In the last post, I use the excellent SuperDuper! tool to make abootable clone of my hard drive. There are some (more advanced)techniques that can be used that allow bootable clones to be createdon the command line using free tools. I had some trouble gettingclones to work on the command line, but finally worked through [...]

Since I tend to work in Emacs no matter what computer I’m using, I got curious after reading Steve Yegge’s latest post about XEmacs instability what exactly my uptimes are on all my Emacs sessions (I use GNU Emacs, but I was still curious). This is some elisp I threw together to answer that question. [...]

The Macbook I bought back in May of 2007 has been getting a bit long in the tooth. Shortly after I bought it, I upgraded the RAM to 2 GB, so the memory and the processor have been holding up just fine for me, as I mainly program and use VMWare (not much gaming). But, [...]

Tad Williams had vision. He wrote an epic saga whose events unfolded in a hyper-connected world. In this Otherland of virtual realities existed an undernet, a virtual reality operated by those who populated it – it was an elusive place, a metaverse called Treehouse whose entrance was almost unlocatable – but it was owned by [...]

It occurred to me that the patent system was created to encourage innovators to release the results of their work to the public so that the society could benefit as a whole from the work of the individual. The obvious way to achieve this is to give the innovator exclusive rights to the innovation in [...]

I wanted to write a simple function in elisp that would find the comment characters used in the current major mode. It is part of an effort to create a simple literate programming tool for Emacs (aka Slipcore – initial version to be posted soon).  The obvious way to do this is to leverage the [...]