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Why

I was unable to boot to live Linux distro to install Linux on my newly bought A485 ThinkPad laptop. Although I was initially dissapointed, I was not alone. This gist documents the information I gathered from the net to complete the installation.

At the time of posting this gist, the issue is still persistent. It might not be relevant anymore once Lenovo release a working BIOS update to resolve the issue. [Update 19/01/2019]: Updating to BIOS 1.14 worked for me.

Sources

The information in this short gist was compiled from several sources. Although most are for E series, it worked for A485:

Prereq:

apt-get install zsh
apt-get install git-core

Getting zsh to work in ubuntu is weird, since sh does not understand the source command. So, you do this to install zsh

wget https://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/raw/master/tools/install.sh -O - | zsh

Dependecies

sudo apt-get install git \
                      xcb \
                      libxcb-util0-dev \
                      libxcb-ewmh-dev \
                      libxcb-randr0-dev \
                      libxcb-icccm4-dev \
                      libxcb-keysyms1-dev \

Don't use VPN services.

No, seriously, don't. You're probably reading this because you've asked what VPN service to use, and this is the answer.

Note: The content in this post does not apply to using VPN for their intended purpose; that is, as a virtual private (internal) network. It only applies to using it as a glorified proxy, which is what every third-party "VPN provider" does.

A Russian translation of this article can be found here, contributed by Timur Demin.
A Turkish translation can be found here, contributed by agyild.
There's also this article about VPN services, which is honestly better written (and has more cat pictures!) than my article.

How to use Tim Pope’s Pathogen

I’ll assume you are on Linux or Mac OSX. For Windows, replace ~/.vim/ with $HOME\vimfiles\ and forward slashes with backward slashes.

The idea

Vim plugins can be single scripts or collections of specialized scripts that you are supposed to put in “standard” locations under your ~/.vim/ directory. Syntax scripts go into ~/.vim/syntax/, plugin scripts go into ~/.vim/plugin, documentation goes into ~/.vim/doc/ and so on. That design can lead to a messy config where it quickly becomes hard to manage your plugins.

This is not the place to explain the technicalities behind Pathogen but the basic concept is quite straightforward: each plugin lives in its own directory under ~/.vim/bundle/, where each directory simulates the standard structure of your ~/.vim/ directory.

	// usage:
	const obj = { foo: 'bar' };
	const proxiedObj = attachProxy(obj);

	proxiedObj.foo = 'baz';

	/* output:
	VM192:4 setting value of prop: foo to value: baz obj {foo: "bar"}
	VM192:5 console.trace
	set @ VM192:5

	/**
	* Run a GraphQL Query using isomorphic-fetch
	*/

	const HTTP_BAD_REQUEST = 400
	const endpoint = "https://api.graph.cool/simple/v1/cj9g48vlm79hy0120m4tvigm9"

	let fetchGraphQLCache = [];

	export default (query, callback) => {

	require('isomorphic-fetch');

	fetch('https://1jzxrj179.lp.gql.zone/graphql', {
	method: 'POST',
	headers: { 'Content-Type': 'application/json' },
	body: JSON.stringify({ query: '{ posts { title } }' }),
	})
	.then(res => res.json())
	.then(res => console.log(res.data));

	const { compose, mapProps, withHandlers, lifecycle } = Recompose;
	const { observable, action } = mobx;
	const { inject, observer, Provider } = mobxReact;
	const { PropTypes } = React;

	// store
	// ============================
	const counterStore = observable({
	// for primitive values, wrap the value inside a observable,
	// or wrap it in an plain js object

	/***************************************************

	----------------------------------------------------
	Author: Alexandra Berke (aberke)
	Written: Summer 2014
	----------------------------------------------------


	Formats the phonenumber as (222) 333-4444 within the input element
	Binds only the number 2223334444 to the model