Re: [SLUG] GCC question

2005-04-20 Thread Amir Binyamini
Hi,
There is an excellent Borland-like IDE for beginners, and if
you hunt around www.freshmeat.net you'll probably find it.
I had tested several IDEs on linux for programming C/C++.
It seems to me that a minimum requrement for an IDE wiil be the following 
three fearures :
1) support for gcc compilation
2) a reasonable debugger (watches, berakpoints)
3) code completion

A good candidate I encountered is  kdevelop; http://www.kdevelop.org. 
(free,open source).

The problem with it is that sometime the code completion does not work. And 
if you are
aiming at  medium/big projects it is really annoying. Really annoying!

The same Kdevelop ide supports aslo other programming languauges like Java 
but I didn't tested it.

There is borland C/C++ for linux (it's called cbuilderX ; it is non free); 
However, it did not had code completion when I tested it
about 2-3 months ago (maybe now they have). They do have a debugger with 
watches,breakpoints,and it looks like the usual boreland IDE.

What I am trying in the last months , and it seems that I will probably 
adopt, is the eclipse IDE.
This is a free , open source IDE , supported by IBM.
see: http://www.eclipse.org

When you download Eclipse you get an IDE for java;
In order that Eclipse will support C/C++ you should also download and 
install
C/C++ Development Tools from http://www.eclipse.org/cdt.

I had done so and up till now it is OK.
Take in mind that the eclipse ide is quite heavy because it is written in 
Java.

However, if you intend to work in the future in Java , knowing this IDE can 
be a little advantage
if you will choose it for java development.

The eclipse  IDE also runs on windows (There are sometimes, 
unforunately,cases when people need it...)

Regards.
Amir





From: Glen Turner [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: David Bowskill [EMAIL PROTECTED]
CC: slug@slug.org.au, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [SLUG] GCC question
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 10:28:01 +0930
David Bowskill wrote:
Your email has been very helpful to me - thanks again.  When I initially 
copied the program from Herbert Schildes book
Well that explains why you're incrementing characters in strings.
I was wondering (it's not really a good idea because of
internationalisation).
Herbert Schildt's books aren't fantastic -- he has written a lot,
he explains things poorly and they don't get updated that often.
And the enforcement of strings literals being constant is only
recently come into vogue. For a long time it wasn't seen as a
good idea, but in this age of buffer overflows you want everything
that can be a constant to be a unalterable.
The library function strdup()  is not mentioned in KR but strcpy() is - I 
assume that these are very similar.
It's in UNIX98, not ANSI/ISO C.  Sorry about that. Off the top of my head
char *strdup(const char *str)
{
char *new;
new = (char *)malloc(strlen(str) + 1);
if (new) {
strcpy(new, str);
}
return new;
}
[Once you've learnt C have a look at PJ Plauger's book on implementing
 the standard C library.  There's no better way to learn to use a
 library than to be walked through an implementation by a wonderful
 author.]
There is another question which  no doubt you can help on - I have read 
that the library function  'gets' (defined in KR) is regarded as 
dangerous in Linux - is this true?
It's unsafe in any operating system.  Take this example to read
a string of up to 10 characters:
  char s[10+1];
  success = gets(s);
  if (!success) { ...
now what's going to happen when the user feeds it 20 characters?
It's going to try to write outside the bounds of the allocated
string.
You want to say this:
  #define S_SIZE (10 + 1)
  char s[S_SIZE];
  success = fgets(s, S_SIZE, stdin);
  if (!success) {
perror(Failed reading hotel name);
exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
  }
Note how I handled the error. Every I/O is checked for errors,
and the error message is in the user's terminology.
Also, do you know of an IDE  for GCC ( in a similar manner to that 
provided by Borland C++) ? This would be very useful.
There are endless numbers of them, since most UNIX editors have
good programming support.  For example, in Emacs you create a
Makefile containing the line
  t: t.c
and type
  M-x compile
(and the second thing you'll do in emacs is assign that command
to a function key).
There is an excellent Borland-like IDE for beginners, and if
you hunt around www.freshmeat.net you'll probably find it.
Brett Nash wrote:
As an aside, if you don't have a good reference on C, I would suggest
hunting down a copy of Brian Kernighan  Dennis Richies The C
Programming Language, a little expensive (~$70) for it's size
(250pages), but you won't find a better reference ANYWHERE for C, with
the possible exception of the ANSI standard, and KR is much more
readable.  The reference manual section will allow you work out such
issues very quickly (A2.6 covers string literals, and your specific
problem quite concisely - I can post you the section if you wish).
Don't bother 

Re: [SLUG] Buying a Printer

2005-04-20 Thread Lindsay Holmwood
G'day,
Last week I spent a bit of time dealing with an IBM Infoprint 1412,
which is just a rebranded Lexmark. It comes with some software for
setting it up under Linux (written in Java, as a matter of fact), and
does a fairly decent job with integrating with CUPS.

