Why you should be using zsh RIGHT NOW!
Yesterday, I gave a presentation to the PLUG North chapter of the Philadelphia Linux Users Group, delving into some of the cooler features of the Z shell. I slandered other shells outrageously, but,...
View ArticleMoonlight just works
On the way into Philadelphia today, my train was delayed. While the rain seemed rather pleasant as I walked to the station, the winds had been strong enough to disrupt service. An earlier train had...
View ArticleEliminating a nasty, loud ‘crack’ before playback in Ubuntu Karmic
Ever since installing Karmic on my main box, audio has been an intermittent annoyance. While I like the idea behind pulseaudio, its presence in Karmic has certainly has contributed to a few headaches...
View ArticleExtract n largest values from a Python dict
Having stashed a bunch of data in a python dict, one often needs a quick way to extract the n largest. Inconveniently for the particular problem I was working on, the key value for the dict was an...
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An Emacs Bisection
A problem has been following me around for a couple of years. Emacs, in which I have been spending more than a small portion of my time, has had a problem that would manifest in any non-X mode. It...
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