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Buena Vista University (BVU) Graduate & Professional Studies (GPS) is launching a Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc) degree with a major in applied management. This degree is available at GPS sites across Iowa and online.
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After losing to Monfils and Seppi has some very good words to say.
(Sunrise, FL) - Record crowds showed up Sunday to see French sensation Gael Monfils win the singles championship in his first showing at the BMW Tennis Championship at Sunrise Tennis Center, facing off with one of Italy's young stars, Andreas Seppi.
Monfils never faced a tournament seed all week, taking out wild card Jesse Levine, qualifier Dusan Vemic, wild card Nenad Zimonjic (who had defeated the tournament's No. 1 seed, Dmitry Tursunov), and Ivo Karlovic, who retired in the second set in the semis. Seppi had defeated wild card and 3-time French Open champ Gustavo "Guga" Kuerten in the first round, Juan Martin Del Potro (who had beaten No. 7 seed and fellow Argentinean Juan Monaco), Oliver Marach and No. 6 seed Nicolas Massu in the semis.
In the first set, Seppi held his own at the baseline, producing silky smooth groundstrokes, especially from the backhand side. But a lot of the long rallies went Monfils' way. Seppi's drop shots, which mightily frustrated Massu on Saturday night, were not as effective against the speedy Monfils, one of the few players who slides easily on hard courts, despite his 6' 4" height. At two games all, Monfils served his way back from love-40 to 30-40, then double faulted the game away. But in the last game of the set, Seppi gave up his service at love.
"I think I didn't serve really well the first set," Seppi said. "We have always long rallies and he broke me two times. If you don't serve well it's easy to break." "In the first set I was focused only on the power," Monfils said, "And one powerful first serve. That's why I think I hit the ball harder."
But in the second set, Seppi stepped up his game, looking more comfortable going for winners; while Monfils seemed to dial back his intensity.
Second set yeah for sure I played the more aggressive," Seppi said. "In the first games I tried to play faster more on the net and I hit for sure more winners. It was a good start, I am a break up and then I get the intermediary break - and then I was up again a break.
The Italian broke Monfils twice; and the young Frenchman took on an almost bored attitude, as if resigned to start fresh in the third. Seppi broke Monfils once more to finish off the set 6-1.
"In the second, I play very short on the court instead of very long so I think he take his chances and he did great," Monfils said. "But when he broke me again I decide to tank the last game because I knew it would be new balls and I would serve first with the wind for me."
In the third set, the tables abruptly turned. Monfils sprang to life again, and the characteristic defiant fist-pumps were back. Meanwhile Seppi's efficient ground strokes started sailing long, and his drop shots, no matter how well disguised, bounced within reach of the fast-moving Frenchman.
"In the third set, especially in the beginning I slowed a little bit down and lost the first two, three games," Seppi said. "And it's always tough to come back. He's a little bit more confident and so it was tough in the end to come back. He didn't miss a lot today. He was running a lot, played pretty not too much risk and so I always tried the risk. He served pretty good in third set, it was tough to return and when I was serving, there were always long rallies. I always have to risk, and it's not easy, when you play every day so you get a little bit tired in the end."
Monfils broke Seppi's first service, then consolidated the break for 3-love. Seppi's next serve went to deuce but he held. Monfils followed with an easy hold, broke Seppi once more - and served it out for the win - 6-3, 1-6, 6-1.
Looking forward to Miami's Sony Ericsson Open, which starts on March 21, Monfils said, "I have good preparation, now I win here so during three days I am relax, I have to stay focused, keep practice hard and see what happens at the Ericsson.
My first experience was very good here because I won the tournament, but I think it's good preparation here for Miami. It's a good tournament, you have a lot of courts to practice and the weather is very nice and I really enjoy, and I think it's a very important event before Miami."
"Maybe it s a little bit lower tournament but anyway if you win, you win a lot of points," Monfils said, "And I think sometimes players forget if you win the tournament its like winning third round in Indian Wells. I think it's a good idea to come here, because there's a lot of good players here so it's not really a similar challenger - I think it's very strong. I feel good but I think now my goal is to win the Sony Ericsson, so I'm feeling confident. I know before I come here it was preparation, now I win this tournament so I feel more confident, I know I can win five match in a row. My goal now is to win the Sony Ericsson, so I have to keep going."
