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Andres Jaimes

Useful vim commands

Even though we have many sophisticated GUI text editors, there is one that has passed all time tests: vi.

vi is a text editor created originally for Unix in 1976. Are you kidding? 1976? Why should I even bother to know it exists? Because that is the …

A basic .vimrc configuration file for vim users

.vimrc is the configuration file for vim. Upon execution vim will read the contents of this file setting up a customized environment. You have to save this file in your home directory. It is important to notice that the commands should not include …

Create a DNS zone file

by FreeBSD.org

An example master zone file for example.org (existing within /etc/namedb/master/example.org) is as follows:

$TTL 3600        ; 1 hour default TTL
example.org.    IN      SOA      ns1.example.org. admin.example.org. ( …

Installing a PDF print server on Ubuntu Server

This article was originally written for Ubuntu 7, but we now know it works for Ubuntu 10 as well. Thanks Shooda!

  1. To start, install the CUPS service and CUPS-PDF files:
sudo apt-get install cupsys sudo apt-get install cups-pdf
  1. Now configure CUPS …

Ubuntu 7.10 Released

Among others, this new release of Ubuntu features:

  • 3D Screen effects enabled by default: This is soooo cool! Plus, right click on your desktop, select Change Desktop Background, select Visual Effects and click on Extra, now go move a Window.
  • Themes, …