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Computer Mad Science: The Anatomy Of A Makefile Part 1

Posted 01-28-2012 at 01:17 PM by rainbowsally

Features:

Anatomy of a Makefile

Requires:

an editor that can produce real TABs
make
And bash (with a 'B')... Not DASH, the Debian default shell, which can cause problems with some makefiles, especially on KDE sytems when trying to link
libpthreads.

This might be interesting for even non-programmers, just to see how makefiles efficiently work through their dependencies.

[If you're already up to speed on what make does, skip to Part 2 and we'll create...

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To boot a broken openSUSE 11.4 (also dual-linux bootloader issues)

Posted 01-28-2012 at 03:31 AM by rainbowsally

Tags computer mad science, opensuse

To boot a broken openSUSE system:

Use the DVD. (I am not online when I do this but it should work either way.)

1. Select "install" at the main menu, then when you get to the menu,

2. Select "update" <- IMPORTANT! If you don't click on 'update' it will destroy your home folders at the last step. Reboot (reset is fine here) if there's any question and run the installer again.

Evaluating the root partition is ok....

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KDE Utils: new.exec, shell-exec (for ENTER & click on executables)

Posted 01-28-2012 at 03:08 AM by rainbowsally

Tags computer mad science, kde, utilities

[This post includes some test data showing what's wrong in KDE and a peek into the configuration files for various file types.]

Let's start with a program that writes programs. This is 'new.exec'.

file: new.exec (executable)
purpose: create a skeleton of a clickable shell program with an 'exec' extension.

Code:

#!/bin/sh
# creates a new exec file named $1.exec that does $2

name_exec="$1.exec"
cd_here='cd `dirname

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Simple C: Beyond Bash Part 2 - Dependency lister for dir branch (recursive)

Posted 01-27-2012 at 06:09 AM by rainbowsally
Updated 04-05-2012 at 08:01 PM by rainbowsally

Tags compile, computer mad science, deb, dependencies, rpm

[Note to myself: Needs rewrite using libLQ.]

Simple C: Beyond Bash Part 2 - Dependency lister for dir branch (recursive)

CHANGELOG

* Sat Feb 18, 2012 -rs

find-deps version 1.2

In 'find_elf()' changed pipecmd to "find * -executable -o name *.so*" because some libs
may not have have their executable flag set, such as an unpacked from an rpm package that
doesn't have the perms set until install time....

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samba

Posted 01-27-2012 at 02:10 AM by unibox

Hi friends,

i am using centos-5 for samba server. also i have created 3 samba user's for folder access
i.e:
user1
user2
user3

folder path
path= /data

now i want to view the /data folder only for user1. i tried many ways but it's not work.

if you know, please give the solution for this same.

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