Last year's BMWTC winner, Dmitry Tursunov, followed up that trophy with his best-ever Masters Series showing at the Ericsson, reaching the fourth round - where he lost to eventual winner Roger Federer.
Monfils is into the main draw at Miami, but Seppi (currently ranked 102), will have to qualify. "This was a good tournament for me," he said, "And I hope to play good next week."
Results for Sunday, March 18, 2007:
Gael Monfils (FRA) d. Andreas Seppi (ITA) 6-3, 1-6, 6-1
Konstantinos Economidis (GRE)/Kristof Vliegen (BEL) d. Juan Martin del Potro (ARG)/Sebastian Prieto (ARG) 6-3, 6-4
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Wilander on Dimitrov - "He has mind set on imitating Federer and yes it looks good. But he has no idea what to do on the court".
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I definitely would have preferred Gaba winning as he needs the points much more, but Jan would have beaten him anyway.
I expect Hajek to destroy Machado, like 6-1 6-2
Machado wins 6-2 6-1
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The Saudi American Bank (SAMBA) retained the leading position among the top 25 banks in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) and Levant region in the year 2001, with $2.57 billion in capital, according to a report recently published by the Gulf Banking Consultants (GBC), a UK incorporated management consulting firm.
Riyad Bank gained a very close second place with $2.56 billion in capital, followed by the Arab Bank Group of Jordan with $2.35 billion capital. Al-Rajhi Banking and Investment Corporation took fourth place, making three out of the top five banks Saudi institutions. The Arab Banking Corporation (ABC) took fifth place in the top 25 ranking.
The size of the top five ranked players remain unchanged during 2001. Unlike rankings among top international banks that change frequently due to mergers and acquisitions, the GCC banking sector remained largely unchanged. A key exception was the merger between SAMBA and United Saudi Bank in 1999 that catapulted the combined bank to its current leading position in the ranking.
The report concludes that the market position of some of the key players in the Top 25 would be jeopardized as competition intensifies with the gradual liberalization in the GCC financial services sector and the very survival of some of the smaller players could be at stake.
The analysis by GBC confirms that size alone does not necessarily indicate a bank's ability to deliver top financial performance. The largest five banks have posted significantly different financial performance during 2001. SAMBA set the benchmark with a return on equity (ROE) of 22.7 percent thereby showing other banks how it is possible not only to be the largest, but also the most profitable bank.
The Arab Banking Corporation had the lowest ROE of 5.3 percent and Arab Bank Group was not far behind at 19th position with an ROE of 11.1 percent. Despite its size and large market share, Riyad Bank only generated an ROE of 14.4 percent that puts the bank in the middle of the ranking table on 13th position.
In contrast, Saudi Hollandi and Kuwait Finance House (KFH) show how it is possible to deliver top quality financial performance notwithstanding their relatively small size. In spite of being almost a quarter of the size of SAMBA in terms of capital, Saudi Hollandi gained second position with an ROE of 22.6 percent that was only marginally different from SAMBA's 22.7 percent. KFH gained third position with an impressive 22.5 percent ROE in spite of its relatively small size. — (menareport.com)
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Wedding Vows in Klingon
Klingon, as any follower of Star Trek knows, has been the language of the Klingon race since 900 AD, right up to the 'present' time of the 24th century.
The following is from Klingon a wedding found at Captain Kordite's website: www.tasigh.org/....
Klingon vows
(groom's name), bISawrup'a'? (do you marry her?)
HIja' (Yes.)
(bride's name), bInayrup'a'? (do you marry him?)
HIja' (Yes.)
The couple take two steps backwards to stand back to back. The officiate draws a dagger which he holds above their heads. The couple reach up with their right hands and grasp the blade palm down. The couple turn to the left to face each other. The officiate lowers the blade to waist level, the couple's hands still atop the blade. The officiate places his hand on top of the couple's hands.
DaHjaj mobHa' tlhIH. (Today, you are un-alone.)
DaHjaj tagh wo' (Today the Empire begins.)
The encouraging points to note from this Klingon wedding is that even 'now', in the 24th century, not only have we survived global warming, but also weddings and marriage are still deemed necessary in society. Sadly, the 'love' word doesn't crop up very much in this ceremony; which is not surprising for a warrior race with a goal of intergalactic hegemony.
