"Anyone who read my post last week knows that I’ve been trying to learn Lisp in my free time. My Dad has also noticed, and he occasionally checks on my progress.
A week or two ago, he threw me a curveball: ..."
Read more »"Anyone who read my post last week knows that I’ve been trying to learn Lisp in my free time. My Dad has also noticed, and he occasionally checks on my progress.
A week or two ago, he threw me a curveball: ..."
Read more »"emacs is my favorite text editor. (No flame please.)
Little known and used perhaps is the fact that emacs does run in batch mode. By batch, I mean emacs accepts and executes commands in the command line, without any user interaction..."
Read more »Think Aqua interface in Mac OSX and 3D Flip in Windows Vista was the best looking Operating system? Ever thought that the 3D effects on hacker’s desktop shown in movies are not for real? No need to think again, just read on because the freedom and flexibility Compiz Fusion provides is beyond imagination.
Read more »Windows to ubuntu migration:
tips and tricks.
There is a trend these days for shifting from windows to ubuntu. There are various reasons for this trend to gather momentum.
The most important reason is that people have realised the value of free software, both in terms of cost and the freedom which gives flexibility to the user.
1. Google can be your phone book. Type the person's name, city and state directly into the search box, Google will deliver phone and address at the top of the results. This feature works for business listing too.
Google can also work as the reverse directory; if you have phone number, type in the search box, and google will deliver the results that matches the phone number.
Read more »A look at zsh's extended globbing functionality with plenty of examples.
Read more »"...What’s really amazing is the wise Emacs internal architecture that allows those myriads of extensions to work together. Eclipse tries hard to achieve this, and the concept of plugin extension points is really similar to “hooks” in Emacs, but… But it’s almost impossible to write a useful Eclipse extension with just a few lines of Java code—too many low-level overhead.
Read more »Using the perltidy program to create readable Perl scripts from working, but messy and convoluted, existing ones.
Read more »"One thing that you'd notice as you become more proficient in Emacs, is that how rarely you use the menus and tool bars. Depending on how frequently you use Emacs, a lot of the basic commands get hard wired into you..."
Read more »When it comes to Ubuntu, there are so many useful snippets of information on blogs and guides all over the internet. If you Google “Ubuntu Installation Guide”, you’ll see what I mean.
Read more »Some more Unix and Linux related laughs for the weekend.
Read more »If your daily routine means that you spend much of your time behind a Windows system, yet you love the power and flexibility of a Unix-based environment, it might be frustrating not to have access to the tools and environment that you want...Cygwin is a Linux-style environment for Windows.
Read more »Phishing is a type of attack wherein the attacker impersonates a valid site and steals sensitive information entered by the customer on the fake site.
Read more »Welcome to Part 2 of Open Source Operating Systems. If you missed Part 1, click here. Today we will focus on Ubuntu. I really like Ubuntu. It was the first Linux distro that I used and I really think it is intuitive and very similar to Windows XP.
Read more »A short while back, I decided I needed to get a handle on my music collection. I’ve got random MP3s from years back, purchased MP3s, CDs and even an old 8 track or two. There are many ways to do go about this but after throwing out the 8 tracks, here’s what I did to get organized.
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