As of August 18th, xfire seems to reject protocol version 113 which results in permanent disconnects for the current pidgin xfire plugin. The pidgin guys have fixed it qucikly but, unfortunately, there are no debs for ubuntu. Threfore I have compiled a deb package for ubuntu 9.04 32 bit on:
Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.28-15-generic #48-Ubuntu SMP Wed Jul 29 08:54:56 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux
Windows are one of Vim's most convenient features, and learning some commands could prove to be useful. Some of the commands are available from the "Window" menu in gvim, or using the mouse, but using them from the keyboard is often more convenient.
To split a viewport in two, use Ctrl+W,S for a horizontal split or Ctrl+W,V for a vertical split. To move between windows use Ctrl+W followed by the arrow keys or h,j,k,l (but see this previous tip). To close a viewport use Ctrl+W,C.
Ctrl+W,r rotates the windows, and Ctrl+W, shift+R rotates them in the opposite direction. Finally, Ctrl+W,+ and Ctrl+W,- increase and decrease the height of the viewport by one line (in case you are mouse-deprived). If that's too little you can do something like 10,Ctrl+W,+ to increase the height by 10 lines.
I got this Mac Mini brought in today for testing a new screen capturing solution we might implement.
It turned out to be a very nice experience. I knew these macs are shiny but they seem to be pretty useful too! After some poking around I found out there is an X Server available, an ssh client was there too. So I could instantly launch some remote X apps.
It turned out, that these macs ship by default with Python (2.3.something) and there is a nice IDE called Xcode which is offered by Apple for free of charge.
Furthermore, what got me excited, was the fact that there are many command line tools and a bash (by default). It is possible to read out information about the system's hardware and configuration via «system_profiler» which seems similar to «wmic» on Win32 and «/proc» on linux.
My next laptop will be a mac book!