As Captain Kordite's website indicates, Klingon marriage is synergistic; to produce more warriors "we join one another, one becomes two, two becomes a household, houses become armies, armies build the empire."
But there's no need to worry about these loveless people; they do not exist. (So there's nobody to offend if you mis-pronounce 'tlhIH'.)
Original wedding vows
It is hard to find vows more original and exotic than the above. And if you want to use them for your wedding, go ahead.
But remember; Star Trek is not real and the Klingon race is not real.
What is real, is your marriage. And by far the most important part of a wedding ceremony is the exchange of vows. The wisdom of exchanging vows in a language that your invited witnesses do not comprehend, is something that should be considered very carefully. Klingon has no benefit over words that you, your partner, your families and friends, can understand. The sincerity of the vows does not increase with exoticness; quite the opposite.
It's your wedding, so dress up as Darth Vader if you wish (after all, the wedding dress and tux are pretty ridiculous costumes) but please keep in mind the seriousness of the commitment you are making when you exchange your marriage vows.


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Who would have thought a few suitcases of hair gel could start so much controversy? Yet from the moment MTV's new series Jersey Shore hit the airwaves,it's been one of the most watched -- and most argued about -- shows in the country. But with cameras filming and the cast partying 24 hours a day, there was no way all the wild antics could make it onto the screen.

During a recent photo shoot with Life & Style, the entire cast dished the dirty secrets that you won't see on TV!
Snooki admits letting cameras roll during some past hookups, long before Jersey Shore started filming -- but says she'd never try to cash in on any lost footage. "I don't want people to watch me doing that," she says. "It's a private thing." Still, she had better be sure the cameras are off when she's hooking up with anyone new these days. "A sex tape starring Snooki could fetch between $1 million and $3 million," Steven Hirsch, founder of porn company Vivid Entertainment, tells Life & Style. "It could be considerably more." Ronnie also admits to having taped past hookups! "I'm pretty sure I already deleted any sex tapes from my phone," Ronnie says hopefully -- but he's not entirely certain.
Could Ronnie and Sammi actually make it to the altar?
Absolutely. Not only did the couple make a serious love connection over the summer, they're still dating. He and Sammi both say it's gotten serious. "I love being with her," Ronnie says. "I would do anything for her. It's taken me a long time to find this connection. I'm going to see where it takes me." In fact, after just five months of dating, Sammi's even talking marriage and kids. "I definitely feel like Ronnie would be a good husband and father," she tells Life & Style.
Who has had plastic surgery? And which cast member has plans for a boob job?
"I've had a breast augmentation," JWoww tells Life & Style. "I bought it for myself as a birthday present a few months before I turned 21. I didn't really need to go bigger, but I wanted them. I'm really happy with them now." JWoww's perky bustline -- always on display during nights out -- has even inspired Snooki to get a little nip/tuck. "I keep staring at JWoww's boobs and I'm like, 'I want a boob lift,'" Snooki says. "I'm definitely looking into a lift."
For more secrets from the cast of Jersey Shore, pick up the new issue of Life & Style, on newsstands now!
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While looking at the materials list for the Spring/Summer 2009 bag line up from Paris' Surface to Air, I noted that the Cargo Bag (above, right) is made from 100% phosphorescent leather. By definition, it would imply that the bag would shine under proper lights, but I wonder how many men need that much attention. Putting that aside, the bag collection is well done and constructed from a variety of leathers and nylon. The Weekender and Tape Bags (above, left) are made for gentleman who believes in his individuality.
Many more looks from the Surface To Air Spring/Summer 2009 Bag Collection after the jump.


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Hello, I´d like to make you some questions about or new enterprise database production systems, which should be in production state in about 2 or 3 days. Yes, I´know this is not too much time to deploy a good and definitive HA solution, but I´d like to try making the best possible.
We´ve tried a MySQL with RedHat Cluster Suite H/A solution, but we have very
bad results in the H/A tests.
We use a iSCSI LUN per node with ext3 FS and a HP iLO as fence device, and I
think that these poor results are related with these two components: ext3
formated HD device and a disfunction in the fenced daemon with the HP iLO
So, I´ve readed in some whitepapers about solutions based on MySQL + RedHat
Cluster Suite + GFS.
