The third pretest release of emacs 23 is now available. As usual the windows binaries are available here. Take it for a spin.
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Sunday, March 22, 2009
How to use Org-mode for Project Planning
Here is an excellent article on using org-mode for project planning. If you manage to use org-mode to the extent listed on the article, you pretty much would have learnt most things about org-mode.
Though the article is a bit old, it's still a good pointer on using org-mode.
Though the article is a bit old, it's still a good pointer on using org-mode.
Friday, March 6, 2009
LaTeX Beamer: How to get a logo in the top right corner of the slide
Here's a simple way to place the logo where you desire when you want to get your image on your slide in beamer. Note that you'd need the Textpos package to place the image where you want.
Sunday, March 1, 2009
Emacs Pretest 2 Released
As posted on the emacs-dev list, the emacs pretest release 2 is now available for download. you can download the windows binaries here.
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Setting term mode colours
For those of you using term mode in Emacs, this suggestion here might be useful if you want to tinker with the colour scheme.
Basically you need to hook the following into term mode as mentioned in the thread.
;; Redefine the 8 primary terminal colors to look good against black
(setq ansi-term-color-vector
[unspecified "#000000" "#963F3C" "#5FFB65" "#FFFD65"
"#0082FF" "#FF2180" "#57DCDB" "#FFFFFF"]))
The colour sequences are of course in hex.
Basically you need to hook the following into term mode as mentioned in the thread.
;; Redefine the 8 primary terminal colors to look good against black
(setq ansi-term-color-vector
[unspecified "#000000" "#963F3C" "#5FFB65" "#FFFD65"
"#0082FF" "#FF2180" "#57DCDB" "#FFFFFF"]))
The colour sequences are of course in hex.
Friday, February 20, 2009
R support added to Org mode
Carsten has just released 6.23 of org mode with R support. From the release notes
The R tutorial for org can found here. Of course, you should have R and ESS installed for it to work.
Dan Davison has contributed /org-R.el/ which is now in the
contrib directory. Org-R performs numerical computations and generates graphics. Data can come from org tables, or from csv files; numerical output can be stored in the org buffer as org tables, and links are created to files containing graphical
output. Although, behind the scenes, it uses R, you do not need to know anything about R. Common operations, such as tabulating discrete values in a column of an org table, are available "off the shelf" by specifying options on lines starting with `#+R:'. However, you can also provide raw R code to be evaluated.
The R tutorial for org can found here. Of course, you should have R and ESS installed for it to work.
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Using Licenses as a Marketing Tool
After reading this article on moonlight, I've got this uncomfortable feeling over Open Source licensing.
Let me explain.
In the context of moonlight, it is clear that Adobe has significant lead over Microsoft with its flash tools. So, Microsoft has released a competing tool with an Open Source license and patent infringement protection support. It does appear to be a marketing ploy aimed at Adobe by making it available for free and getting market share from the open source crowd(if it works, that is).
As it stands right now, we have two competing tools that deliver rich content or whatever, one with overwhelming market share and the other just about starting out. The underdog ups the ante by releasing under an opensource license and providing support for cross platform running.
While I'm not claiming the open source crowd cannot see what is happening, does it need to get into this at all?
Two software companies are fighting it out, it's their fight; one ropes in the Open source crowd to fight the other. If there was some ideal to all the Licensing stuff, it now looks like it's now used as a marketing ploy between companies. And in the trenches, the programmers are getting played?
The licensing was about rights to programmers(at least I used to think so), now, it's one more tactic in marketing fights.
Cui bono?
Let me explain.
In the context of moonlight, it is clear that Adobe has significant lead over Microsoft with its flash tools. So, Microsoft has released a competing tool with an Open Source license and patent infringement protection support. It does appear to be a marketing ploy aimed at Adobe by making it available for free and getting market share from the open source crowd(if it works, that is).
As it stands right now, we have two competing tools that deliver rich content or whatever, one with overwhelming market share and the other just about starting out. The underdog ups the ante by releasing under an opensource license and providing support for cross platform running.
While I'm not claiming the open source crowd cannot see what is happening, does it need to get into this at all?
Two software companies are fighting it out, it's their fight; one ropes in the Open source crowd to fight the other. If there was some ideal to all the Licensing stuff, it now looks like it's now used as a marketing ploy between companies. And in the trenches, the programmers are getting played?
The licensing was about rights to programmers(at least I used to think so), now, it's one more tactic in marketing fights.
Cui bono?
Monday, February 16, 2009
A single standard phone charger. What took them so long?
Via Boingboing, an idea that makes eminent sense. The amount of irritation that one goes through to get a cell phone charged when you can't find yours....this is a no brainer.
Can't wait for that to happen. Seriously.
The European Commission plans to force mobile phone manufacturers to manufacture one mobile phone charger for all mobile phones, according the European Commissioner for Industry, Gunther Verheugen in an interview with the German international broadcaster Deutsche Welle.
Friday, February 13, 2009
February TUG News
Karl Berry posted this on the comp.text.tex that they're planning to apply for the Google Summer of Code. If you're interested, do get in touch with TUG.
And there are other bits of interesting information on the same post.
And there are other bits of interesting information on the same post.
Sunday, February 8, 2009
Org-Mode Beginners Customization Guide
Just saw this on the org-mode mailing list. If you're a novice org user or thinking of using org, this tutorial out to be useful to you.
I also suggest that you post to the thread with your own point of view as a beginner. That would help in making a better guide. You probably need to subscribe to the mailing list to post.
I also suggest that you post to the thread with your own point of view as a beginner. That would help in making a better guide. You probably need to subscribe to the mailing list to post.
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