Classic Pup 2.14X -- Updated 2 series

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davesurrey · #1861 Post by **davesurrey** » Sat 26 Sep 2009, 16:29

MHHP,
My current 214X is all set up so I'd rather not reinstall everything just now but will try your keybd fix as soon as I do a new install.
Very many thanks
Dave

#1862 Post by **ttuuxxx** » Sat 26 Sep 2009, 17:22

I removed the old wizard and we'll just stay with cups

, But I'll make Cups take its place in the wizard section.
ttuuxxx

MinHundHettePerro · Sat 26 Sep 2009, 18:31

On printing with CUPS in X9.1.

No problem at all to set up my HPDeskJet815C using your very instructive, fool-proof, pedagogical jpg

.

.doc:
Nice looking print-out from Abiword

, BUT, couldn't print a selection of pages

.
OOo22, not so nice looking print-out (perhaps, just because i hadn't set up the preferred times font)

, printed a page selection, though

.

.xls:
Gnumeric printed

, I had selected the first page of the 32nd sheet to be printed, BUT page 1 of sheet 1 was printed

.

Geany printed nicely

.

Still no pdf printing

I managed to set up my printer using the xpdq interface also, but CUPS feels more familiar

.

cheers/
MHHP

sinc · #1864 Post by **sinc** » Sat 26 Sep 2009, 22:07

MinHundHettePerro wrote: Is it, by any chance, a lin-lin-log-scale representation of sinc(r)

/MHHP

Holy cow man

, only on Tuesdays.

LOL.

Its a 3d graph of a sinc function.

I gotta tell you, I am proud to brag about the brain power of the people I "hang out with" on here.

I love being on the low end of that spectrum.

Thanks ttuuxxx. I will try out the graphing calculator within a couple of days. I am not home right now.

And by the way, you absolutely deserve the praise from Lobster on the other thread. You are absolutely a genius.

technosaurus · #1865 Post by **technosaurus** » Sat 26 Sep 2009, 22:12

I just patched petget and added various additional scripts to use xz compression in lieu of gz for pxt packages (pxt vs. pet to distinguish them) The smaller packages may be especially appreciated by our many 2.X series dialup users.

it is available here:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=47060

MinHundHettePerro · Sat 26 Sep 2009, 23:25

ttuuxxx wrote:Hi Guys found something today I didn't think I would, lol and nooooo its not my brain, lol
Anyways a complete replacement for Galculator and then some

I couldn't choose between Galculator and Calculator on a Monday morning

, they both have their advantages and quirks (let's not talk about the other calculators, usually included in Puppy, which are mainly quirky).

I guess, I never really came to terms with the HP stack kind of calculators, which I get vague rememberances of, when using Calculator, with its inverted logic for e.g. sqrt and the trigonometric functions, as opposed to e.g the square and the normal arithmetic functions

.

On overall functionality, I'd have to say, I'd have to choose Calculator on behalf of its superior functionality (I'll have to learn the quirks, though

).

cheers/
MHHP

#1867 Post by **ttuuxxx** » Sun 27 Sep 2009, 00:09

technosaurus wrote:I just patched petget and added various additional scripts to use xz compression in lieu of gz for pxt packages (pxt vs. pet to distinguish them) The smaller packages may be especially appreciated by our many 2.X series dialup users.

it is available here:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=47060

Hi Technosaurus Thats a great Idea, hmmm I'll have to test it first, also do you have a dir2pxt script also? Fileroller can already open xz packages in 2.14X

but having it part of the package manager is cool

ttuuxxxx

#1868 Post by **ttuuxxx** » Sun 27 Sep 2009, 00:15

MinHundHettePerro wrote: On overall functionality, I'd have to say, I'd have to choose Calculator on behalf of its superior functionality (I'll have to learn the quirks, though ).

cheers/
MHHP

I already replaced Galculator for Calculator in the next release

ttuuxxx

James C · #1869 Post by **James C** » Sun 27 Sep 2009, 00:36

I already replaced Galculator for Calculator in the next release
ttuuxxx

Cool.

