Author Archives: jcs

Using Org Modes’s Date Routines In Any Buffer

Posted on 2011-06-26 by jcs

I really like Org Mode’s method for inserting time/date stamps into an Org file. Org Mode has two types of dates, active and inactive, that differ in how Org Mode treats them but we needn’t worry about that here. In … Continue reading →

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Lessons From Dropbox

Posted on 2011-06-25 by jcs

I’ve written before about Dropbox and their supposed scandal regarding the perfectly obvious fact that they could, in fact, read users’ files stored on the site. Despite the lamentations of the aggrieved and even the filing of a complaint with … Continue reading →

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Hackers Redux

Posted on 2011-06-24 by jcs

Yesterday I wrote about Steven Levy’s Hackers. Today, serendipitously, I happened across a Wired article from last year that I’d filed away intending to read and then forgotten. In it Levy revisits Hackers and catches us up on what his … Continue reading →

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The Last Hacker

Posted on 2011-06-23 by jcs

A few weeks ago someone posted a link to Richard Stallman’s Speech at the 2002 International Lisp Conference. It’s an interesting read that, among other things, recounts the story told in the Epilogue to Steven Levy’s Hackers about RMS single … Continue reading →

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Scrolling Emacs by Line

Posted on 2011-06-22 by jcs

The other day, I stumbled across this post over at Anything goes about scrolling up and down by line in Emacs. The poster gives two simple functions and some key bindings to scroll a window up or down a line. … Continue reading →

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The Common Lisp Loop Macro

Posted on 2011-06-21 by jcs

I don’t like the CL Loop macro. I’m not alone on that; Paul Graham isn’t a fan either. On the other hand, Peter Seibel has a more positive view of them. That two accomplished and intelligent Lispers can disagree on … Continue reading →

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Still More Password Analysis

Posted on 2011-06-19 by jcs

Three more bloggers have weighed in with an analysis of the 62,000 passwords that LulzSec released recently. These three analyses take a look at the structure of the passwords and have some interesting details that I hadn’t seen before. Aviv … Continue reading →

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Reeder

Posted on 2011-06-18 by jcs

I follow a large number of technical blogs (emacs-fu, research!rsc, Abstract Heresies, …) and aggregators (Planet Scheme, Planet Lisp, Hacker News, …) that I read everyday and in some cases several times a day. Most of the blogs are not … Continue reading →

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Mac OS X Modifier Key Symbols

Posted on 2011-06-16 by jcs

When I first started using Macs, one of the things most confusing to me were the symbols that OS X uses on the menus to indicate the keyboard short cuts: Eventually, I learned what these symbols meant Symbol key ⌘ … Continue reading →

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Drawing Keyboard Keys

Posted on 2011-06-15 by jcs

Those of you who followed my recommendation and took at look at Xah Lee’s Increase Productivity Using Function Keys post, may have noticed some neat CSS magic that he uses when writing about keyboard keys. For example, he says that … Continue reading →

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