Monthly Archives: August 2011

Password Advice From XKCD

Posted on 2011-08-11 by jcs

In view of today’s XKCD: I thought it would be useful to again mention the post by Jeff over at the Agile Bits Blog. That post discusses making a password by choosing 5 or 6 random words for your passwords. … Continue reading →

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A Nice Emacs Dired Command

Posted on 2011-08-11 by jcs

As I’ve mentioned many times, I write my blog posts in Emacs and publish them with org2blog. After I push the post to WordPress, I have a buffer and file with the HTML that I no longer need. I used … Continue reading →

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Using Reeder

Posted on 2011-08-10 by jcs

It’s been almost two months since I started using Reeder and I was thinking that I should write a review. Fortunately, Angel over at Apple Casts has already taken care of that for me. He does a very nice job … Continue reading →

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Solarized On Emacs

Posted on 2011-08-09 by jcs

Unlike many hackers, I don’t care for a dark-themed Emacs so I use the basic black on white screen. Lately this scheme has begun to feel overly bright and I thought I would try some lower contrast colors. I’ve browsed … Continue reading →

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Let Emacs Make Your Scripts Executable

Posted on 2011-08-08 by jcs

Because I like to automate things, I write a lot of shell scripts. Sometimes it’s just some simple shell code, other times the script loads and executes a Scheme program. Almost every time I do this, I forget to set … Continue reading →

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SICP Under Attack?

Posted on 2011-08-07 by jcs

Vedant Kumar has a provocative post entitled SICP is Under Attack in which he laments the abandonment of SICP by several universities and especially by Berkeley, where he is a EE/CS student. Berkeley, it turns out, is replacing SICP with … Continue reading →

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Desktop Gmail Gets A Preview Pane

Posted on 2011-08-06 by jcs

Back in July I wrote that I preferred reading Gmail on my iPad even when I was home and had my iMac available. That’s because the iPad Gmail has a preview pane. If you haven’t used it, it doesn’t sound … Continue reading →

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The Emacs Info Apropos Command

Posted on 2011-08-05 by jcs

I’m a longtime Unix programmer. I started before Linux or FreeBSD and if you count Xenix, I programmed on versions as early as System III. As a result, I came to view the man page as the sine qua non … Continue reading →

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Sum Of Two Integers

Posted on 2011-08-04 by jcs

A couple of days ago, I wrote about upgrading to Clozure Lisp 1.7 and remarked that I should try it out with a miniproject, perhaps from Programming Praxis. I went over there and found the Sum of Two Integers problem, … Continue reading →

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Some More Emacs Tips

Posted on 2011-08-03 by jcs

Gurmeet Manku shares some Emacs Tips n Tricks for Everybody on his homepage. A lot of these will be familiar to most Emacs users and some are things I wouldn’t want to do but it’s a nice list of things … Continue reading →

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