Posted by: DJ Burdick on: February 22, 2009
One thing Microsoft does well is their exchange server software; it syncs your contacts, calendar, tasks and email pretty well over MS OS and mobile devices.
For those using linux as their primary desktop OS, there currently isn’t a graceful solution – Zimbra puts out a great product and I wouldn’t be surprised if they have [...]
Posted by: DJ Burdick on: January 29, 2009
Shiny new syntax in three easy steps.
By default Ubuntu comes with the tiny version of VIM (Vi Improved).
First you’ll need to get the regular version.
1. Install
apt-get install vim
2. Open a file for editing
vim filename
3. Turn on syntax highlighting -or-
Press ESC :syntax on ENTER
3. Edit the config file to always do syntax highlighting
As root type: vim [...]
Posted by: DJ Burdick on: January 7, 2009
So I’ve started using twitter. Not really sure why yet, and I don’t think many other people know why they use it either. Anyway, if you’re on the command line a bunch here’s a way to tweet from there.
This is a shortened version of an article by Linux Journal
1. Install curl
http://curl.haxx.se/
(you can use apt-get [...]
