Category Archives: Computers
Fixing “Wrong type argument: characterp, return” in !Emacs
A few months ago, I ran into an issue with Emacs that I just found the solution to. In Emacs term-mode (or ansi-term, or multi-term), hitting Enter doesn’t work, and the mini-buffer displays Wrong type argument: characterp, return, and the … Continue reading
[Emacs] autopair problems when using term-mode
I found this awesome blog post on the Korean blog Seorenn SIGSEGV. Using Google translate, I was able to extract the information I needed. However, Google translate quite botched it, as did Yahoo and Bing translate. I’ve used a combination … Continue reading
Why `sed -i’ exists
I’ve decided to to a morning-pages type thing here, just to get info out. This means that I’ll be posting 250-ish word weblog post snippits sharing whatever, and fairly frequently posting, if this works. So, what is the purpose of … Continue reading
Pointers in Java
This was originally posted to Facebook by me at 2010-08-02 23:20. Note: For purposes of anyone interested in this, pointers in Java are more commonly referred to as references, because everything in Java must have it’s own name (method vs. … Continue reading
Java has issues
This was originally posted to Facebook by me at 2010-09-02 23:19. It was edited by me there 2010-07-03. Java is an alright language. There are a lot of things it does right, but there are a few things it doesn’t. … Continue reading
FUSE is crazy
Well, I suppose just I’m only talking about Linux FUSE, I haven’t fiddled with FUSE on any other kernel. Anyway, FUSE screws with the idea of the root user: $ ls Makefile build.log … $ sudo ls ls: cannot open … Continue reading
Lesson 1: Bourne Shell Scripting
This is the first installment in a series of articles introducing one to programming and hacking in general. We will cover setting up a *NIX environment, basic notation, and Bourne shell scripting. Continue reading