malloc failed – ipl 1st gen nano
for those of you that are running ipl on a 1st gen nano that get a “malloc failed” error in the little box on some songs just reboot ipl your buffer is full
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lperl
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lperl i hate this error here is the fix: hostname:/usr/lib$ sudo ln -s libperl.so.5.8 libperl.so substitute 5.8 for whatever your version number is all you are doing is creating a link from /usr/lib/libperl.so.5.8 to /usr/lib/libperl.so
thunderbird access from command line (linux)
for those of you that have ever needed to access an email stored in thundirbird from the command line while away from your machine : ssh to your machine go to your home folder –> cd .thunderbird inside of .thunderbird you should see a folder with a .default extention. cd into this folder cd to … Read More
quick and dirty timestamp conversion
quick perl script to convert unix timestamp to human readable time #!/usr/bin/perl print scalar localtime(shift||time), “\n”; usage: ./script.pl <timestamp> example: ./unix_timestamp.pl 1175313600 Sat Mar 31 00:00:00 2007