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Emacs

Emacs 22 reference card

There are lots of Emacs reference cards out there online, but I couldn't manage to find one for Emacs 22 (the latest development version) in a couple of minutes of web searching so I generated one from the TeX source file that...

ProgrammingPythonRuby

Screencast presentation comparing J2EE, RoR, Zope, TurboGears, and Django

Interesting presentation that compares how these frameworks fare against each other for very simple web apps. Video and discussion at Joel on Software

General

DenyHosts

Yesterday I installed DenyHosts on my Linux box. This is an interesting program - it's a Python program that scans your system logs and looks for repeated failed login attempts and then it adds those IP addresses to your...

DebianLinuxPythonUbuntu

Fixing “invalid Python installation” error on Ubuntu

While attempting to install DenyHosts, I got an error about "invalid Python installation". I found the solution here. Basically just: sudo apt-get install python2.4-dev...

General

The weird TiVo broccoli incident

A really, really strange thing happened yesterday. Something that shook the rock of my faith in TiVo and vegetables. We were watching something that we had recorded on TiVo. Suddenly, the program cut out and was replaced with a...

Mac

PowerBook Wireless problems

I have strange wireless problems at home with my PowerBook. Maybe people have ideas on how to fix this...? Every once in a while, my PowerBook completely loses access to my home (WEP-encrypted) wi-fi network. In fact, it...

Emacs

Play Sudoku in Emacs

A nice Sudoku game in Emacs can be found here: Jesse Rosenthal's Elisp Repository