Computing

Computers and information management topics

Re-format text blocks to wrap to a fixed character width

  1. Set the text width in characters :set textwidth=80
  2. Select the lines of text you want to re-format v to use visual selection
  3. Reformat gq
  4. To reformat a single paragraph without selecting it first {gq}

Turn on (or off) line numbering

  1. To turn on line numbering, at the : prompt type set number
  2. To turn off line numbering, type the command set nonumber
  3. To set relative line numbers set relativenumber

In the home page of the frontend site, add ?tp=1 to the URL to show the module positions on the page.

A few useful classes to use in Joomla (at least in the Protostar template).

Favorite monitoring applications and system tools.

bmon - bandwidth monitor and rate estimator. bmon provides a graphical display of transmit and receive volume on a console.

glances - a broad overview of system performance. glances provides CPU, process, IO and network performance indicators in a single console view.

htop - configurable summary of processor, memory and process performance on a console.

Exchangeable Image File Format (EXIF) is the standard for metadata embedded in a picture file, particularly from smart phone cameras. A few selected tag definitions: