I like using emacs as a launcher for other programs. However, it's inconvenient when Emacs crashes for some reason, and all your programs die as well. So, here is an example how to use dtach to avoid having the program die, and be recovered by emacs next time around. 1(defun bankid () 2 (interactive) 3 ;;important! …

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After having used Fedora on the MS Surface pro 2 for a couple of months, I have some gripes with it. It works mostly okay, but the battery behaves weirdly. Sometimes the charging level is not reported properly, and then the machine tends to shut down randomly. So perhaps this was fixed in a UEFI bios upgrade Microsoft …

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Warhammer 40k books are my guilty pleasure. The Mechanicum books are fun, because if a relevant character can be named tota-mu 32, machines can be posesed by demons, it has to be a great book right? W40k books can be a bit formulaic in their plot. You know the protagonists will go somewhere and fight against fantastic …

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systemctl is nice, but has some tedious aspects if you run your shells in emacs, as i do. you can do export PAGER= this is nice, since emacs is a much better pager than more or less. also, by default systemctl elipsifies output, which i prefer emacs to handle. -l helps, but how do i avoid always typing it? ive been …

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I find it useful to have the line where the cursor is highlighted for certain Emacs modes. Its quite easy: 1(require 'hl-line) 2 3(add-hook 'package-menu-mode-hook 'hl-line-mode) 4(add-hook 'gnus-group-mode-hook 'hl-line-mode) 5(add-hook 'gnus-summary-mode-hook 'hl-line-mode) 6(add-hook 'org-agenda-mode-hook …

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Working with Continuous Delivery, or whatever the term de-jour is, is pretty interesting. I get to work with many different fields, sometimes not so obvious ones. Although penetration testing isn't my primary field, I'm aquainted with it since production machines are an important concern for Continuous Delivery. The …

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I got a new 4K display the other day, a Samsung 28" 4K LED 28D590D. The screen is big as a barn, and has amazing 3840 x 2160 native resolution! I use the screen with my Surface Pro 2 running Fedora, and of course I had issues getting the thing to work. First of all I needes to set the screen to Displayport version 1.1 …

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I have experimented with speedreading on and of for many years. This time I got interested in a new speed read method called Spritz. There are many demonstrations of this system on the web if you are interested to see it in action. There are other speed read systems for Emacs, and now there is also Spray, a Spritz …

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http://frimat.se is me and my wifes site for gluten and lactose free food. We joke a lot that we are the worst couple ever to have as dinner guests, since I'm lactose intolerant, and my wife is gluten intolerant. At any rate we hope we you will enjoy the recipies!

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I bought Wildfly : New Features during Packt:s summer sale. I bought a lot of books at the same time, and only really bothered to read the title before the purchase. Since I have been working with with porting applications from Jboss 5 to 6, and now from 6 to 8, I know its usually a lot of work. For some reason version …

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