VIM editor

 i saw the news this week that the lead developer for VIM passed away.

I use VIM from time to time. i dont use it everyday, but i use it maybe 2 or 3 times a month(sometimes a bit more).

there are some places that VIM is the best solution. i will give you one example: if you telnet into your local router to change and play with the firmware, VIM or a fork of VIM, is usally there to use.

  It is light weight and fast. not many bells and whistles. but who needs fancy stuff when your editing files????

stay happy use VIM and enjoy a true piece of history and a living program that is still being developed.

Wow i found an tricle in the news paper from 2004 about me talking about skywarn

 

 that is a long time ago. i was at a skywarn training event and had someone from the news paper interview me and a few others about skywarn and the following is what was printer from that

 

 https://www.orlandosentinel.com/2004/08/10/skywarn-spotters-flesh-out-warnings/

something new to try fendica

Playing with and checking out a social media service called frendica.

We shall see how well it works

New old computer hardware.

I have aquired several older computers. 

  I know I will have fun getting these to be workable and useable.

old computer (p4-pD) update.

I have a computer that started life as a p4. It then was updated by me to a pentium D 945. It was the biggest meanest and most powerful CPU the chipset would handle.

  I also upgraded the memory to 4 Gb the max the system will handle.

  The hard drive is a Seagate SATA 7200 rpm 200Gb. From what I can tell it is a 2003 - 2004 vintage hard drive. It is starting to have mechanical issues. So it shall be replaced by a solid state drive.

  As far as OS, it started life as a XP machine. When I got it, I added Linux mint, followed by xubuntu, Lubuntu, and then Ubuntu studio. Linux distros for the most part have dropped support for x86 and i686 processors. So it now has become a 32 bit Debian 11 machine.

So for now this machine will live for many more years.

hmm, some blog post are not showing

I just realized that some of my blog post's are not showing up.

Not sure why.