geek stuff - Entries from March 2005

  • March, 2005
  • You will not understand the below paragraph until you are well versed in geek culture :-) . I am keeping it here, since it is another Frequently quoted quotation

    After seven and a half million years of pondering the question, Deep Thought provides the answer: "forty-two". "Forty-two!" yelled Loonquawl. "Is that all you've got to show for seven and a half million years' work?" "I checked it very thoroughly," said the computer, "and that quite definitely is the answer. I think the problem, to be quite honest with you, is that you've never actually known what the question is."

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  • the meaning of moo

    One of the FAQ on the IRC channel (#linux-india at irc://freenode) is "What is the meaning of moo". I have added a page to my main website where I will try to answer that question.

    The meaning of Moo

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  • Nice fonts for Emacs

    If you have been using Linux, I think you must have been frusturated with the lack of good fonts when using Emacs. It gets very hard to distinguish between "l" (the letter l) and 1 (number 1) and between comma and semicolon when programming or examining large amount of code.

    The Bitstream Inc have done an excellent work in producing and relesaing under a very liberal license, the bitstream-vera fonts. These fonts are really beautiful and easy to read. To use these fonts with your emacs, just add this line to your ~/.Xdefaults file

     Emacs*font: -bitstream-bitstream vera sans mono-medium-r-*--*-100-*--*--*- 

    Of course, you need to have the bitstream-vera fonts installed on your Linux box

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