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PATH puzzle 4 37 (12/31/2007 6:32:01 AM) comp.unix.shell I was recently doing something and noticed that /home/john/bin was included in my PATH twice. I did a recursive search through /etc and /home/john and the only place I could find where /home/john/bin was ad... John

Dynamic multidimensional array using auto_ptr 8 20 (6/8/2006 12:56:42 AM) comp.lang.c++ Someone challenged me to create a dynamic multidimensional array using auto_ptr http://www.gotw.ca/gotw/042.htm Provides a good way to create a single dimensional array using an adapter. However I am unable ... Skay

Keyboard and mouse for a Sun Ultra 5 9 12 (5/6/2006 10:44:31 PM) comp.sys.sun.hardware Hi, Recently got an Ultra 5 to play about with. It came with an optical type 5 mouse, but no mouse mat. This means I'm slightly stuck since mouse mats for type 5 mice seem to be hard to obtain and I can't fi... Chris

RAID5 slowness (how to fix?) 11 14 (4/24/2006 4:23:49 PM) comp.os.linux.hardware Hello, I have recently setup a RAID-5 (software) for some data that my company frequently uses. Unfortunately, it is extremely slow! Backups of the data are taking roughly 11 hours. Is there any way for me to... David

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grep doesn't know '\xHH' ? 20 72 (8/22/2008 4:59:15 PM) comp.unix.programmer Please see below: $ echo -e '\xde\xad\xbe\xef' > test.txt $ od -t x1 test.txt 0000000 de ad be ef 0a 0000005 $ grep -b -E '\xef' test.txt $ echo $? 1 $ grep --version grep (GNU grep) 2.5.1 I am using Linux ... xiyou.wangcong (255)

perl vs python 24 41 (9/15/2008 7:07:06 PM) comp.unix.programmer Which one is best among perl and python ??? I know python and perl are different languages. But there are substitute of python like java, C#, etc similarly for perl there is so many substitutes. But these lang... lipun4u (226)

Dragon curve 1 32 (11/7/2008 5:57:47 AM) comp.programming I am fairly new to Perl programming, and recently heard about Regexp::Subst::Parallel, so I am trying to implement the Heighway dragon curve. Unfortunately, after a certain amount of iterations (12) it is horri... bjbdragon (36)

perl-critic test failure; magic variable '5' 2 14 (12/21/2008 5:58:16 PM) comp.lang.perl.modules I had a curious test failure installing Perl::Critic on cygwin this afternoon. I tracked the problem to t\Variables\Require \LocalizedPunctionationVars.run, which, amid the list of magic variables we know and ... paul2716 (2)

Perl split() doing something odd. 7 36 (1/15/2009 10:38:00 PM) comp.unix.programmer Here is an oddness I found in Perl 5.10 concerning split() and the way it handles runs of token delimiters at the end of a line. Originally this was with tab delimited data, but here I just use an actual "t" ... mathog (321)

test whether stdout is redirected 6 42 (2/11/2009 3:52:28 PM) comp.unix.programmer Hi, is there any possibility to find out from within a C program whether its standard output is redirected? I.e. my program myProg needs to do something else depending on whether it is called this way: $ myPr... cwarlich (77)

Nortel - Goes with Linux then goes Bankrupt 6 23 (5/25/2009 1:34:39 PM) comp.os.linux.advocacy Nortel choses Linux for $250 million routing platform http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2009/05/nortel-choses-linux-for-250-mi.html Nortel moves small-business IP-PBXs to Linux, delivers PoIP http://www.... there1 (525)

Windows 7 XP Mode 23 7 (6/14/2009 7:07:45 AM) comp.os.linux.advocacy Let me see if I have this right. Windows 7's advantage over Vista is that it will have the ability run XP in a virtual machine (if you buy one of the more expensive versions). Okay, I can do that in just abo... ronb02noSPAM (7081)

Computer Failures Are Probed in Jet Crash 56 14 (6/27/2009 4:22:16 AM) comp.os.linux.advocacy http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124605948270463623.html >>>QUOTE>>> Aviation investigators, running out of time to find the "black boxes" with key information on the crash of Air France Flight 447, suspect a r... noone (992)

"Interleave" permutation algorithm? 49 30 (8/26/2009 12:25:19 AM) comp.programming Hi. Is there a fast algorithm to compute the "interleave" and "deinterleave" permutation of any even-number-length data in-place? Like this: 0123456789 becomes 0516273849 (interleave) and 0516273849 becomes... mike4ty4 (405)