Recently switched back to openSUSE after a brief stint with Ubuntu. I guess you need to try other things out to know how good you have it, eh?  Anyway, I'm playing with Leiningen and Quil, but for some reason or other, I could not get Leiningen to self-install, because of an exception:

java.security.KeyStoreException: problem accessing trust storejava.io.IOException: Invalid keystore format

It turns out that the java keystore is somehow corrupt on OpenJDK / openSUSE 12.3. Not sure who's at fault, but here's how to fix it.

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I recently noticed a bug when you start GNU Emacs win32 after starting Windows Magnifier: Emacs' cursor becomes a single-pixel "caret" instead of the box cursor. This makes the cursor very hard to find.

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I recently upgraded my Cygwin install and noticed that Cygwin has switched it's X server XWin.exe from the XFree86 codebase to the Xorg codebase. Besides an updated logo, it also has some other side-effects.

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