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sudo & vim

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I had some minor annoyance while using Vim on the commandline. Whenever I did: sudo vim my Vim plugin wheren’t loaded (root had no .vimrc). I discovered that you can add environmental variables to sudo so I added this to my ~/.bash_aliases:

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Disabling the oneconf service in Ubuntu

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Oneconf was eating up a lot of memory on my system. But if you purge the oneconf package it also removes the ubuntu-desktop and software-center package. And I wanted to keep those. Especially ubuntu-desktop.

David Anderson had a nice post about this...