bindings differ according to which mode you are in.

Now I need vim bindings for openoffice, so that I stop typing :w.

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• Merge PDF Documents
• Split PDF Pages into a New Document
• Rotate PDF Pages or Documents
• Decrypt Input as Necessary (Password Required)
• Encrypt Output as Desired
• Fill PDF Forms with FDF Data or XFDF Data and/or Flatten Forms
• Burst a PDF Document into Single Pages
• ..

The nice thing is that one can use it all from the commandline :-).

• Examples Merge Two or More PDFs into a New Document

 pdftk 1.pdf 2.pdf 3.pdf cat output 123.pdf

• Split Select Pages from Multiple PDFs into a New Document

 pdftk A=one.pdf B=two.pdf cat A1-7 B1-5 A8 output combined.pdf

• Burst a Single PDF Document into Single Pages and Report its Data to doc_data.txt pdftk mydoc.pdf burst.

On debian:

  apt-get install puf

puf is one of these great commandline tools that one simply loves!

Which files are opened by vim?

 lsof -c vim

.. and which processes use the file tara.c?

 fuser tara.c

GoboLinux is an alternative Linux distribution which redefines the entire filesystem hierarchy.

GoboLinux is a Linux distribution that breaks with the historical Unix directory hierarchy. Basically, this means that there are no directories such as /usr and /etc. The main idea of the alternative hierarchy is to store all files belonging to an application in its own separate subtree; therefore we have directories such as /Programs/GCC/2.95.3/lib.

To allow the system to find these files, they are logically grouped in directories such as /System/Links/Executables, which, you guessed it, contains symbolic links to all executable files inside the Programs hierarchy.

To maintain backwards compatibility with traditional Unix/Linux apps, there are symbolic links that mimic the Unix tree, such as "/usr/bin -> /System/Links/Executables", and "/sbin -> /System/Links/Executables" (this example shows that arbitrary differentiations between files of the same category were also removed).

 1. vncserver
 2. enter password
 3. remove all in  ~/.vnc/xstartup that is not needed
 4. work:
    DISPLAY=:1 R
 5. vncserver -kill :DISPLAYNUMBER_FROM_STEP_1

Thanks to Stefan!

A big thanks to Michael Neumann who pointed out this too to me. He made his great wee-videos with xvidcap.

The Linux Virtual Server as an advanced load balancing solution can be used to build highly scalable and highly available network services, such as scalable web, cache, mail, ftp, media and VoIP services. link

This program allows you to record the output of any standard OSS program (one that uses /dev/dsp for sound) without having to modify or recompile the program. It uses the same idea as the esddsp wrapper from the Enlightened Sound Daemon (in fact, vsound is based on esddsp). That is, it preloads a library that intercepts calls to open /dev/dsp, and instead returns a handle to a normal file. It also intercepts ioctl’s on that file handle and logs them, to help convert the audio data from its raw form. Vsound then uses sox to convert the raw data to the desired file format.

The upshoot of this is that instead of playing sound to the sound card in your computer, the data is recorded to a file. This is similar to if you connected a loopback cable to the line in and line out jacks on your sound card, but no DA or AD conversions take place, so quality is not lost.

One use of vsound is to help convert real audio files to some other format. Since the real audio format is proprietary, and all we have is a player, we can use the vsound to create a wave file like so:

 vsound -t -f /data/dvdburn/LL2/s2.wav  realplay rtsp://18.39.0.30/ailab/mit-ll2-s2-09nov02-80k.rm

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It comes with Gnome 2.8 and a 2.6 Kernel. The overall install was amazingly simple. Download it.

I consider the mozex extention for Firefox a "must have." With mozex, I can edit textareas with vim and handle mailto links with mutt!

Mozex will also enable you to view html source in vim. link

You can edit your mozex prefs by typing about:config in Firefox.

Vim-like bindings for firefox.