Monthly Archives: July 2012

You Can’t Make This Stuff Up

Posted on 2012-07-11 by jcs

Just when you think you’ve heard it all, we get a story like this. Scum spammers, masquerading as SEO consultants, have recently been flooding blogs with comment spam for an insurance agency in Australia. We here at Irreal get spam … Continue reading →

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Line Numbering

Posted on 2012-07-10 by jcs

DJCB, over at Emacs-Fu, takes note of the new line number command in Emacs 24 that Sivaram wrote about in Got Emacs? and offers up a few suggestions of his own. He shows a very nice trick for accomplishing the … Continue reading →

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Magnar Sveen Rocks Emacs

Posted on 2012-07-09 by jcs

Many (many) years ago when I was a freshman at RPI, we called the weekly Physics mass lecture “The Magic Show” because the lectures were spectacular demonstrations that illustrated whatever principle we were studying that week. This week I had … Continue reading →

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Common Lisp For Noobs

Posted on 2012-07-08 by jcs

Lori Holden over at Ghost Opera, Ltd has a nice post with advice for noobs wanting to get started with Common Lisp. As Holden points out, Common Lisp is beautiful and powerful but has some sharp edges and no commonly … Continue reading →

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ELPA With Emacs 24

Posted on 2012-07-07 by jcs

I just installed Emacs 24 and, as expected, everything went very well except for the package system, ELPA. I don’t have very many packages that I load with ELPA so at least the number of problems were limited. First, following … Continue reading →

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Emacs Rocks! #11

Posted on 2012-07-06 by jcs

The always entertaining and informative Magnar Sveen has a new episode of Emacs Rocks! up. In Episode 11 he demonstrates swank.js a package that brings the JavaScript REPL to Emacs in much the same way that swank brings us the … Continue reading →

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The Emacs 24 Package System

Posted on 2012-07-05 by jcs

Back in March, I blogged about installing ELPA in Emacs 23. At the time I pointed to a page by Xah Lee on how to do this. Now that Emacs 24 is out it’s worthwhile revisiting the Emacs package system. … Continue reading →

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Transcript of the Chua-Wiegley Chat Video

Posted on 2012-07-04 by jcs

For those of you who prefer reading to listening, Sacha Chua has posted a transcript of her recent video chat with John Wiegley. As I previously described, the chat was about how Wiegley leverages the power of Emacs to optimize … Continue reading →

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Oh Oh: RSA SecurID 800 Token broken

Posted on 2012-07-03 by jcs

The RSA SecurID 800 token is a small USB device that authenticates users when they sign on to secure computers. It offers two factor authentication and contains encrypted keys and credentials that are, in theory, inaccessible to users or attackers. … Continue reading →

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The Google Billboard Puzzle

Posted on 2012-07-02 by jcs

A recent Programming Praxis problem resurrected the famous Google billboard puzzle. Back in July of 2004, Google put up billboards all over the country reading {FIRST 10-DIGIT PRIME IN CONSECUTIVE DIGITS OF E}.COM Those who solved the problem and followed … Continue reading →

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