windows – Diary of an Emacs tragic

How to make a bootable usb stick in Windows 7 of a debian iso

Jason — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 02:20:25 +0000

Every so often I need to make a bootable USB stick in Windows 7 (64 bit) of a debian installer iso. For some reason my googling usually does not reveal a simple solution for this. I asked on #debian on the OFTC network and got various suggestions. The first suggestions were to use win32 compiled variants of dd or rawwrite. The problem is that there seems to be multiple versions of these tools out…

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Project Euler No. 1 in Emacs elisp

Jason — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 09:18:25 +0000

My first Project Euler solution, and my first emacs elisp program. Multiples of 3 and 5. If we list all the natural numbers below 10 that are multiples of 3 or 5, we get 3, 5, 6 and 9. The sum of these multiples is 23. Find the sum of all the multiples of 3 or 5 below 1000. My solution…

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Flipping the mouse wheel scroll direction in Windows 7

Jason — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 01:46:52 +0000

I have been getting very confused between the mouse wheel scroll directions in Windows 7 and Mac OS X Lion. As I consider OS X to be the future, I decided to try and flip the mouse wheel scroll direction in Windows. Turns out there is a registry setting to do this: Set the value of FlipFlopWheel to 1 You need to find the USB enumeration values (shown above as ????). You can get those by going…

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gnus, imap and gnutls in win32

Jason — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 01:11:23 +0000

I’ve been trying to get gnus working in emacs in win32 for the past few days. There were a number of obstacles to overcome: Unfortunately these last two steps were not obvious to me and it took me quite some time to work through them. Tip: if you need to debug gnutls, try setting . Now all I need to do is learn gnus!

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