Month: January 2008

  • my brand-new EEE-PC

    A little late (but better later than never) I got myself an EEE-PC. First and important thing to do was to tell it to talk to me in english, because I hate it, when computers talk to me in denglish (as this awful modern mixture of german and english is called, and yes, of course,…

  • my router, my phones, …

    My router is not just a router. To the inside world it lets me also attach phones and esp. also DECT wireless phones. To the outside world it connect also to my SIP (VoIP) account and the telephone network. I registered all my DECT wireless phones to my router, and I got rid of all…

  • “accesskeys” with Firefox

    Q: Did you know, how to make use of what gets defined in HTML through the accesskeyattribute of the a tag? A: You have to press some Modifier + the defined accesskey. All the HTML generated from my DocBook files defines access keys for navigating to the statically previous and next page, the home page,…

  • re-factoring, re-organising, …

    O, I enjoyed re-organising my blogs (adding a few details here and there), modifying my computer home directory tree structure, moving a few files from here to there …

  • emacs, version control, …

    I doubt it, that any other editor resp. IDE software is able to hold a candle to GNU emacs with its plugged in version control access to subversion, RCS, and CVS. Once again I can just shout out to the world: I love emacs. Where would my productivity be without emacs? I almost never need…

  • Hackers’s dictionary aka the Jargon File abandoned by ESR

    Looks like the Jargon File got abandoned by Eric S. Raymond.It hasn’t been updated during the last couple of years.I offered Eric to invest time and energy,but I got no answer back. Update 2012-12-25: I once owned a printed copy of this book, but it was one of the many victims of various accidents inside…

  • emacs and subversion

    In order to do some subversion work from within emacs, find and load psvn.el, and then start svn-status on an emacs command line. I love it.

  • my own subversion repositories “out there”

    Created my 1st subversion on my web space using the svn+ssh protocol along the lines of the PragProg book. I used this scheme, because I could get started w/o any admin intervention. It also behaves fairly safe. Alright, something on the background: My web space provider gives me UNIX shell access via ssh. The svnadmin…