Category Archives: General

Why Indeed?

Posted on 2016-02-13 by jcs

In a world where 16yo's can empty out FBI&DHS sensitive data, remind me again why we should let these agencies collect and keep our secrets. — Emin Gün Sirer (@el33th4xor) February 13, 2016

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Cabledolphin

Posted on 2016-02-13 by jcs

If you’re a networking geek like me or if you write Elisp that uses the network to communicate with external sources, you may find cabledolphin useful. It captures network traffic to and from Elisp processes in a form that can … Continue reading →

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Emacs Garbage Collection

Posted on 2016-02-12 by jcs

Bailey Ling over at bling on software has a great post on tuning Emacs garbage collection. Most of us never think about Emacs garbage collection but Ling shows that it can have an effect on performance. The Emacs garbage collection … Continue reading →

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Editors Explained

Posted on 2016-02-11 by jcs

Lol. Editors war. Via https://t.co/dLwsc0zegC #linux #unix #vim #emacs #nano #flamewar #humour pic.twitter.com/4EGU9AhnXm — nixCraft (@nixcraft) January 9, 2016

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Remote Code Blocks

Posted on 2016-02-11 by jcs

As Irreal readers know, John Kitchin, a Chemical Engineering Professor at Carnegie Mellon, produces virtually all of his group’s journal articles in Org mode. Those articles typically contain a lot of figures and graphs. In his latest post, Kitchin shows … Continue reading →

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Looking for Emacs?

Posted on 2016-02-10 by jcs

Here you go: Get Emacs – https://t.co/Ra90tJObCN – Aaron Schumacher's cross-platform, how-to-get-emacs website https://t.co/5aDktFVRAq #emacs — /r/Emacs (@EmacsReddit) February 2, 2016

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Query

Posted on 2016-02-10 by jcs

Is anyone else having problems loading twitter.com and pages linked with its url shortener t.co? (This is with a browser, not a twitter app.) What I’m seeing is that sometimes the load will hang. If I retry it a few … Continue reading →

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Bad Idea of the Year

Posted on 2016-02-09 by jcs

We’re always seeing a lot of—sorry I can’t think of a more apropos term—stupid ideas for Emacs: let’s get rid of Elisp and make Javascript the extension language; let’s make it more like Notepad+; and so on. Here’s my nomination … Continue reading →

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How to Securely SSH into Your Home Network

Posted on 2016-02-09 by jcs

Karl Voit shares a nice trick with us. Suppose you want to SSH into your home server. You may be loath to open a port in your firewall and your ISP may assign you a temporary IP address that can … Continue reading →

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Ogbe on Why He Uses Emacs

Posted on 2016-02-08 by jcs

Last week I wrote about how Dennis Ogbe uses Org Mode to Blog. While I was on his site, I looked at some of his other posts and found one about why he uses Emacs. The post was written fairly … Continue reading →

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