this language was created in 7 hours to make a point about free culture. it may only be relevant to people who support free software and who have argued for or against free cultural licenses for non-software works. it converts arbitrary english essays (or other essays written in ascii) to python (2/...

the best protection against the "microsoft threat" is to not use their software in the first place.

nosystemdthank is that a challenge? When I win what is in it for me? I've written cgi scripts in several languages since ARPANET....I can't recall an incident but I'm willing to let you give it a shot.....with some kind of consequence attached for when you fail. obviously if you want to do it that ...

ive done cgi scripting with a few languages, including bash. i abandoned bash very quickly because i decided it was IMPOSSIBLE (or perhaps just far too much effort) to do cgi in bash without exposing the shell to the network (for the local network thats not great, but for a public server thats terri...

Thanks nosystemdthanks ! Stupid me . honestly, it took me a minute as well. the reason is that outside of this thread, i dont give her any thought-- so the acronym is meaningless to me. i search my own internal cache of acronyms before i think about the topic itself, and rbg is closer to display te...

backi wrote:What is RBG ?

the person named in the thread title.

Although Americans will never learn to distinguish fact from folly if Canadians keep busting their myths for them!!! theres nothing more pathetic than a canadian nationalist, unless its an aging, retired canadian nationalist with nothing better to do than fap online to their own gibberish about som...

As I pointed out, most computers have a headphone jack that will override the speakers (or can be easily configured that way). There are times when a quiet start is good. i dont want my computer to bark at me. i can appreciate that some do, but this is a feature that some people have a real problem...

Flash wrote:I took perdido's word for it that everyone was now happy with the outcome, so I removed the thread as having no further purpose. Perhaps I was a bit hasty. :oops:

i really dont fault anybody for this one. its not ideal but (at the worst) its a very honest and understandable mistake.

There were a couple of digressions (the real topic was not, IMO, the "2-barks" sound itself -- and obviously not a replacement forum), but maybe it would have been enough for Flash to lock that thread, not erase it. it wasnt my goal to recreate the thread. though i call it the "2-bar...

well, it depends.

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 888#994888

and its alright that it depends, but it still depends.

perdido wrote:Nothing nefarious.
My thread, I requested it be pulled.
It had outlived its original purpose.

fair enough. not thrilled with the outcome personally, but this is one of the better (less nefarious) reasons for it. thanks for stepping in and quickly solving the mystery.

there were 2 pages of posts there. at least most of them were polite and reasonable. what gives? 2-barks is a forbidden topic? someone leaving development is a forbidden topic? systemd-udev getting dropped into puppy is secret? ive known this forum for more than a decade, im sure this has happened a...

The freedom to NOT run the software, to be free to avoid vendor lock-in through appropriate modularization/encapsulation and minimized dependencies; meaning any free software can be replaced with a user’s preferred alternatives (freedom 4).

- boughtonp

I have previously suggested a rule that can apply to pets for puppy. We can define "works on XXX" to mean "if you take XXX fresh out of the box and install this, it works". Anything that requires you to first install something else doesn't get the "works on XXX" term. ...

Sounds like https://www.google.com/search?q=%22unix+philosophy%22 . "modularity" comes up over and over, theyre referring to the unix philosophy of course. the next most popular response is either simplicity or lack of bloat, which is related. modularity helps each of those. obviously mod...

tomsrtbt, pygmy, red hat, mandrake, puppy, dsl, ubuntu. if it has to be one answer, tomsrtbt. red hat didnt install, i couldnt make mandrake do anything at all, ubuntu was really too slow to use on a regular basis, puppy had driver issues that i spent weeks playing with (this was still in the days o...

No other profession is allowed to ship such garbage as software companies. while youre not wrong about that, the best free software coders in the world make mistakes, and the code quality required for projects like apollo landers and hubble telescopes would exhaust most of the valuable contributors...

**Clipit - Gave a Warning on Security and gave me option not to accept it. My decline did not matters as it in fact started to run. without knowing what the contents of the warning were, its difficult to say if this is important. if it ran after you told it not to, i would say thats probably a bug ...