I ran across a tip I want to preserve and pass along. The original post is at The Telarah Times. apt-get build-dep <package_name> This will get all the dependencies needed to compile your package – providing that package_name is something that would normally install using a simple apt-get install command. For example:If you wanted to [...]
Archives for September 2008
erl process handling commands
Note to self: some handy erlang shell commands for dealing with processes. process_info(Pid) i() erlang:processes(), or better yet, rp(erlang:processes()). Sometimes long lists show “…” to represent the tail elements. Wrapping in rp() shows the whole list. Finally, exit(Pid, kill) to kill the process represented by Pid. For a while I thought that exit(Pid) sufficed, but [...]
leo font rendering woes
It has been months since I converted my work machine from Windows XP to Ubuntu Hardy. There is only one program I miss, the fabulous Leo text editor. Leo is not just a text editor. If it were only that I would have little use for Leo, since I already use Emacs, the one true [...]
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