Here is a little Emacs-macro that creates an eshell buffer with current directory set to a server directory path. 1(defmacro srv-eshell (server-nick path ) 2 `(defun ,(intern (concat server-nick "-eshell")) () 3 (interactive) 4 (let* ((eshell-buffer-name ,(concat server-nick "-eshell")) 5 (eshell-buffer (eshell))) 6 7 …

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I'm interested in electronic music, and I like programming synths in Overtone, CSound and so on. While I know a lot of signal theory since my days as an engineering student, I'm not always aware of the corresponding music vocabulary. Syntorial is a nice tutorial software that teaches how to program a synth for various …

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Im sorry to say that Fedora 22 on Microsoft Surface Pro 2 exhibits many regressions as compared to Fedora 21 on the same hardware. I have a dual boot setup so I can boot between the two versions and compare. Heres the regressions I have found so far. I can't get the Marvell wifi chipset to work. This was problematic …

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(This article was originally published by Datormagazin. Republished with permission) Google Summer Of Code Google Summer Of Code är ett årligt program sedan år 2005 där Google ger stipendier till studenter som vill utmana sig själva och arbeta med ett stimmulerande sommararbete genom att delta i öppna mjukvaruprojekt. …

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(This article was originally published by Datormagazin. Republished with permission) DONE Teknisk fotografering med Gphoto och Linux En bild säger mer än tusen ord. Det är därför inte så märkligt att det finns ett stort antal programvaror och gränssnitt i den fria programvaruvärlden för att arbeta med bilder på olika …

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(This article was originally published by Datormagazin. Republished with permission) Fusk med FPM Om du någon gång pakekterat ett program i enlighet med ett operativsystems pakethanterare, vet du att det kan vara ganska arbetsamt. För att göra det ännu mer komplicerat finns det i Linux-världen ett antal olika …

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I have a lot of old notes that I sometimes copy over to this blog. So, its not really a Blog, because it grows backwards in time as well as forward. So its a Golbblog then? Also I like to ammend my old entries when I spot something I dont like. I do as I please.

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My son wanted some help with some homework. He had an assignment where you listened to birds on a birdsite, and identified them. The site lets you type a name of a bird, shows an image and plays the birds song. My son wanted the birds to appear in random, withouth titles and so on. The site didnt allow for any …

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For my Sylt project https://github.com/jave/overtone-sylt, I wanted a very simple and robust way to stream the output from a jackd sound server to a client machine on the network. There are many ways to do this, but a pretty simple way is to use VLC. An advantage over netjack, which is another method, is that you can …

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The 'technology steamroller' is a concept that comes up in engineer circles now and then. The analogy is pretty obvious, but let me explain it anyway. If you don't learn things all the time, the technology steamroller will capture you and crush you beneath its steel clad wheels. I dont dispute that this can happen, …

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