Tag: Programming
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Unlucky sometimes
Sometimes life throws little curves at you to see if you are still awake, today has been one of those days. fglrx is (apparently) fixed I’ve had a long-running problem with fglrx on my laptop. The problem stems from ATI closed-source drivers with one of those laptops that has an ATI and Intel driver. It…
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When a dynamic library and program share functions
This is about making procps have a proper library but it really is a generic sort of question. Say you are making a library and a program that uses that library. Now at times you may have convience type functions; procps has them for things like escaping command names or allocation different sorts of memory. …
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First Look at Python
When the programming language Python came out while it seemed like an interesting idea, I didn’t really see the point. I already know Perl, PHP and C (plus a few others) why learn another language? So until recently, I didn’t Recent frustrations with PHP and how “loose” it is with things like variables made me…
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psmisc 22.14 Released
The upstream and Debian packages for psmisc version 22.14 were released tonight. This version has a lot of bugfixes. I’ve also taken some time to clean up some of the minor compile warnings I used to get which were mainly variables set but not used. Two bugs that I’ll concentrate on getting fixed for the…