Author Archives: jcs

SBCL 1.2.11 is Out

Posted on 2015-05-14 by jcs

I downloaded, compiled, and installed SBCL 1.2.11, the latest monthly release of the SBCL system. When I ran the regression tests (on OS X 10.10.3) I got one failure. The main development platform is Linux so I’m assuming this is … Continue reading →

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Digitization at the Hospital

Posted on 2015-05-13 by jcs

Due to a sick family member, I recently had the occasion to spend time at one of our local hospitals. If you’ve ever been through that, you know that it involves a lot of waiting around, which gave me a … Continue reading →

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Lenovo Law Suit

Posted on 2015-05-12 by jcs

Just as I predicted, the roosters have come home to roost.

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Pragmatic Emacs

Posted on 2015-05-12 by jcs

Just yesterday, I wrote about Ben Maughan’s Emacs Tip Mailing List and remarked that you could sign up for the mailing list if you liked but that due to widespread interest he was going to publish them as a blog. … Continue reading →

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Cycling Through Spelling Correction

Posted on 2015-05-11 by jcs

The other day I wrote about Ben Maughan’s Emacs Tips mailing list and recommended that you take at look at the Web site that also collects the tips1. In case you didn’t take my advice, I want to share part … Continue reading →

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Working Remotely

Posted on 2015-05-10 by jcs

I’ve long been fascinated by the idea of remote work. It wasn’t very long ago that the concept was foreign and completely out of the question to almost all employers. Happily, that’s changing to the point where it’s possible for … Continue reading →

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NSA Metadata Collection Ruled Illegal

Posted on 2015-05-09 by jcs

The Second U.S. Court of Appeals has ruled that the NSA’s mass metadata collection is illegal. That’s great news, of course, but the ruling is narrower than we’d like. The Court ruled that Section 215 of the Patriot Act, which … Continue reading →

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Ztree

Posted on 2015-05-08 by jcs

Alexey Veretennikov (fourier) has a nice project on Github. Ztree is a set of two Emacs utilities that deal with directories in a tree-based way. The first, ztree-dir provides a tree representation of a directory. Branches can be opened to … Continue reading →

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Org Bullets

Posted on 2015-05-07 by jcs

I’m pretty happy with the default bullets in Org-mode but you don’t have to settle. abo-abo points us to this package by Sabof that uses some nice UTF-8 symbols for the bullets. The package README has a screen shot of … Continue reading →

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Blogging with Emacs, Jekyll, and Github

Posted on 2015-05-06 by jcs

Obviously, Irreal is published with WordPress. Some folks complain about WordPress but I’m very happy with it. It’s provides a simple and easy to maintain blogging platform that, along with org2blog, allows me to concentrate on writing rather than continually … Continue reading →

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