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Timo Geusch from The Lone C++ Coder's Blog
As I’ve mentioned before on this blog, I still have one of the “cheese grater” Mac Pros around. It’s a 2009 that I upgraded somewhat with SSD, 6 core Xeon and a few other small goodies. As I split my time between Linux, Windows and OS X, I like having it around but can’t really […]
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Timo Geusch from The Lone C++ Coder's Blog
As an IT consultant, I travel a lot. I mean, a lot. Part of the pleasure is having to deal with day-to-day online life on open, potentially free-for-all hotel and conference WiFi. In other words, the type of networks you really want to do your online banking, ecommerce and other potentially sensitive operations on. After […]
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Timo Geusch from The Lone C++ Coder's Blog
Straight from the “make work for yourself because there aren’t enough hours in the day already” files. I’ve mentioned before that I am self-hosting this blog rather than using a hosted instance. I hosted the WordPress instance on FreeBSD and it’s been running quite well for a while, but during a double FreeBSD port upgrade […]
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Timo Geusch from The Lone C++ Coder's Blog
Ben Simon has a post up on his blog describing how he set up a scheme development environment on his Galaxy S9 Android phone. It was also an especially timely post as I had been eyeing a Mac Quadra with a Symbolics Lisp Machine extension card on eBay. As if we needed another reminder just […]
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Timo Geusch from The Lone C++ Coder's Blog
I did have to learn some Prolog when I was studying CS and back then it was one of those “why do we have to learn this when everybody is programming in C or Turbo Pascal” (yes, I’m old). For some strange reason things clicked for me quicker with Prolog than Lisp, which I now […]
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Timo Geusch from The Lone C++ Coder's Blog
I’ve been meaning to post this link for quite a while now but keep forgetting to do so. If you are planning to store geospatial data in MongoDB, the database offers you a variety of ways to deal with geospatial-specific data storage and queries. I gave an introductory talk on this subject at MongoDB World […]
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Timo Geusch from The Lone C++ Coder's Blog
Saw the announcement on on the GNU Emacs mailing list this morning. Much to my surprise, it’s also already available on homebrew. So my Mac is now sporting a new fetching version of Emacs as well :). I’ve been running the release candidate on several Linux machines already and was very happy with it, so […]
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Timo Geusch from The Lone C++ Coder's Blog
I’ve previously blogged about using Emacs to convert line endings and use it as an alternative to the dos2unix/unix2dos tools. Using set-buffer-file-coding-system works well and has been my go-to conversion method. That said, there is another way to do the same conversion by using M-x recode-region. As the name implies, recode-region works on a region. […]
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Timo Geusch from The Lone C++ Coder's Blog
As posted in a few places, Emacs 26.1-RC1 has been released. Following up my previous experiments with running Emacs on the Windows Subsystem for Linux, I naturally had to see how the latest version would work out. For that, I built the RC1 on an up-to-date Ubuntu WSL. I actually built it twice – once […]
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Timo Geusch from The Lone C++ Coder's Blog
Quite a while ago, I answered a question about the basic deadlock scenario on Stack Overflow. More recently, I got an interesting comment on it. The poster asked if it was possible to get a deadlock with a single lock and an I/O operation. My first gut reaction was “no, not really”, but it got […]
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