Month: March 2016
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“GNU Emacs For Mac OS X”: emacsformacosx.com has been down since 2016-03-23 – but it’s up again
Site Not Found I hope this will be fixed within a couple of days. That’s the site, where I have been downloading my newest Emacsen from.
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Jenkins CI complained “Disk space is too low”
https://github.com/JPNaude/dev_notes/wiki/Change-Jenkins-Temporary-Directory Disk space is too low. Only 0.519GB left on /tmp. The message displayed looked like the one above. I look around for solutions … — the default temp space threshold is 1GB, so alright remaining 0.5 GB is truely too low — actually I think 0.5 GB isn’t really little temp space, so maybe…
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edetect – detect encoding of a file – a Perl utility
https://metacpan.org/pod/distribution/Encode-Detective/script/edetect https://metacpan.org/pod/Encode::Detective
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I diffed (GNU diffutils) two “.rdp” files (UTF-16), and I falsely got the impression these utilities properly deal with Unicode
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_Desktop_Protocol — originally from the Windows world RDP “provides a user with a graphical interface to connect to another computer over a network connection“ http://www.donkz.nl/files/rdpsettings.html — a(n) “.rdp” file keeps settings to start an RDP connection — because Emacs opens such files as text files, I had no idea they are not “classic” text files, instead (according to…