Author Archives: jcs

Doing It Right, ISP Edition

Posted on 2013-07-27 by jcs

I wish these guys were my ISP. Although it won’t be news to Irreal’s European readers, Americans may not be aware that British PM David Cameron is pushing a plan to have ISPs filter pornography. Originally, the plan called for … Continue reading →

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A Patent Win

Posted on 2013-07-26 by jcs

This is so cool. Joel Spolsky tells how he shot down a garbage software patent with only a 15 minute effort. He did that by using his new Stack Exchange site Ask Patents, a site on which anyone, including patent … Continue reading →

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Printing From ibuffer

Posted on 2013-07-25 by jcs

Ever since I remapped Caps Lock to Control I occasionally type 【Shift+X】 instead of 【Ctrl+X】 or vice-versa. Usually this doesn’t make much difference but when I’m in an ibuffer list it invariably causes havoc. The problem normally happens like this: … Continue reading →

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So Close Yet So Far

Posted on 2013-07-24 by jcs

Crap.

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Credit Card Numbers and Lazy Programmers

Posted on 2013-07-24 by jcs

Ben, over at Brush Technology, has a splendid rant on something that I’ve written about before on my old blog. Why, in 2013, are we still suffering Websites that refuse to accept spaces in credit card numbers? There really is … Continue reading →

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EmacsMovies Looks at Gnus—Part 2

Posted on 2013-07-23 by jcs

Noufal Ibrahim has part 2 of his series on Gnus up. The screencast is about 30 minutes so he broke it into two videos. As with part 1, the screen is too small to be read comfortably, even on my … Continue reading →

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Jekor #3

Posted on 2013-07-22 by jcs

Jekor has a new Emacs video up. This time it explores loading packages through ELPA in Emacs 24. The new video continues the excellent production values of the first two. This series is shaping up to be a really useful … Continue reading →

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Prism Break

Posted on 2013-07-21 by jcs

If you’re looking for ways to make your Internet activities more opaque, here’s a very useful site that discusses alternative software to help you be more secure. It also discusses phone services that may help too. Most of us, of … Continue reading →

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I Have Nothing To Hide

Posted on 2013-07-20 by jcs

Jamie Zawinski links to a frightening response to a post on Reddit that offered the usual tripe about not caring about government surveillance because “I have nothing to hide.” The responder purports to be living in an Arab country that … Continue reading →

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Applying defadvice to Several Functions at Once

Posted on 2013-07-19 by jcs

One of the distinguishing—and most useful—features of Lisp is the macro. Sadly, we don’t often see them discussed in the Emacs blogosphere so I was happy to see Bozhidar Batsov over at Emacs Redux give a beautiful example of macro … Continue reading →

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