I wouldn't recommend them though. HP have some much better laser
printers at decent prices, with superior print quality and print speed. 

Cheers,
Lindsay

On Tue, 2005-04-19 at 18:53 +1000, Richard Neal wrote:

 I was just wondering if anyone has recently bought a printer to run on
 Linux. Im after a laser printer (nothing fancy) to works with the CUPS
 print server. 
 
 Yes I know there are websites that list printers that work with Linux
 but some Ive found don't work that well or not at all, and some work
 great.
 
 So whats a good new laser printer thats just does black and white
 prints.
 
 Also while Im here whats a good three in one printer that people have
 had experience buying and using with Linux lately.


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[SLUG] InstallFest: Ubuntu Down Under Love Day

2005-04-20 Thread Lindsay Holmwood
When:
Monday, April 25, 10:30am - 4:30pm
Where:
Vibe Hotel, Rushcutters Bay

Slug will be holding an InstallFest in conjuction with Ubuntu Down
Under's Love Day. It will be held at the Vibe Hotel, 100 Bayswater Road,
Rushcutters Bay at the hours mentioned above. 

If you're interested in trying out Linux and want to meet the cool
people who make Ubuntu happen, this will be a most excellent event that
will make the two possible!

We also need volunteers to install Linux on other people's machines to
come along. If you're coming as a volunteer installer, please let the
Activities list know.

Onlookers are also welcome, but we can't promise that you won't be roped
in to helping out with installs. :-)

If you're coming to have Linux installed, please:
- bring along your computer and if possible your monitor; and 
- de-fragment your hard drive if you want to dual boot Linux with
another operating system.

If you're coming along as a volunteer, you only need to bring yourself.
However, if you've got any cool toys on your Linux machine to show off,
feel free to bring it along.

Cheers,
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Re: [SLUG] Failed Boot

2005-04-20 Thread dimitri
I tried this as well, having boot troubles. Can't interact with I or control 
C.
I described the trouble earlier. No luck yet, any more tip maybe...
Thanks a lot. 

Alternativly, does anyone know some shop who does little linux repairs like 
this one? I have not even any luck there, every shop I call seems to do only 
Win stuff. But there is another Software giant coming up, now that Adobe bought 
Macromedia out...
Cheers, Dimitri

Hi all,
I have a RH system V9 which is hanging during boot at 'Mounting SMB
Filesystems' we have left it for over 48 hours and it still does not
progress. However it still responds to CTRL_ALT_DEL to re-boot, so is
their another command I can hit on the keyboard to tell it to skip this
part of the boot and keep going? I don't seem to be able to get the I
for Interactive setup happening either - it just boots normally.

Mike MacCana wrote:
Michael Fox wrote:
On 4/18/05, Simon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 

Hi all,
I have a RH system V9 which is hanging during boot at 'Mounting SMB
Filesystems' we have left it for over 48 hours and it still does not
progress. However it still responds to CTRL_ALT_DEL to re-boot, so is
their another command I can hit on the keyboard to tell it to skip this
part of the boot and keep going? I don't seem to be able to get the I
for Interactive setup happening either - it just boots normally.
  

CONTROL-C?
 

That won't work.
Boot normally. You don't need rescue mode.
When it says 'Welcome to Red Hat Linux, press I for interactive 
startup', press I (a few times).

Then you'll be prompted for each service that starts.
Say yes to every service except 'netfs' - that's the one with the 
problem. Then continue normally.

To disable netfs starting in future, run 'chkconfig netfs off'.
But better yet, you should simply fix netfs. You can do this by 
looking at /etc/fstab, where a Windows share is being mounted by your 
Linux machine. Maybe the Windows machien isn't connected anymore or 
has changed in some way. Fix the fix as appropriate.

Mike
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[SLUG] Sun hardware query

2005-04-20 Thread Michael Fox
Hi,

Can someone confirm that if I had say a Sun ultra1 and connected a
null modem cable to it and then hooked this to another machine and
using a terminal package, I could install an operating system onto the
Sun ultra1. I believe at the booting and no presence of video device
it will allow console usage via serial.

