System info about name formatting? 2 40 (9/12/2012 12:22:42 PM)
Hi, Where do I find (from C) system information that will tell me if names should be shown as "First Last" or "Last, First"? Leo Havm�ller. ...
rtxleh (60)

Simpler localtime? 4 36 (9/12/2012 4:58:53 AM)
Hi, To get a timestamp, I often use: time_t t = time(0); struct tm* now = localtime(&t); Is there another function that would just directly give me a struct tm? Something like: struct tm now; ...
rtxleh (60)

getting the upper hand on ImageMagick 31 44 (8/22/2012 9:48:54 PM)
Hello Newsgroup, I had an unfortunate wiping out of my dual boot ubuntu/windholes install as I was wiping windows clean, because that's what you have to do periodically to get rid of all the malware. Th...
cal819 (188)

iPhone App To Help You Regain 20/20 Vision Naturally 0 14 (9/10/2012 4:17:21 AM)
http://goo.gl/xQy6Q - "20/20 Vision" is an iPhone app that will help you re= gain 20/20 vision naturally, by looking at images that relaxes your eyes an= d performing eye exercises that strengthen your eyes, ...
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adding debugs in c code 4 37 (9/6/2012 4:48:03 AM)
i often find adding debugs, ruins the readability of the code. i've checked many projects, where in often each debug statement spans 7 to 8 lines, which makes the code look ugly and even incomprehensible....
sinbad.sinbad (155)

Bash code issue 7 28 (9/5/2012 2:03:38 PM)
find . | while read -d $'\0' file do echo "$file" done The above bash code works fine on cygwin bash and prints out a list of files in the current directory. bash --version gives: GNU bash, ver...
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CLOSE_WAIT state on sockets during high volume 10 941 (1/6/2006 6:09:02 PM)
Hi, I have a client/server application running and communicating using IP sockets. During high volume traffic many of the client sockets are stuck in a CLOSE_WAIT state (as determined by lsof). Eventually I ...
jois.de.vivre (58)

What's the API for MD5 encryption? 47 48 (8/28/2012 1:16:44 PM)
The Linux system I'm working on is using MD5 encryption for /etc/shadow. None of the standard crypt() functions seem to support MD5 according to the man pages so what API call(s) will the login package be usi...
boltar20032 (164)

please help review epoll networking code 1 31 (8/30/2012 4:13:34 PM)
1. How does the code handle EPOLLIN, EPOLLOUT, EPOLLERR this way? for (iefd = 0; iefd != nefd; iefd++){ if (evp[iefd].data.fd == sfd) { ... } else { if ((evp[iefd].event...
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Learning UNIX 8 34 (8/26/2012 10:53:43 AM)
Anyone have any good websites, books, etc that they would recommend to learn UNIX? Thanks ...
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