Category Archives: General

Good News From India

Posted on 2015-10-08 by jcs

Here’s some good news. It’s a little old now but still worth noting. Huge #cryptowars victory: after just one day of public outcry, India withdraws dangerous anti-encryption proposal http://t.co/RjTA5le3kR — Kevin Bankston (@KevinBankston) September 22, 2015 The Indian government has … Continue reading →

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Some Org Agenda Tips

Posted on 2015-10-08 by jcs

Marcin Borkowski (mbork), who’s been posting several great articles lately, has a nice offering with A few org-agenda hacks. It’s a short list of some of the ways he’s tweaked Org’s agenda view to better suit his needs. As Borkowski … Continue reading →

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Emacs, OS X, and PATHS

Posted on 2015-10-07 by jcs

As I mentioned the other day, I encountered a difficulty in building the documentation for the latest version of SBCL. That’s because I recently updated OS X to El Capitan, which has a new feature. It’s impossible for anyone (even … Continue reading →

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Tech Support for Telemarketers

Posted on 2015-10-06 by jcs

The best story I’ve seen in a long time: how to get rid of telemarketing .. so good #sysadmin pic.twitter.com/fbh4jvaavX — Nicolas GORALSKI (@ngoralski) October 5, 2015

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SBCL 1.2.16

Posted on 2015-10-06 by jcs

SBCL 1.2.16 has been released and is ready for download at the usual place. This month’s update has one enhancement involving timers and 3 bug fixes. You can read the details on the NEWS page. As usual, I compiled the … Continue reading →

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Sacha’s Guide to Managing Tasks with Org Mode

Posted on 2015-10-05 by jcs

The ever awesome Sacha Chua has an excellent Baby Steps Guide to Managing Your Tasks with Org. It’s still a work in progress but even in its unfinished state it’s a really useful guide for getting started with Org mode. … Continue reading →

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Ruining the Internet

Posted on 2015-10-04 by jcs

John Gruber over at Daring Fireball has a post on how adtech is ruining the Internet. He points to an article on Bloomberg that makes the case for how disastrous adtech is for advertisers. When I followed the link, Bloomberg … Continue reading →

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We Have to Outlaw Gloves

Posted on 2015-10-03 by jcs

A nice followup to Blaze’s tweet that encryption was a problem in only four cases last year. I'll bet burglars wore gloves to avoid leaving fingerprint evidence a lot more than four times last year. Time for a war on … Continue reading →

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Happy Birthday: Free at Last

Posted on 2015-10-03 by jcs

It’s long been obvious to anyone who took a serious look that the claimed copyrights on “Happy Birthday” are invalid. That hasn’t stopped Warner Music from extorting user fees on the order of two million dollars a year, though. Now, … Continue reading →

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A Nifty Example of Metaprogramming

Posted on 2015-10-02 by jcs

Some of the most enjoyable programming I do is metaprogramming: writing code that writes code. Lisp macros are all about that, of course, but the idea is much more general. Often times the code that the code writes is just … Continue reading →

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