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20200504   Setup WordPress Yourself   ⇢  

This article assumes the reader has some basic familiarity with the Linux operating system, and it assumes that either Linux or Windows with WSL is in use on the reader's computer. These days, everything is online. If you want to create your own site, a

20190215   Linux Kernel 4.19   ⇢  

For those individuals using Linux distributions that ship with older kernels, they may find themselves needing a newer kernel for hardware support, and not having a package available. Never fear. In this document, I will be using 4.19.21, but you will wan

20150823   An Introduction to C, XIII   ⇢  

We've covered a lot of ground with C so far. The big problem here is that we've not yet covered one of the most common tasks on a UNIX system. We have not covered files. So, let's look at files. For file I/O in C, you need a file pointer. We declare a fi

20150705   An Introduction to C, XII   ⇢  

So, in this part of the C Intro, I would like to say a bit about memory management. VARIABLES In C, there are really only two ways that you can allocate memory. The first and most common way is by declaring a variable. The second way is to explicitly

20150610   An Introduction to C, XI   ⇢  

Some time has passed since I last did anything with my C tutorial. This is largely due to work and having several different projects going at any one time (learning Chinese, developing a hobby OS, a gaming community, etc...). However, I felt that I ought

20130122   An Introduction to C, X   ⇢  

It's time for a cake walk. Here's an array of integers. int values[10]; int i; for (i = 0;i < 10;i++) { values[i] = 2 * (i + 2); printf("The value at i %d is %d\n", i, values[i]); } That's it. Floats and other data types work p

20120910   An Introduction to C, IX   ⇢  

In the last post, I briefly introduced arrays and strings. Let's look a little more closely. #include #include int main(void) { char name1[5] = "Ford"; char name2[4] = "Jim"; char name3[8] = ""; if

20120830   An Introduction to C, VIII   ⇢  

So far, we have already covered the use of the character data type, but what happens when you want to print more than one character to screen? This was strings are for. A string is a series of characters terminated as with a null character. That is, a str