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I would like to use message queues in one of my programs. Does OSX not support either POSIX or System V message queues or am I setting up my programs wrong? /usr/include/sys/msg.h (for SysV message queues) and /usr/include/mqueue.h (for POSIX message queues) do not exist. I tried compiling an...

You could use the standard Unix utility, cron. Even though it is not GUI-based, it does exactly what you want. It's very easy to set up. Here's a great, short guide to cron: http://www.itworld.com/Comp/2378/swol-0825-unix101/ I used this guide before and it is very helpful. You will not need...

Well AppleWorks needs some hard-core work. A lot of use novice/advanced users find it a bore. It seems to me that StarOffice for OSX is a really great thing for us Mac users. We no longer have to use MS Office for a powerful office tasks. We don't have to stick out the dough either. A free...

To tell you the truth, I rather use StarOffice. I mean common, it's free. It's not by any blood-sucking capitalist monopoly corporation. Sun makes great products that are complete and reliable. Okay, StarOffice for OSX may not be completely stable, but hey it's a free alternative to AppleWorks...

I spoke too soon. Check this page out: http://porting.openoffice.org/

Probably not. We need some guy to port StarOffice source code (which is available to the open) to Carbon, which is certainly not an easy job. Sun cut its support for Apple long ago when Apple started to receive money from Microsoft.

Here are the general statements that anybody can use: typedef unsigned int uint; typedef int (*SSortFunc) (const char *, const char *, uint count); class SGenericArray; void SGenericArray::sort(uint len, SSortFunc sort_func, int first = 0, int last = -1); Here are the statements that is...

I'm not sure if you can compile a script, but I'm sure that modperl for Apache caches a lot of repeatedly executed code (perhaps in machine language?) to make the script run faster.

I have written a sorting function for a resizeable array object in C++. The sorting function requires a pointer to a user-defined comparison function to be passed as a parameter. I noticed that sometimes the program crashes with a SIGBUS and sometimes it works fine without any changes to the...