X Server failing about libfreetype.so.24.0 with latest snapshot

2015-06-29 Thread Thomas Schmidt
Hi, I just updated from a 5.7-current snapshot (15th June) to a recent one (29th June). Now, when I try to 'startx' I get the following error: $ startx xauth: (stdin):1: bad display name "turin.local:0" in "add" command /usr/X11R6/bin/X: can't load library 'libfreetype.so.24.0' xinit: giving up

dmesg(8) incomplete?

2015-03-12 Thread Thomas Schmidt
Hi, I am a pretty new user so please forgive any uninformed statements. I just spent a few hours trying to figure out why my dmesg displays an old kernel (May 5th), when I just compiled a new one (for recent -stable patches). I've looked pretty much everywhere and retraced every step until finally

Re: qsort.3 big O notation

2015-03-03 Thread Thomas Schmidt
In the most recent algorithms lecture I heard we used log for base 2, ln for base e, and lg for base 10. But asymptotically the base doesn't matter and the notation coventions differ. So I'd also go for consistency with other documentation. On March 3, 2015 5:48:20 PM CET, frantisek holop wro