#1870 Post by **ttuuxxx** » Sun 27 Sep 2009, 00:42

James C wrote:
I already replaced Galculator for Calculator in the next release
ttuuxxx
Cool.

<---- ok thats a first, you say cool but your sad???
Don't you like the new calculator?
ttuuxxx

James C · #1871 Post by **James C** » Sun 27 Sep 2009, 00:45

Oops.Let's try it again.

Cool.

Been a long day.

#1872 Post by **ttuuxxx** » Sun 27 Sep 2009, 00:59

James C wrote:Oops.Let's try it again.

Cool.

Been a long day.

good to hear James, glad you like it also

ttuuxxx

technosaurus · #1873 Post by **technosaurus** » Sun 27 Sep 2009, 01:04

@ttuuxxx - dir2pxt and pxt2txz are included - both are just modifications of the gzip counterparts -J in place of -z uses xz for compression with tar but you have to use tar-1.22 or later

disciple · #1874 Post by **disciple** » Sun 27 Sep 2009, 02:22

FWIW there are quite a lot of graphical [EDIT] - I meant graphing[/EDIT] calculators out there.

Ttuuxxx, please tell me you still have your modified sources for building gcalctool without the extra dependencies. And please post them

I tried to hack it into building in the past - either you're cleverer than I was, or they've taken on board my complaints and made it a little less dependency heavy.

#1875 Post by **ttuuxxx** » Sun 27 Sep 2009, 05:03

disciple wrote: either you're cleverer than I was, or they've taken on board my complaints and made it a little less dependency heavy.

na they still wanted gnome-doc-utils which uses python as dep
and SCROLLKEEPER_CONFIG which for some reason isn't included.
Anyways the way I have this hacked, its preconfigured, and what you do is go to gcalctool-5.28.0/src <---SCR directory and type make in that directory, then it will build the bin file, take that bin file and replace it with the one I have in the package I posted earlier and you should be good to go

enjoy
Ps it only builds once, so keep a backup of the altered sources package
ttuuxxx
http://www.puppylinux.asia/tpp/ttuuxxx/ ... 8.0.tar.gz

pss I think I was just a tiny bit more clever for once

disciple · #1876 Post by **disciple** » Sun 27 Sep 2009, 06:22

Thanks for that

#1877 Post by **ttuuxxx** » Sun 27 Sep 2009, 06:29

disciple wrote:Thanks for that

No problem did you try it and the results are?
ttuuxxx

DaveS · #1878 Post by **DaveS** » Sun 27 Sep 2009, 06:36

Man, this must be a HUGE project if the thread length is anything to go by.

#1879 Post by **ttuuxxx** » Sun 27 Sep 2009, 06:44

DaveS wrote:Man, this must be a HUGE project if the thread length is anything to go by.

well Dave we've managed to change just about 95% of the original 2.14R, things that normally don't get change like glibC, Kernel, lol you name we removed it, and somethings we figured along the way to keep the way it was, Like the kernel/sfs, Just didn't work 100% like we wanted, but its been a great learning experience for all of us involved

ttuuxxx

Puppyt · #1880 Post by **Puppyt** » Sun 27 Sep 2009, 09:51

BRILLIANT WORK!

Congratulations and hearty thanks for 214X v11, ttuuxx.

I've been following the thread for ages, but haven't really touched base with 214X since v4. Last night I gave 214X11 a 'spin' on my Portege 3480CT.
Astoundingly, it booted straight off the Noteworthy (Toshiba) PCMCIA CD-rom without having to pre-load puppy parts first onto another drive (HD or USB - and then crossing my fingers as particularly puppy4's tend to skip the PCMCIA boot option somewheres) - this is absolutely the first time I have seen any puplet do this with the 3480CT, and I must have tried at least 50 on the Portege, most especially Barry K's pedigrees.
It's a one-click wonder - and a keeper. Thanks Again!

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