Archive | Aug, 2010

Vim 7.3 released

Aug 17th, 2010No Comments

After a 2 year wait Vim 7.3 has finally arrived, It includes an awful lot of bug fixes and a few new features, and it’s better than ever before.

This is a minor release of Vim.  It consists of Vim 7.2 plus all patches, updated runtime files and some additions.  It has been two years since the 7.2 release, thus it’s not that “minor”.  But not ”major” either.  Something in between.

The most notable additions since 7.2
  • Persistent undo and undo for reload
  • Blowfish encryption, encryption of the swap file
  • Conceal text
  • Lua interface
  • Python 3 interface

Vim 7.3 can be obtained from the Vim download page.

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Death of an OS

Aug 15th, 20101 Comment

About five years ago Sun launched the OpenSolaris, essentially a free version of their Solaris Operating System. Probably a great idea with regards to getting people interested in Sun and Solaris, but a project that was never funded sufficiently to compte with the likes of Linux.

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Building a Beast!

Aug 6th, 20102 Comments

This is another step in my evolutionary quest to build Linux based server from cost-effective generic components that can rival the performance of some of the best expensive commercial systems on the market.

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Double your RAID1!

Aug 3rd, 20103 Comments

Over the years I’ve tended to prefer RAID5 as this has always seemed to be the recommended solution when it comes to combining resilience and speed, however recently, with larger less reliable drives I have noticed a few problems with RAID5. While looking at these problems, I’ve also noticed RAID5 is no longer the recommended solution!

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