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How People Select Their Passwords

Posted on 2011-08-16 by jcs

The invaluable Troy Hunt has run another analysis of recent dumps of password data from Anonymous, LulzSec, and others. This time he looks at how people select their passwords. As with his previous analyses, the results are depressing. His idea … Continue reading →

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Searching For Blog Posts With Dired

Posted on 2011-08-15 by jcs

Here’s another nice trick using Dired. I sometimes want to make an update to a blog post a few days or even weeks after I published it. I have no problem finding the title of the post, if I need … Continue reading →

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Oh Look! I’m A CSS God

Posted on 2011-08-14 by jcs

If you look closely at the prettified key sequences—like this 【Meta+x】 one—you will notice that they now have slightly rounded corners in the hopes that they will be a tiny bit more suggestive of actual keys. I did that by … Continue reading →

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Inhibiting Babel Evaluate Confirmation On The Mode Line

Posted on 2011-08-13 by jcs

In Setting the Babel Evaluate Confirm Status, I wrote about Org-mode’s Babel asking for confirmation before executing a code block and why it’s sometimes convenient to turn that behavior off. In the post, I presented a simple Emacs Lisp function, … Continue reading →

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Some More Emacs Dired Magic

Posted on 2011-08-12 by jcs

In a comment to my post yesterday about A Nice Emacs Dired Command Sue Nymme notes that in addition to 【* t】 a plain 【t】 will also toggle the marks in a Dired buffer. That brings up another Dired trick … Continue reading →

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Password Advice From XKCD

Posted on 2011-08-11 by jcs

In view of today’s XKCD: I thought it would be useful to again mention the post by Jeff over at the Agile Bits Blog. That post discusses making a password by choosing 5 or 6 random words for your passwords. … Continue reading →

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A Nice Emacs Dired Command

Posted on 2011-08-11 by jcs

As I’ve mentioned many times, I write my blog posts in Emacs and publish them with org2blog. After I push the post to WordPress, I have a buffer and file with the HTML that I no longer need. I used … Continue reading →

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Using Reeder

Posted on 2011-08-10 by jcs

It’s been almost two months since I started using Reeder and I was thinking that I should write a review. Fortunately, Angel over at Apple Casts has already taken care of that for me. He does a very nice job … Continue reading →

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Solarized On Emacs

Posted on 2011-08-09 by jcs

Unlike many hackers, I don’t care for a dark-themed Emacs so I use the basic black on white screen. Lately this scheme has begun to feel overly bright and I thought I would try some lower contrast colors. I’ve browsed … Continue reading →

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Let Emacs Make Your Scripts Executable

Posted on 2011-08-08 by jcs

Because I like to automate things, I write a lot of shell scripts. Sometimes it’s just some simple shell code, other times the script loads and executes a Scheme program. Almost every time I do this, I forget to set … Continue reading →

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