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Building Thatcher Ulrich's luaSDL for Lua 5.1 on Windows with MinGW

21Jun2010
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luaSDL is a library that can be loaded by Lua to make use of SDL. To get a fresh new luaSDL.dll that Lua 5.1 can load, read on!

Ingredients

Read on to get a fresh new luaSDL.dll for you to load and use!

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Installing Git on Windows, as of June 2010

4Jun2010
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As of June 2010, there's no one-click installer of Git for Windows. Following this blog entry will get you:

  • msysgit, without its shell integration
  • TortoiseGit shell integration instead

msysgit's shell integration is nasty to uninstall, and if you do it wrong it'll pop up a dialog every 10 seconds.

Here's how you do it...

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Multiple files in Vim

Submitted by tung on Oct 16, 2008
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Emacs was nice. Integrated, powerful, quick, easy to look things up. Shame that it locks up the windowing system under Linux. Yeah, that's a bug report for Ubuntu, but it happens to me under Arch.

So I'm back on Vim. But I do miss Emacs a bit. For one, working with multiple files was a sinch. But what about in Vim?

Multiple files in Vim were always a grey area for me. I'll just focus on one: the one I care about. Read on!

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Why I use Linux

20Sep2008
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I just realised that if I were to be involved in a conversation and asked about why I prefer Linux over, say, Windows, I wouldn't have a reasonable response. It'd be something along the lines of, "I just like it better." There must be more to it than that.

I'm certainly no freetard, so there must be some practical basis to my choice of operating system. In no particular order, here they are:

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