Heya,
So, as some people will have read on the meeting announcement, we're
going to have a small GPG keysigning.
So, to get an idea of who'll be signing, it'd be nice if people could
let me know by emailing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> with your name and perhaps a
fingerprint of your key (gpg --fingerprin
Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
OK, you are suggesting that the compiler should treat parameter
names and function names as being in separate name spaces.
If you then have a function named foo and parameter named foo
and you use foo in your function? How does the compiler
distinguish between foo th
quote("Terry Collins");
>Can anyone tell me how to change the global default keyboard for Ubuntu
>(Warty?)
install-keymap and edit your XFree86 config.
-Chris.
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Benno wrote:
> True, I think that gcc treating parameter names in function
> declarations as `public' is total arse though.
OK, you are suggesting that the compiler should treat parameter
names and function names as being in separate name spaces.
If you then have a function named foo and paramet
On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 03:27:44PM +1200, Adam Bogacki wrote:
> >Anyway, the general concept is to find the script that is being run
> >and trace it.
> Thanks again but I can't find the ntp daemon (presumably ntpd) in
> /var/lib/dpkg
Alright, I just reread your message and noticed that you're ins
I am trying to install Interchange on Fedora Core 3 but it complains
that Interchange will not run on multi-threaded Perl.
WTF...???
There is an option I spotted of an environment variable
MINIVEND_FORCE_THREADS, which I have set, but it still won't install
cleanly.
My two options are:
How
On Wed May 25, 2005 at 13:14:34 +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
>Benno wrote:
>
>> Doesn't fix the problem. The implementation of the functions don't
>> include. the header with the shadowing. A more full example follows:
>>
>> ### foo.h
>>
>> int foo(int bar);
>>
>>
>> ### foo.c
>>
>> #in
Ian Wienand wrote:
>On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 11:22:22AM +1200, Adam Bogacki wrote:
>
>
>>Ian Wienand wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Try running /var/lib/dpkg/ntpd.post with bash -x and see where it's
>>>failing.
>>>
>>>
>
>
>
>>Thanks, but my /var/lib/dpkg does not include 'ntpd.post'
>>
>>
>
>W
I have a Dell Poweredge 700 that is randomly locking up. After some
googling it seems quite possible that it is related to a bad APIC
implementation.
I suspect this problem because dmesg shows me this:
ACPI: Local APIC address 0xfee0
ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x01] lapic_id[0x00]
On Wed, 2005-05-25 at 07:36 +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
> When I'm developing, I also add -Werror.
Always!
>
> In the near future, I will probably also add -Wswitch, -Wfloat-equal,
> and -Winline.
We added -Winline recently in order to solve some build problems on
pre-historic RedHat. Th
Benno wrote:
> Doesn't fix the problem. The implementation of the functions don't
> include. the header with the shadowing. A more full example follows:
>
> ### foo.h
>
> int foo(int bar);
>
>
> ### foo.c
>
> #include
>
> int foo(int bar) { return bar * 2; }
You have to admit that this i
> Voytek Eymont wrote:
> Sigh. There as stack of stuff run when you login. See /etc/profile
> and /etc/profile.d/*. These are running commands like id, egrep, uname.
> But hey, you haven't allowed non-root users to run those so they can't
> be run when a non-root user logs in.
Glen,
yes, I c
Hi,
Just make sure /boot partition is under the 8gb or 20 gig size of the hard
disk.
Once loaded linux (or even windows nt/2k/xp) for that matter don't care
about the bios limitions.
Jeffrey
On Thu, 19 May 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello,
I'm looking to replace the hard disk drive o
On Wed May 25, 2005 at 12:21:35 +1000, Peter Miller wrote:
>On Wed, 2005-05-25 at 09:20 +1000, Benno wrote:
>> This will warn about the name of an argument in a function
>> *declaration*, shadowing a global.
>
>I try very hard to make the parameter names in the function prototype
>match the paramet
On Wed, 2005-05-25 at 09:20 +1000, Benno wrote:
> This will warn about the name of an argument in a function
> *declaration*, shadowing a global.
I try very hard to make the parameter names in the function prototype
match the parameter names in the function definition. This makes the
Doxygen docu
Dear list,
I have a need for a solution involving some glue code for a number of FLOSS
video projects.
After reading Paul Grahams article www.paulgraham.com/hiring.html I was
thinking of running a programming contest.
I was thinking of offering US$ 10,000 in cash as various prizes such as
Voytek Eymont wrote:
I've copied some system binaries from one system to another, scp (as root)
through my /home/voytek dir, then, copied to wherever they were supposed
to live, /bin, /usr/bin, and, chmoded as ---x--
that worked fine, EXCEPT, now, when I ssh to the system, I get this
when I
On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 10:03:08AM +1000, John Clarke wrote:
> and for C++ I use:
>
> -Wall -W -Wpointer-arith -Wfloat-equal -Wcast-align -Wcast-qual
> -Waggregate-return -Wno-unused-parameter -Wreorder
> -Wctor-dtor-privacy -Wnon-virtual-dtor -Wno-non-template-friend
I don't do much
On Wed, 2005-05-25 at 10:13 +1000, Benno wrote:
> On Wed May 25, 2005 at 10:03:08 +1000, John Clarke wrote:
> >And I always try to fix warnings when they appear so that my code
> >compiles without generating any if possible, then any new warnings stand
> >out and don't become lost in the noise.
