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- Sun 01 May 2016, 21:11
- Forum: Suggestions
- Topic: Criticism of woof-CE and of the people involved in it.
- Replies: 117
- Views: 41843
There are several tests of connection: (a) is there an interface up? (ifconfig) (b) is it configured? (ifconfig) (c) is there a route from the system? (route) (d) is DNS working? (nslookup/dig) (e) is there a working route to and from some specific host? (ping) (f) does regular traffic to and from a...
- Sun 01 May 2016, 06:27
- Forum: Browsers and Internet
- Topic: What's to replace opera-12.1x ?
- Replies: 80
- Views: 50764
The last Arachne release I can find was in 2013. (I seem to recall reading about some newer development on the bttr software forums, but could be mistaken.) Unfortunately, Arachne was a pain to get working under DOS. There was also a Linux version, based on SVGAlib. I never got it to build completel...
- Mon 04 Apr 2016, 06:30
- Forum: Programming
- Topic: unsorted C snippets for small/fast static apps
- Replies: 60
- Views: 50780
Well, I've been poking at bqc. So far, I've implemented _socketcall() (looking at musl src/internal/syscall.h to figure out how) and almost all the socketcall wrappers. I've also discovered a small (*cough*) problem. With GCC 5.3.x (stock for Alpine Linux) on i386 and the standard flags (-nostdlib ...
- Tue 22 Mar 2016, 06:00
- Forum: Misc
- Topic: Other Distros
- Replies: 3058
- Views: 1158298
Alpine Linux Edge (development) used as a router, print server, and desktop. OpenRC for init, mdev for hotplugging, icewm for window manager... I use the linux-vanilla kernel, though it's decidedly second-tier to the linux-grsec package. To get X working, run setup-xorg, then add xinit, rxvt-unicode...
- Sun 20 Mar 2016, 22:59
- Forum: Programming
- Topic: unsorted C snippets for small/fast static apps
- Replies: 60
- Views: 50780
Well, I've been poking at bqc. So far, I've implemented _socketcall() (looking at musl src/internal/syscall.h to figure out how) and almost all the socketcall wrappers. I've also discovered a small (*cough*) problem. With GCC 5.3.x (stock for Alpine Linux) on i386 and the standard flags (-nostdlib -...
- Thu 01 Oct 2015, 05:38
- Forum: Cutting edge
- Topic: Puppy In-House Development
- Replies: 396
- Views: 191322
64 bit CPUs have been around for well over a decade now and it's tough to find a used PC that isn't 64 bit. Puppy has long catered to these older systems, but added support for things like PAE for newer systems. One of the biggest reasons we still use x86 is the extra bloat added for x86_64 just fo...
- Thu 02 Jul 2015, 20:03
- Forum: Security
- Topic: Amazon just wrote a TLS crypto library in only 6,000 lines
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1224
- Thu 02 Jul 2015, 19:54
- Forum: Truly off-topic conversations
- Topic: What sort of forum answers do you prefer?
- Replies: 54
- Views: 1452
A, then B . In one post. Give a summary of what to do, keep it as short as possible; then go through the details of why and how. It should have enough there that the OP can look at it if the short version doesn't work right, and a reader should be able to find the general principles that lead to the...
- Tue 19 May 2015, 17:51
- Forum: Security
- Topic: How do linux Permissions Work?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1874
- Tue 19 May 2015, 16:35
- Forum: Announcements
- Topic: boycott systemd
- Replies: 397
- Views: 214508
a complete statically compiled busybox system rings in at ~1mb. OTOH systemd provides at least an additional 1% functionality for only ... lets do the math: (Debian example: duplicate dependencies removed for brevity ... note the lack of a shell, and many other tools provided by busybox ... but tha...
- Tue 19 May 2015, 15:54
- Forum: Programming
- Topic: minimp3 source code
- Replies: 49
- Views: 41036
I am working on those ... as to resource usage, I added lookup tables for the IMDCT cos function which can be enabled with the CFLAG -DIMDCT_NTABLES ... that reduces CPU usage to ~15% after initialization. Also need to set up a separate initialization function. Edit: I have updated https://github.c...
- Sun 17 May 2015, 00:46
- Forum: Programming
- Topic: minimp3 source code
- Replies: 49
- Views: 41036
Having downloaded those recordings a while ago, I tried it out. Results: -Same errors when played without modification -id3 and id3tool don't recognize the id3 tags, but id3v2 can remove them. -mp3dec_opt plays the result nicely, at ~25% CPU on my 1.6GHz Atom N270. -mp3dec plays the result, but runs...
- Sat 16 May 2015, 21:04
- Forum: Programming
- Topic: minimp3 source code
- Replies: 49
- Views: 41036
If you have a link to a mp3 that won't play, post it ... I'm really sick of /usr/share/audio/ivy.mp3 anyhow. I'm still planning to add id3 tag support (you can try using the id tag stripper from a few posts back ... which is where I will ultimately get the code from) ... you may be right about the ...
- Fri 27 Mar 2015, 21:38
- Forum: Puppy Derivatives
- Topic: My report on Quirky 6.0
- Replies: 955
- Views: 446999
- Tue 24 Mar 2015, 14:48
- Forum: Truly off-topic conversations
- Topic: Fahrenheit is a better temperature scale than Celsius
- Replies: 13
- Views: 508
Those ones might be fun, but 5/32? 17/64? And there's no 16 or 18 over 64 of course - you have to mentally convert things all the time... Seriously, disciple? Don't you know that's what your computer is using? It's a simple bit shift! :wink: :lol: I use Fahrenheit by preference, though I know Kelvi...
- Sat 14 Feb 2015, 21:56
- Forum: Truly off-topic conversations
- Topic: Trying to set up my laptop's Smartlink dial-up modem...
- Replies: 13
- Views: 209
- Sat 14 Feb 2015, 00:53
- Forum: Truly off-topic conversations
- Topic: Trying to set up my laptop's Smartlink dial-up modem...
- Replies: 13
- Views: 209
So I've not used a dialup modem on Linux myself, and it's been years since I encountered one. But I'm curious about this. * I presume that slamr is the right driver, and that it and ungrab_winmodem are being loaded in the correct order (dmesg might allow you to confirm that...) * I'm seeing referenc...
- Mon 02 Feb 2015, 01:39
- Forum: Truly off-topic conversations
- Topic: How to print to both file and paper in MS-DOS?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 256
The thought that immediately crosses my mind is redirect printer to file, then print file. However, I'm sure there are some reasons that won't work. Off the top of my head, you'd probably need to empty and backup the file every print, and you'd have a rather complex/cludgy setup. General form of wha...
- Sat 24 Jan 2015, 06:06
- Forum: Cutting edge
- Topic: populating /dev from /sys
- Replies: 53
- Views: 35045
I was referring to button/key presses A netlink socket like udev uses will catch hotplug events ... example here: https://www.kernel.org/doc/pending/hotplug.txt I'm more wondering how to make X11 catch hotplugging (esp. devices appearing)...without depending on a particular hotplug helper. In parti...
- Fri 23 Jan 2015, 01:20
- Forum: Cutting edge
- Topic: populating /dev from /sys
- Replies: 53
- Views: 35045
FYI, I've written an experimental library intended to use as a fallback/replacement for some of the features libudev offers. Right now it only will map a device to a sysfs directory and get the PCI IDs if they're available. Source is over at https://github.com/idunham/libsysdev ; the first port of ...