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Some RSA Public Keys Are Insecure

Posted on 2012-02-14 by jcs

According to The New York Times, a team of European and American researchers have discovered that some (about 0.2%) RSA public keys are insecure. The insecurity is the result of using prime factors that aren’t cryptographically random. I’m still reading … Continue reading →

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UTF-8 Characters In Emacs

Posted on 2012-02-11 by jcs

I’ve mentioned several times that I use Xah Lee’s excellent HTML/XML Entities List page to look up the code points for UTF-8 characters that I sometimes use in my blog posts. For example, in writing about Emacs Registers I wrote … Continue reading →

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Centering Text In Emacs

Posted on 2012-02-09 by jcs

I was watching another one of Kurt Schwehr’s Emacs videos and came across something I didn’t know (or at least something I’d forgotten). You can center text on the line with 【Meta+o Meta+s】. By default it will center the line … Continue reading →

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More Org Header Searching

Posted on 2012-02-08 by jcs

The little Org-mode header searching functions that I wrote about in Finding Org Headers And Links turned out to be pretty useful so I added another one. This function is like find-all-org-headers except that it limits the search to those … Continue reading →

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A Short Coda To Yesterday’s Post

Posted on 2012-02-07 by jcs

Yesterday I wrote about Finding Org Headers And Links and gave some Elisp functions to aid in searching for them. Today, my bank statement came and I entered information from the statement into my Org tax file. The tax file … Continue reading →

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Org Mode Video

Posted on 2012-02-07 by jcs

Looking through the ErgoEmacs Google+ Page, I found this post about Kurt Schwehr’s video on Org Mode. It’s a nice video that covers some of the basics of Org Mode and Babel. It’s just shy of 30 minutes so he … Continue reading →

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Finding Org Headers And Links

Posted on 2012-02-06 by jcs

Today I was looking through Xah Lee’s ErgoEmacs Google+ Page (there’s a ton of interesting stuff there—you should check it out) when I came across this post in which someone asks how to find links in an Org mode buffer. … Continue reading →

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Lexical Binding In Emacs

Posted on 2012-02-05 by jcs

A while ago in Lexical Scoping In Emacs Lisp I wrote that Emacs 24 will (finally) introduce lexical binding. Trawling through the EmacsWiki today I came across a page, Dynamic Binding Vs Lexical Binding, that describes the differences between the … Continue reading →

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The Solution To Piracy

Posted on 2012-02-04 by jcs

Paul Tassi has a nice aritcle in Forbes entitled You Will Never Kill Piracy, and Piracy Will Never Kill You. In it, he makes an observation that I think, while common, is right on the mark. That observation is that … Continue reading →

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Does Elisp Suck?

Posted on 2012-02-03 by jcs

One of the links from the CategoryCode page that I wrote about yesterday is the Why Does Elisp Suck page. The idea is to give people a place to be grumpy about Elisp. My first thought was that, really, Elisp … Continue reading →

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