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Since I’ve made this “link dictionary” for myself, I’ve found that digg.com is a much easier way to preserve articles that I find interesting. Also, slashdot articles seem a lot less intriguing after seeing the quality and volume of available stories. The only thing that I fear about digg is how they’re keeping the site updated and feature-rich. For instance, digg’s search absolutely stinks, and does not yet support searching within what you’ve dugg (which would be a requirement for a replacement of this in-house link accumulation blog). Hopefully that’ll change.

Not much has happened since I’ve last posted. I’m currently learning the .NET languages in hopes of being able to use that knowledge for cross-platform Mono/C# programming. Until next time, have a great time!

Catching up from last week after the move…
Oh yea, and these links were generated from a script written in ruby too. =) Finally putting that knowledge to use. I do agree that ruby is really simple to code for. I just need to get used to the syntax differences and method names.

Slashdot

• Inkscape, an open source scalable vector graphics editor, has reached v0.42.
• How to build a Turntable using a floppy motor
• FreeBSD ported to Xbox
• A new study shows that those who download music on P2P networks spend 4.5 times more on records than those who don’t
• Russia offering a $100 million USD trip to the moon
• Intel to build a $3 billion 45nm fabrication plant in Arizona
• Philips to research how to eliminate ghosting in LCDs
• An Israeli research group, IsraCast, has found evidence that microwave cell phone radiation causes two types of eye damage, one irreversible
• Fiberoptics bring sunlight into the house
• Japanese develop ‘female’ android
• ZDNet interviews lead Google Maps engineer Lars Rasmussen
• Homeland Security to track visitors with RFID at border crossings
• Retailers call for a unified HDTV format
• How to run Windows with no services
• Cable industry wants to offer wireless/mobile (cell) services
• Judge bars ex-Microsoft Google employee to work at Google
• Windows Genuine Advantage defeated with a script implemented with Greasemonkey
• AMD hits 10% of x86 server market
• WSJ reports on lawyers using the Wayback Machine Archives and Google Cache for evidence
• After 2.6.13-rc4, Torvalds will adopt a new development model, only allowing changes to be made two weeks after the release of a stable kernel
• Amazon seeks a patent for providing and charging for web services
• Canada and Denmark’s dispute over an arctic island hits Google
• BCC editorial: What if Microsoft went open source?
• Scientists have discovered a 190 million year old dinosaur embryo
• Google and Yahoo’s hiring practices are creating a brian-drain in the industry
• Stem cells mend spinal cords
• The US wants to replace leap seconds with a leap hour every 500 or 600 years
• Someone wins the content for the best worst piece of writing
• HP stops selling Apple iPods
• Xbox 360 to eventually have support for HD-DVD
• Novell requests that SCOscoure money be separated and kept away from SCO
• A site writes about the creation of the Apple Lisa
• Why Microsoft wants to get 3000 patents a year
• How to build a gaming router using BSD
• Wireless Hijacker Dealt First UK punishment
• 2005 record for unamplified WiFi, 125 miles
• NYTimes reports on Freenet
• Successful strategies for commenting code, with examples
• Carnegie Melon University and SpikeSource releases and rating system to evaluate free software
• Discovery to get an unscheduled repair before returning
• 19 scalable vector graphics programs are compared, in preparation of Firefox’s soon support for SVG
• NYTimes reports that NASA sees that the shuttle needs to be redesigned
• 802.11n rivals merge, creating a standard that can operate at 540Mbps
• Cosmic travel estimated to raise cancer risks in 10% of travellers
• The National Labor Relations Board has ruled in favor of allowing employers to ban employees from socializing with fellow co-workers

digg

• Hacking a hotel’s info system through the TV
• Dual core Pentium D won’t work on Nforce4-IE
• Hacker forced new planet discovery out of the closet
• Cracked Windows anti-crack cracked claim
• AMD releases budget dual-core Athlon, Athlon 64 X2 3800+
• A javascript cheat sheet
• You might be a geek if…
• A list of Useful Windows Software
• A statistical analysis of why someone will never find a girlfriend
• Design Snack, a digg for designers
• BIOS Optimization Guide v8.1 lists a lot of BIOS settings and their descriptions
• How to turn your laser printer into a shredder (on purpose)
• Some quasars, which are huge black holes notorious for being difficult to detect, have been found
• RULER Aero, a OSX Tiger theme, that incorpoates Vista-like transparency
• Modifying a fridge to hold a computer

OSNews

• An Andrew Morton podcast on linux kernel development
• IBM, RISC, and Apple’s move to the PowerPC platform
• A site devoted to Qt programming, tutorials, and overviews

Flexbeta

• Michigan and Utah to impose email tax
• 90% of the teens are on the internet, a figure that was lower than I thought it was.
• Not new, but the EFF has provided a service to detect whether or not your printer prints out identification tracking dots
• Microsoft’s Ballmer announces more expensive enterprise versions of Office and Windows for the next release
• FBI holds eight on piracy charge
• A judge has issued a restraining order against the ex-Microsoft employee Lee’s working at Google
• The Canadian Supreme Court has taken down the $25 iPod tax that began in late 2003
• Microsoft is said to be investigating the circumvention of their Windows Genuine Advantage system
• Opera to stop spoofing as IE in User Agent
• Apple releases a multi-button mouse!
• Apple is probably recruiting Sony engineers to build the first Intel PowerBook
• The circumvention of Microsoft’s Windows Genuine Advantage has sparked economists saying that Microsoft will have to lower its prices
• OSx86, the home of OSX on x86

Finally wanted to get ruby-mode functioning in mmm-mode.

This link was the most helpful (and so are the links on the page): http://blog.invisible.ch/archives/000417.html

Finally, I settled for this:

;;; mmm-mode
(require 'mmm-auto)
(setq mmm-global-mode 'maybe)
(setq mmm-submode-decoration-level 0)
	
;;; ruby-electric (omg this is going to spoil me)
(require 'ruby-electric)
	
(defun ruby-indent ()
  (local-set-key \"\C-m\" 'ruby-reindent-then-newline-and-indent))
	
(add-hook 'ruby-mode-hook
          '(lambda ()
             (ruby-indent)
             (ruby-electric-mode)
             ))
	
;;; eRuby (ruby/html mmm)
(mmm-add-classes
 '((erb-code
    :submode ruby-mode
    :front \"< %[#=]?\"
    :back \"%>”
    )))
	
(add-hook ‘html-mode-hook
          (lambda ()
            (setq mmm-classes ‘(erb-code))
            (mmm-mode-on)))
(add-to-list ‘auto-mode-alist ‘(”\\.rhtml$” . html-mode))

Now, I spent 2 hours trying to figure out how the HECK to get indentation working within the HTML. When I first saw it wasn’t working, I thought it was just me, but someone has noted this before. My last attempt almost ran me out of ideas. Since ruby-mode looks for indentational keywords, I would add “< %" to the list, as it is always precedes in embedded ruby anyway. Unfortunately, that doesn't work, but I think the reason why is because mmm-mode suppresses the initial start string from the encapsulated mode, so ruby-mode never sees it.

Instead, I went straight to the functions that used ruby-indent-beg-re. ruby-beginning-of-indent finds where ruby-mode should start indenting, so I decided to include the "(" in ruby-indent-beg-re. Of course, with all the other stuff that ruby-beginning-of-indent puts in, this fix might not work at all, so I modified the function to use this instead:


- concat "^\\(" ruby-indent-beg-re "\\)\\b"
+ concat "^\\(" ruby-indent-beg-re "\\)\\b\\|\("