unix - Fastidious Elegance

Installing Dyalog APL on Nix

The following repository is a starting point for getting Dyalog APL on Nix OS. Keep in mind that at the time of this writing the repository is based on 17.0. Version 17.1 includes a much improved and streamlined download process from the following download page: https://www.dyalog.

anonymity

Securing the Internet: A Look at RetroShare

RetroShare Home Page The Internet today is a dangerous place, not the least because of the pervasively insecure practices of so many of its users. Many users do not understand how to properly secure their own machines. And the world is not dangerous because of crackers and invasive criminals; no,

email

Mailx + IMAP?!

While this may not come as a surprise for some of you who are well versed in the command line world, but I was just recently informed that the mailx mail program, which is often the default program linked to mail(1) in many Linux systems, including my personal favorite,

apl

Knuth on APL

Donald Knuth had this to say in an interview a while back: APL is for people who have problems to solve and don't care too much about efficiency; they want a nice elegant way to state the solution to their problem, but the solution that they come up with is

language

APL Mappings

I recently took the APL mappings of APLX and mapped them using the AltGr key of my keyboard using Xmodmap. And so my unhealthy fascination with APL grows stronger.keycode 108 = Mode_switch Mode_switch keycode 133 = Meta_L keycode 134 = Meta_R keycode 119 = BackSpace keysym 0x30 = 0 parenright

linux

Two programs I hope to Master

I have two programs that I currently wish to master: ed(1) and mc(1). Ed is about the leanest editor that I know of, and it holds a special place in my retro-but-not-really heart. Mc, or Midnight Commander, is one of the nicest file manager shells that I have

cups

Fixing Plain Text Printing in CUPS

I'm sure that you've encountered the problem before, at some point in your lifetime. You're trying to print a nice plain text document, and you don't want to bother with enscript or a2ps. So you whip out lpr and you run something

editing

NEdit, and Why You Should Care

So, what do you use your computer for? Are you a writer? A programmer? Maybe you just like to write games? Well, if you do any sort of editing of text, you use some sort of text editor. Most writers tend to use something like Microsoft Word. Fair enough, but

identd

identd done right?

Most people don't enable identd for good reason. But for IRC, it remains a de facto standard requirement if you want to take full advantage of the networks. How do you enable identd without making it annoying? Use port triggering to enable it only when you connect to

linux

OpenBSD on MacBook

This guide is meant to assist users of OpenBSD who wish to install OpenBSD on either a Macbook or a Macbook Pro. This guide is specifically created based on a Macbook Pro Core Duo 17", with help and notes provided by other people who have other machines. This guide

display manager

Tweak XDM

We all know that GDM and KDM are huge and bloated, and come with the huge and bloated systems: Gnome and KDE. Well, since we are supposed to be hacking, we really don't want to have a bunch of bloat sitting around now do we? There's a solution. Most people