Ragu Pattabi rpattabi

Disk benchmark:

Timing cached reads = 2950.47 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads = 79.60 MB/sec

Study Notes for "Learning vi and vim editors" (7th edition)
I want to take notes for only the new things I was not aware of

Vim Practice:
I am editing this using gVim through Firefox's ItsAllText! extension.

the vi text editor

Stuff to install or setup on top of default ubuntu installation

Launcher

Remove libre office. Add ..

Update Manager
System Monitor
Terminal

Formatting considering bad sectors

mke2fs -c -c -t <fs_type e.g. ext4> -L <label e.g. home> <device e.g. /dev/sda1>

-c checks for readability of blocks. identifies bad blocks. mentioning twice checks writing as well. slower.

-c takes about 10 min per 50gb. -c -c takes about 2 hours per 50gb.

swap formatting

Links for Web Developers

HTML5 Spec for Web Developers
- WHATWG Spec
- HTMLWG Spec
caniuse -- Compatibility tables for support of HTML5, CSS3, SVG and more in desktop and mobile browsers.
validator -- HTML5 validation.
QuirksMode -- Fixes specific for browsers
Google Web fonts
FontSquirrel -- Font resource

HTML5 & CSS3 Notes

This is my study notes for HTML5 & CSS3. You will find lot of basic HTML/CSS stuff as well. This is because I didn't know even the basics and taking notes on them as well.

reference: http://developers.whatwg.org/ and several other sources. Many points were noted using firebug (firefox add-on) during usual browsing.

This document has 3 major sections:

HTML5
CSS3
How To

CoffeeScript study notes

references

Smooth CoffeeScript

basics

compiles into javascript
encourages good use of javascript's good parts

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	This is an analysis of using version control system for magazine creation project.

	# Use case:

	The source contains scribus files, and images which are not mergeable
	More than one person should be able to access the files
	At any time, the latest version should be available for anyone.
	People should not lose their work since they started working with old files.
	People should be able to take work to home without the need to have access to central server.

	http://serverfault.com/questions/167029/restoring-data-from-corrupted-ext4-partition-under-lvm-fsck-or-repair-bad-bloc

	http://grover.open2space.com/content/recovering-data-damaged-hard-drive-partition

	http://www.expertslogin.com/linux-administration/how-to-backup-lvm-configuration-on-linux/

	http://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/ddrescue.html

	http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqq9A01geeA

	# Vim How To

	### Add a blank line

	... and not go to insert mode

	### Set dir of current file as working dir

	`set autochdir`