Facebook giving Developer's access to user's information

Looks like Facebook is allowing developer's even more access to their users private info.
Now that just makes me wonder even more how the developers may try to use the info.

In my opinion it's just a violation of every user's privacy, if John Random Hacker
decides they have other ideas in mind on how to use the users information.

Facebook Privacy Concerns

Automate software builds with slackbuild

My good friend Tyce once asked me, "Man don't you get tired of watching software compile?"

Honestly I never look at it like that or from his state of mind.
Although most people claim that they don't have the time to wait
on software to compile, it's just my preferred way of doing things.

So my friend statement made me think about learning how to automate
compiling software on Slackware GNU/Linux. Although I knew Slack
had slackbuild scripts so I figure it was time I learned how to
write one.

My usual method entailed using NetBSD's pkgsrc package to quickly
build software packages, but now it's the Slack way via slackbuilds.

So I spent most of today reading just how to write slackbuild scripts.
Then once I read and understood how to write the script I commence writing one.
The next time I talk to my friend I'll let him I've automated the process.

Writing a SlackBuild Scriptbu

Emacs + Scheme IDE

Recently I just be relaxing and being lazy. Although over the last few
days I had been contemplating on setting up myself a more comfortable
environment for scheme within Emacs for Scheme programming.

Seeing that I am not a WIMP addict, so an Emacs solution will suffice for my purposes.  In the pursuit of automatic indenting on hitting the return when
working the REPL or with a file.

After searching I've ran across iuscheme from Indiana University.

Now I can use Ctrl-C Ctrl-I to re-indent definitions quickly and easily and
it automatically indents my code properly at the REPL and within files.


I am no scheme expert just another scheme enthusiast looking for a
comfortable work environment with Scheme '(Larceny) and Emacs.

Me and my Text Editor

Comfortable most people are with there choice of text editor.
And my comfort zone when it comes to editing is gnu/Emacs.
Since learning to use it, Emacs never fails to surprise me.

So I just learn what I need to know about Emacs to get done
what I need do. Recently while hanging out on #emacs@irc.freenode.net.

I learned that Emacs could be run as a daemon, though I've
seen it mention in the info documents. I never really messed
around with it much.

Until the last couple of weeks of using it and I'm loving it ;)

Emacs as Daemon

Playing with Gimp

With 2011 here already I decided to play around with gimp more this year.
This is just a simple photo manipulation done with gnu gimp, enjoy and Hopefully your
year will be mystical.


Mystical Journey by ~bitweiler on deviantART

My simple Ksh shell prompt

When it comes UNIX or UNIX-like operating systems a user's shell is of great
importance to the shell user. So the korn shell is my favorite shell of choice.
Mostly the ksh93 version of it that's now open source from AT&T that was developed by David Korn.


I finally got around to replacing /bin/ksh on my Linux box yesterday with
the version of the korn shell I prefer and set it up to be my login shell of course.

What version of ksh do I have?
$print ${.sh.version}
Version JM 93t+ 2010-06-21


Functions that I've found to be handy over time so I've placed them in my .kshrc environment file.

# Function md - make a directory and cd to it.
function md {
mkdir $1 && _cd $1
}

# Function _cd - changes directories, then sets the
# command prompt to: "command-number:hostname:pathname$"
function _cd {
if (($# == 0))
then
'cd'
PS1=!:`uname -n`':${PWD#$OLDPWD/}$'
fi
if (($# == 1))
then
'cd' $1
PS1=!:`uname -n`:'${PWD#$OLDPWD/}$'
fi
if (($# == 2))
then
'cd' $1 $2
PS1=!:`uname -n`:'${PWD#$OLDPWD/}$'
fi
}

Then my command prompt from my .profile:
PS1='!:`uname -n`':${PWD#$OLDPWD/}$'

Over my time of using the korn shell I've always found those to very handy little functions.  This give my a command prompt that always let me know where I'm
at within a directory and the host machine that I'm connected to without cluttering to much space.

185:dark:/home/bitweiler$

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