Some more Unix and Linux related laughs for the weekend.

"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..."

"...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.

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.

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.

"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: ..."

A simple shell script to grab information from an online thesaurus. Had I used it, this tagline might be more colorful ;)