Post 24: Passwordless Git HTTPS

I have been using BitBucket for a while now and I thought I'd post about making git activities password-less. It is a waste of time having to type your password each time you want to do something.


1. cd into the repository directory on your Linux system.
2. Enter the following commands:
    

git config --global credential.helper cache

git config --global credential.helper "cache --timeout=3600000"

The first time you try to do a git -related activity, you will be prompted for a password. After that, never again.

Post 23: New Slackware install missing applications

I have been using Slackware for the past 5 months or so and it has been a lot of fun so far. One problem I faced after my first Slackware install was that a lot of the applications that I expected to be present weren't. Most notable among them were the set of applications comprising the office suite.

This typically is the result of an incomplete install. So always perform a complete install of Slackware.

I would recommend, if you have a lot of files on your Slackware build like I did, that you take a backup of your filesystem and reinstall Slackware.

Post 22: Wireshark Segmentation Fault.

A problem that you might encounter when you try running Wireshark on your Slackware 64 is that you might get a 'Segmentation Fault' error.

I was able to solve the problem thanks to the answer on this page to the same question.

Post 21: Disabling CPU throttling in Slackware.

Certain installation (and possibly applications) need CPU throttling to be disabled.

On Slackware, you can make the change to switch CPU Throttling off by editing the file /etc/rc.d/rc.modules

Find the variable CPUFREQ.

You will notice that CPUFREQ is set to 'battery'. You need to change it to 'off', understandably.

CPUFREQ = off.

Save the file and restart the system.

Post 20: Installing LAPACK ( Linear Algebra PACKage) on Slackware (or any other Linux distro)

LAPACK is written in Fortran 90 and provides routines for solving systems of simultaneous linear equations, least-squares solutions of linear systems of equations, eigenvalue problems, and singular value problems. 

Much of IT++ functionality is dependent on the facilities it imports from LAPACK. So this post is a follow-up to my previous post regarding IT++. In my opinion, and also in the opinions of the designers of IT++, it is a very important software. (inv() in IT++ won't work without LAPACK!!).

1. Download the latest version of LAPACK from here.
2. untar it and cd into the directory that was created by untarring. 
•  tar -xvf lapack-3.4.2
• cd lapack-3.4.2
3. You will notice a file called make.inc.example. Copy that into another file and call it make.inc.
• cp make.inc.example make.inc 
4. There is a file called librefblas.a in lapack-3.4.2/BLAS/SRC
5. Copy the file to the current directory.
• cp  lapack-3.4.2/BLAS/SRC .
6. Open make.inc in the editor of choice (mine being vim) and edit the following line as shown:
• BLASLIB = ../../librefblas.a  as
  BLASLIB = <absolute path to this file> (eg: /home/user/Documents/lapack-3.4.2/librefblas)
7. Now enter make.

 

Your install should be successful.

Post 19: Getting IT++ running on Slackware

Building IT++ itself from source was an easy chore, but I had a brutal, brutal time this afternoon and for most part of the evening trying to negotiate with a linkage error that I was experiencing while trying to get a IT++ based program to run.

IT ++ is a C++ library that implements functions for digital signal processing and related areas. More on that here.


The problem with compiling IT++ programs is that you need special flags so that the program compiles and links without problems.

• If you are experiencing what you think are linkage errors, read on.
• I am only going to discuss static linking, since I have not implemented dynamic linking yet.
• Static linking creates MBs and MBs worth object code, whereas dynamic linking reduces the size exponentially.
• Follow the link here.
• If that didn't work, do as follows.

locate itpp.pc

 Copy the path name upto the directory name that appears something like /usr/lib/pkgconfig/itpp.pc or /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig/itpp.pc.

Now, export the path name as follows:

export $PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$PKG_CONFIG_PATH:/usr/lib/pkgconfig/

Now, compile your program as follows:
  
g++ `pkg-config --cflags itpp` -o my_prog my_prog.cpp `pkg-config --libs itpp`

Post 18: Interesting C/C++ implementations of basic programs.

1. In-place String reversal.
2. Pointers to functions
3. Regular casts vs static casts vs dynamic casts