Thursday, March 21, 2013

Tech NEWS: Ctrl-S hangs an xterm

 Ctrl-S hangs an xterm
I'm sure this happens to lots of people with a Windows background (or even people who live in 'modern' editors like Kate or gedit). Editing in vim, and instead of hitting Escape and :w to save the file, I hit Ctrl-S. Instead of saving the file, the vim session 'hangs' and won't respond to the usual keypresses. This happened to me once before and I must admit that the last time I manually killed the vim process. This time around Google was at hand, and now I know I'm not the only one who's had this problem :-)

Solution: it's not vim's fault, it's actually an xterm thing. In xterm,
Ctrl-S is a kind of scroll lock and locks the console.

Hitting Ctrl-Q gets things back to normal.

Saturday, January 12, 2013

all about ICPC 2013

Program comprehension is a vital software engineering and maintenance
activity. It is necessary to facilitate reuse, inspection,
maintenance, reverse engineering, reengineering, migration, and
extension of existing software systems. ICPC provides an opportunity
for researchers and industry practitioners to present and discuss both
the state of the art and the state of the practice in the general area
of program comprehension.

http://www.ing.unisannio.it/icpc2013/

Sunday, January 6, 2013

English Vocabulary: conscientious meaning

con·sci·en·tious  

/ˌkänCHēˈenCHəs/
Adjective
  1. (of a person) Wishing to do what is right, esp. to do one's work or duty well and thoroughly.
  2. (of work or a person's manner) Showing such an attitude.

Synonyms
scrupulous - religious