>
On Wed May 25, 2005 at 10:03:08 +1000, John Clarke wrote:
>On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 07:36:33 +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
>> Jamie Honan wrote:
>>
>> > On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 10:41:27PM +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
>> > > If -Wshadow catches on single bug its worth living with or
>> > >
On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 07:36:33 +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
> Jamie Honan wrote:
>
> > On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 10:41:27PM +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
> > > If -Wshadow catches on single bug its worth living with or
> > > rather working around any spurious warnings.
> > >
> > > I wou
On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 11:22:22AM +1200, Adam Bogacki wrote:
> Ian Wienand wrote:
>> Try running /var/lib/dpkg/ntpd.post with bash -x and see where it's
>> failing.
> Thanks, but my /var/lib/dpkg does not include 'ntpd.post'
Wow, I suck; two errors in the one line. What I really meant was
/var/
Ian Wienand wrote:
>On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 09:20:42PM +1200, Adam Bogacki wrote:
>
>
>>Hi, I keep getting the following error message.
>>
>>
>>
>>>Setting up ndtpd (3.1.5-6.3) ...
>>>Ydpkg: error processing ndtpd (--configure):
>>> subprocess post-installation script returned error exit sta
`>On Wed May 25, 2005 at 07:10:00 +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
>Benno wrote:
>
>> My main work around for this was having function declarations in
>> header files not specify the name of arguments, to avoid potential
>> spurious clashes. However this means that I can't use doxygen, which
>> re
> Voytek Eymont wrote:
>>what have I done... ? they are they supposed to be executing on login...
> check your startup files.. (like .bash_profile) there's probably some
> attempt to set up aliases and they expect the executables to be world
> readable. (which is bad but not unheard of).
Trent
Voytek Eymont wrote:
what have I done... ? they are they supposed to be executing on login... ?
check your startup files.. (like .bash_profile) there's probably some
attempt to set up aliases and they expect the executables to be world
readable. (which is bad but not unheard of).
Trent
I've copied some system binaries from one system to another, scp (as root)
through my /home/voytek dir, then, copied to wherever they were supposed
to live, /bin, /usr/bin, and, chmoded as ---x--
that worked fine, EXCEPT, now, when I ssh to the system, I get this
when I log in as root, I don'
Jamie Honan wrote:
> On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 10:41:27PM +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
> > If -Wshadow catches on single bug its worth living with or
> > rather working around any spurious warnings.
> >
> > I wouldn't cut C code without it.
>
> Erik, what are the warnings you regularly use?
Benno wrote:
> My main work around for this was having function declarations in
> header files not specify the name of arguments, to avoid potential
> spurious clashes. However this means that I can't use doxygen, which
> relies on the name of arguments to document the functions.
Wouldn't it be b
On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 10:41:27PM +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
> If -Wshadow catches on single bug its worth living with or
> rather working around any spurious warnings.
>
> I wouldn't cut C code without it.
Erik, what are the warnings you regularly use?
I naively assumed -Wall was every
On Tue, 2005-05-24 at 22:41 +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
> Benno wrote:
>
> > Does anyone want to convince me otherwise?
>
> I have seen bugs in GNU Arch and Ecartis (mailing list manager)
> that were caused by a variable in an outer scope being shadowed
> in an inner scope.
>
> If -Wshadow
On Tue May 24, 2005 at 22:41:27 +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
>Benno wrote:
>
>> Does anyone want to convince me otherwise?
>
>I have seen bugs in GNU Arch and Ecartis (mailing list manager)
>that were caused by a variable in an outer scope being shadowed
>in an inner scope.
>
>If -Wshadow catc
Benno wrote:
> Does anyone want to convince me otherwise?
I have seen bugs in GNU Arch and Ecartis (mailing list manager)
that were caused by a variable in an outer scope being shadowed
in an inner scope.
If -Wshadow catches on single bug its worth living with or
rather working around any spuri
Ok, so we all know enabling warnings are a really good idea. But what
do people think about -Wshadow?
It helps catch badness like this:
int foo(int x)
{
int y = 0;
{
int y;
y = 12;
}
return y;
}
But also causes stuff like this:
int
> On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 03:25:09PM +1000, Voytek wrote:
> For whatever's left do what you've been doing;
> rpm -qf /etc/x11/some-file
> yum remove whatever-package-that-returned.
>
> Do you use ANY X / gui client program?
Matt, thanks again
all I have left is
/applnk ;/fs ;/serv
On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 09:20:42PM +1200, Adam Bogacki wrote:
> Hi, I keep getting the following error message.
>
> > Setting up ndtpd (3.1.5-6.3) ...
> > Ydpkg: error processing ndtpd (--configure):
> > subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
> > Errors were encountered
Hi, I keep getting the following error message.
Can anyone suggest a fix ?
Adam Bogacki,
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Setting up ndtpd (3.1.5-6.3) ...
> Ydpkg: error processing ndtpd (--configure):
> subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
> Errors were encountered while process
Matthew Tydd wrote:
Hello Linux users.
My name is Matthew Tydd and if have just rebooted windows (XP Pro) for
the 5th time this morning.
I would like some help configuring Linux but would prefer 1-1 help.
Is it possible for someone to give me a hand? I am willing to pay.
I have an installati
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