I'm quite often answering questions related to keyboard input and how to switch the keyboard layout. First of all it is possible and it is not really as difficult Solaris made a significant progress in keyboard input area and there is also a GUI and platform independent framework for it. So if you need a specific keyboard layout you have basically to options: 1) to use IIIMF and its preference editor 2) to set up a Xserver I recommend the first option, but there are some constrains. So if that doesn't work for you there is still the second option and you can set up a Xserver in the same way as it can be setup on all systems using Xorg.[Read More]

Sometimes I modify one source file and them compile whole project. I wanted to know which targets are affected by the change. The answer is not easy in projects with many targets. Simplest way is to use build log/less/grep and trace building process manually.

Last week I have found amazing tool - dtrace. With the tool I can find the dependencies by a simple script.

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