Sometimes you need to remotely get your bookmarks, history or check the top-10 sites, etc. Here's some neat tricks to get the info from the Firefox Places file called places.sqlite, which is an SQLite database with the following tables (see also the picture):
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To speed things up Bluefish 1.3.3 has static inline functions. However, GCC thinks that the “inlineness” is defined twice:

This is an excerpt from the source:

to

Also see the previous post (http://www.alekz.net/archives/432) on Bluefish.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=site%3AYOUR SITE&btnG=Search

http://yandex.ru/yandsearch?serverurl=YOUR SITE&lr=187

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1. Get intltool package (for example, from blastwave)

   If you use the bundled intltool, you will get the following error:

   Undefined first referenced
   symbol in file
   libintl_bind_textdomain_codeset bluefish.o
   libintl_gettext bf_lib.o
   libintl_textdomain bluefish.o
   libintl_bindtextdomain bluefish.o
   libintl_ngettext file.o
   ld: fatal: symbol referencing errors. No output written to bluefish-unstable
   collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
   gmake[3]: *** [bluefish-unstable] Error 1
   gmake[3]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/bluefish-unstable-1.3.2/src'
   gmake[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
   gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/bluefish-unstable-1.3.2/src'
   gmake[1]: *** [all] Error 2
   gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/bluefish-unstable-1.3.2/src'
   gmake: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
2. Set the LIBS variable:
   export LIBS="-lsocket -lnsl -L/usr/csw/lib -lintl"
3. Put /usr/gnu/bin directory in the first place in PATH. For example:
   export PATH=/usr/gnu/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/openwin/bin:
   /sbin:/usr/dt/bin:/usr/sfw/bin:/usr/csw/bin:/usr/local/bin

   The reason is two different xgettext programs. The configure script wants the GNU version:

   checking for xgettext… (cached) /usr/bin/xgettext
   checking for msgmerge… /usr/bin/msgmerge
   checking for msgfmt… (cached) /usr/bin/msgfmt
   /usr/bin/xgettext: illegal option — version
   Usage: xgettext [-a [-x exclude-file]] [-jns][-c comment-tag]
   [-d default-domain] [-m prefix] [-M suffix] [-p pathname] files …
   xgettext -h
   ERROR: Cannot open file –version.
   configure: error: GNU gettext tools not found; required for intltool

Update 15.02.2009 @ 14:04: Same for wine 1.1.15…

The following error:

Is caused by redefinition of the ERR function in the wrong place. To fix move #include "wine/debug.h" behind all includes in dlls/iphlpapi/ipstats.c:

Here's a quick way to upgrade one or both Solaris (tested with Nevada snv_107) and SqueezeCenter (tested with SC 7.4 24827).

1. Remove the CPAN directory in the SC root directory
   # mv CPAN CPAN.orig
2. Install missing CPAN modules
   # perl -MCPAN -e shell
   cpan> install Bundle::CPAN
   . . .
   cpan> reload CPAN
   cpan> install I18N::LangTags
   cpan> force install Scalar::Util
3. Disable Encode::Detect::Detector module in Slim/Utils/Unicode.pm (line 40). The module can't be compiled for Solaris.
   # vi Slim/Utils/Unicode.pm
   . . .
   #use Encode::Detect::Detector;

The first attempt to compile Kompozer for Solaris

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Sometimes you need to integrate web-pages with corresponding forum threads. Here's one of the way to do it.

Heian Godan by Hirokazu Kanazawa and Luca Valdesi
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Today I had to search through dozens of mail logs (syslog) located on several mail relays and find all entries related to a particular user.

Given:

• All servers are managed via a remote tty console,
• The ksh-script must be copy&pasteable
• All logs are gzipped
• I need all entries with the same message number (the ninth field) as the found log entry

This is what I came up with:

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