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ReactJS vim

I am learning ReactJS, so I did a quick project to implement a very basic vim. http://carise.github.io/reactjsvim/ The github repo is kinda messy... I'll put the actual app js code into its own file in master and then move the index.html and other stuff into the gh-pages branch.

Canon SD1000 (IXUS 70) CHDK installation

Ingredients: Canon SD1000 SD card > 4GB (in our case, we have an 8GB microSD) A Linux computer First, figure out the firmware. I created a file, ver.req and put it in the root of the SD card. Turn on the camera and press FUNCSET and DISP simultaneously. In our case, we have 1.02A firmware, so get that version of CHDK. Unpack CHDK. Now, to set up the SD card. Refer to: http://chdk.wikia.com/wiki/Prepare_your_SD_card . The SD1000 was released before 2011, it seems, so it needs a FAT16 bootable partition. Since we have an 8GB card, we thus need to configure it to have 2 partitions. I tried to set up the card with the STICK utility, but failed. So I used Linux to set up the card manually. Refer to: http://chdk.wikia.com/wiki/CHDK_and_SD_cards_greater_than_4GB_%288GB,_16GB,_32GB,_64GB%29 I'm just going down the line of instructions and adding notes where necessary. 1. Find where the SD card is mounted (on my system, it was /dev/mmcblk0)  sudo fdisk -l 2. Modi