Links for 1/20/09 [my NetNewsWire tabs]

• App Engine Fan: Hacking Google App Engine (part 1)


• enclojure - an environment for the Clojure programming language


• Slashdot | Visualizing Complex Data Sets?


• The Art Of Programming - Uncyclopedia, the content-free encyclopedia


• Too Much of Nothing


• Slashdot | Tech Publisher O'Reilly Slashes Jobs


• Discover the Linux Kernel Virtual Machine


• Keyword Optimization - Extending Emacs for SEO | Time Poor Blogger


• Ajaxian » How global is your JavaScript?

Links for 1/19/09 [my NetNewsWire tabs]

• Making Emacs seach easier « Floating in a random universe


• Dell adds 256GB SSD option to XPS M1330 and M1730 laptops - Engadget


• Windows 7 Beta takes another crown, besting Vista in SSD performance - Engadget


• Quickpost: Windows 7 Beta: ROT13 Replaced With Vigenère? Great Joke! « Didier Stevens


• Resty applications in QP - mike watkins dot ca


• Frozen Cache


• Resuscitating a Seven Year Old Laptop


• TechCrunch Tablet Update: Prototype B


• Lotus Notes Soon To Become Even More LinkedIn


• Scobleizer — Tech geek blogger » Blog Archive Seagate learns important PR lesson: keep the customers happy! «


• Unmanaged switch horror stories | Network Administrator | TechRepublic.com


• IronPython URLs: Jeff Hardy: Django, Zlib and easy_install on IronPython


• Sam Ruby: Running Remotely


• Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life - Some thoughts on FeedBurner Site Stats being replaced by Google Analytics


• Running multiple instances of MySQL on the same machine | MDLog:/sysadmin

Carbon emacs, python-mode, tab-width

Carbon emacs tab-width of 8 is too big for me.

Just setting (setq tab-width 4) doesn't work when in python-mode.

I found a good way to change that here.

I had to change the python-indent variable as well to get the desired effect:

(defun my-pystuff ()
  (setq tab-width 4
        py-indent-offset 4
        indent-tabs-mode t
        py-smart-indentation nil
	   python-indent 4))

(add-hook 'python-mode-hook 'my-pystuff)

(Add this to your .emacs)

Links for 1/18/09 [my NetNewsWire tabs]

• Errata Security: Password cracking vs. CPU throttling


• Two Interactions With Amazon - Push cx


• Apple Shows Us DRM's True Colors | Electronic Frontier Foundation


• Windows 7 Beta: Remove the Send Feedback Link from the Title Bar | Windows | Tech-Recipes


• Netbooks, Apple, Netbooks, Netbooks


• Slashdot | Windows 7's Media Hype Having the Opposite Effect as Vista's

Links for 1/17/09 [my NetNewsWire tabs]

• Periodic Dosage of Xah Lee: Neal Stephenson at Google Talk


• Video of US Airways A320 Crash Landing in the Hudson River


• Slashdot | Technologies To Watch Fail In 2009


• My take on things: full screen mode for carbon emacs


• Sam Ruby: Contributions Welcome


•   Don’t live with a broken IDE by Elf Sternberg


• Robots at War: The New Battlefield


• Interview: Intel's Barrett on Paranoia, the Core Craze and the End of Gigahertz


• AppleInsider | Road to Mac OS X Snow Leopard: 64-bit security


• ReactOS: Looking Back Upon 2008


• Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life - Some Thoughts on User Interfaces for Activity Streams

Links for 1/16/09 [my NetNewsWire tabs]

• Browser Showdown At The Churchill Club; IE 8 Release Candidate Coming This Month


• To Blog or Not To Blog » django: using reverse instead of hardcoded URLs


• Qt, now a viable option for Java « Joe Walnes


• An Illustrated Guide to Git on Windows

Battlestar Galactica should air tonight!

List of Battlestar Galactica (reimagined series) episodes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "As the second half of Season 4 was halted from production due to the writers' strike in America, the final 10 episodes have been pushed back to January 16, 2009"

:)

Links for 1/14/09 [my NetNewsWire tabs]

• Automation for the people: Deployment-automation patterns, Part 1


• Hynek’s scribbles » Ubiquitous Emacs Configuration


• Ubuntu 9.04 Boots in 21.4 Seconds - With EXT4 as the default filesystem. - Softpedia


• Samuel J. Palmisano: Let's Spend on Broadband and the Power Grid - WSJ.com


• App Engine Recipe - Complete Django with GAE


• Scobleizer — Tech geek blogger » Blog Archive Leo Laporte: The King of Tech Talk «

Adobe Air Apps...

I used to use twhirl, for friendfeed/twitter. Leaving it running over night bloated the memory usage to about 450MB. So I stopped using twhirl.

Then I found tweetdeck, a great application for twitter. I managed to leave it running on a system over the weekend. This morning I notice the hard drive working like crazy. Its an old machine with a single core 1.6 1.73 Ghz processor, and 1 GB of Ram. Logging into Windows XP and running task manager (which took a significant amount of time) shows tweetdeck using about 610 MB of memory.

Thats insane!

Lots of good videos by scoble from ces.

Tweetdeck

“…in my opinion there is nothing — so far — that even comes close to Tweetdeck.” – via “Tweetdeck rules — that is all”

The search feature in tweetdeck lets me keep track of items I’m interested in (ces, dell, linux, os x, windows 7… etc). And I’ll either have a second screen just running this in the background, or I’ll be running it on a netbook on the side. Occasionally I’ll look through to see if their is an interesting tweet. Suddenly twitter is really useful for finding news items of interest.

Want to create a OS X live DVD?

Read this.

via scottmoreau

P.S. I haven't tried this myself...

Helping FriendFeed? (Scripting News)

Helping FriendFeed? (Scripting News):

"Instead, I'd like to ask another question. Does anyone really think that a company-owned platform is going to win here, that it won't be swamped by an open federated system of servers that peer, like email? If so, I'd like to hear why."

Finally, someone asks *the* question. I'd also like to know why.

Shouting at disks can increase latency

via reddit