JD's Linux Love
Wherein I jot down interesting Linux and other geeky tidbits.
Useless Use of Cat Award
Lot’s of funny little commandline anecdotes. Like don’t use ‘cat’ to view file contents.
Some .bashrc color defines
Someone on the #ArchLinux IRC was asking for some help in defining colors for their PS1 prompt and so I remembered some clever defines I had in mine. Mind you, they weren’t my idea, but copied’n’pasted a long time ago. But they make for much nice PS1 defines. Check it out.
Linux From Scratch, 6.7-rc1
Man, I wish I had time to go thru Linux From Scratch! I did a bunch of it about a year ago, going so far as to get the toolchain done and a partition readied, but that was all. v6.7 has a release candidate and now would be a good time to begin anew. Hrm.
Try Google’s Android Mobile OS on Your Computer with Live CD
Oh great, another “live” CD for me to spin my wheels on! This time, it is a full blown version of Android, as run on my (by now ancient) G1.
How a programmer reads your CV
via stevehanov.ca
Too funny!
An Overview Of Computer Programming
googlecl - Project Hosting on Google Code
This looks pretty cool - Google Commandline. Only thing missing, really, is ‘google search’.
rm ~/.titanium/runtime/linux/1.0.0/libglib-2.0.*
rm ~/.titanium/runtime/linux/1.0.0/libgio-2.0.*
rm ~/.titanium/runtime/linux/1.0.0/libgthread-2.0.* ” -
I really really really want to take some time and get to figure out Appcelerator. So I periodically install it, usually run into some kind of small problem, figure it out, run it a bit and then run out of time.
This time when I ran it I got:
./Titanium Developer: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0: undefined symbol: g_malloc_n
Simple fix was found here:
Too funny - fake trailer for the movie Java 4-ever. Not really much of a Java fan either, though. Give me Pthon or Qt/C++ any time.
How it works: Linux audio explained | TuxRadar Linux
As someone who has tried, and is trying, to implement an audio solution in Linux, this post has particular interest. Unfortunately, like Linux audio, there is no one solution :(
