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"I was always amazed by the way emacs gurus navigated through source code. It almost seemed like magic. They see some function call, and then with some short keyboard combo jump to another file, on the exact place where the function was defined. The 'magic' in this case is a tag file..."
The Ubuntu development team yesterday released a series of security fixes for PHP running on Ubuntu 6.06 LTS, 7.04, 7.10 and Ubuntu 8.04 LTS. The updates fix a number of security risks in PHP, including a problem with PHP not properly checking the length of the string parameter to the fnmatch function.
Both Matlab and Octave (i.e. its open source equivalent) are not very friendly as far as default function arguments are concerned. Therefore, a simple script for both MATLAB and Octave is provided, along with some examples of its usage, that makes working with default function arguments little easier.
In a recent text configuring colors for the Bash prompt was discussed. In this text a method of messing with the prompt is expanded upon by actually inserting a shell code function inline with the bash prompt.
If you just updated to 10.04 and you might be experiencing issues with your function keys supposed to control screen brightness on my Asus UL30a It worked fine in 9.10.
A small but useful HTML function for emacs text editor. An elisp function that, when invoked with a key combination, asks the user for the root of an HTML pair (such as 'em' or 'strong' or 'blockquote'), and then wraps the selected text or the word the cursor (point) is on in the code.
When looking at log files or other files that are compressed and rotated automatically, it's useful to be able to deal with them in a uniform fashion. The following bash function does that...
PlayOnLinux 2.7.2 is available today, Here are the new features: A new function: message_one, Improved IRC, Wine version manager fixed, The manque function, Tools menu improved, A new plugin: TransgamingCedega