Just want to confirm, as I am thinking of getting an old Sun ultra1 or
something to tinker with. Been ages since I even touched one, but if i
could get a quad ethernet card for it, it might proove to be very
usefull. I'd use it for my dhcp, dns server etc. Plus run some ipsec
tunnels on it etc. It should do this job fine I suspect.

Thanks
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Re: [SLUG] Sun hardware query

2005-04-20 Thread Michael Fox
On 4/21/05, Erik de Castro Lopo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
 It may well be a 25 pin D connector, it does carry a serial console,
 but its not a standard connector.
 
 Last time I had to do this I had to find some docs on the web,
 fiddle with  one of those little jumper boxes and then make a
 custom cable.

guess I might need some help if I get one. Will wait and see if the
deal goes through or not. Certainly would be an interesting machine to
install various stuff on.

 
 Yes, once you get the cable right.

sweet. If I get said machine and have problem, then I will have to ask
for help if needed.
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Re: [SLUG] Sun hardware query

2005-04-20 Thread Dave Airlie
 
  Last time I had to do this I had to find some docs on the web,
  fiddle with  one of those little jumper boxes and then make a
  custom cable.

 guess I might need some help if I get one. Will wait and see if the
 deal goes through or not. Certainly would be an interesting machine to
 install various stuff on.

I thought the ttya serial port wasa wired standard and you only needed a
special cable to get to ttyb (on the same 25-pin connector)... then again
I ain't used one for a long time..

it'll try and boot the serial port if there is no keyboard plugged in I
believe

Dave.

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Re: [SLUG] GCC question

2005-04-20 Thread telford
On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 11:36:48AM +0300, Amir Binyamini wrote:

 telford noted that info gcc shows that this option is deprecated.
 http://lists.slug.org.au/archives/slug/2005/04/msg00404.html
 
 It could be that in newer versions (gcc 3.4,gcc4)  this flag is built-in,

Quite the opposite, the option is marked as deprecated because the
authors of gcc don't much like the way you write programs and want
you to modify your code so that it will not need writable strings.

Then again, they will never be able to remove the option because
they want gcc to remain compatible with other compilers so what they
are saying is, sure we will support your program but you are a
naughty boy to write such code.

 I don't know; but in man gcc in gcc 3.3.3 they also say
 that this is a bad idea ;I must find time  to check what implications such 
 a flag have and if
 it can cause any troubles and in which scenarios.

I'm pretty sure it never actually causes trouble, it's more of a
good programming argument about whether strings should be regarded
as constant or not. You can spend a lot of time arguing about
what is good programming style and people do. I've been thinking
about writing a book on as much but I'm wondering if anyone would
buy it :-)

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Re: [SLUG] Sun hardware query

2005-04-20 Thread Jesus Salvo Jr.
On Thursday 21 April 2005 07:55, Michael Fox wrote:
 Hi,

 Can someone confirm that if I had say a Sun ultra1 and connected a
 null modem cable to it and then hooked this to another machine and
 using a terminal package, I could install an operating system onto the
 Sun ultra1. I believe at the booting and no presence of video device
 it will allow console usage via serial.

Yes. done that from T1, E3500, E220R and Fire 280R.
The Sun T1s here have RJ-45 for serial A and B.
The E3500, E220 and Fire 280R have a serial 25-pin.

You'll need some special connector to hook it into your PC is that's what you 
want. Or get a terminal console ( we have a Nortel Annex here, which also 
have RJ-45 connectors ) and attach all your sun equipment there. If you want, 
you can also attach your headless x86 hosts to it ... although you wont get 
BIOS messages not like the SPARC hardware where you'll see all console 
messages, including openboot messages.

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[SLUG] Re: [activities] InstallFest: Ubuntu Down Under Love Day

2005-04-20 Thread john gibbons
Me too. I intended to go until I read Craige's email and it reminded me. 
I am locked into an Anzac day event. The following weekend sounds good 
to me for all the reasons Craige mentioned.

