Ubuntu


Vi syntax colouring driving you mad?

When using vi in Ubuntu virtual machines – a client asked me if they could stop it displaying in colour – which they found hard to read and find what they were looking for. So this simple tip is how to toggle the setting in and off. Press the esc key and then enter :syntax […]


Ubuntu – is it all that?

Just upgraded to Ubuntu 12.04 from 11.10 and the process was painless. I’ve been using Ubuntu from release 4.10 for which support finished in 2006 so it must have been released around 2004. In the early days upgrades were a bit of a lottery but of course at that stage PC’s were not the state […]