Category Archives: General

More on Cashless

Posted on 2019-10-15 by jcs

Surprisingly, to me, my post on the trend to becoming a virtually cashless society generated a lot of interest and comments. Given my nearly unblemished record on being unable to predict how popular a given Irreal post will be, I … Continue reading →

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Generating Slides and a PDF From the Same Org File

Posted on 2019-10-14 by jcs

Karl Voit has a revealing post in his UOMF series that explains how to generate a slide deck and supporting PDF from the same Org file. That has some obvious benefits, not least that it provides a single source of … Continue reading →

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Just A Reminder…

Posted on 2019-10-13 by jcs

…of why I call Steve Purcell an Open Source hero: Incredible! MELPA has passed 100 million package downloads. Thanks, everyone, for your support since 2012. 😍 pic.twitter.com/GRRtWS6btQ — Steve Purcell 🇪🇺 (@sanityinc) October 9, 2019 As I’ve said before, Purcell … Continue reading →

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Toasters, New and Old

Posted on 2019-10-12 by jcs

About a year ago, ESR wrote a post on consumer grade toasters and how, regardless of price, they are all essentially the same, suffer from identical problems, and are basically junk. It’s hard not to sympathize. Here at Irreal headquarters … Continue reading →

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Swiper and Multiple Cursors

Posted on 2019-10-11 by jcs

As most of you know, I’m a huge fan of the Swiper/Counsel/Ivy suite and consider it one of my most important packages. I’m sure I use it more than any other package or set of commands. I’m also a fan … Continue reading →

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Ken Thompson’s Password

Posted on 2019-10-10 by jcs

Many years ago, (the old) SCO released the source for some “ancient” versions of Unix. They did that by releasing a tape dump of the file system. Included in the image was a copy of the password file. The file … Continue reading →

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Cashless

Posted on 2019-10-09 by jcs

Commenting on my Obsolete Tech That Refuses to Die post, Johnathan Mantey remarked that a technology that is having a hard time obtaining traction is cashless transactions and he pointed me to a USA Today article on going cashless. There … Continue reading →

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Zamansky 58: LSP Mode

Posted on 2019-10-08 by jcs

After a long hiatus, Mike Zamansky is back with another video in his Using Emacs Series. This time, Zamansky tells us how he got LSP mode working with Emacs. It’s not as simple as you’d like but it also isn’t … Continue reading →

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Obsolete Tech That Refuses to Die

Posted on 2019-10-07 by jcs

In my The Times They Are A-changin’ post, I passed on the news that the last pager service in Japan was quitting operations. The BBC picked up the same news and decided to look at obsolete technology that is refusing … Continue reading →

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More on the 737 MAX

Posted on 2019-10-06 by jcs

In my What Happened at Boeing? post, I recounted some of the disturbing tales told by Matt Stoller of how a dysfunctional management team of Boeing succeeded in taking what was arguably the world’s foremost aircraft design and manufacturing company … Continue reading →

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