The Copiale Cipher used by an 18th century secret society has been deciphered.

Decrypting secret codes has to appeal to the kid in all of us.

Recently I have been getting "Received unexpected response from..." errors. I found a TechSpot blog with a fix that worked for me.

One area that the Linux desktop has been missing is proper color management. Well, Richard Hughes has started developement of a GNOME Color Manager.

If you typically send patches to mail lists then Felipe Contreras' git send-email tricks blog post is definitely worth reading.

Another neat story about an encrypted message sent to the President of the USA in 1801. I find this kind of story fascinating.

Dave Jones is a genius. Using mutt and your editor to highlight your coding errors -- he should have patented that one!

While poking around on the Single UNIX Specification web site, I noticed a link to a Firefox Search Plugin.

With this plugin installed, you can search for keywords in the SUS directly from Firefox. Very cool.

Update 2009-10-12: Newer SUS link

As an emacs user, I knew the butterfly command. I just don't find it that useful.

In a discussion on creating a git repo for the gcc code base, Linus describes how git uses delta chains and how they relate to packing.

In the same discussion Linus has additional low level explanation.

With help from Andrew Cowie's blog post Getting Blosxom to work... my blog now has a functional RSS 2.0 feed.

Update 2009-10-12: Removed link to old RSS feed