Author Archives: jcs

SBCL 1.2.14 Released

Posted on 2015-08-03 by jcs

The latest version of Steel Bank Common Lisp is available at the usual place. You can check the NEWS page for the changes in this iteration. When I first tried to download it from Sourceforge, it wasn’t available and Sourceforge … Continue reading →

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What Security Experts Do Differently

Posted on 2015-08-02 by jcs

Over at the Google Security Blog, Lulia Lon, Rob Reeder, and Sunny Consolvo have an interesting post on some research they did on what security experts do differently from non-expert to stay safe on the Internet. The post is the … Continue reading →

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Come Over to the Dark Side

Posted on 2015-08-01 by jcs

and achieve great power. Come to the Dark Side… …we have #Vim and #Emacs. :D #Text #Editors — Darth Coder (@code4fud) July 10, 2015

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The Washington Post Gets it Right

Posted on 2015-08-01 by jcs

Last Wednesday, Irreal excoriated the Washington Post for their uninformed—ignorant really—editorial supporting backdoors in crypto systems allowing the FBI and other law enforcement agencies to read encrypted communications when they feel it’s necessary. My post and the TechCrunch article it … Continue reading →

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Drag and Drop Into an Org Buffer

Posted on 2015-07-31 by jcs

John Kitchin has a very nice post in which he presents at bit of Elisp that enables us to drag and drop images into an Org buffer. The code is short and easy to understand. I just cut it out … Continue reading →

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Will We Never Learn?

Posted on 2015-07-30 by jcs

It’s 2015 and this is still happening: for shits and giggles I port scanned my wife's new Cadillac. Both FTP and HTTP are open. pic.twitter.com/8Xb4o89fCd — Steve Manzuik (@hellNbak_) July 25, 2015 Matt BLaze suggests the reason for the above: … Continue reading →

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Embedding Youtube Videos in Org Files

Posted on 2015-07-30 by jcs

Artur Malabarba has a nice post on embedding Youtube videos in Org files. I do that occasionally for blog posts by using the HTML embedding code that Youtube supplies with each video. It turns out, though, that you can do … Continue reading →

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New Hydra Feature

Posted on 2015-07-29 by jcs

Abo-abo’s hydra keeps getting better and better.

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Backdoors and Magic

Posted on 2015-07-29 by jcs

Over at TechCrunch, Jon Evans has a brilliant article entitled Technology Is Magic, Just Ask The Washington Post. In it, he lays waste to the Washington Post’s call for Apple, Google, and others to implement back doors that only law … Continue reading →

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Project Planning with Org Mode

Posted on 2015-07-28 by jcs

Charles Cave has a useful tutorial on how he uses Org mode to implement David Allen’s Natural Planning Model. Org mode is a natural way of performing the model’s five steps and Cave walks us through how that can be … Continue reading →

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