Monthly Archives: March 2012

ELPA

Posted on 2012-03-09 by jcs

I’ve been meaning to install ELPA for a long time but never got around to it. Then Emacs 24 was on the horizon and I thought, “Why bother going through the pain of installing it when it will be included … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged | 12 Comments

TSA: Worse Than You Thought

Posted on 2012-03-08 by jcs

Jon Corbett over at TSA Out of Our Pants is making his displeasure with the TSA felt and in the process has become a real thorn in their side. After being denied access to his flight when he refused to … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged | Leave a comment

Script Kiddies At Work

Posted on 2012-03-07 by jcs

Kura over at SYSLOG has a really great animation showing the origins of SSH attacks on a single server during a 24 hour period. It’s another reminder, if you needed one, to lock down your machines. It’s pretty obvious these … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged | 1 Comment

JSON Versus S-Expressions (Again)

Posted on 2012-03-06 by jcs

I’ve written several posts concerning the relative merits of JSON vs S-expressions (1, 2, 3, 4) and concluded that while s-expressions are more powerful and flexible, JSON might be a better choice because it’s supported by virtually all programming languages. … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged , | 1 Comment

DMR Stories

Posted on 2012-03-05 by jcs

Mike Maney over at Maney Digital has a very nice tribute up for Dennis Ritchie. While he was at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Maney talked to some of dmr’s colleagues and captured their words on his Flip. The … Continue reading →

Posted in General | 1 Comment

Reversing An Emacs Lisp List In-Place

Posted on 2012-03-03 by jcs

Yesterday, Xah Lee put up a post that showed how to reverse arrays and lists in various languages, including Emacs Lisp. His Elisp examples worked only for arrays so I added one for lists in the comments. Later I realized … Continue reading →

Posted in Programming | Tagged , | 5 Comments

The Emacs set-variable Command

Posted on 2012-03-02 by jcs

I learned a new Emacs command today. What do you do when you want to set an Emacs variable? Until today my answer was 【Meta+:】 and then (setq some-variable some-value) That works well and there’s nothing wrong with it but … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged | Leave a comment

AT&T To Cap Unlimited Data Plans

Posted on 2012-03-01 by jcs

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that AT&T is going to cap unlimited data plans. Truth to tell, it’s not much of a change because they were already slowing download speeds for the top 5% of their bandwidth consumers. Now … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Leave a comment