And the question is: Do you think we sould use GFS instead Ext3 FS?
Do you have any information about this kind of solution? Is stable enougth
solution for production enviroments? and ¿what about the performance
results using GFS? will we loose performance?
We have only 2 days to deploy a final H/A solution and your opinion is very
important to us.
Than you very very much.
Eloy Acosta Toscano
FON Technology


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Lottie Moggach's debut novel Kiss Me First explores the dark side of social media.
In the book, the protagonist Leila has never met Tess, but she now knows more about Tess than anyone in the world.
She has read all of her emails, researched her past and asked Tess for every detail about her friends and family. If Tess wants to slip away from the world unnoticed, she needs to trust Leila with her life.
At first, Leila finds it easy to assume Tess's identity, and no one has any reason to distrust her. But as Leila is soon to discover, there is much more to a person than the facts, and there are things about life you can learn only by living it.
Amazon summarised this much talked-about novel as follows: "A chilling and intense first novel . . . the story of a solitary young woman drawn into an online world run by a charismatic web guru who entices her into impersonating a glamorous but desperate woman."
Emma Chapman, author of How To Be a Good Wife has raved about Kiss Me First. "With Leila, Lottie Moggach walks a wonderful line between sympathy and horror. Riveting and thought-provoking, Kiss Me First is the intelligent novel of the social media age I've been waiting for."
Moggach is a journalist who has written for The Times, Financial Times, Time Out, Elle, GQ and The London Paper. She lives in north London. Kiss Me First is published by Pan Macmillan.


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The open source Vim text editor offers a significant amount of power and flexibility, but it can be difficult to configure properly. In this tutorial, we will show you several easy ways to make Vim behave more like a conventional integrated development environment.
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My list of required vim plugins
snipMate: awesome snippets lib
git-vim: git commands/display in vim buffers
vim-git-branch-info: branch info in status line
bufexplorer.vim: mapped to <leader>b for buffer listing
dpaste.vim: send to pastebin
NERD_tree.vim: for a file listing/ide-like tree
SimpleFold.vim: folding fun
tasklist.vim: eclipse like pulling of @todo/@fixme stuff
tComment.vim: great comment plugin. Select a ton of text and gc will comment, detects filetype
I recommend the Zenburn color scheme for vim. It's very nice. It's also been ported to Notepad++ and emacs (I think).
One question - What's the difference between Vim and Emacs?
Sweet jesus. So when I read that plugins were available for vim I thought, "Hell yeah! I'll get all kinds of features and really rice out my install." Then I went through some of the motions to try and install these plugins. Yeah I think I'll pass.
If you want the features of a modern IDE in your vim, why dont you, I dont know, use a modern IDE?
Emacs is superior
Some people are adverse to the GUI. Scares 'em away with all those intimidating buttons. Much better to memorize 9-finger key commands. :-)
On a more serious note... doing modern development in a command-line editor is rather painful, but, opinion and assholes and all that. We all have one. On the flip side, vim is pretty handy when ssh'd to points elsewhere.
I'm not sure I remember all of the VI commands I used to know but I do remember it was the bees knees when it came to doing search and replace and having multiple cut and paste buffers. What could be more natural than keying in ":s/^find/replace/g"
It was also super speedy, something that could never be said about emacs.
VIM on the command line was close enough to VI I never had to worry about the differences and it was a nice confortable tool to use. VIM in a GUI - my only question would be why? There are certainly better editor on Windows and MAC OS.
Edit: awesome article btw!! keep 'em coming =)
Having not used Emacs, I'd be interested in a reply to this too.
Because a modern IDE usually has you using the mouse. As soon as you touch the mouse, you are less efficient =)
I think being able to do everything with the keyboard makes you a lot more efficient once you learn vim or emacs. You will type far less, move around far quicker, and just be a lot *faster* than you would be otherwise. I don't know about your modern IDE, but I don't think it lets you do even a fraction of the things you can do with vim (such as batching regular expressions).
The learning curve is kinda steep... but it helps if you treat it like learning anything else and learn a little bit each day. GVim definitely eases the pain, but encourages bad habits like using the mouse too (which I think is forgivable for using the menus at the top, but not so much for editing).
