"December 26th 2008: Copyright developed in the age of the printing press, and was designed to fit with the system of centralized copying imposed by the printing press. But the copyright system does not fit well with computer networks, and only draconian punishments can enforce it. This speech will be part of the Freedom in Computer Technology 2008 conference..."

Good quote from Chairman Gates .

Shell programming is heavily dependent on string processing. The term string is used generically to refer to any sequence of characters; typical examples of strings might be a line of input or a single argument to a command. Users enter responses to prompts, file names are generated, and commands produce output.

"Magit is a spectacular Emacs add-on for interacting with git. Magit was designed with git in mind (unlike VC mode, which is a more generic utility), so git commands map quite straightforwardly onto Magit commands..."

"Emacs is a beast of many, many faces. No one can really understand the whole thing. There are so many packages, so many functions, so many details… but this post is simple, really: it’s about using Emacs as a debugger for your C/C++ programs..."

"After “I’m a PC.” and “I’m a Mac.” there will be the revolution of the Operating Systems: The GNU/Linux one. :) The thing is that we aren’t a Linux, but we are Linux. (GNU/Linux people will understand this sentence..."

I believe that it is making a fundamental mistake by choosing to play by the rules laid down by the two biggest proprietary computing companies - Microsoft and Apple. In doing so, it throws away all its natural advantages - notably its differentness - and attempts to compete on its enemies' terms