Author Archives: jcs

Plotting with Python and Org

Posted on 2015-09-21 by jcs

Andrew Caird over at For the Love of Suffering has a nice post on how to use Python and Org mode to visualize data. As usual with this sort of thing, Caird leverages Org Babel to integrate a Python script … Continue reading →

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Some Rare Good News

Posted on 2015-09-20 by jcs

The Washington Post has an interesting article by Ellen Nakashima and Andrea Peterson on the Obama’s administration’s support for strong encryption. Nakashima and Peterson are reporting that the administration is backing away from seeking a legislative mandate that technology companies … Continue reading →

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Fixing the Size and Location of the OS X Finder Window

Posted on 2015-09-19 by jcs

John Gruber points to a nice tip from Christopher Phin on how to fix the size and location of the Finder window in OS X. All you have to do is open a Finder window, resize it, place it in … Continue reading →

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Compiling Emacs

Posted on 2015-09-18 by jcs

Matthew Daly reminds us of something that’s easy to forget: it turns out that compiling #emacs from source is much easier than I anticipated. one more thing to love about this amazing software! — Matthew Daly (@nodezsh) August 28, 2015 … Continue reading →

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Who Does This?

Posted on 2015-09-17 by jcs

The SANS NewsBites newsletter is reporting that Seagate’s wireless hard drives has a hardcoded password to a Telnet server in the drive’s firmware. Really? In 2015? This is really just unbelievable. It’s like Seagate’s engineers missed the last 20 years’ … Continue reading →

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Page Navigation in Emacs

Posted on 2015-09-16 by jcs

A week or two ago I wrote about Eric James Michael Ritz’s post on using pages in Emacs. If you haven’t already, be sure to follow the link to Ritz’s post. Now the estimable Artur Malabarba continues the theme with … Continue reading →

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Org Basics III

Posted on 2015-09-15 by jcs

Ben Maughan has posted the third installment of his series on Org mode basics. This time he considers adding links and images to Org files. As usual, the majority of the presentation is in the form of an Org file … Continue reading →

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DevOps for Your Development System

Posted on 2015-09-14 by jcs

I’ve written before about Howard Abrams’ posts on Literate DevOps and his very nice video illustrating the techniques. As I mentioned in the video post, we can all benefit from these ideas in our day-to-day work. Grant Rettke over at … Continue reading →

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They Always Lie

Posted on 2015-09-13 by jcs

I.F. Stone famously told us that “All governments are run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.” It’s easy to write that off as tin foil hat fodder but, in truth, the facts support him. The latest such … Continue reading →

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The Dangers of Government Held Master Keys

Posted on 2015-09-12 by jcs

The government continues to press the tech sector to give them “golden” keys that they can use to decrypt our communications. One of the main arguments against these proposals is that they will inevitably be compromised and make us less … Continue reading →

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