Vim is probably a lot more customizable than your modern IDE.
You can use vim for much more than just coding.
Or equip a modern IDE with VIM and have both, e.g., viemu http://www.viemu.com/, viplugin http://www.viplugin.com/
Vim with plugins is a LOT less than the 800mb of Ram usage eclipse used to eat up on a good day. Buffers > tabs any day of the week, and once you get used to the movement/shortcuts it's so much nicer to have the full window for code and move around so much faster/easier.
I spent 5 years using Zend Studio/Eclipse/Wing IDE, etc. finally combined them all under vim last June and not looked back.
It's fully Frodo-compliant
There's also http://www.vimplugin.org/ for Eclipse. Vimplugin is not the same as viplugin.
Assuming you're not attempting to restart that old war....
Both are highly extensible; emacs via Lisp (indeed, Emacs is basically a Lisp machine that happens to be able to edit text), and Vim via your choice of Perl, Python, and Ruby.
Vim is modal, Emacs isn't. Practically, this means that in Vim you're banging on the ESC key a lot, whereas in Emacs you're frequently playing twister with the CTL, ALT, SHIFT keys.
That's about it.
Pfft... ANYONE can use Vim and Emacs to code something. But REAL programmers use Small Basic.
I miss the good old days, when vim was vi with arrow keys. I could open a file, edit, and close in the time it took emacs to open the file.
Now vim is as bloated as emacs, and every release has me scrambling to find out how to turn off 10 new auto-magic features that corrupt simple operations. *barf*
Having recently become much more proficient with the command-line environment, (now almost daily writing my own scripts,) I'll vouch for its continued relevance, and charming simplicity. I like the fact that almost everything I want to do can be done, almost without a thought, through muscle memory, once I do it 2 or 3 times. It is much less cluttered than having a jillion applications with a jillion different windows open, because otherwise, I'd have like 25 windows open just in the text editor, not to mention other things.
I will profess a taste for emacs over vi, just because emacs, though archaic-seeming, seems well-organized given the limitations of a terminal window, while vi always seemed like "hell, throw in something else to the command buffer." It seems to pile on the arcana for 80s-nostalgia sake. No thanks.
And I use the GUI version of neither. They're in a CLI to cut down on the clutter and the visual overhead, or to save the visual overhead for things that just don't flow in the terminal (a LOT of things!)
EDIT: And I definitely disagree with the notion that the keyboard is faster for everything, or even most things, or that "you just have to get more familiar with it." It's definitely faster for some things, but the mouse isn't just around for the loser idiots—it actually has a purpose, and fills that purpose quite well. I like the power and flexibility that I'm finding in the CLI, but it's obvious that some things could be made easier if using the mouse were an option. (I like the alt-key navigability of Windows programs, and I'm a mac guy.)
Diff between Vim and Emacs?
It all depends on how you want to interact with the file you're editing. The different interfaces (commands) make sense to different people. I agree with Zhengyi - Vim is ESC and :command while Emacs is CTRL, ALT, SHIFT twister.
In Emacs, the cursor is live and you simply start typing to edit - just like MS Word. In Vim, the default is simply viewing the file and you enter a command to start editing. Press "i" to start inserting text before the cursor or "a" to append text after the cursor. Press "d" to start deleting. "u" for undo, CTRL-r to redo, and so on. I find those commands far easier to remember and execute than the finger twister CTRL sequences in Emacs.
Viewing your a list of your open files (buffers) in Vim seems quite easy to me, at least for my GVim install in IBM AIX (Vim v7.0). ":ls" shows me the buffers - just like "ls" in a shell/term window to list files. Then if I want the file in buffer 3, I just type ":b3".
If you want to have all the juicy features without having to think too much, read this: http://www.akitaonrails.com/20...ls-on-windows-part-2
You will need to install ncurses-term, exuberant-ctags, ruby and you will have a Textmate-like environment, with several plugins and snippets pre-configured.
I tend to use Emacs for development and vim for basic editing. They both can do the same things, but I found emacs easier to set up for cpp development than vim. My coworker's machine that I need to ssh into frequently has vim set up for development, so I use vim then. They both require several hours of using a cheat sheet before you can become faster with them than with an IDE. VIM would work better with the escape key on the home row and Emacs would work better with the mode keys on the home row. If you could hold down combinations of home row keys to set the context then they would be faster, but I don't think that keyboards allow that.
