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Nautilus Script: Edit Remote Files (SSH) with Vim

by mitch on September 6, 2007 in Geekery, Gnome, Linux, Programming, Python

My on again, off again love affair with KDE is currently off (but that’s another story). I’m once again enjoying the simplicity of Gnome, and the elegance of Nautilus. The ability to graphically browse remote servers via SSH is great, but I found out that trying to edit a remote file chokes Vim. Apparently the [...]

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Sanitize File Names Using VBScript

by mitch on May 18, 2006 in Geekery, Programming, VBScript

We use an ASP based form to enable our customers to submit files created as part of a registration process. During the submission, the file is sent as an email attachment to our support staff, and a copy is written to a file server as a backup. The application uses a standard Win32 Save dialog [...]

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