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I think the author has been "puzzled" by a few things.. Cowards don't even allow to add comments to that review. :D

And yes, if you want to use things like std::size_t and others (and it's good that you want to use them), you'll have to use the "C legacy" <csomething> headers.

My Dell laptop (Inspiron 11z) can also do it through a Dell-supplied Windows app for measuring battery charge -- there's a checkbox to "Disable battery charging". AFAIK, it can also be disabled through the BIOS in my laptop. I don't know how to do it on FreeBSD, though. :/

I mix the styles. void foo() { ... if (bar) { ... } ... } // But void baz(int lots, int of, int parameters, int so, int much, int it, int does, int not_fit, int on, int just, int one, int line) { ... if (really && really && long && ugly && condition)...

KDE 4's kwin can also be made to use OpenGL compositing.

What sort of “whistle” is it? If you do mixer vol 0 does it go away? If you kill every moving process (switch to single-user, if you like), does it go away? What ports were updated?

There also is QtCreator. Qt is not mere GUI toolkit anymore, it's a whole application framework. And QtCreator is the IDE -- it looks rather nice, though I haven't played much with it. I think it would need to be persuaded a bit to stop putting Qt dependencies everywhere, unless you want to...

I have found the channel generally friendly and helpful. Even more friendly than some other channels that I frequent. Maybe you just had the "luck" of running into an idiot? Or maybe it is you. I don't know what happened there, so I can't judge.

FreeBSD does all I need, and it does it well. That's it, actually -- my needs are simple. It's a system I don't have to fight -- there's very few bugs, so I don't need to hack-around stuff. If I need to tune something, I just look it up and do it. It doesn't try to be smart and tell me...

I use the same organization as I use on my desk: None. It's just some chaotic hierarchy of files that I'm too used to to change. :D And I place temporary stuff like downloads and others, into /tmp -- my ~/ is only for things that I want to keep.

Or variant three, the one that I'm using: Install GRUB (after having installed Windows), don't install booteasy, let GRUB load /boot/loader on its own. For the record, here's my menu.lst:timeout 3 default 0 title FreeBSD root (hd0,2,a) kernel /boot/loader title Windows Vista...

The FreeNode channel is ##FreeBSD, notice the double #. Also you may have to register your nick with NickServ: /msg NickServ HELP REGISTER and follow the instructions.

From the Notepad++ page: That means it's probably going to cost some non-trivial effort to make it run on non-Windows plattforms. The Scintilla component is ported to FreeBSD already, but someone would have to port the rest.

Use ls -G for one-time colourization, or put export CLICOLOR=yes into your ~/.bashrc.

I'm fairly sure it is "const char*", not "*const char". Also, it appears that the type of str_start is char*, is that correct? Then the type of "*str_start" will be char -- you just dereferenced a pointer to a char, and that gives you a char. But puts expects its only argument to be a...

You can swap letters just like anything else: using a temporary variable. So...char* p1 = ...; // These two pointers are assumed to point to something valid and meaningful. char* p2 = ...; char temp = *p1; *p1 = *p2; *p2 = temp; I'm not sure if your code isn't overly complicated. Try...

No, it doesn't. It says you can install KDE, but you will have to configure your GUI later, when the installation is complete. The necessary configuration is described here and here.

I don't use MSN, sorry.

Yes, you can do that. You can, but I think it will be quite slow under Virtual PC. But that depends on your hardware, of course -- at least you can try it.

The "i386" version of FreeBSD will work fine on x86_64 hardware. (That is, if your Intel isn't Itanium, it will work.) I'm not quite sure what you mean by the Virtual PC part. I have installed FreeBSD inside Virtual PC, so yes, you can do that. Also the fact that you're running a 64-bit OS...