Category Archives: General

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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Daniel Weinreb

Posted on 2012-09-09 by jcs

As most of you have heard by now, Daniel Weinreb, one of the Lispers’ Tribal Elders and user/beta tester of the original Emacs, died on September 7. The Boston Globe and Xconomy have obituaries but surprisingly Weinreb had some interaction … Continue reading →

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Cracking WiFi Passwords

Posted on 2012-09-08 by jcs

Dan Goodin over at Ars Technica has an interesting and scary article about cracking his neighbors’ WiFi network passwords. Sadly, this turns out to be a lot easier than it should be. The general process is Capture the authentication handshake … Continue reading →

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Cabbage

Posted on 2012-09-07 by jcs

For those looking for a prepackaged Emacs configuration, there is another option available: Cabbage. The configuration is meant to be flexible and extensible and the hope is that a community will emerge around it. If you’re not enthusiastic about dedicating … Continue reading →

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