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Lovely, we now have 2 brilliant FOSS events in different parts of the country, and I've had the opportunity of being involved in both over the past few years.

I QUITE like the logos and graphics for both, a far cry from what they were back when they started :)

:retab and :expandtab are godsends if you're doing python editing in vim, and want to make sure you don't ever have to deal with spaces!

Things to do to have a good font subsystem up:

1) Get Lucida Grande (Freeware)
http://www.osx-e.com/downloads/misc/macfonts.html

2) Get the msttcorefonts package, and gsfonts:

sudo apt-get install gsfonts-x11
sudo apt-get install msttcorefonts

3) In Gnome, goto System -> Preferences -> Fonts, and Set the following:
- Change fonts to something you actually like
- Font rendering : Best Shapes
- Click Details -> Resolution : 96dpi, Smoothing: Subpixel, Hinting: Slight

4) Next, edit your xorg.conf

Talking about Vista.

"It's rather like dealing with an overexcited Boy Scout ... who has a lifetime supply of chocolate-covered espresso beans."

Hehe. Very True. I recently installed Vista on parallels, and it was an interesting experience using it, but .. meh.

An interesting question - how do you see the last page of results, the least relevant ones, on google?

The answer is - you can't. Google only serves the first 1000 results, which you can go look at if you click all the way to the last search result. OR, you can do the smart thing and:

http://www.google.com/search?q=SearchTerm&num=100&hl=en&filter=0&start=900

Type the above URL replacing SearchTerm with your own word. A lot of other URLs are actually incorrect, since in order to do this well, you need to keep the "omitted search results" in, which the above link does.

This guide is meant to help you out with changing terminal settings to get default linux like functionality of page up/down and home/end keys on Mac OS X.

I would suggest getting your terminal to behave properly first, so swap some keys in 'Terminal', 'Window Settings...', 'Keyboard', namely the 'end' and 'shift end', 'home' and 'shift home', 'page down' and 'shift page down' and 'page up' and 'shift page up'.

Then edit the home key: delete all that is there and type the following keys:
ctrl + [, [, 1, ~ it should now say: \033[1~
Do the same for the end key, it should say: \033[4~

Yes, I know I haven't been updating this site as frequently as I should be. But my anon blog is running well, and I might even post some articles from it here! Just a couple of days ago, a friend was talking about how increasingly important it has become to make sure that unwanted information about your views and opinions don't get abused by miscreants. And a fair word of warning that is too.

That said, I'm spending the week just impatiently waiting for my macbook pro to come in from Shanghai. Grr. They ship it all the way from China, and it takes almost a week to get to me even when its already in Indiana!

I now draw the occasional cartoon dealing with various things I find humorous. :) What do you think?

(With due inspiration from xkcd!)

Back in Black. Indeed.

Viksit.com is finally back in a new, revived, classy black look with new and improved features! Not only can you now comment on each and every article on the website (which is written hereon), it also allows for intelligent spam detection, intelligence modules to make sure that the person commenting is in fact, a human being, and it even remembers you the next time you're here.

Over the next few days, I will be revamping other sections of the site as well. And stay tuned for a bunch of writings on Religion, Politics and Technology coming right up! For those in the know, my anonymous blog is up and running as well! Drop by there.