Monthly Archives: February 2010

Vim colorschemes

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

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Separating storage of mysql database files

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

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