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How to replace letters with carriage returns on VIM

Posted 10-27-2010 at 12:35 PM by xri
Updated 10-27-2010 at 12:38 PM by xri (To add categories)

Problem:
A text file coms with a list comes with the items separated by commas, like:
Quote:
a,b,c....
We need them in column form, like:
Quote:
a
b
c
Solution:
:%s/,/{[Ctrl+v], then [Enter]}/g

Notes:
  1. The % before s, indicates that the range where the replacement is to take place is the whole document.
  2. Ctrl and v are pressed simultaneously, and then the character we mean vim to use (in this case Return).
  3. The g at the end of the
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Mounting truecrypt volumes on an sshfs mount

Posted 02-16-2010 at 09:53 PM by xri
Updated 02-16-2010 at 09:54 PM by xri

The task:
To mount a remote truecrypt volume locally, using sshfs.

The problem:
truecrypt /home/xri/sshfs-mounted-remote-directory/remote-truecrypt-vol /media/truecrypt1
gives an error message with "permission denied"

The solution:
a) Edit /etc/fuse.conf (or create it), and make sure it has this line:
user_allow_other
b) When mounting the sshfs remote directory, use this option
-o allow_other

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Careful with tor and Konqueror

Posted 04-11-2009 at 04:43 PM by xri

After playing with tor + privoxy + tork with Konqueror, y finally decided to remove all three privacy programs and go back to regular use of Konqueror.

Prior to uninstall tork, I reconfigured Konqueror for use without tor.

However, after removing the programs I found that accessing some SSL sites was not possible. Finding information about that was not easy this time.

The browsing settings on Kcontrol had cookies, cache and java disabled. The privacy...
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