My previous post regarding the frustrations of a slow frame update when emacsclient was spawning frames wasn't helped by a gotcha I've walked into a couple of times regarding the if function. In my haste to debug problems I'd added a message in some code:
(if I-am-emacs-22+ + (message "loading color-theme …
I had a problem on my home machine with the way emacs created new X frames. New frames would appear but then pause for 4-8 seconds before I could type any text. My question to the mailing list was met with a comment to get a faster graphics card. This …
Posted on Wed 12 August 2009 in geek
I'm currently working from home so I can provide ambulatory acquisition and relocation services to Fliss as she recovers from her gammy foot. Running X clients over broadband is a bit of a pain but I haven't had a chance to get my VPN setup working properly yet.
After prompting …
..when your spam scanner stops working. After carrying out some maintenance to my server yesterday I noticed a sudden upsurge of spam arriving in my mailbox. Sure enough a quick check showed that the spam checking daemon spamd wasn't running. A little poking about pointed to behaviour that looked very …
Posted on Wed 05 August 2009 in geek • Tagged with games, hl2, ps3
The Orange Box certainly represents the best value for money for gaming in a long time. I think we picked it up for the PS3 for about £12 which in an era of £55 for a new release is welcome in the credit crunch.
People make much of …