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Non-Windows Software / Re: *NIX: Relatively Minimal Host OS for VirtualBox Use

« Last post by ewemoa on May 22, 2014, 04:21 AM »

A further option appears to be to use Knoppix -- version 7.2 appears to come with a relatively recent version of VirtualBox (something in the 4.2.x series).

FWIW, I tried the following instructions for getting Knoppix on a USB stick with some success:

  http://www.wgdd.de/2...boot-stick-from.html

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Developer's Corner / Re: Per-User Software Installation (and the like...) Under *NIX

« Last post by ewemoa on May 22, 2014, 02:55 AM »

Yes, it's frustrating when the 'uninstall' target is not in the make file, but I can build an uninstall script (just a bunch of 'rm -rf' lines in a shell script) in less time than it takes me to build a binary .deb, which I have done when the situation calls for it (very few of 'em pass lintian, but as long as I know what's going on, I'm okay with that).

-Edvard (May 21, 2014, 11:57 PM)

I haven't always found it easy to know exactly what files get installed (to know what to remove later).  IIRC, there are some programs that try to help with this during installation (e.g. checkinstall) -- but may be you knew about this sort of thing already

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Developer's Corner / Re: Per-User Software Installation (and the like...) Under *NIX

« Last post by ewemoa on May 21, 2014, 10:33 PM »

When I go about installing the hard way, I either keep the source folder around so I can do a 'make uninstall' later, or I build an uninstall script from scratch and tuck it away in ~/.local/bin for later use.

-Edvard (May 21, 2014, 09:10 PM)

Yes, this makes sense -- it's too bad that the uninstall target isn't always there.

Repeating this type of activity after a while can lead to wondering whether putting together PKGBUILDs, .ebuilds, or Nix packages might be worth the effort

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Developer's Corner / Re: Per-User Software Installation (and the like...) Under *NIX

« Last post by ewemoa on May 21, 2014, 03:20 AM »

I'm a bit paranoid about mixing package managers, so Toast (interesting as it looks) prolly won't be my cup of tea (though I will take a look).

-Edvard (May 20, 2014, 09:39 PM)

I don't recommend toast now -- other things look more promising and maintained.


One of the aspects of using a package manager I appreciate is being able to cleanly remove packages -- so I like having a package manager that makes it easy to create packages for because often what I want to try is not packaged yet.  Even with Arch's AUR or Gentoo's overlays, there's still stuff people haven't gotten around to packaging (or in some cases may be they have but not shared their results).  PKGBUILDs and .ebuilds are way easier to put together than .debs IMO.


Thanks for the tip regarding chrpath -- hopefully I won't have to use it much, but it sounds like it could be handy!

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Non-Windows Software / Re: *NIX: Favorite GUI File Managers?

« Last post by ewemoa on May 21, 2014, 02:45 AM »

I tried Double Commander before under Windows and thought it was promising -- just tried to compile for *NIX via:

  http://doublecmd.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/index.php/Development#From_command_line_.28Linux.29

Unfortunately, no success so far.


Examination of Arch's doublecmd-svn PKGBUILD gave enough hints to build source obtained via Subversion.  For Gentoo, the following works (with appropriate things installed -- e.g. lazarus):

1. Obtain source via Subversion:

[Select]

svn checkout svn://svn.code.sf.net/p/doublecmd/code/trunk doublecmd-code

2. Edit the line in build.sh which reads:

[Select]

export lazbuild=$(which lazbuild)

to be:

[Select]

export lazbuild="$(which lazbuild) --lazarusdir=/usr/share/lazarus"

3. Compile via script:

[Select]

sh build.sh all gtk2

4. Execute resulting binary named: doublecmd

Haven't had much time to play with the result yet, but am a bit wary of the 0.6.0 alpha status...

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General Software Discussion / Re: The AVE

« Last post by ewemoa on May 21, 2014, 02:17 AM »

Is there some trick to using visual mode to select lines? It seems if you do the obvious of pressing v and then moving down using j, it selects the lines plus the first character on the next line. If I have to select the lines up to the last and then press $ to get the last line, that's just hopeless .

Edit: Ah, found it with google while fiddling with this post. Apparently you can use Shift-V to enter visual line mode.

-Jibz (April 19, 2014, 02:09 PM)

This made it through my thick skull via:

  http://www.cs.swarthmore.edu/help/vim/selection.html




I noticed there's column selection too - Ctrl-v IIUC.

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Living Room / Re: Programmers: What size monitors do you guys prefer?

« Last post by ewemoa on May 20, 2014, 08:14 PM »

Nice to have so much space!


On a side note, I've taken to trying to keep the length of my functions short enough so I can see each one in its entirety without scrolling.  I also try to keep my screens adjusted so the "viewable-without-scrolling" attribute remains true across a variety of screens (the smaller end being around 1024x768 with typical font sizes).  This has the side benefit of making it easier on other folks who might work with code developed in this environment -- also leads to more functions

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Developer's Corner / Re: Per-User Software Installation (and the like...) Under *NIX

« Last post by ewemoa on May 20, 2014, 06:59 AM »

Just learned about Gentoo Prefix and have been testing the Nix package manager.  These both have the advantage of being actively maintained...

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DonationCoder.com Newsletters / Re: Super-sized Newsletter for May 20, 2014 - Codename: Slow and Steady

« Last post by ewemoa on May 20, 2014, 02:55 AM »

Phew!  Hope you get some rest

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Developer's Corner / Re: TextAdept: Lua-extensible Editor

« Last post by ewemoa on May 12, 2014, 07:24 AM »

Wish you luck on this.

