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Well I was cruising for new feeds an I came across the flickr blog which had a nice bit of cognitive dissonance as you see above. Oh and I installed WP 2.5 and I wanted to try it out. Then I discovered that image uploads for a great many installs are broken in 2.5 [...]

This is just a generic search and replace. Really you could make a macro for any search and replace you do on a regular basis.

;;; A interactive function for replacing all dos
;;; carriage returns (^M) with Unix
;;; line feeds in a selected buffer.
(defun dos2unix (buffer)
"Automate M-% C-q C-m RET C-q C-j [...]

I dabble in graphic design and I of course love OSS applications because of the enthusiasm and practicality that is typical of their design. Inkscape started as a fork from Sodipodi by a group of programmers who were bent on C++. I personally was fine with this because the main Sodipodi author brought his personal [...]

Congratulations are in order to the Ben Franklin Racing Team for being selected to go to the qualifying round (and beyond) for the DARPA Urban Challenge in October. This thing was put together in a year and it seams safe enough to drive itself effectively now and at relatively high speeds. It can distinguish lanes [...]

Tags are an index of the definition of symbols in your source files. They allow you to quickly navigate your source files and to find what symbols exist. Originally they were designed for Vi probably because navigation is so poor there that you need navigational aids. Emacs has a number of integrated tag functions that [...]

Hooray! Google released Picasa for Linux.

Now with more bloat, dependencies:
http://www.openoffice.org/
Someone just compiled a turd. Hmm, how can we make a bigger mess of things. Lets make it harder to install, use, and maintain. Then we can make it really slow. Oh yeah we can add in annoying crap to make it more like M$ Office too. Enjoy.

Now with organized feed reading yummy goodness:
http://reader.google.com/

A special thanks goes out to my fellow GNU users who need want to program under MS Windows. Eventhough they don’t provide a random function MinGW is definately a must for those wishing to create good native software under MS Windows. For those who want to preserve there voice anyway. I will try to share [...]

I am having a little trouble getting back to posting so I decided to post a programming nugget. This is a nice little way to get a clear picture of your CVS working area:
cvs status | egrep “(Need|Mod)”
I have this in my .bashrc:
alias cvsstatus cvs status | egrep “(Need|Mod)”