Month: August 2010
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emacs documentation
I have proudly owned O’Reilly’s “Learning GNU Emacs” since November 1996. It has always been a very, very valuable supplement to the info mode documentation prepared in Texinfo. That book covers GNU Emacs version 19.30, nowadays I am using version 23.x resp. 22.x. Better GUI integration has happened since and variable customization. As part of…
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Oracle outlines Solaris 11, says little of OpenSolaris – The H Open Source: News and Features
Oracle outlines Solaris 11, says little of OpenSolaris – The H Open Source: News and Features
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Scala programming language roadmap – The H Open Source: News and Features
Scala programming language roadmap – The H Open Source: News and Features
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being O.T. on mailing lists
A (nice) guy told me in a nice way, one of my postings looked like advertising for O’Reilly books on that mailing list. Luckily enough, we had connected before through Xing (for the U.S. guys: something liked LinkedIn), I gave him a call on his mobile phone, and we talked about it. He actually agreed,…
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Googe Mail “Contacts Manager” has even gotten much, much nicer …
… with the recent update. I wonder how long it will take for the new features to find their way into the Google Apps version of the Contacts Manager.
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a fresh openSUSE 11.3 install
My NEO‘s hard disk broke over night after running 365*24 for a couple of years (sic!!), so I got me new 3.5″ hard disks for this one and also its brother. I started installing openSUSE 11.3 over the network yesterday. That worked pretty fine. But I got problems with X. I have no clue, where…
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gtugcampout on USTREAM: HTML5 Technical Talks, Product Pitches and Product Demos will all be streamed from the Silicon Valley GTUG Campout on the weekend o…
gtugcampout on USTREAM: HTML5 Technical Talks, Product Pitches and Product Demos will all be streamed from the Silicon Valley GTUG Campout on the weekend o…
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Plan 9 from Bell Labs – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Plan 9 from Bell Labs – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Plan 9 from Bell Labs (THE website)
Plan 9 from Bell Labs (the link to THE website) The last time I gave Plan 9 a try was, when I worked with Derwent in London. That was pretty much in vain then, I just couldn’t really get it running on a PC. But nowadays they provide you with images for virtual machines. I still…