Plain Text Primer: nvALT 101.

The Text Triumvirate is an alliance between the zsh, vim, and tmux. Each of these venerable tools is extremely powerful in its own right; however, together they are an unmatched productivity force that rules all forms of text manipulation. This post aims to provide an overview of how to create a highly functional and easy to configure Text Triumvirate for those new to this tool chain.

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Wow that’s awesome.

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“There’s this myth among some people that multitasking makes them more productive,” said Zheng Wang, lead author of the study and assistant professor of communication at Ohio State University.

“But they seem to be misperceiving the positive feelings they get from multitasking. They are not being more productive – they just feel more emotionally satisfied from their work.”

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“I wish I could still wire things to a parallel port and use in/out Sam instructions”

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The footnote is the best part of this post. Me too:

I work in an office designed by people in HR. That means it’s an open space that actively prevents anyone from concentrating.

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If you count rotation, revolution, galactic, super-galactic, and CBR motions we’re moving somewhere on the order of 850,000 m/s through space (and the rotation/revolution/galactic motions are almost negligible).

If you cannot instantly travel through space at the same time as you travel through time you will most likely land either in solid rock or far, far out in deep-space somewhere; unless you limit it to a few microseconds.

If you wanted to jump back 100 years, you would have to travel some 1.7 trillion miles to be in the vicinity of the Earth at that time. And that assumes you can send a whole spaceship back – if you can only send a human you would have to make that calculation to a phenomenal positioning accuracy in space so you could plop down on your couch (or whatever).

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The alternative to the feckless to-do list is what I call “living in your calendar.” That means taking your tasks off the to-do list, estimating how much time each of them will consume, and transferring them to your calendar. (Don’t forget to leave time to process your email. And leave some empty space — one to two hours — each day to deal with the inevitable crises that will crop up.) In essence, you’re making a production plan for your work.

 

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The Brilliant “Don’t Be Evil” Bookmarklet:

Kudos to Facebook (with some help from Twitter and MySpace) for having the balls to do this. It’s a bookmarklet that replaces Google’s new “People and Pages” area, the hardcoded social search area, and the search completion drop-down, with organic results.

 

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Awesome collection of NeXT hardware, etc.

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Ask an average person “Your phone has a switch which is described in the documentation as ‘Ringer/Silent’. You’ve set it to ‘Silent.’ Under what circumstances would you expect it to still make noise?” and the most common answer will be “None. None circumstances.”

via Andy Ihnatko.

I have a lot of respect for Bill Gates. Not just because he’s been wildly successful, but because as far as I can understand, he’s kept a steady head about him in spite of his success. As one of the wealthiest men in the world, he’s also making a name for himself as one of the most philanthropic.

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The basics: Google, by way of their Getting Kenyan Business Online initiative, stole customers (and data) from rival Mocality.

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Below are twenty-five pieces of vital information that every man over 14 in the Western world should know. Every man. No excuses. Seriously. Seriously.

via Put This On • Twenty-Five Pieces of Basic Sartorial Knowledge So You Don’t Look Dumb.

This time I ask, why do we continue to believe that the current evolutionary file system path will meet our needs today and in the future and cost nothing? Let’s go back and review a bit of history for free and non-free systems file systems.

via The Evolution of Stupidity: File Systems – EnterpriseStorageForum.com.

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My theory is that when you write for a site with a commenting system, everything you write is tainted by the expectation that there will be a response, and that the response will be attached. Like letting random strangers add footnotes to your thoughts. As I write these words, I feel a certain level of freedom, not caring what anybody might say or think about it. Sure, people can email me. There’s a slight possibility that someone will write a response on another site. But what I write here will stand as published, its message not driven in other directions by outside forces

via Tangled Helix.

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historyInfo gives better report information than the versionInfo, providing dates that patches were installed, etc. Handy tip.

Example:

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IBM WebSphere Application Server History Report
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Report at date and time: 2004-12-26 01:47:19-0500

Installation
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Product Directory: /opt/WebSphere/AppServer
Version Directory: /opt/WebSphere/AppServer/properties/version
DTD Directory: /opt/WebSphere/AppServer/properties/version/dtd
Log Directory: /opt/WebSphere/AppServer/logs/update
Backup Directory: /opt/WebSphere/AppServer/properties/version/update/backup
TMP Directory: /tmp
History Directory /opt/WebSphere/AppServer/properties/version/history
History File /opt/WebSphere/AppServer/properties/version/event.history

Installation Event
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Maintenance Package ID: was60_fp1_linux
Action: install
Package Filename: was60_fp1_linux.pak
Log File Name:
/opt/WebSphere/AppServer/logs/update/was60_fp1_linux.install/updatelog.txt
Backup File Name:
/opt/WebSphere/AppServer/properties/version/backup/was60_fp1_linux.pak
Timestamp: 2004-12-14 06:15:14-0500
Result: success

Component Installation Event
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Maintenance Package ID: was60_fp1_linux
Component Name: activity
Action: install
Update Action: replace
Timestamp: 2004-12-14 06:15:14-0500
Result: success

WAS Infocenter Link.

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via reddit

So, say you bought the iPhone 3G sometime in the last year and a new one comes out this June or July, technically you should not be eligible for the subsidy price. What does AT&T do about this? They introduce their new “Phone Trade-In” program of course. This may be one way AT&T will try to calm the angry hordes of people who feel they are owed the lower price. Keep in mind this is not without strings attached.

via The iPhone Blog.

Woopra – Website Tracking and Analytics.

CPAC Speech: Rush’s First Televised Address to the Nation.

via TJ Powell.