It’s been a while so I released a new version of Edit with Emacs for Google Chrome(ium). To be honest most of the changes are to edit-server.el. The most major change is moving all the frame configuration options into a single edit-server-new-frame-alist which might cause confusion if people don’t read the change log which is: [...]
Archive of posts filed under the geek category.
The power of Tramp
The project I’ve been working on at work the last few weeks has involved bringing up a brand new embedded system. As part of that I’ve been tweaking a lot of start-up scripts and configuration files on the new system. For part of that task I’ve installed GNU Zile which provides a nice Emacs-like experience [...]
New Phone
One of the advantages of the current bread of smart phones is they are field upgradable. As so much of their functionality is basically software it makes no sense to treat the phone as a static product once it leaves the factory gates. Coupled with the rapid development of the Android OS means that updating [...]
Emacs Daemon and Handling Projects
All my machines have been running persistent Emacs daemons for some time now. Every time I edit a web-page text area or a tweak a configuration file the Emacs client whizzes me to the file with efficient enthusiasm. However I’m still running individual sessions for each “project” I work on. For example at work I [...]
On the nature of Planets
I upgraded my WordPress install yesterday which inadvertently broke the ‘emacs’ tagged feed to Planet Emacsen. The aim of having a sub-feed from my blog was so I didn’t pollute the planet feed with my rambling life story which is probably of more interest(?) to my friends and family. They tend to read the other [...]
Phone Home
In the old days when I ran my server from my basement I automatically had access to my home machines. This was useful for all sorts of things but mainly allowing me to monitor my Gentoo system while it re-built the world. However nowadays this is trickier, especially when I’m using my work provided pipe [...]
RIP: PS3
My PS3 died last night with the dreaded Yellow Light of Death (or at least it briefly flashes yellow before turning itself off). Unfortunately it won’t stay on long enough to eject the copy of GTA currently stuck in the drive. It also seems the DRM will render any effort to transfer the 250gb drive [...]
The Lodger
I finally caught up with the latest Doctor Who last night (drinking/football had over-ruled the Saturday showing). I thought it was a fantastic episode, certainly better than the last two. Was I the only one who thought the errant device might have been the Master’s TARDIS (or at a push some other Time Lords TARDIS)? [...]
Openness and Transparency
One of the things that I found encouraging about the Tory manifesto was they seemed to get the concept of government transparency and open data. While news about top civil service pay is what hit the headlines yesterday the new directive to civil servants is much wider. While the last government should be saluted for [...]
Review: The Ballad of Gay Tony
We finally reached the limit on the PS3′s hard disk a few weeks ago. Although I had the option of reformatting the hard drive to reclaim the 10gb after Sony disabled OtherOS* it seemed a lot easier to get a newer more spacious disk. A quick trip to Amazon later and a very simple backup [...]