Author Archives: jcs

Org Mode and Reproducible Research

Posted on 2014-11-12 by jcs

EmacsNYC has another great video up. This time, its Evan Misshula talking about Org-mode and reproducible research. Misshula is a graduate student in Criminal Justice at CUNY who does a lot of statistical research on Criminal Justice matters. Like me, … Continue reading →

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Emacs on Git

Posted on 2014-11-11 by jcs

It’s been a long time coming but as of today, Git will be the official repository for Emacs. It’s easy to miss what a monumental achievement this is. It would be easy to shrug off the news with a so … Continue reading →

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IE on Mac

Posted on 2014-11-10 by jcs

Why?

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Building gnuplot on OS X

Posted on 2014-11-10 by jcs

As part of my on-going efforts to get my new MacBook Pro set up with my normal working environment, I tried to compile gnuplot. The first problem was that libpng and libgd were not installed so there was no png … Continue reading →

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Join the NSA and Do Illegal Things

Posted on 2014-11-09 by jcs

“We’re going to give you the opportunity to do stuff you can’t legally do anywhere else” — NSA Director's hiring pitch at Stanford. — Morgan Mayhem (@headhntr) November 6, 2014 You probably can’t legally do those things at the NSA … Continue reading →

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Rating Secure Messaging Applications

Posted on 2014-11-09 by jcs

The EFF has published its Secure Messaging Scorecard that rates several messaging applications on several important security axes. Some have all the desired attributes, others have none. Some, like Apple’s iMessage have most of the attributes but fail to be … Continue reading →

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Microsoft

Posted on 2014-11-08 by jcs

Still evil after all these years.

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Genes Best Removed from the Pool

Posted on 2014-11-08 by jcs

Yikes! Who would do this? No Irreal readers, I’m certain. Worse, all these instructions appear to be aimed at developers who should surely know better. I especially like the ones with sudo. Really, if you enter one of those commands … Continue reading →

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Dowsing

Posted on 2014-11-07 by jcs

Wilfred Hughes makes an acute observation: Trying to get good signal is the modern dowsing. — Wilfred Hughes (@_wilfredh) October 29, 2014 Sometimes, it does seem like that.

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Comments

Posted on 2014-11-07 by jcs

I’ve moved my comments to Disqus in the hope that that will be an effective way of keeping the spammers from using up resources and annoying my hosting provider. I’ve turned comments back on and we’ll see how things go. … Continue reading →

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