08 August 2009

Howto: Remove processes in Unix by searching their names

I sometimes have the situation where I am left with some stuck processes from previous sessions. I'm sure this could be done better by the application, but it's not in this case. I therefore have the following command line (bash on Solaris) that solves my problem:

$ ps -ef | grep {myuserid} | grep {procname in ps} | awk '{ print $2 }' | xargs -l1 kill -9

Might be of use for anybody out there.

16 January 2009

The user interface library Qt is licensed under LGPL

There's great news: Qt will be free starting in March 2009, finally. Qt is a cross platform GUI development library. It's a library for GUI development using C++ and Java (which I was not aware of until now). The Java integration is done via JNI. Check this out, there are some Webstart based demos available. I could not get it running on my Mac OS X, unfortunately. But it's tested on Windows and Linux only, anyway.

How to solve the "volume doesn't distinguish between upper- and lowercase letters" with an Apple Photos library?

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