Here in Australia the general population uses the British DD/MM/YY format for representing dates, eg. today is 07/06/15, and the en_AU.UTF-8 locale in FreeBSD 10.1 honours that:

lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 22 17 Feb 2011 /usr/share/locale/en_AU.UTF-8/LC_TIME -> ../en_GB.UTF-8/LC_TIME

However I wanted programs to use the ISO 8601 YYYY-MM-DD date format (2015-06-07) instead. To do this […]

While cleaning out all the disused apps on my phone & tablet in the hope of speeding it up a little, I thought I’d make a list of Android apps that I use regularly.

Adobe Acrobat
Aus Map (Melway)
Battery Spy
BSPlayer
Calendar
Call Confirm
Camera
Chordbot
[…]

With recent versions of Clang built from SVN in Ubuntu 12.04 Precise, you’ll receive the following error when trying to run clang:

clang: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.18′ not found (required by /opt/clang-svn/bin/clang)

The solution is to symlink /opt/gcc-4.8.2/lib64/libstdc++.so.6 to /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6:

sudo ln -sf /opt/gcc-4.8.2/lib64/libstdc++.so.6 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6

Now clang will run properly:

$ /opt/clang-svn/bin/clang -v clang version 3.5.0 […]

It’s possible to build Clang from SVN in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin), but you need to build GNU C++ 4.8 first, because the version that’s provided with Ubuntu 12.04 (GNU C++ 4.6) isn’t new enough to build it!

Firstly, install some build dependencies:

sudo apt-get install libmpfr-dev libgmp3-dev libmpc-dev flex bison

You might also […]

Clang is a compiler front end for the C, C++, Objective-C and Objective-C++ programming languages, and can often be used as a drop-in replacement for the GNU C & C++ compilers. Clang uses LLVM as its back end. It is possible to checkout the latest version of Clang from the LLVM SVN repository:

mkdir […]

Recently I’ve been evaluating Elementary OS, a Linux distribution based on Ubuntu Precise (12.04 LTS). Despite the Elementary desktop looking like they’ve cloned parts of the Apple OS X desktop a little too well I appreciate what they’re trying to achieve.

With Ubuntu itself, after about 10.10, their desktop environment started heading in […]

Using the SQLite Integration 1.4 plugin on a newly-installed WordPress 3.6.1 site, if I post a new article with the following text:

Between foo and bar.

The text of the post is deleted (eaten) after I click Publish.

It is saved as a Draft post, with a title but no text.

Other articles are […]

About four years ago when I ran Windows XP on my main desktop PC I used a small bit of software named Middle Mouse Button. It reassigns the middle button of a mouse to act as a left double-click (or right double-click if you use a left-handed mouse). On modern computer mice the middle […]

I’ve belatedly switched my blogging software from Pyblosxom to WordPress (with a SQLite backend). Pyblosxom is elegant in its simplicity but WordPress makes it much easier to add or update posts remotely, among other things. Prior to Pyblosxom I used the original Perl-based Blosxom.

I’ll be manually migrating old […]