Switching to emacs

I've pulled emacs 22 from the CVS, compiled it and switched to it from Xemacs. Main reason is that I want to use the org-mode (included with emacs 22) to keep collection of notes. Although it is supposed to work also with xemacs, i haven't been able to byte-compile it; it fails with an obscure error message. I did report a bug to the author, and I'm waiting for an answer now. I have a feeling that xemacs is now lagging behind emacs development, and it has definetely less community support on freenode irc. Moreover, it seems that most packages are first developed for emacs, and only then (maybe) ported to xemacs.

Tags: emacs xemacs

C++ std::vector problems

Inspired by a usenet discussion, I have described some problems in the current C++ definition and implementation of allocators and vectors. You can read more about it here.

Tags: C++ STL programming linux

Few links

Few days ago I stumbled upon this very nice and high-quality blog about math. This is another useful link with the FXT book and algorithm library. I'm amazed what some people generously give out for free.

Tags: mathematics programming books

Another GPL rant

You might already know that I'm less than a fan of GPL. Here is another view on the issue.

Tags: GNU GPL FSF

New stuff...

Soon I'm traveling to Portugal to attend the ICDCS 2006 conference. Related to this, I have put some new stuff on core-dump, my web site.

Now I'm a bit in between.. Maintaining a blog at blogger, and putting "more serious" stuff at core-dump. I've been thinking to continue writing the blog at core-dump, but somehow it doesn't feel "right". I like to keep the distinction between "serious" and "not serious" stuff. Any comments on that?

Tags: rumblings