Erik Forsberg's diary for November, 2001


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Sunday 2001-11-18

22:08

I've got new friends. M-. and M-* is a wonderful feature of emacs!

Monday 2001-11-05

22:16

There doesn't seem to exist any archive of Palm-DOCs for the RFC archive.. *hack hack*

Thursday 2001-11-01

21:49

This actually happended yesterday, but I forgot to write it down.

When moving the sensor I thought was located between my harddisks from the top of one of them to between them, I found it was way to warm there. This might explain the strange noises I've been hearing from my computer lately. I don't dare thinking about how that disk feels..

Anyway, I moved it to another location where it should get more cooling. I also installed some S.M.A.R.T software (ucsc-smartsuite), so now I can see the temperature of my large disk. It will also warn me if the disk starts behaving odd.

ucsc-smartsuite had a strange bug which made it crasch when trying to check for S.M.A.R.T support on my ATAPI Travan4 tape drive. I fixed this by setting the number of available ATA drives to 0 (which is true in my situation), but this is of course not a beautiful solution.

23:15

Ah.. 'cc', the C compiler on IRIX doesn't understand C++. You have to use 'CC' for that. Now, let's see if Courier imapd compiles.

Reference: http://public.kitware.com/pipermail/vtkusers/2000-June/001111.html

23:24

Umm.. Now it compiles for a while, but then it doesn't like this line:

if (!p || (pp=malloc(strlen(pfix)+strlen(p)+1)) == 0)

in authdb/cryptpassword.c

Changing it into

if (!p || (pp=(char *)malloc(strlen(pfix)+strlen(p)+1)) == 0)

seems to solve the problem.

23:28

Yes! It compiles. Now let's see if I can understand how to configure it.