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Monthly Archives: October 2007

WIndows XP on OLPC??

Picked up over at Reddit, MSFT is really trying to compete with OLPC: Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) has made progress in getting its Windows software to work on a low-cost laptop computer for poor children that currently runs on rival Linux software, an executive said on Thursday. And I find it preposterous. And they’re getting it […]

Posted byceesaxp2007-10-262015-04-05Posted inlinux, microsoft, msft, olpcLeave a comment on WIndows XP on OLPC??

C-fonts from Microsoft

There’s an article over at Slashdot referencing a blog post at hunlock about new Microsoft “core” fonts. The post is a bit dated, from April this year, but /. has just picked it up. I saw a link to hunlock back in April, most certainly over at Reddit. I have tried and installed the C-fonts […]

Posted byceesaxp2007-10-192015-04-05Posted inapple, fonts, msftLeave a comment on C-fonts from Microsoft

The 300+ changes in Leopard

I have been going through the Apple‘s 300+ New Features page and quite a few made me feel excited and much more eagerly waiting for Leopard than before. Here‘s a quick run-down of what I like on that list: AppleScript: Full Unicode Support for AppleScript. Finally. With the rest of Mac OS being so much […]

Posted byceesaxp2007-10-172015-04-05Posted inapple, applescript, features, leopard, mac, safariLeave a comment on The 300+ changes in Leopard

Which Emacs.app?

There’re many versions of GNU Emacs to choose from when it comes to MacOS. There’s a standard console-only Emacs that comes with the system. There’s Carbon Emacs that (as the name implies) uses Carbon libs. There’s an Aquamacs — again, the name is telling. But what I found to be a very nice addition to […]

Posted byceesaxp2007-10-012015-04-05Posted incarbon, cocoa, emacs, macLeave a comment on Which Emacs.app?

XML::Simple oversimplification

Perl’s XML::Simple module is an easy way to get your application to talk some basic XML. it uses expat to parse data, so there the leverage is good. But where things tend to go awry is with consistency of reading and writing back. Example Let us take the following sample XML document: <data> <survey key=”123″> […]

Posted byceesaxp2007-10-012015-04-05Posted inperl, xmlLeave a comment on XML::Simple oversimplification

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