Phil Hagelberg: "the Ruby developers have already offered it to be included in Emacs [...] It would make me very happy to get this in by the release of 23."

My Asus Eee PC 701 is a brilliant low-cost ultraportable notebook, but it has a really small screen (seven inches diagonally). I needed to find out how to make the best use of the available area when I was using the Firefox Web browser.

"A couple of articles have now been written about the unpleasant behaviour that people encounter with Firefox 3 in certain Linux configurations,[...]There are a lot of moving parts to this issue, and so it’s not surprising that there’s a fair bit of misunderstanding, though some of it seems less well-meaning that others, which makes me a bit sad."

A look back and a look at the latest influence of politics in technology.

Microsoft has just launched a program called OnMyWay, by which Microsoft will offer training and financial help to young people. It has begun dispersing help in Europe already, but more largesse is to come.

Assorted statements suggest that Microsoft may be gaining a little too much influence over ODF.

"...A nifty little trick is to use tramp, an emacs package for transparent remote editing of files using a secure protocol like ssh. You then use tramp to ssh into localhost as root, and modify the target file..."

I tested KDE 4.0 in Kubuntu 8.04 Remix edition. I know it's probably not the best distribution to test the relatively new KDE 4.0, but that was what I had available at the moment.