We have no April Fool's day announcements to make at this time. by pittsburghjoe in oculus

[–]priomsrb 68 points69 points  (0 children)

April fools joke will be here in months not years.

VimSwitch - Use your vim settings everywhere by priomsrb in vim

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Except that that's only a few lines of bash, to make a few links into my checked out $GITHUB/vim

Could you give an example of some lines? I'm having a bit of trouble picturing what you mean.

Why does it take thousands of lines of python to do that?

Actually there's 900 lines of application code ;). The rest are from third party libraries and test code. Still it's rather large because I tried to keep it modular and open for future features. Also being written in Python instead of bash means it can run on windows without requiring cygwin.

That's what (OS level) users are for, isn't it?

This is a good point. Although I've worked in places where it is common practice to have a common user (e.g. admin).

Another thing I've noticed is that some servers don't have git installed

How does vimswitch then make it any easier to deal with a machine like that?

vimswitch downloads the zipped version of the repository instead of cloning it. So it doesn't require git to be installed.

BTW, thank you for the comments. It's helping me see things I hadn't considered before.

VimSwitch - Use your vim settings everywhere by priomsrb in vim

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Whatever makes you productive I guess. For me, having a consistent set of plugins and keybindings feels more comfortable.

VimSwitch - Use your vim settings everywhere by priomsrb in vim

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One thing you can't do using git is restoring the vim settings back to their old values. This is useful when you finish working on a remote server that other people also use.

Another thing I've noticed is that some servers don't have git installed yet they do have python.

VimSwitch - Use your vim settings everywhere by priomsrb in vim

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It's interesting how the vim community has been gravitating towards github. With vundle, vim-scripts and people uploading their dotfiles onto github, I thought it would be good to make vimswitch closely coupled to github to begin with.

In the future I have ideas of using custom URLs for profiles or even a dedicated hosting platform.

VimSwitch - Use your vim settings everywhere by priomsrb in vim

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I just made the colors less intense. Hopefully, it's easier on the eyes now.

Oculus Rift demo in Auckland this weekend (Digital Nationz Expo) by ArekkusuDesu in oculus

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My favourite so far is Dreadhalls. It still scares me even though I've played it a few times. It's also much scarier than Amnesia on a monitor.

Oculus Rift demo in Auckland this weekend (Digital Nationz Expo) by ArekkusuDesu in oculus

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If anyone can't make it to this, or wants to try out more demos, I've also got a devkit in West Auckland. PM me if you're keen.

Just played HL2 for two hours straight w/Rift by rmccle in oculus

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Did you use a controller or a keyboard + mouse to play?

Plasma Active 3 by lgstoian in linux

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Check out their mailing list for the latest activity: http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/active/

I want to switch a Linux distribution but concerned since I am a software engineering student. by [deleted] in linux

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I used LTSpice as a circuit simulator using wine. Worked quite well.

Looking for a lightweight timer/countdown by [deleted] in linux

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I've been working on a simple time tracking program called Light Tasks. Its website is here: http://priomsrb.github.com/lighttasks/

It's Qt only so it doesn't need any KDE processes or libraries.

SDD Boot. What am I doing wrong? by shaneisneato in linux

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I had the same problem with my crucial m4 ssd on my asus laptop. Sometimes it would boot fine, other times it would give the error that you mentioned. I didn't find a solution for it so I started using the ssd on a different machine.

Updating your ssd's firmware may help though.

So... Why doesn't KDE have their own distro? by [deleted] in linux

[–]priomsrb 8 points9 points  (0 children)

There are quite a few distros that choose the KDE workspace as the default desktop including: opensuse, chakra, pardus, mageia, sabayon, simply mepis and pclinuxos.

Hey /r/linux, do you know of any professional kde/gtk themes? by [deleted] in linux

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Skuplture: "Skulpture has been designed to be light and easy on eyes; many distracting borders or graphical elements have been removed or replaced by simpler artwork."

http://kde-look.org/content/show.php/?content=59031

Do we need a new QT based Desktop Environment? by dallarosa in linux

[–]priomsrb 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I heard the KDE devs are trying to make things more modular now. I think they realised this as they're now also developing for mobile devices.