Ditto. I use emacs for all large scale code editing, and vim for all quick work on editing configuration files, and the like.
What surprises me is how good GNU Emacs has gotten. I was an XEmacs acolyte for years, but GNU's emacs is far and away superior these days, while XEmacs has stagnated.
It also surprises me how much vim has supplanted vi everywhere. Especially considering vim was born on the Amiga. ;-)
Understatement of the year. You shouldn't have to do Google searches to figure out how to get out of your text editor. Unfortunately I'm terrible at memorizing 10,000 obscure key presses to do everything under the sun so I have to use other editors. I can see the speed advantages though for those that don't have an issue with such memorization.
Ha! A popular code editor on VMS was "ls" and Unix-using morons like me would telnet into a VMS machine, type "ls" to list our files, and be stuck forever in this stupid editor. To this day I still have no idea how to exit that editor, other than killing the terminal session.
All from ssh, IMO. You can end up using vi that way a lot when it's just a quick little change or your current 'net connection makes remote desktop painful or whatever. Spend too much time doing this and you learn the keystrokes - then it's hard to use a "normal" editor without hammering on escape and leaving stray Js and Ks and colons all over the place. That's been my experience, anyway.
I do dream of the day someone manages to shoehorn vim into Visual Studio as the text editor without breaking intellisense. I'd be pretty damn happy with that as a setup.
Aside from vim still being in active development, I assume you are talking about a GUI? Yeah, they sure work great over a 9600 baud modem into a flaky line in Italy.
echo "set compatible" > ~/.vimrc
Now Vim will act more like vi and won't source vimrc in $VIM (usually /usr/share/vim), which is where all those fancy "auto-magic" features come from when you don't have a ~/.vimrc. :P
How is this better than Notepad++?
Looks like it's harder to use, so it's more l33t
Gotcha. I favor being 1337 in my gaming - not the kind of 1337 that hurts my productivity from using antiquated or hard-to-use tools from the Cretaceous period of computing.
Visual Studio (and Eclipse for Java) FTW.
It also keeps people from touching your computer, I find.
I work on Windows, and I much prefer using GVim on Win32 than the assinine editor that comes with Visual Studio. (Alas, as of Visual Studio.net, they broke VisVim which opened files in Vim instead of Visual Studio's editor).
It's a choice - I know IBM has a really nice tutorial on vi/vim, and Vim has its own built-in tutorial.
And I like Vim's keystrokes - a lot better than the ctrl-alt-shift-meta-bucky-cokebottle combinations you get with Emacs. Selecting text, then reformatting it or adding characters and transformations is just a few keys away. And there's probably a trillion keystrokes I can use to do what I want, but combining the basic ones you need I find gets you 99% of what you want.
My favorite was re-learning how to make use of "i" - do it right, and you can easily transform a prototype into a function body automatically by using "." to repeat the insertion. Complete with your favorite spacing and indentation.
It's a personal choice - a lot of people like the simplicity of Notepad like editors in most IDEs, others like being able to navigate around the file without touching the mouse. Fun also doing big block deletions at times - you see people selecting it per-block and backspacing to remove the block, while I just search for the separator and "dn" to delete to next selection.
If it wasn't for GVim for Windows, I really won't have one editor across every platform...
Vim is a highly evolved and efficient tool. Very fast*, very good at what it's designed for. If you can't wrap your head around the concept of a dual mode editor and that 'j' means 'down' and 'k' means 'up' then that is your problem.
* fast as in 'the speed at which works gets done', not 'how long it takes to refresh the screen'.
If you have a complex script on a remote machine you need to edit and you want to get it done _now_ then Vim can deliver a highly productive and all the immediate text-editing features you'd want on the fly. No setting up projects, no importing code, no integrating SCMS, no nothing.
ssh-in, edit, test it, exit, done.
In the time it takes for a person to navigate around and get a IDE started up and the code in question loaded... I am already done and heading down to the break room to get a bag of Cool Ranch Duritos and a Diet Coke.
You have to understand the target audiance is system administrators and scripters. Sure there are a lot of programmers that use it for complex coding, but the majority of people are people that simply want to get things done and don't have projects that run on for weeks at a time. Features that don't require a lot of setup, like language-sensitive syntax highlighting and autocompletion are the most valuable.