John.
Craige McWhirter wrote:
On Wed, 2005-04-20 at 18:38 +1000, Lindsay Holmwood wrote:
 

   Monday, April 25, 10:30am - 4:30pm
   

This is ANZAC day. I won't be there as I think the timing is
in-appropriate. I also don't think four days is enough to plan an
effective install fest or enough notice to give to volunteers.
Why not go for the following weekend? More notice, more planning, more
publicity. Certainly not enough but more :)
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Re: [SLUG] GCC question

2005-04-20 Thread Rajnish
How about a wikibook on the topic. :-)
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[SLUG] Group Calendaring Application

2005-04-20 Thread Edwin Humphries
A small customer for whom we're installing a Linux server wants to use
Outlook for Group Calendaring (only) - for this some other person has
advised an Exchange server. One alternative we have looked at is Scalix,
but I think it's overkill for Group Calendaring only - and it's quite
expensive for 5 - 10 users.

They are a cleaning company that needs to coordinate staff to different
types of jobs: episodic, major contract, project, and apply tasks at
intervals of one or several days, weeks, and months.

Personally, I would prefer to have them do calendaring another way, and
I'm looking at Mozilla Calendar/Sunbird on Firefox - or even Thunderbird. 

But are there any other solutions that anyone knows of that will do this
job well?

Regards,
Edwin Humphries
Mobile: 0419 233 051
Ironstone Technology Pty Ltd
P. O. Box 423, Kiama, NSW, 2533
Phone: +61 (0)2 4233 2285
Facsimile: +61 (0)2 4233 2299
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Re: [SLUG] Group Calendaring Application

2005-04-20 Thread Howard Lowndes
Have a look at egroupware.org
Edwin Humphries wrote:
A small customer for whom we're installing a Linux server wants to use
Outlook for Group Calendaring (only) - for this some other person has
advised an Exchange server. One alternative we have looked at is Scalix,
but I think it's overkill for Group Calendaring only - and it's quite
expensive for 5 - 10 users.
They are a cleaning company that needs to coordinate staff to different
types of jobs: episodic, major contract, project, and apply tasks at
intervals of one or several days, weeks, and months.
Personally, I would prefer to have them do calendaring another way, and
I'm looking at Mozilla Calendar/Sunbird on Firefox - or even Thunderbird. 

But are there any other solutions that anyone knows of that will do this
job well?
Regards,
Edwin Humphries
Mobile: 0419 233 051
Ironstone Technology Pty Ltd
P. O. Box 423, Kiama, NSW, 2533
Phone: +61 (0)2 4233 2285
Facsimile: +61 (0)2 4233 2299
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Re: [SLUG] Buying a Printer

2005-04-20 Thread Glen Turner
Richard Neal wrote:
So whats a good new laser printer thats just does black and white
prints.
I can report interoperability success with the Samsung ML-1210
personal laser printer. It has a USB interface.  Distro was
Fedora Core 3.  HAL, cups-config-daemon, system-config-printer,
and foomatic all cooperated so that it just worked and created
a new print queue when I plugged it in.
The printer itself seems excellent for a low-priced laser.
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Re: [SLUG] Group Calendaring Application

2005-04-20 Thread O Plameras
Have you check Horde/Kronolith from:
http://www.horde.org ?
It runs on an HTTPD server and clients are
issued accounts on that server to use the
calendar. It's got other functionalities like
mail, address book, News, time tracking, etc.
It's a groupware application software. It's
written in php with a selection of backend
DataBase like, MySQL, Postgress, and LDAP to
name a few.

Edwin Humphries wrote:
A small customer for whom we're installing a Linux server wants to use
Outlook for Group Calendaring (only) - for this some other person has
advised an Exchange server. One alternative we have looked at is Scalix,
but I think it's overkill for Group Calendaring only - and it's quite
expensive for 5 - 10 users.
They are a cleaning company that needs to coordinate staff to different
types of jobs: episodic, major contract, project, and apply tasks at
intervals of one or several days, weeks, and months.
Personally, I would prefer to have them do calendaring another way, and
I'm looking at Mozilla Calendar/Sunbird on Firefox - or even Thunderbird. 

But are there any other solutions that anyone knows of that will do this
job well?
Regards,
Edwin Humphries
Mobile: 0419 233 051
Ironstone Technology Pty Ltd
P. O. Box 423, Kiama, NSW, 2533
Phone: +61 (0)2 4233 2285
Facsimile: +61 (0)2 4233 2299
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Re: [SLUG] Group Calendaring Application

2005-04-20 Thread telford
On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 01:42:56PM +1000, Edwin Humphries wrote:
 A small customer for whom we're installing a Linux server wants to use
 Outlook for Group Calendaring (only) - for this some other person has
 advised an Exchange server. One alternative we have looked at is Scalix,
 but I think it's overkill for Group Calendaring only - and it's quite
 expensive for 5 - 10 users.

