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Keyboard shortcut to remove search highlighting in VIM
I just found this really useful little keyboard shortcut which unhighlights highlighted search strings in VIM: stackoverflow.com How do you make vim unhighlight what you searched for? To cut through the suspense of reading the link above here is the code to put into your vimrc: ” redraws the screen and removes any search highlighting.…
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The Frying Earth
Source: purdue.edu Researchers find future temperatures could exceed livable limits Checking out this map. Huge swathes of South America: Fried. Huge chunk of USA east of Mississippi from Great Lakes down to Gulf: Fried. Huge portions of west central and northern Africa: Fried. Most of India: Fried. Most of Australia: Fried. Western China including heavily…
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Malware warning
Recently I’ve been receiving e-mails containing .zip file attachments which contain malware. Just as a test, today I decided to save all the zip files to a folder and manually scan them. I first extracted one of the files which revealed an .exe file with a filename consisting of a long string of numbers, then…
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Create a keyboard shortcut to toggle the navigation pane in Windows Explorer
There may be times when you want to hide the navigation pane in Windows Explorer. For example sometimes if I’m working with a directory of images I want to hide the navigation pane so that the entire Explorer window is filled with thumbnails of the images in the folder. Unfortunately Windows Explorer doesn’t provide a…
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Resurrection Remix Android ROM
I recently wrote about some of the more popular ROM’s for the T-Mobile and MetroPCS Samsung Galaxy S4 SCH-M919 phone. That post included mention of Resurrection Remix. I just wanted to say again that this ROM is really amazing. Today another update was released. This is a very fresh ROM that is frequently updated. This…