The tt_news extension comes with a few templates styles located in tt_news/static folder. If you don’t want to use them and to define your own template setup, here’s how I did it:

add the following line to tt_news/ext_tables.php : t3lib_extMgm::addStaticFile($_EXTKEY,’static/modulis_css/’,'CRM tt-news CSS’);

Then just copy/paste one of the other template setups (such as tt_news/static/css/setup.txt) and modify it as you see fit. From here, simply add  your custom static template setup as you would to one of their own.

Samsung has officially begun supplying built-in Flash Hybrid Hard Drives (HHD) to OEMs. The model, which is dubbed MH80, is a 2.5 inch HHD that comes in 80GB, 120GB and 160Gb densities. Each type carries 128 or 256MB of OneNAND Flash.

Hybrid Hard Drives are the newest Flash application, which is supportable of the ReadyDrive feature of the Vista Operating System. According to the Microsoft’s official website, the Flash memory is used primarily as a so-called “buffer zone” for the OS boot up process or commonly used programs. More power is saved, as it allows less access time to the mechanical HDD. In addition, when the PC is in sleep mode, it lets the PC return faster to its normal operations, along with boosting the reliability of relevant data accessing.

According to Samsung’s official data, the MH80 HHD can cut down the computer boot time by 50%. In addition, it can save up to 70%-90% of power consumption, when compared to traditional HDDs. When used on the Notebook, it can extend the battery life approximately 30 minutes. Although Samsung’s HHD employs both 128MB and 256MB of OneNAND Flash, it does not contribute to the NAND Flash demand. However, the HHD can be used to educate the public on a new Flash application on PCs. Through Vista’s ReadyDrive function, users can clearly see how the Flash memory can boost the overall PC performance. In the near future, we also expect other HHD suppliers in introducing built-in NAND Flash HDD, which will most certainly become a new source in NAND Flash consumption. Needless to say, when the manufacturing costs of the NAND Flash based Solid State Disk drops to a more acceptable level, consumers will be even more willing to buy an NB equipped with an SSD.

Instead of using the server’s editors, you can opt to use your local vim or gvim to remotely connect to the server using scp.

To do so, make or edit the .vimrc or .gvimrc file in your home directory to have this line:
let g:netrw_scp_cmd = “scp -P 22 -q”

If you use RSA or DSA key pairs, simply add your key inside the command.

The above can thus be modified to:
let g:netrw_scp_cmd = “scp -P 22 -q -i ~/.ssh/private_key_name”

Notice I have have added the “-P22″ option. This refers to the port used by scp, which is 22 by default.

Once this is done, do “source .vimrc” or “source .gvimrc” on the terminal to update its settings.

The last step is to open the file remotely.

To do this, simply run this command from the terminal:
vim scp://johnny(at)some-website.com//home/johnny/somefile

The same command applies to gvim as well.

multitouch screen

Speaking of multitouch, Steven Johnson, the guy who wrote Everything Bad is Good For You and Emergence, isn’t normally our go-to guy for Apple rumors, but he has an interesting theory about what the company’s next big move might be. He speculates that all these hints about new, unannounced features for Leopard, combined with a delay in the release of new Apple Cinema Displays, the coming launch of the iPhone, and rumors about a new “ProTools killer” that relies on touch screens, all point toward the introduction of new multitouch-capable displays and the rollout of iPhone-like multitouch interfaces across Apple’s product line. Yeah, that’d be crazy, right? Jobs definitely loves having symmetry in his product lines, so even though this seems pretty unlikely it’s not totally impossible that he’d want to bring multitouch to stuff besides the iPhone. That said, we haven’t heard a single thing about new Apple displays sporting multitouch capabilities, so for now we’ll file this one under “wild speculation.”

From Engadget.