If they are happy to go over to webmail style interface then maybe
TWIG could do the job. It's easy to set up and works with most web
browsers. Have a look at http://www.informationgateway.org/

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Re: [SLUG] Group Calendaring Application

2005-04-20 Thread mcl
For the sake of discussion: I was going to suggest Novell's OpenExchange 
product (http://www.novell.com/products/openexchange/). But the pricing 
I've seen for that is US$1319 for a 10 client license.

Edwin Humphries wrote:
A small customer for whom we're installing a Linux server wants to use
Outlook for Group Calendaring (only) - for this some other person has
advised an Exchange server. One alternative we have looked at is Scalix,
but I think it's overkill for Group Calendaring only - and it's quite
expensive for 5 - 10 users.
They are a cleaning company that needs to coordinate staff to different
types of jobs: episodic, major contract, project, and apply tasks at
intervals of one or several days, weeks, and months.
Personally, I would prefer to have them do calendaring another way, and
I'm looking at Mozilla Calendar/Sunbird on Firefox - or even Thunderbird. 

But are there any other solutions that anyone knows of that will do this
job well?
Regards,
Edwin Humphries
Mobile: 0419 233 051
Ironstone Technology Pty Ltd
P. O. Box 423, Kiama, NSW, 2533
Phone: +61 (0)2 4233 2285
Facsimile: +61 (0)2 4233 2299
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Re: [SLUG] Group Calendaring Application

2005-04-20 Thread Jesus Salvo Jr.
Anyone tried Novell's SUSE LINUX Openexchange Server ?

http://www.novell.com/products/openexchange/screenshots.html



On Thursday 21 April 2005 13:42, Edwin Humphries wrote:
 A small customer for whom we're installing a Linux server wants to use
 Outlook for Group Calendaring (only) - for this some other person has
 advised an Exchange server. One alternative we have looked at is Scalix,
 but I think it's overkill for Group Calendaring only - and it's quite
 expensive for 5 - 10 users.

 They are a cleaning company that needs to coordinate staff to different
 types of jobs: episodic, major contract, project, and apply tasks at
 intervals of one or several days, weeks, and months.

 Personally, I would prefer to have them do calendaring another way, and
 I'm looking at Mozilla Calendar/Sunbird on Firefox - or even Thunderbird.

 But are there any other solutions that anyone knows of that will do this
 job well?

 Regards,
 Edwin Humphries
 Mobile: 0419 233 051
 Ironstone Technology Pty Ltd
 P. O. Box 423, Kiama, NSW, 2533
 Phone: +61 (0)2 4233 2285
 Facsimile: +61 (0)2 4233 2299
 Web: http//www.ironstone.com.au

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Re: [SLUG] Group Calendaring Application

2005-04-20 Thread mcl
I was just looking into this a bit more, and discovered that this is 
based on an OSS project called Open X-Change 
(http://mirror.open-xchange.org/ox/EN/product/)
The community version can be seen here 
(http://mirror.open-xchange.org/ox/EN/community/)
Could be a less costly alternative, although I haven't quite confirmed 
whether it's GPL'd FOSS.

Jesus Salvo Jr. wrote:
Anyone tried Novell's SUSE LINUX Openexchange Server ?
http://www.novell.com/products/openexchange/screenshots.html

On Thursday 21 April 2005 13:42, Edwin Humphries wrote:
A small customer for whom we're installing a Linux server wants to use
Outlook for Group Calendaring (only) - for this some other person has
advised an Exchange server. One alternative we have looked at is Scalix,
but I think it's overkill for Group Calendaring only - and it's quite
expensive for 5 - 10 users.
They are a cleaning company that needs to coordinate staff to different
types of jobs: episodic, major contract, project, and apply tasks at
intervals of one or several days, weeks, and months.
Personally, I would prefer to have them do calendaring another way, and
I'm looking at Mozilla Calendar/Sunbird on Firefox - or even Thunderbird.
But are there any other solutions that anyone knows of that will do this
job well?
Regards,
Edwin Humphries
Mobile: 0419 233 051
Ironstone Technology Pty Ltd
P. O. Box 423, Kiama, NSW, 2533
Phone: +61 (0)2 4233 2285
Facsimile: +61 (0)2 4233 2299
Web: http//www.ironstone.com.au
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