I have built a windows C++ application that I'd like to port to linux. The main reasons to do this is ease of system maintenance for our IT staff. Apart from the one windows machine that runs this application we're a linux only operation. The reason this application was built in-, and runs on- windows is that it uses a windows API (dll ...
I've heard that you need to get a mac if you want to develop iphone apps. Is it true? Is it possible to develop iPhone Apps using Linux. If yes what do I need and where to download the necessary tools such as sdk? ...
Is there any c library to get a video from the webcam on linux? ...
Why do Linux distros have different package managers? I find this very strange because other software such as text editors, desktop environments and graphics software (Inkscape, Blender, GIMP) are shared among distributions. Why not have a common setup tool? ...
So I was thinking about bloopers I've made or have seen made in a *nix systems and was wondering what others think the worst blooper they made was? I couldn't find a similar question already asked but I can't believe this isn't a copy question but then again may users are so perfect the idea of a blooper is impossible. Fire away. ...
I'm setting up a new server, and want to support UTF-8 fully in my web application. I have tried in the past on existing servers and always seem to end up having to fall back to ISO-8859-1. Where exactly do I need to set the encoding/charsets? I'm aware that I need to configure Apache, MySQL and PHP to do this - is there some standard c...
Been trying to upgrade my subversion installation, but due to (what I believe) are limited rights (I'm using hosted Linux account), I'm not able to properly "./configure" and compile the source code (see posts Post1 and Post2 if very interested) So, I'm thinking if I could just download pre-compiled binaries, the just might solve my pro...
Hi, I am forking a number of processes and I want to measure how long those it take to to complete the whole task, that is when all processes forked are completed. Please advise how to make the parent process to wait until all child process are terminated? I want tu make sure that I stop the time watch in the right moment. Here is as a...
I've used straight Mongrel, I've used Mongrel clusters behind Apache, I've looked at Thin, and I'm becoming very intrigued by Passenger. I've looked at Nginx, too. I've looked at MRI, Ruby Enterprise Edition, Rubinius, and JRuby. There are a lot of options, each claiming to be the new holy grail. What is the best option out there for a ...
Is there a progamatic method to set CPU affinity for a process in c/c++ for the linux operating system. ...
I'm going to rebuild my Linux box [yet] again. I have to create a few user groups, user accounts and install my standard packages. Until now I've just used the GUI tools. I was wondering if anyone has any recommendations on writing a script to create users, groups and install standard packages after I do a minimal install of my latest...
When building a application that accesses a MySQL database on linux using C/C++ i have to dynamically link into the mysql client library. Is there a way in which i can statically link the application so that the mysql client libraries are no longer required? What is the best practice, with regards to C\C++ development, to include rathe...
Imagine I have a process that starts several child processes. The parent needs to know when a child exits. I can use waitpid, but then if/when the parent needs to exit I have no way of telling the thread that is blocked in waitpid to exit gracefully and join it. It's nice to have things clean up themselves, but it may not be that big of...
I don't want to use Mac or Windows at work but I have a lot of work in Photoshop when I have to create an HTML page from a Photoshop design. What is the best way to use Photoshop CS3 in Linux, Wine, virtualization, ... ??? ...
I'm going to try out turbogears however I'm on windows vista. however due to firewall proxy problems, it seems i can't download .egg files which is required for setup turbogears to get installed in my windows environment. I do have a bootable, or I can make a bootable Linux USB, I can try cygwin but I am not sure where to start with cygw...
I need to write some Prolog programs for a class. Any recommendations? ...
I have an application that imports data from a pickled file. It works just fine in Windows but Mac and Linux behaviour is odd. In OS X, the pickled file (file extension ".char") is unavailable as a selection unless I set the file type to *.*. Then, if I select a file that has the .char extension, it won't load, giving the error unpick...
Suppose I have a process which spawns exactly one child process. Now when the parent process exits for whatever reason (normally or abnormally, by kill, ^C, assert failure or anything else) I want the child process to die. How to do that correctly? Some similar question on stackoverflow: (asked earlier) http://stackoverflow.com/ques...
I need more than the default diff! I have recently purchased "Beyond Compare" and I'd like to integrate it with svn, so its launched when I type: svn diff foo.c How do I do this? ...
I want to transform "/foo/bar/.." to "/foo" Is there a bash command which does this? ...