emacs

This afternoon Jimmy, one of our Machinist, walks into my office and asks me stop by a friends of his machine shop when I get off of work. They bought a CMM and were having trouble getting the computer it was hooked up to to recognize it. Aside from only know what a CMM is and the basic principles behind it, I know nothing about CMMs, so naturally I said "yes, I'll be right over"..I love a technical challenge. In fact the less I know about something the more I want to get my hands on it.

I just found one of the most handy features in Ubuntu I think I have ever come accross:

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I installed EMMS (Emacs Multi Media System) so I could play my music from within emacs. I use emacs-snapshot which is the latest beta version of emacs (interesting to note that the beta is more stable than most official releases of software that runs on an OS from Redmond, Washington, but I digress). I just sudo aptitude install emms. A few minutes later it was installed.