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  • September, 2006

  • Firefox 2

    I am Living on the edge. What about you ? :-) .

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  • freedom from legacy systems!!

    Dear Manager,
    I thank you from the bottom of my heart for approvimg my request to move my work desktop to a RedHat system. FreeBSD4 sucks donkey balls (as Eric Cartman would say). Linux is so super-sweet (even if it is RHEL)
    Now to move my home directory.
    Your sincere slave
    Raj Shekhar

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  • some thoughts on portable device

    Almost 2 months back, I got myself an ipod shuffle. After using it for some time, I am totally in love with it. I can now understand why the Macheads sell out their souls to Apple - the bargain is well worth it ;-) .

    I was thinking about why portable devices like ipod and mobile phones are so close to their owners and I came up with this list.

    • They are truly personal. You can customize them (think mobile wallpapers, ringtones, playlists) quite a lot.
    • The are small and portable (duh!)
    • They can serve multiple purposes. A mobile phone can also serve as a watch, address book, radio, m3 player, camera. A ipod can also be used as a memory stick, FM transmitter and it can also fit in your car's music system.
    • These devices become useful as soon as you buy them. You can start using a mobile phone as soon as you insert your sim card into it and you can start using your ipod as soon as you transfer music into it. Instant karma! :-)
    • They have long battery life.

    This list is just something to keep in mind when I am designing my Killer App (TM).

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  • emacs registers

    If you have not heard about emacs registers, you are missing a very powerful tool in your arsenal. Think of registers as "clipboard" on steroids. I had been using registers to store text -i.e. C-x r s a to copy region into register "a" and C-x r i a to insert text from register "a".

    Today, while reading the gnu.emacs.help newsgroup, I came to know that you could save your current (emacs)frames layout to the register and then restore it back again.

    • `C-x r w R' Save the state of the selected frame's windows in register R (`window-configuration-to-register').
    • `C-x r j R' restore a window or frame configuration stored in register R.

    Here is the email where I saw this.

    Re: how to keep/restore my view and mode?

    On 20 Sep 2006 22:23:54 -0700 Leo Hou wrote:


    > Dear all,
>
> I am not sure if I am using the right term of "view" and "mode". My
> problem is as follows:
>
> I am using C-x 3 and "follow-mode" to view my source code. Every time I
> compile, the other column becomes the result of make. I need to use a
> lot of keys to switch it back to normal: C-x o; C-x k; C-x o; M-x
> follow-mode
> Is there a better way?
    


    C-x r w <some letter or number> to store a window layout and
C-x r j <the same number or letter> to restore it. And there
is no need to kill the compilation buffer.  It gets reused
anyway.
    


    David

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  • webcomics

    I discover wonderful things through webcomics. Today, I was reading this comic, where I saw a mention of Miyamoto Musashi. I checked out his wikipedia entry, where a I found a link to his book The Book of Five Rings and that is what I am reading now.

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