May be someone else with a *NIX environment can confirm whether the instructions work for them.

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Developer's Corner / Re: TextAdept: Lua-extensible Editor

« Last post by ewemoa on May 12, 2014, 05:39 AM »

If only I could get Dina to work in Textadept .

-Jibz (May 12, 2014, 02:20 AM)

The following seemed to work under a *NIX:

0. Ensure Dina is installed.
1. Open ~/.textadept/init.lua
2. Add the following:

Code: Text [Select]

1. ui.set_theme('dark', {font = 'Dina', fontsize = 13})

3. Save the file.
4. Start textadept.


AdeptedAdapted from instructions via:

  http://foicica.com/textadept/09_Themes.html

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Non-Windows Software / Re: SpaceFM development (and developer) going on "hiatus"

« Last post by ewemoa on May 09, 2014, 11:02 PM »

Thanks 40hz for this and mention of the Sunflower file manager

Will have to consider what to do for replacing udevil...

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General Software Discussion / Re: DVCS ? (All about Git, Mercurial-Hg and the like...)

« Last post by ewemoa on May 09, 2014, 09:06 PM »

Funny and sad at the same time!

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General Software Discussion / Re: DVCS ? (All about Git, Mercurial-Hg and the like...)

« Last post by ewemoa on May 09, 2014, 06:48 AM »

Thanks for that.

On a side note, I haven't gone through that one, but I've found a number of Vogella's Android tutorials to be worth looking at.

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General Software Discussion / Re: The AVE

« Last post by ewemoa on May 08, 2014, 04:31 AM »

I hadn't known that macros were available.

From phitsc's tutorial link, found a link to an article with a couple of examples:

1. Sequence number generation inside a file using Vim Macro
2. Repeat Vim Macro with different arguments

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General Software Discussion / Re: The AVE

« Last post by ewemoa on May 08, 2014, 04:25 AM »

Thanks for that -- it's nice to have a series of concrete examples.  Below are their titles:

1. Substitute all occurrences of a text with another text in the whole file
2. Substitution of a text with another text within a single line
3. Substitution of a text with another text within a range of lines
4. Substitution of a text with another text by visual selection of lines
5. Substitution of a text with another text only the 1st X number of lines
6. Substitute only the whole word and not partial match
7. Substitute either word1 or word2 with a new word using regular expression
8. Interactive Find and Replace in Vim Editor
9. Substituting all lines with its line number.
10. Substituting special character with its equivalent value.
11. Alter sequence number in a numbered list while inserting a new item
12. Substituting the sentence beginnings with upper case. ( i.e title case the entire document ).

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Non-Windows Software / Re: Android: Note-taking App with Encryption, Source Code, ... ?

« Last post by ewemoa on May 08, 2014, 12:05 AM »

Thanks for that.

Haven't had much luck building it yet -- also the sf site doesn't suggest a whole lot of activity.

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General Software Discussion / Re: The AVE

« Last post by ewemoa on May 07, 2014, 11:04 PM »

Don't know how good it might be but just came across:

  http://dailyvim.blogspot.com/

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Non-Windows Software / Re: Android: Note-taking App with Encryption, Source Code, ... ?

« Last post by ewemoa on May 07, 2014, 05:30 AM »

The source code aspect is for multiple reasons including but not limited to:

Motivation to not hide / do user-unwanted things (no guarantee ofc)
Might be easier to fix if something is broken
Ability to study and modify

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Non-Windows Software / Android: Note-taking App with Encryption, Source Code, ... ?

« Last post by ewemoa on May 06, 2014, 09:42 PM »

Looking for a note-taking Android app with encryption, source code, local backup / restore, and being actively maintained.

Candidates so far (not necessarily fulfilling all criteria):

NoteCipher
OI Safe
miniNoteViewer

May be KeePassDroid can be shoe-horned for the purpose via its comment field...though perhaps that's not so great.

Any favorites / recommendations?


Additional things that have turned up:

Secret Space Encryptor
cryptonite
AES Crypt - source for the Android version doesn't appear to be available
Universal Password Manager
TravelCrypt

Root needed:

LUKSManager

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Developer's Corner / Re: No .NET Framework, no problem!

« Last post by ewemoa on May 06, 2014, 09:28 PM »

This sounds promising!


Didn't know Mono had a similar capability!  Nice

Is it what's hinted at here?

Mono and applications that embed Mono can be deployed without an installer (you can "xcopy" deploy your application and the required Mono files without installing the .NET runtime).

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Living Room / Re: Interesting "stuff"

« Last post by ewemoa on May 05, 2014, 05:53 PM »

Nice!  Magritte-ish

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N.A.N.Y. 2014 / Re: N.A.N.Y. 2014 Release: Text Inspection & Manipulation Utility

« Last post by ewemoa on May 05, 2014, 01:20 AM »

I'm using C# string.Split() which doesn't offer ignoring case

-phitsc (May 04, 2014, 04:22 PM)

How does the following look?

  http://stackoverflow.com/a/1436101

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General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox Extensions: Your favorite or most useful

« Last post by ewemoa on May 04, 2014, 07:42 PM »

Scrolling down the page leads to a link to the following image with the title "Display Advertising Technology Landscape":

  http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/files/2010/09/LUMA-display-ad-map.jpg

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General Software Discussion / Re: The AVE

« Last post by ewemoa on May 04, 2014, 07:35 PM »

Mostly *NIX -- on Windows for quick edits I've tended to use Notepad.exe

And yes...I forgot about the slow connection part.

-40hz (May 04, 2014, 06:57 AM)

He he -- some things seem better these days!