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    Random links for week 46

    Editing big chunks of text in Firefox text area is a pain. I am using “It’s all Text” Firefox add-on to edit text from a text area in external editors like Emacs, Vim, etc. I have configured my add-on to use emacsclient. I use this heavily when I have to edit text in TWiki, Bugzilla, [...]

    Random links for week 45

    I have an Apple TV and I run XBMC and Boxee on my Apple TV using Patchstick. Apple introduced Apple TV 3.0 Software last week. Somehow, the software just got upgraded automatically causing me to lose XBMC and Boxee. Patchstick isn’t available for Apple TV 3.0 yet. So, I had to downgrade it using another [...]

    Random links for week 44

    Since I updated to OpenSolaris update snv_124, I am facing issues with Indic fonts rendering. I have created a bug describing the problem. The root cause of the problem isn’t diagonized yet. If someone knows what could be wrong, please let me know.

    I keep hearing a lot about Haskell lately and wanted to get introduced [...]

    Random links for week 36

    My (ex-)manager David Carlton has decided to leave us to join Playdom. I learned a lot in the past two years working with him. We are going to miss him a lot! Playdom is fortunate to have such a talented individual on board. I am sure he will be bringing a multitude of perspectives into [...]

    Completely clueless

    On my OpenSolaris. What could be more exciting than this?

    praveen@athena:~$ /opt/sfw/bin/emacs
    Fatal error (11).Segmentation Fault (core dumped)
     
    praveen@athena:~$ file core
    core: ELF 32-bit LSB core file 80386 Version 1, from ‘emacs’
     
    praveen@athena:~$ gdb -c core /opt/sfw/bin/emacs
    GNU gdb 6.3.50_2004-11-23-cvs
    Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
    GDB is free software, covered by the [...]

    Modifying Control and Caps Lock keys under OpenSolaris and Linux

    Since I started using Emacs, I started using the Control key more than I had used it before. That is when I started using my Caps Lock key as Control key. In the beginning, I swapped the Control key and the Caps Lock key. However while doing pair programming on my computer, my colleagues found [...]

    Remote file editing on GNU Emacs using TRAMP

    I have been using GNU Emacs for programming for nearly 9 years now. It is exciting to keep discovering new extensions to Emacs throughout. I have heard of Ange-FTP before that can be used for remote file editing using FTP. However, I have never tried remote file editing on a local Emacs session. In most [...]