Isaac Hayes chooses Scientology over South Park
A sad goodbye to Chef... Isaac Hayes chooses Scientology over South Park (more…)...
Fault-tolerant circuit
Blast from the past. This is an old project that I did in sophomore year of undergrad at Binghamton University for CS 312, a course in fault-tolerant systems. This is a TTL circuit that illustrates "5 Module Self-Purging...
The Little Schemer
I saw "The Little Schemer" a few days ago at my local Barnes & Noble so I bought it and started reading it. I've read 8 out of the 10 chapters so far and here are my thoughts... (more…)...
Emacs OS X xterm delete/C-h nirvana
The whole backspace/delete/C-h thing in Unix is always a pain. Having a backspace or delete key that invokes help is one of the most frustrating things. And not having C-h bound to emacs excellent help is pretty annoying too. And...
Emacs: TRAMP + bookmarks = awesome
Nothing radical here. Just the simple observation that TRAMP and bookmarks were made for each other. TRAMP allows you to access files on remote machines, but the path names are kind of long and hard to type. But once you open...
Stupid bash trick of the day
function _globdo { local arg="$1" local dir=$(dirname $arg) local base=$(basename $arg) shift find $dir -name $base -exec "$@" {} \; set +f } alias globdo='set -f; _globdo' The function/alias combo is get around automatic...
Aquamacs and Mozex
Note: Before messing around with emacsclient, as described below, see the comments for an easier solution. I could not get Mozex to launch Aquamacs. Mozex doesn't seem to deal well with editor program path names with spaces and...