Emacs Daemon and Handling Projects

Posted on Mon 05 July 2010 in geek • Tagged with emacs, ide, 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 …


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On the nature of Planets

Posted on Thu 01 July 2010 in geek • Tagged with community, emacs, planet

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 …


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Phone Home

Posted on Wed 30 June 2010 in geek • Tagged with backchannel, server, ssh, tips

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 …


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RIP: PS3

Posted on Mon 14 June 2010 in geek • Tagged with ps3, ylod

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 …


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The Lodger

Posted on Mon 14 June 2010 in geek • Tagged with doctor who, TARDIS

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 …


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