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Installing curses: sudo apt-get install libncurses5-dev fish is now installed on your system. To run fish, type ‘fish’ in your terminal. To use fish as your login shell: add the line ‘/usr/local/bin/fish’ to the file ‘/etc/shells’. use the command ‘chsh -s /usr/local/bin/fish’. To set your colors, run ‘fish_config’ To scan your man pages for completions, run ‘fish_update_completions’ Have fun! Read more ⇒
NetBeans with jVi vim bindings
I love vim and its very handy shortcuts, but I also like to be in a GUI IDE for most of my development. Thankfully there is an answer; add vims keybindings to the NetBeans environment with jVi. Once you have Netbeans 7+ installed you can install jVi by going to Tools > Plugins > Available Plugins and searching for jVi. Select jVi for NB-7.0 Update Center and click Install. Now click the Reload Catalog button and wait for the updates to stream in. Read more ⇒
Nodester environment variables for sensitive data and passwords
When I began using Cloudno.de recently to have a go at Node.js and CouchDB I stored my username and password in plain text in a configuration file. If you are also looking to get CouchDB going with CloudNo.de then my earlier Getting started with Node.js and CouchDB post may be of interest. The configuration file was fine for testing as nobody who came across the database login details could do any real damage, but as the project got more interesting I wanted to send it live and these details would need to be kept private. Read more ⇒
Set up a new port forward on a Draytek Vigor over the telnet interface
I needed to add a new port forward to a router, but I did not have access to the web interface through a graphical browser. Attempts to get in using Lynx stalled as it seems the router will not serve up the frames in the interface independently of each other and it kept issuing 404 errors. Either way I had to use the telnet interface using the following command (replace 192. Read more ⇒