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Author Archives: frank
Meego – a first stroll
I was curious about the current state of MeeGo so i decided to have a look at the handset image that was released last Monday (v1.1). The image can be run inside QEMU or inside a chroot environment using Xephyr. … Continue reading
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Ubuntu: headless install traps
Ubuntu can be installed headless using a serial console. A number of people have documented how to do it (for example http://zensonic.dk/?p=264). The theory looks simple, but in practice there are a few traps that can be really frustrating. I’ve … Continue reading
Podcasts: Scott Meyers on C++0x/Johan Bezem on Misra
Software Engineering radio recently had two episodes which are of particular interest to the C/C++ developer. First Scott Meyers gives a nice high-level overview on the features of the upcoming C++0x standard covering Lambda expressions, Uniform initialization, Initializer lists, threading … Continue reading
Posted in C++, C++0x, Podcast
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Eclipse CDT language mappings
Eclipse/CDT fails to parse some file? You don”t see anything wrong with it, neither does the compiler? Still CDT underlines parts or all of a file to mark a parse error? The most probable cause is that your file has … Continue reading
Integrating the NetworkManager with aiccu
I am using the service of SixXS to connect my laptop with the IPv6 internet. They provide an utility called aiccu to setup the tunnel. Getting it to work is really painless. Just do an “apt-get install aiccu”, configure your … Continue reading
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Kubuntu 9.10 DNS/network troubles
After installing Kubuntu 9.10 RC1 networking became kind of flaky. It somehow worked but everything was slow and unpredictable. It was most visible while browsing the web. Some pages where loading for ages (5+ minutes), some never finishing to load … Continue reading
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Adding new sites to the eclipse updater “hangs”
Just for the record: If adding a new site to your eclipse updater seems to hang/times out (entry is always “pending…”), its most probably not a problem with the update site itself but rather some firewall interfering. Make sure you … Continue reading
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Installing a gcc4.4 snapshot on Ubuntu
The upcoming gcc4.4 release adds a few more C++0x features (initializer lists, auto typed variables, defaulted and deleted functions, strongly typed enums, …) to the in this regard still very incomplete g++. To be able to play with it one … Continue reading
Posted in C++, C++0x
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Eclipse CDT 6 Milestone 5
The final release of CDT6 is still a few month ahead (scheduled for ~June) but there are already public milestone builds available. I haven’t played much with M5 but one thing that directly caught my attention is that you no … Continue reading
Elegant human readable enums
While reading the source of some FOSS project i noticed that the authors have come up with a nice way to get human readable enums through the use of the “stringification feature” of the C/C++ preprocessor. The trick is that … Continue reading
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