Last Saturday I turned on my iPod nano to discover that about a third of the horizontal lines were solid white, obscurring the volume bar. I was momentarily devestated that my black beauty had broken. In desparation I googled “apple ipod support” and came to the iPod support page. I didn’t have a lot of […]
The GNU crew improved Make with lots of handy stuff. One such gem that I found today is the ?= operator, which only defines a macro if it is not already defined (like as an environment variable). It behaves almost like wrapping the assignment in ifndef. John Gramm-Cunning has a good explanation of this subtle […]
It’s not everyday that a man page makes you laugh out loud, but this blurb from the page for statfs did the job for me: I really did laugh out loud, until I read below in the page that basically explains that f_fsid just holds different things on different operating systems. Good for a laugh […]