For programmers who have long-term projects they are working on then IDEs or Emacs are preferable. Those require lots of setup and time to get going and offer the most features for managing code and documentation.
And Emacs isn't just a text editor.. it's probably the first IDE that ever got very popular. Sure it pretends to be a text editor, but it's about as useful for system administration and scripting as notepad is without the devoting a great deal of time customizing it to their specific needs. In fact the only way it's very useful is if you run Emacs in 'server-mode' so that when you edit files they are loaded up into a existing program with whatever else your working on.
Oh, if your editor requires me to use either:
A) the mouse
B) the arrow keys
For _anything_. Then I am not going to touch it with a twenty foot pole.
It has little to do with being "better" than simply being available. You did notice that this was posted in the Open Source section which tends to focus on non-Windows platforms, right?
For all those wondering about why people use Vi or VIM or Emacs rather than a full IDE in X, there is one simple reason. When you are on a box with almost nothing else, you will usually have Vi. It is pretty much a universal standard on any Unix like machine and it may be the only tool you have to edit a file. At my university, learning Vi and bash is the first step in the system administration sequence and is a fundamental skill for the major.
I think it's generally agreed that:
Emacs would be a great operating system if only it had a decent text editor, whereas vi would be a great text editor if only it had a decent operating system
Yeah, but having Nano installed is even more common, and infinitely more user friendly.
HP-UX, Solaris, and even Fedora Core would beg to differ about the availability.
If you ever wanted to undertake the Herculean task that is understanding XKB, you can make the keyboard act however you want (though, not per-program). You want to exchange Left Control and Caps Lock? There's a preset for that. Want to do the same for Escape and Caps Lock? Completely doable. There isn't any official documentation worth a damn, but there is the nice An Unreliable Guide to XKB Configuration. Of course, this only works in X.
I told somebody a couple of days ago that I wish he died and went to hell, where his GUI-loving ass would be forced to use ed for the rest of eternity.


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The Long Interrogaton
By Andrew Rice
Published: June 4, 2006
On Aug. 3, 1987, Kelbessa Negewo debarked from a T.W.A. flight in New York. He cleared customs and entered the United States. A strong, thickset man, just a few weeks shy of his 37th birthday, he was traveling alone. In his suitcase, he carried the remnants of his old life: a few sets of clothes, an Ethiopian passport, a student visa issued at the United States Embassy in Addis Ababa and a reference letter from a former employer, the Mugher Cement Factory. His pockets contained $200. Kelbessa spent that first night in a cheap motel room. The next morning, after a meandering tour of the outer boroughs with an unscrupulous cabdriver, he arrived back at the airport, exasperated and financially drained. America was suffering through a broiling heat wave;
Kelbessa sweated through his shirt as he struggled with his luggage. Living here, he realized, was going to be difficult. But Kelbessa had experienced far worse. The soles of his feet bore scars from a whipping.
He boarded a plane bound for his new home, Atlanta. An old friend, Ayalew Berou, met Kelbessa when he landed. (Ethiopians formally address one another by their first names.) Ayalew took Kelbessa home, made him a meal and offered to put him up. He found Kelbessa a night job cleaning grocery stores. Kelbessa gradually settled into an immigrant's existence. He worked hard and went unnoticed, renting tiny apartments in disfavored suburbs, toiling in the dismal reaches of the service economy. He didn't socialize much, not even with other Ethiopians. Kelbessa tried going to one of their Bible study groups for a while, but he got the feeling that people were whispering things behind his back, so he quit.
Six months after he arrived in America, Kelbessa applied for political asylum, saying he had been persecuted and imprisoned by Ethiopia's military dictatorship. It was the Reagan era, and Ethiopia was Communist; the application was quickly approved. Kelbessa then set about achieving his next goal: saving enough money to send for his three children, who were still stuck in Ethiopia. (He and his wife were divorced.) He worked the graveyard shift at a convenience store and took a second job, washing dishes at the Colony Square Hotel. Later, he was promoted to bellhop.
