Lets face it. If you rely on vim locally, vim remotely on non debian based systems, and vim remotely on Debian based systems. ESPECIALLY in an environment where you don’t get to put in your own .vimrc (such as when logged in as root, and other people log in as root as well.) You’re pretty much screwed. Now I tried all the hacks. The custom strings in preferences. I tried replacement terminals (terminator, iterm, and one or two others) And I could get things to work locally but not remotely, or remotely but not locally… So… I… Well… I gave up. I:

• Installed X11 from my Install DVD
• Ran X11Update2006.pkg
• Launched X11
• Selected Applications –> Customize Menu
• Changed my “Terminal” command to “xterm -fa Monaco -fs 12 -bg black -fg grey -sb -sl 99999 -cr green -bc”
• symlinked my .profile to .bashrc

And… “the dishes are done, dude” This takes care of *basically* everything.. with two minor exceptions… forward delete doesn’t work well on the command line, and pasting is somewhat awkward. but everything else… home, end, pgup, pgdn, l,r,u,d, all work everywhere I’ve tried so far. I can put up with some things to work around… as long as they are consistent things to ALWAYS work around… not things that work one way here, another over there, and differently in a third place… That bites.

And in case you’re curious… here’s my .profile (.bashrc)… without all the personal aliases…

function tranquil_thoughts_prompt
{
local WHITE="\[\033[1;37m\]"
local BRIGHTGREEN="\[\033[1;32m\]"
local GREEN="\[\033[0;32m\]"
local CYAN="\[\033[0;36m\]"
local GRAY="\[\033[0;37m\]"
local BRIGHTCYAN="\[\033[1;36m\]"
export PS1="${GRAY}.o${WHITE}O(${BRIGHTCYAN}\u${GRAY}@${BRIGHTGREEN}\H ${CYAN}\w${WHITE})${GRAY} "
}

export EDITOR="vim";
export PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne "\033]0;${USER}@localhost - ${PWD}\007"'
tranquil_thoughts_prompt
export PATH=/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:$PATH:$EC2_HOME/bin:~/bin

(The export PS1 line above is all one line from export to } “

I bought, for myself, demitrio.us and dem.itrio.us  How cool is that?!

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This is a place where I’ll put software packages that I’m releasing to the public for this or for that reason. I’m using this page because my header was getting a bit crowded 🙂

• swfupload-postvarmod
• ruby-Delicious
• ruby-Mapquest
• Storage3
• FTP Indexer (very old, but won’t die!)

Changelog (Click Version To View/Download)

• Version 0.005
  • Addition: thumb_height, thumb_width, thumb_style, thumb_type, thumb_url to route rval when available (per turn)
• Version 0.004
  • Addition: apistatus to geocode rval
  • Addition: geocode status to geocode rval
  • Addition: geocode quality to geocode rval
  • Documentation: Added commas to geocoding example… oops
• Version 0.003
  • bugfix: added apikey to overviewmap
  • bugfix: distance is now a float value
  • change: overview metrics renamed from maneuver_foo to maneuvers_foo
  • Addition: [:debugurl] for manual inspection of values returned from mapquest’s api
• Version 0.002
  • Addition: Routing Support
• Version 0.001
  • Initial Release

Warranty: None, at all, whatsoever, use at your own risk, may burn down your house and knock over your garbage cans and return the car with the gas level on “E” and refuse to return your lawnmower even though it’s now 7 months later and you’re growing a small rainforest out back… might fall asleep while watching your children, forget to pay the electric bill, and run up massive credit card debt. In other words. You’re on your own. Dont come crying to me!

To use this client you have to first apply for a mapquest openapi key here Then you must add “*” as a referrer under “my account” for your openapi ke

Example usage:

mq = Mapquest.new(“foobazbazbooblah”)

#Geocoding
myLocation = {
:address => “555 17th Street, Suite 1600”,
:city => “Denver”,
:state => “Colorado”,
:zip => 80202,
}
puts mq.geocode(myLocation).inspect

#Routing
route_request = {
:addressOrigin => {
:name => “Yahoo!”,
:address => “701 First Avenue”,
:city => “Sunnyvale”,
:stateProvince => “ca”,
},
:addressDestination => {
:name => “Google”,
:address => “1600 Amphitheatre Parkway”,
:city => ” Mountain View”,
:stateProvince => “ca”,
},
}
puts mq.route(route_request).inspect

As simple as it gets, no? Cheers!

This is the first public release of the new ruby-Delicious del.icio.us API client. It’s an api client which is geared less towards bookmarking hyperlinks and more towards integrating into applications for the purpose of privately tagging any arbitrary data

You can view/download ruby-Delicious version 0.001 here

Alternative ruby del.icio.us API’s

• Ridiculous

[possibly] more to come…