I wanted to mention a few words the Autoconf. Autoconf generates that wonderful configure script which tells you whether you have all the things required the application you’re trying to compile (or not).  Configure scripts also build Makefiles out of either Makefile.in or Makefile.am files. This is great because it lets […]

I don’t know what Tom was thinking when he gave me an account. I just bitch and whine here when #seneca is empty.
Distcc seems to be coming pretty slowly now that we have to write our own tests. I’ve actually come across a few problems with the gdb, gnu’s debugger, when tring to debug a […]

Ok, so Jonathan Temple, the guy who wrote this article, is 17 but he started using Linux when he was 11. Arguably he might have used the mentioned tools when he was 11, though.
Anyway, the article mentions some cool tools that I didn’t know about (e.g. root-tail) and some that I did but didn’t know […]

Above I’m refering to the now (in)famous clip of Steve Ballmer standing on stage screaming “Developers! Developers”. However, Windows XP still doesn’t come with grep (imagine a unix system not coming with grep!?!?!). Developer tools don’t need to be huge IDEs, they can small and useful command line apps.
If, like me, you get stuck doing […]

My only real problem with Ubuntu has been caused by using the Canadian repositories instead of the general (US?) ones.
I don’t know how I feel about using packages instead fo doing stuff from source. I guess it’s nice to be warned about updates and stuff but it just seems so weird. Like cheating or something. […]

Oooh… I forgot to mention that I have my linux desktop printing to my cups server. .
I’ll complain about CUPS setup later, but I would like to point you to this article. Please note the date: 03 Jul 2004. And no, they still haven’t mentioned it anywhere (that I found, nor did anything in […]