error: ‘malloc’ was not declared in this scope
Translation: You are a bad person and did not include stdlib.h. Older versions of gcc let you get away with this. Not so with 4.3. I had similar errors for strcmp when not including string.h. I got...
View Article“How not to erase an old hard disk”, a new comedy by bda
The Cast: bda, veteran Linux user of 9+ years Dell Dimension P166, long time resident of basement storage unit Inspiron 700m laptop, secondary computer used regularly by bda bda – “I should get rid of...
View Articlepulseaudio module-combine arguments
I installed pulseaudio 0.9.13 in sidux (from experimental), and discovered that the FAQ about sending playback to two devices simultaneously is out of date. The correct syntax is: load-module...
View ArticleMulticast routing UPnP traffic with Linux
I use my Linux desktop, which has both wired and wireless network adapters, to connect my Xbox 360 to the wireless network. My wireless driver (rt73usb in 2.6.28) does not support source address...
View Article855GM tv-out not supported by new intel driver
I tried to connect my aging Inspiron 700m to my TV with S-Video, which has worked well in the past, only to discover that tv-out is no longer supported with the new intel driver (see this discussion at...
View Articlesidux kernel upgrade without dist-upgrade
Update: sidux is now called aptosid, updated package name. Debian “lenny” was released mid Feburary, and since then experimental packages have been making their way into sid much more quickly then...
View ArticleInstalling Python 2.6 in CentOS 5 (or RHEL5)
CentOS 5 uses python 2.4, and replacing it is not really on option since yum and other core packages depend on it. My solution is to compile 2.6 and use /opt or /usr/local for the prefix. I also create...
View ArticleInstalling Python 2.6 in Sidux/Debian/Ubuntu
Install Build Requirements If you have the appropriate deb-src entries in your sources.list files, then you can do this: apt-get build-dep python2.5 Replace 2.5 with the default version in your distro....
View Articlesimulating network delay in Linux
At work we are having a problem with OpenWRT, where daemons like wifidog and dnsmasq can’t get information about the wan network interface when they’re started if the wan uses DHCP and it takes too...
View ArticleWindows key in aptosid/sidux/debian
The default install of aptosid (formerly sidux) maps the windows key to compose (Multi_Key), which is used for entering special characters with key combinations. This drives me nuts, because (a) I use...
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