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emacs-nav – Emacs mode for filesystem navigation – Google Project Hosting

admin — Tue, 01 May 2012 13:43:07 +0000

Nav is a lightweight solution for Emacs users who want something like TextMate’s file browser, or the Eclipse project view. Unlike these two, Nav only shows the contents of a single directory at a time. Nav can be run painlessly in terminals, where Speedbar either fails on its attempt to make a new frame or is hidden. Nav’s terminal-friendliness comes from running in the frame where it was started, keeping window management simple. The Nav key bindings are also simple — each key command is a single keystroke long.

via emacs-nav – Emacs mode for filesystem navigation – Google Project Hosting.

Having trouble getting mod_dumpio to work?

admin — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 16:16:58 +0000

Note that it works with a default loglevel of debug, so in your vhost set:

LogLevel debug

or change the loglevel it activates at

Managing your passwords with KeePass

admin — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 20:31:08 +0000

A combination of KeePass (for Windows / Mac / Linux) and minikeepass for iphone, storing the password file on a dropbox share is both powerful and free.

Ensure you use a secure master key.

Experimenting with git

admin — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 18:09:33 +0000

My first commit to github.com, a simple perl script written to generate an RSS feed from an IMAP inbox, imap2rss.pl.

Update: a useful introduction to git.

Learning Python – Online Resources

admin — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 22:34:53 +0000

I’ve been working on improving my python, here are some of the resources I’ve been using:

Google’s Python Class
Learn Python the Hard Way (almost a complete beginner’s guide to programming, but useful for reinforcing key concepts)

(More to be added as I use them).

My IDE is a customized GNU Emacs (on Linux) and ipython. I’ve found StackOverflow to be a very useful resource.

The latest generation of my .emacs setup

admin — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 22:49:03 +0000

My .emacs

FTP Must Die!

admin — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 22:52:48 +0000

FtpMustDie – Greg's Wiki.

I completely agree.

How to increase security by marking cookies as ‘secure’ in Apache

admin — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:01:26 +0000

# Fix the cookie path and secure it
Header edit Set-Cookie "^(.*)" $1;Secure

via xMatters Community: How to increase security by marking cookies as ‘secure’.

UK Government Betrayal of Open Standards Confirmed – Open Enterprise

admin — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 22:55:11 +0000

UK Government Betrayal of Open Standards Confirmed – Open Enterprise.

Linux 3.2 – Linux Kernel Newbies

admin — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 21:09:23 +0000

Summary: This release includes support for Ext4 block sizes bigger than 4KB and up to 1MB, which improve performance with big files; btrfs has been updated with faster scrubbing, automatic backup of critical filesystem metadata and tools for manual inspection of the filesystems; the process scheduler has added support to set upper limits of CPU time; the desktop reponsiveness in presence of heavy writes has been improved, TCP has been updated to include an algorithm which speeds up the recovery of the connection after lost packets; the profiling tool "perf top" has added support for live inspection of tasks and libraries and see the annotated assembly code; the Device Mapper has added support for ‘thin provisioning’ of storage, and a new architeture has been added: the Hexagon DSP processor from Qualcomm. Other drivers and small improvements and fixes are also available in this release.

via Linux 3.2 – Linux Kernel Newbies.