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Emacs heaven

Posted on 2011-01-06 by Daniel Belasco Rogers

Peter Vasil just revolutionised my life (again) when he took me through the Emacs starter kit and showed me his copy of the PeepCode Meet Emacs screencast. So much works out of the box, I don’t now remember what the … Continue reading →

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Learning Emacs in Brazil

Posted on 2010-11-29 by Daniel Belasco Rogers

I’m here in Brazil at the arte.mov festival which is probably the best festival I’ve ever been to in terms of hospitality. We were in Belo Horizonte last week and now we’re in São Paulo with a fantastic group of … Continue reading →

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List of programmes I re-install after a linux OS new install

Posted on 2010-11-02 by Daniel Belasco Rogers

Mercurial – repositories (install through Synaptic) glc – see this post vlc – repositories Audacity – repositories Gnome do – repositories pyRenamer – repositories Unison – repositories BUT make sure you install the same version on both computers you’re syncing … Continue reading →

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glc is not the greater london council any more

Posted on 2010-11-02 by Daniel Belasco Rogers

Aah those were the days, the height of Thatcherism and Red Ken still ruling a socialist London (she put a stop to that of course) Story here Anyway, I digress, glc (https://github.com/nullkey/glc/ [Updated 2012 because of move]) is actually a … Continue reading →

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Clean out old kernels (and grub while you’re at it)

Posted on 2010-10-29 by Daniel Belasco Rogers

Again, more for my own reference than anybody else’s… We’re talking Ubuntu here, by the way. I’m on 10.04 on my laptop and just installed 10.10 on the desktop Problem: lots of Kernel entries in Grub (even had this dropping … Continue reading →

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