Rohan Almeida’s Blog
Perl Developer. Linux Advocacy. Practicing Guitarist.

If you use VIM’s sessions feature, to restore a session, you can just type

$ vim -S

This will look for the Session.vim file in the current directory and load the previously saved session.
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You can accomplish this in Windows too by installing cygwin or the various tools mentioned in this article.
This rant is more about the Linux way of doing things, rather than fighting over which OS is better.
I’m not implying that I’m smarter or better than you. Thats for you to decide.
There might be better ways […]

writing personal emails, you end up typing mysql instead of myself.

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I just got a new iPod Nano for my birthday and no surprises - it works perfectly well with my Fedora desktop. I use amarok to sync all my music. It works like a charm. I can play music on my iPod right through amarok itself when connected to my desktop.
To play videos you need […]

The relevant post is here.
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Istanbul is very cool. I’m planning to use it to record my desktop sessions. Its great if you want to give demos on how to use a software, etc.
I’m hard at work on my web application framework - wackit. Its open source, written in Perl and based on CGI::Application. Will use Istanbul to record […]

After sweating for three days converting a huge number of Perl CPAN modules into RPMs, I finally decided to go the PAR way. I’m trying to get a nice overview of all the Perl CPAN modules required for most of my web applications. This is currently for my product imsense which is an IM […]

Reminder to self
Use xsane for scanning on Linux and not Kooka.

Switch on your printer/scanner.
Load original document into feeder.
Start xsane.
Click on Scan.
Save scanned document as jpg or pdf.

That simple!
p.s. I have nothing against Kooka. I was too lazy to get it to work. xsane worked quicker.
 
 

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