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Freeing up space on Windows hard drives

WinDirStat is freeware for Windows that creates a visualization of the largest files on your hard drives. It’s priceless for freeing up that extra gigabyte that you need to install that new game. It found that my World of Warcraft installer files were wasting 8GB of space, even though I had removed World of Warcraft, [...]

My vimrc file

map! ^[OA ^[ka "For Solaris map! ^[OB ^[ja map! ^[OD ^[i map! ^[OC ^[la set nocompatible "Don't emulate old vi bugs. set autoindent " Yay! set smartindent set tabstop=4 set shiftwidth=4 set expandtab set showmatch "Parenthesis matching. set vb t_vb= "Flash instead of beep. set ruler set nohls "Do not highlight search matches. set incsearch [...]

The new best way to make sure that your browser is safe.

Browser plugins are rapidly becoming the most common way to get a computer virus infection. Normally I lecture people about switching to Firefox, installing NoScript and checking at least monthly that Java and Adobe are up to date. The folks at Mozilla seem to be on a quest to save me from forever repeating those [...]