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If you want to customize the colors you get in  VIM Here is a gallery:   http://vimcolorschemetest.googlecode.com/svn/html/index-html.html To try out different schemes you can type :colorscheme XXXXX in vi  where XXX is the scheme name  (without the .vim extension ) Once … Continue reading →

We often have very large databases we want to create in mysql. If we don’t have enough space in the /var/lib/mysql partition it is handy to be able to specify that a specific database be stored on another drive. This … Continue reading →

If you have a compressed file from a mysqldump backup of your mysql database, and you don’t have space to uncompress it to load it on another machine.  You can load it directly from the compress file using this command: … Continue reading →

Edited the file /usr/share/vim/vim70/syntax/smarty.vim Added the following code: ” HTML:  thanks to Johannes Zellner and Benji Fisher. if exists(“loaded_matchit”) let b:match_ignorecase = 1 let b:match_skip = ‘s:Comment’ let b:match_words = ‘,’ . \ ‘]*\%(>\|$\):\|$\):\|$\):

If you need to create a gradient image for a background you might try this tool. It is pretty slick. http://www.ogim.4u2ges.com/gradient-image-maker.asp

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