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Which version are you running?

I am on 6.8.50.20081120-cvs I seem to have auto completion (on tab)

hmm, Linux?

After trying many clients, I have settled for rTorrent (libtorrent.rakshasa.no) which is quite lean and terminal based (so that I can wrap it in a Screen session)

It supports OS X as well.

surkion Emacs isn't for everyone

Did you try Gnu Global? I mostly use it for C/C++, but it claims to support "C, C++, Yacc, Java and PHP4".

surkion Emacs isn't for everyone

You are right on some fronts. It does require some work in Emacs to set up the ideal dev. environment.

I mostly do C/C++ stuff. I use gnu global for code tagging and navigation [1](aka "goto definition" thing). As for project organization, I have no experience but you might want to check out CEDET [2]. It appears that CEDET has made it into emacs trunk, so hopefully you can get some nicer "project" stuff in emacs soon.

[1] http://www.gnu.org/software/global/

[2] http://cedet.sourceforge.net/

surkion Ask HN: accounting resources for startups?

Previous discussion about ledger - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=872244

surkion SSH tip: Automatic Reverse Tunnels for Workflow Simplification

On a related note, if you want to keep the connections open and get reconnected automatically on disconnection, try this autossh http://www.harding.motd.ca/autossh/

So I have something like

autossh -f -N -R 2222:localhost:22 home -S "none"

at my work machine(put into startup script), so I can always get back to the work machine from home.

surkion Bcvi - run vi over a 'back-channel'

Have you enabled SSH connection sharing? If you have a connection open already, it could leverage that (ssh does it, not tramp).

surkion Bcvi - run vi over a 'back-channel'

... "and emacs doesn't really work for me in terminals as well as vim."

What kind of problems are you facing running emacs in terminal? I always run emacs in terminal (wrapped inside a screen session) and I have found no problem so far.

I run emacs-trunk/rxvt with 256 colors/bash. But have also used gnome-terminal.

surkion Things Android Does Better Than iPhone OS

This post provides some more information about how iPhone's multitasking compares to Android

http://blog.rlove.org/2010/04/iphone-os-4-and-multitasking.h...

surkion Gmail has become unusably slow

Use IMAP access to get & sort messages by size and delete ?

surkion Primer (film)

On a tangential note, Timecrimes (Spanish) is another good movie I enjoyed watching - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Cronocr%C3%ADmenes

surkion VLC 1.1.0 1st release candidate, with VP8 and GPU decoding...

http://git.ffmpeg.org/?p=ffmpeg;a=commitdiff;h=59b0bd5709404...

surkion Rethinking Cron

I think long term plan for upstart is to replace cron[1](generating events at scheduled time ...)

And some more general information here [2]

[1] http://upstart.ubuntu.com/faq.html#replace-cron

[2] http://www.netsplit.com/2006/09/01/upstart-can-now-replace-s...

surkion Rethinking Cron

How about http://upstart.ubuntu.com/

surkion GNU/Linux: Emergency Restart

You don't have to recompile, you can control it through proc (/proc/sys/kernel/sysrq)

surkion Reddit's Server HTTP response header is is "'; DROP TABLE servertypes; --"

curl -I http://wordpress.com/

HTTP/1.1 200 OK

Server: nginx

Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 07:17:29 GMT

Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8

Connection: close

Last-Modified: Mon, 17 May 2010 07:17:26 +0000

Cache-Control: max-age=27, must-revalidate

Vary: Cookie

X-hacker: If you're reading this, you should visit automattic.com/jobs and apply to join the fun, mention this header.

X-Pingback: http://wordpress.com/xmlrpc.php

Link: <http://wp.me/1>; rel=shortlink

X-nananana: Batcache

surkion Gmail vs Pine

Did you try Wanderlust(emacs)? I previously used to have offlineimap(gmail) + Mutt. Wanderlust has wonderful support for IMAP.

surkion Depression’s Upside

On a similar note, I found this book http://www.amazon.com/Solitude-Return-Self-Anthony-Storr/dp/... to be quite interesting. It discusses about solitude, its necessity and other related issues like depression in detail.

surkion A Solar Powered, 50-Watt Cellular Network For India

One of the main issue is continuous power supply. You might get power for couple of hours a day which is good enough for charging mobile. But then towers would need to have a generator for 24x7 operation. So this technology fills that gap.

surkion Notion Ink Tegra Android smartpad

And the notion ink's homepage http://www.notionink.com/

surkion Txtr reader - an open ebook reader(Kindle alternative?)

A review: http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/10/15/new-e-reader-txtr-germa...

And according to txtr's site, it is going to cost about 319 Euros - http://reader.txtr.com/en/

surkion Ask HN: Little things/tools that improved your work or life lately?

Wanderlust (Emacs Email client).

I use it with gmail imap interface. Completely changed the way I manage emails.

http://www.gohome.org/wl/

surkion XIOMACS: a stumpwm/emacs oriented desktop hyper environment

Looks like it hasn't been updated for about a year. Personally, I use stumpwm + conkeror + emacs + screen + emacs.wanderlust(for gmail imap).

surkion GNU Screen - A Hacker's Ideal Terminal

I posted my config sometime back. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=843630

surkion GNU Screen - A Hacker's Ideal Terminal

` cannot be used since in terminal C + ` or C + SPC or C + @ translates into same thing(only allowed characters are @ [ \ ] ^ and _ ). I personally prefer using \

surkion Screen for ghetto servers and startup scripts

I use screen for most of the work (terminals, emacs -nw, rtorrent, mail(emacs-nw+wanderlust) etc), along with stumpwm and conkeror.

Here are some configs, may be someone will find it useful

http://pastebin.com/f15ac6dfe

http://pastebin.com/m7658c531

And a screenshot: http://img136.yfrog.com/i/screenshotmz.png/

surkion Ask YC: Do you have a cool Arduino project?

http://hackaday.com/category/arduino-hacks/

surkion How to Back Up Gmail In Linux

offlineimap + {mutt, dovecot}

- Two way sync

- All my other accounts (university etc..) are sync'd into gmail