Monthly Archives: September 2015

DevOps for Your Development System

Posted on 2015-09-14 by jcs

I’ve written before about Howard Abrams’ posts on Literate DevOps and his very nice video illustrating the techniques. As I mentioned in the video post, we can all benefit from these ideas in our day-to-day work. Grant Rettke over at … Continue reading →

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They Always Lie

Posted on 2015-09-13 by jcs

I.F. Stone famously told us that “All governments are run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.” It’s easy to write that off as tin foil hat fodder but, in truth, the facts support him. The latest such … Continue reading →

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The Dangers of Government Held Master Keys

Posted on 2015-09-12 by jcs

The government continues to press the tech sector to give them “golden” keys that they can use to decrypt our communications. One of the main arguments against these proposals is that they will inevitably be compromised and make us less … Continue reading →

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Using Emacs Keychords

Posted on 2015-09-11 by jcs

I don’t really believe this but it is funny: using #emacs keybindings pic.twitter.com/2I1g1YAvZt — Satyajit Ranjeev (@sat_ran) September 6, 2015

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The Death of RC4

Posted on 2015-09-11 by jcs

I’ve always liked the RC4 cipher. It’s easy to understand and implement and has been in wide use for almost 30 years. Sadly, RC4’s run is over. It’s long been suspected that the NSA could break it and recent attacks … Continue reading →

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Writing

Posted on 2015-09-10 by jcs

This seems familiar The best part about sitting down to write is cleaning my entire apartment. — Caira Conner (@CairaConner) November 18, 2014

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Emacs Macro Counters Tutorial

Posted on 2015-09-10 by jcs

Eric James Michael Ritz has a nice, short tutorial on using Emacs macro counters. I’ve written about this before but Ritz’s tutorial is a nice reminder if you haven’t used macro counters for a while. Definitely worth a read.

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A Backdoor by Any Other Name

Posted on 2015-09-09 by jcs

Crypto backdoor euphemism of the day: "arrangement". http://t.co/LGr8mvy3mo — matt blaze (@mattblaze) August 19, 2015

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Org Basics II

Posted on 2015-09-09 by jcs

As I wrote previously, Ben Maughan is writing a tutorial on Org mode basics. He continues the series with a very basic introduction to tables in Org mode. This post covers just the very basics like how to enter tables, … Continue reading →

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Using Org Mode as a Lab Notebook

Posted on 2015-09-08 by jcs

Erik Clarke over at pleiotropy has a couple of nice posts on using Org mode as a lab notebook. The first post lays out his requirements for a digital lab notebook. As you can probably guess, these include Permanence Citations … Continue reading →

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