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VIM Color Scheme Test shows VIM in >300 different color schemes. There’s a lot to choose from.

I currently use MacVim and its default color scheme. Will need to find a good color scheme to use in the fullscreen mode (Cmd-Shift-F). I had a custom scheme installed in Komodo Edit but I have not used this editor in a while.

What are your favorite code editors / IDEs and what color schemes do you use?

Was trying to upgrade Fedora Core on one of the servers. It is a virtual machine running under VMWare and is currently running FC3.

I would not need to upgrade it if it did not have a problem known to Linux running under VMWare - it looses time. Every second lasts twice as long and the clock on the virtual machine lags behind. Not a good thing, even if it can be worked around by synchronising time.

Did try to install VMWare Tools but it says there are no kernel modules ready for my system and compiling from sources fails. Therefore one of the options is to upgrade to FC4 or FC5 and see if the problem disappears or if the VMWare Tools would install or compile better.

The result so far: failure.

I did not have a DVD-ROM drive readily available so tried 2 other ways to install it: (a) by donwloading a DVD image and mounting it locally as described in "Upgrading from Fedora Core 3 to Fedora Core 4 -- quick upgrade using ISOs from HDD" which allowed me to boot into the installer but failed later on and (b) installing via HTTP which failed at the same place.

In both cases the installer would collect information about the system, start the installation and then fail with an error message "There was an error installing filesystem-2.3.4-1" suggesting there was a media error, not enough disk space or other failure. This is a critical failure and the installation stops.

Will try to upgrade to FC5 now. Maybe that will work better. I wanted to upgrade one version number up first but probably there is no reason to hesitate going to FC5 (unless it is not compatible with VMWare that we have).

There is also an option to upgrade using yum as described in YumUpgradeFaq and mentioned in "FC3 to FC4 Upgrade Process Question" but is it is less tested than using an installer.

UTF-8 and Unicode FAQ for Unix/Linux

In-depth explanation of Unicode and UTF-8. Might be handy when I try to fix the encoding of comments which got broken when recovering from a backup. Apparently something went wrong with the encoding of special characters (Latvian, Russian, ...) when the backup was created.

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What would you like to see in Fedora Core 4? - a repository of wishlists for FC4.

A not so random quote:

Fedora Core is really the sum of it's constituent packages. Most of the things I'd ask for are really requests to the developers of those packages, rather than the Fedora Core developers. Anyway, things I'd like to see:

1. Beagle. The Gnome search-for-file utility is pathetic. You should at least be able to search on mime-type, comments and emblems.
2. Someone please fix SMB Browsing authentication in gnome! It's just embarassing when I try to show FC3 off to my Windows lovin' colleagues and I can't even browse a windows network properly.
3. System-config-LDAP
4. ...
5. gDesklets - 'cos floating, semi-transparent clocks matter.
6. Make Totem Work. With MPEGs
7. glorious new System-Config-Packages which is better than synaptic
8. ...