The book How to Bypass Internet Censorship using free software tools is now out. The book is distributed on Lulu.com. The interesting aspect about this book is that it is created using collaborative content development system over a period of (just) five days by various contributors.

Why settle for black and white (or black and green, for that matter) when you can have teal on blue? ;)

"Emacs has special modes for many different types of files; a mode might colorize the file in some useful way, or add some functions or keybindings to easily manipulate them. Each buffer has one specific mode called the major mode. In addition, each buffer can have multiple minor modes, which enhance the major mode in some way.

With a staff of just 22 people, Wikipedia Foundation, a not for profit organisation, headquartered in San Francisco (USA) has gone on to emerge as the fourth most popular website globally, after being founded in 2001.

"Today, though, I'd like to talk about and propose a different approach to User Interface Prototyping: Emacs Artist Mode. Artist mode is a minor Emacs mode that turns an emacs buffer into a canvas you can draw all sorts of geometrical shapes on [...] Let me know how you are using artist mode in your projects..."

"One nice feature of Emacs, that is as old as Emacs itself, are buffers. Most Emacs users like them because you can have multiple buffers open at once and work on many things at once. And for the record, I'm actually a big fan of the Emacs buffer menu..."

Sometimes, df's best estimate can be off by more than several Gigabytes... give or take ;)