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!

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

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\\|\("