Emacs is playing fancy on the latest version (since emacs 23) it has now support for transparency at least on Linux when you have a composited Windows Manager. As explained on the Emacs wiki here everything is controlled by this frame parameter like this : (set-frame-parameter (selected-frame) 'alpha '(85 50)) I have automated the thing to allow the transparency to increase or decrease when combined with the alt key just put this code somewhere in your $HOME/.emacs or $HOME/.emacs.d/init.el : ...

It seems that there is no much documentation about how to do rsync like backup with duplicty so here it is : Install python-cloudfiles from here http://github.com/rackspace/python-cloudfiles #!/bin/bash UPLOAD_TO_CONTAINER="backup" #adjust it as you like export CLOUDFILES_USERNAME=Your Username export CLOUDFILES_APIKEY=API_KEY_YOU_GOT export PASSPHRASE=The Passphrase for your encrypted backup duplicity /full/path cf+http://${UPLOAD_TO_CONTAINER} This should take care to upload the backup files to the backup container. It does that incrementally and detect the changes to your file system to upload. There is much more option for duplicity look at the manpage for more info. ...

After seeing this script http://overhrd.com/?p=106 which allow to upload files with the file manager (finder) of MacosX to Rackspace Cloud Files, I have made a nautilus script that doe the same for us Gnome/Unix users. Available here : http://github.com/chmouel/nautilus-rackspace-cloud-file/tree/master

One of the best feature to have with Emacs when doing python development is to have a real time syntax error/warning check highlighted in your code to avoid many errors or superfluous code. This code is taken from the brillant Emacswiki python page. You need to install pyflakes first which should be available on your linux distro by default in a package or for the other OS you may follow the procedure from the pyflakes webpage. ...

It does not seems that emacs started with –daemon read the .Xdefauls resource it seems that the only way setting it is by the default-frame-alist variable. I have my setup like this : (setq default-frame-alist '((font-backend . "xft") (font . "Inconsolata-14") (vertical-scroll-bars) (left-fringe . -1) (right-fringe . -1) (fullscreen . fullboth) (menu-bar-lines . 0) (tool-bar-lines . 0) )) PS: inconsolata font can be installed from the package ttf-inconsolata

So if you have network-manager not detecting wireless networks it is probably because lately the driver need to be set as up to get the thing going. On my Debian I have added this to make it works : echo "/sbin/ip link set wlan0 up"|sudo tee /etc/default/NetworkManager

That weird output from sqlite3 command line is annoying you as well ? Just set this up to get something better : cat < <EOF>~/.sqliterc .mode "column" .headers on .explain on EOF

When you use the tags interface for Emacs or with VIM you have to generate your tag file everytime you have a new class or things get changed. Would not be cool to have inotify monitoring your project directory and run the etags command to generate it. With incron you have cron that can watch some portion of the filesystem and generate an action if certain event appears. So after installed (aptitude/urpmi) it I have configured this incrontab entry : ...

So if you get that shiny new Dell desktop and ACPI spit bunch of message at the install time and the network driver does not get detected you can follow these steps to have it working. Continue the install without the network until you reboot to grub. Add hpet=disable at the end of the boot kernel parameter and get into the system. Download the latest kernel for your architecture on : ...

Since I always forget stuff like this. This is the SQL query to detect mysql table schemas type (thanks to Darren.B) : SELECT table_name, table_schema, table_type, engine FROM information_schema.tables where table_schema not in ('information_schema', 'mysql');