Cream :: a modern configuration of the Vim text editor
Cream : : a modern configuration of the Vim text editor
I’ve used Cream before but in one of the many hard drive crashes I’ve experienced it got lost and I just found it again. Installed it and it makes Vi (gVim actually) so much more user friendly. And actually usable for the average computer user. Good Stuff!
Mycroft Project: Scroogle Search Engine Plugins - Firefox & IE7
Go to the page and follow the instructions. Good stuff!
Just did it again. Not sure if it is just in Puppy Linux yet. I hit either “insert” or “print screen” and am not gonna try it again quite yet. Going to try to get a lot of the tabs that I have been meaning to post cleared out and then will try some experiments. Tried it in Seamonkey where I don’t have ScribeFire installed and it doesn’t do anything. Will post more as I find out. Tis quite a pisser when it happens.
Trying ScribeFire out for standard posting to the blog(s) too. One nice thing about it is the ability to post to several different blogs. Not at the same time but it does allow you to save a post and post it again and again. Tis quite handy that. Several irritating things too. Whereas with a right click on a word Firefox will gives you the ability to check and correct the spelling of a word but ScribeFire doesn’t. It underlines the words but as yet I can’t find a way to check and correct the spelling. Just installed a dictionary but have to restart Firefox to get it to work so am going to finish this post and then restart it. Looks like I can save it as a draft so will try that and see if I can edit it after the restart.
And it works great! I’m liking this more and more. Seems that you can even edit existing entry’s, though I haven’t tried that yet. The spell check thing still isn’t working/or I can’t figure out how it is supposed to work. Will look into it more later.
Have got it configured at present to post to 3 different blogs and need to add several more. Not just mine but the 3 or 4 that customers sites are built with, so I can edit them too.
Added another blog (customers site) today with Wordpress 2.5.1 and it seems to be working fine. The problem yesterday may have been something other than just Wordpress but the timing sure was good if it was. Both times. Course like I said in an earlier post, I did replace all the files with a newly downloaded version and also updated the config file.
Been a long day. Gotten some things done, and put some off till tomorrow. Got a pile of stuff to go pick up to get put into a customers site. And still got one more to install a e-commerce program in that I haven’t gotten to yet. Seems like it’s either feast or famine.
Gonna make one more post and then call it a night. Till tomorrow…
Linux.com :: Writer’s Café: An IDE for writers
Legend has it that a Moleskine notebook and a pen were the tools of choice for Chatwin and Hemingway — but that’s because they didn’t have Writer’s Café. Designed specifically for writing professionals, this application suite includes a few clever features that make it a must-have tool, whether you write for a living or for fun. Although the Writer’s Café developers state that it’s most suited for writing fiction, novels, and short stories, you can easily use it for all kinds of writing activities.
Not that I am much of a writer (blogging not counting) but I’m going to have to download this tool suite and give it a try. Sounds quite useful.
45+ Resources That Will Make You An Inkscape Pro - Jon Dyer’s Blog
If you’re looking to create professional looking graphics and don’t have hundreds of dollars to spend on programs like Adobe Illustrator or Correl Draw, I highly recommend a a free, open source vector graphics editor called Inkscape.
First time/place I have heard of Inkscape, so I check out the Package Manager in PCLOS and there it is. Install it. Opened it and played a few minutes and I am amazed at what it can do! Am going to have to spend some time with it and with the links on the page linked above. Truly a different world from the last time I used Illustrator, which now that I think about it has been about 10 years ago. But from what I have seen in the 10 minutes I’ve played with Inkscape, it will do for anything I would need to design or draw. This one get two thumbs up AND 5 stars!
If you ever have the need to rip the text out of a Flash .swf file, swfstrings from this set of command line tools it the one to use. Or the only one I have been able to locate for Linux. The text will still need a LOT of cleaning up but tis better than having to type it all back in. It doesn’t say in the docs but a | (pipe) does route the output to the text file name out put in. Good stuff!
Google Book Search Book Viewability API - Google Code
Cleaning out tabs… Another one I can’t remember if I have posted a link to. This one is mainly for my reference.
Take Your Music Open-Source With Ogg Vorbis - Wired How-To Wiki
Now with iTunes support, kinda. Going to have to look at Ogg again. Looks like it has grown up a bit since the last time I tried it out.
Viewfinder: tool for “Flickrizing” Google Earth - Boing Boing
Media artist Michael Naimark and his colleagues developed a system to “Flickrize” Google Earth. The Viewfinder tool not only enables photos to be placed in the right geolocation on a 3D model like Google Earth, but “poses” them at the correct angle.
This sounds like a seriously cool and useful tool! 
Are you using Firefox 3? (Scripting News)
Just read your post and am downloading it now. Thanks for the heads up.
Update - Can’t run it on the Mac as I am still using 10.3.9 due to Apples stupid DRM in later versions of the OS. Guess I’ll need to boot the linux box and try it there.
Music file compressed 1,000 times smaller than mp3
“This is essentially a human-scale system of reproducing music,” says Mark Bocko, professor of electrical and computer engineering and co-creator of the technology. “Humans can manipulate their tongue, breath, and fingers only so fast, so in theory we shouldn’t really have to measure the music many thousands of times a second like we do on a CD. As a result, I think we may have found the absolute least amount of data needed to reproduce a piece of music.”
This seems to be more of a MIDI type of process than an MP3 compression technique. It’s quite an interesting process but methinks that the writer/editor went for the sensational rather than factual reporting.
LinuxPlanet - Tutorials - Creating a Contacts Database in OpenOffice - Managing Contacts
The second part of the OpenOffice tutorial. Good stuff!
15 years in the making, Wine 1.0 is in sight
Talk about a LONG development/testing cycle to get to 1.0… 
LinuxPlanet - Tutorials - OpenOffice.org Mail Merge and Labels - My Mail to Your Mail
Quick tutorial on using OpenOffice. Good stuff!
The best Linux system repair disk graduates to 1.0
Looks like I may have a pile of machines to reinstall/repair so am downloading this now.
Global Nerdy | Creative Labs’ Forums Filling With “Dear John†Messages
That’s what they get for telling their customers to piss off and cough up more money to get what they paid for when they bought their products.
Global Nerdy | Creative Labs: Where No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
A MicroShaft Vista downgrade that I had read about before as well as a real good reason to NOT buy any Creative Labs products. 
Or however frustration expressed in a loud voice is expressed. Been trying to install and configure Ubercart for several hours now and am almost there I think. Still not sure what I did or didn’t do to begin with but must have been something or there was a glitch at one end or the other or somewhere in between.
Tried installing it just as I had on the test site. Created the database and user and input the information and after what appeared to be a good install told me that there was a problem that might be corrected by installing again. So I did. And got a page full of errors about weird stuff in the database. So deleted the database and recreated it. Ran the installer again and it seemed to work. Went to the site and it was there. Then started customizing and configuring it. Got an hour or so in and it sent me to a page that wasn’t there. 404 big time. OK, lets try again. Same thing. Went elsewhere and started configuring the cart it’s self. Got it about done and then noted no payment gateway. So went to the modules and there they were but not turned on. Turned the ones I needed on and submitted and got another 404. Did it again and again (trying different selections each time) and same thing. big BAD 404. So found a update script and ran it to get hit with errors out the wahzoo. Decided to try adding the modules in again and it worked. Have no idea how or why. But am gonna continue to continue, or keep on keeping on or try to go forward in some fashion anywho.
Coffee breaks over, time to return to the inverted position… 
FreeNAS: The Free NAS Server - Home
And from the comments from the previous post we have another server that may be more what I am looking for.
