I'm looking at an open-source library (DDS, a double-dummy bridge solver) which in its latest release (2.1.1) adds some very useful multi-tasking functionality requiring either a Windows system or ...

I am running PostgreSQL 8.4.4 with Ubuntu 10.04. I am trying to generate uuid but can't find a way to do it. I do have the uuid-ossp.sql in /usr/share/postgresql/8.4/contrib/uuid-ossp.sql When I...

Please take a look at the following JavaScript. I've taken stuff out of it, so you may focus on the essence of the problem. You'll notice that I call the prepPath function twice in a row, passing ...

I needed to install Ubuntu Lucid 10.04 for my dev work. I found that it does not install most of the dev tools/packages by default. What are the essential dev tools one needs? I don't mind insta...

Background: Many years ago, I inherited a codebase that was using the Visual Studio (VC++) flag '/fp:fast' to produce faster code in a particular calculation-heavy library. Unfortunately, '/fp:fas...