One afternoon, Kelbessa was outside the employee locker room, waiting for the service elevator. The elevator doors opened, and another Ethiopian walked out, a young woman in a waitress's uniform. She worked at the restaurant upstairs. Kelbessa hailed her as a compatriot and introduced himself. He let the elevator go, and they had a brief conversation. Then the woman, whose shift was ending, hurried off to clock out. Kelbessa went on with his day.
Kelbessa started hearing rumors after that. The waitress was asking questions about him. One day, she brought a couple of Ethiopian friends into the hotel. The three women didn't say anything to Kelbessa; they just stood in the lobby and stared.
Not long afterward, in September 1990, someone else visited Kelbessa at work: a process server. He handed Kelbessa some papers, which informed him that he was being sued in federal court on charges of violating international human rights laws. The lawsuit said he was far from a mere victim of Ethiopia's brutal regime. It claimed Kelbessa had once been its servant, a notorious torturer and killer, during a period known as the Red Terror a dozen years before. His chief accuser was a woman named Edgegayehu Taye -- the waitress. Though neither she nor Kelbessa knew it then, the two immigrants were preparing to embark on a 15-year passage through the formative reaches of human rights law. Justice, and eventually even Kelbessa's freedom, would turn on a single question, decided by American judges, in American courts: What happened so long ago, in the country they both left behind?
Lately, Kelbessa has had a lot of time to contemplate the vicissitudes of life. For the past 17 months, he has been imprisoned in Atlanta. He sits alone inside a stuffy jail cell for 23 hours of most days, breaking the solitude by teaching himself the basics of immigration law and by writing a jailhouse memoir, scrawled out on several notepads. The book begins with a discussion of peasant agriculture and Marxism and concludes with a description of prison life: the cold food, the constant racket. He vehemently denies the accusations against him and says that before the glancing encounter at the Colony Square, he never met the woman who accused him. ''Every day I wake up in the morning in American prison,'' Kelbessa writes. ''I think for a while, why am I in here?''
He is there because the federal Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement is holding him in detention while it tries to deport him back to Ethiopia, where he has been accused of committing many atrocities. Kelbessa's case, one of the first of its kind under a new law, is a product of many chance occurrences. If Edgegayehu Taye hadn't taken the waitress job, if their shifts hadn't overlapped that day, if she'd just kept quiet, if she'd never moved to Atlanta in the first place, then maybe Kelbessa could have lived in peace. But that is not the same as saying his story was unlikely. In a nation with a proud heritage as a haven for refugees, no conflict is too far removed. Immigrant communities may seem undifferentiated to native-born Americans, sealed off as they are by their foreign languages and customs. But in this time of impassioned argument over immigration, it is important to remember that the talk of human tides and huddled masses is just rhetorical shorthand. Each immigrant has his own reasons for making the journey; each brings to America his own history, and sometimes, his own secrets.


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Presidential candidate Ron Paul returned to the campaign trail today, explaining that he spent Wednesday voting against a debt-ceiling increase that "nobody seems to care about."
"If they did, they would take my advice and cut the budget by $1 trillion in one year," Paul said, adding, "That's what we need."
The Texas congressman returned to Washington, D.C., Wednesday to vote down President Obama's request to increase the debt ceiling by $1.2 trillion.
It's a vote Paul calls a "gimmick." The congressman said that even if his fellow legislators voted down the increase, the president can still veto the rejection. "It's a foregone conclusion," Paul said to the more than 800 mostly college students who packed a small courtyard and yelped and cheered as the congressman delivered his anti-government, anti-Washington view for America.
"I always say that when I'm in Washington, I never get applause," Paul said, smiling, "So I'm always glad to get out of Washington. "
Paul later said that it's young people's support that gives him encouragement to continue delivering his message.
Paul also took time today to credit his supporters with slowing an anti-online piracy bill winding through Congress. He said that after pressure, many congressional members who supported the bill started removing their names. "So when the people decide they are going to speak out, Washington will really listen," Paul said.
"Sometimes you need a two-by-four to get them to listen."
Paul will participate tonight in the Southern Republican Presidential Debate sponsored by the Southern Republican Leadership Conference and CNN at the North Charleston Coliseum in South Carolina.
Paul predicted that tonight's debate will be "feisty."
When asked what he thought of Gov. Rick Perry's dropping out of the race, Paul paused, smiled and said, "I'm glad I'll have all his votes."