I just tried to read files from the filesystem using direct i/o to avoid the operating systems caching effects. The manpage of open lists the flag O_DIRECT for this. Although I included fcntl.h, my compiler complained that it couldn't find...

If you like last.fm, but (like me) you don't like all these shiny gui players, because you think that you don't need a gui to play music, you should try out Shell.FM. Shell.FM is a very simple console player for...

If you are using lirc, you might have noticed, that you can not compile the modules of the latest stable version (0.8.0) with a kernel 2.6.17 or higher. The reason for this is, that devfs was removed from the kernel...

Wer viel programmiert hat wahrscheinlich bemerkt, dass das englische Tastaturlayout dafür besser geeignet ist, als das deutsche, da dort viele Sonderzeichen leichter zu erreichen ist. Allerdings stehen dort keine Umlaute zur Verfügung. Oft kann man diese zwar nur ae, oe,...