Category Archives: General

Apple Maps

Posted on 2012-09-30 by jcs

Much has been written lately about Apple abandoning Google maps in favor of their own in iOS 6. There are, it seems to me, two aspects to the change and the imbroglio that followed. The first is why Apple decided … Continue reading →

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A wgrep Demonstration

Posted on 2012-09-29 by jcs

Xah Lee has a post recommending wgrep, an Emacs extension that allows you to edit the results of grep and have the results reflected in the original file(s). This is good stuff. Although he didn’t write wgrep, Magnar Sveen demonstrates … Continue reading →

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Getting Started with Common Lisp on OS X

Posted on 2012-09-28 by jcs

I was reading Nikodemus Siivola’s excellent Common Lisp FAQ and came across a reference to Jonathan Fischer’s guide to getting started with Common Lisp on OS X. If you’re an Machead who’s wanting to get started with CL, these instructions … Continue reading →

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Security Roundup

Posted on 2012-09-26 by jcs

It’s been a busy week on the security front. Of course, that’s true of most weeks but here’s some interesting stories from the past few days: CloudCracker is offering a special this week on their MS-CHAPv2 service. They will break … Continue reading →

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Emacs Rocks! Episode 13

Posted on 2012-09-25 by jcs

Magnar Sveen is on a tear and has posted another Emacs Rocks! episode. This one is, to use a phrase Sveen might utter, mind-blowing. It’s a demonstration of his Emacs extension multiple-cursors. When I first saw this extension demonstrated in … Continue reading →

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Emacs Rocks Episode 12

Posted on 2012-09-22 by jcs

Magnar Sveen has Episode 12 of Emacs Rocks up. This time it’s about editing HTML. As usual, Sveen demonstrates some nifty tricks to make editing easier. Some of them use standard Emacs functionality and others extensions that he has written. … Continue reading →

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The Vim Horror

Posted on 2012-09-21 by jcs

Via Xah Lee: The horror! The horror!

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The Acme Editor

Posted on 2012-09-19 by jcs

Russ Cox has posted a video tour of the Acme editor. If I weren’t using (and extraordinarily happy with) Emacs, this is the editor I would be using. For a long time it was only available with Plan 9 but … Continue reading →

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Have You Tured Today?

Posted on 2012-09-18 by jcs

Of course you have. Wait. What is turing? For reasons explained on his Web site, Don Knuth defines to ture as to use the Internet. Knuth asks that if you agree with this definition that you encourage its use via … Continue reading →

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Password Cracking

Posted on 2012-09-10 by jcs

There’s a great article over at Ars Technica about password cracking and how easy it’s become. The ease with which passwords can be cracked are the result of two things: Improved hardware using GPU processors, and Huge lists of real … Continue reading →

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