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6502coder

You mean stereograms? The ones where you have to look at the picture slightly cross-eyed in order for the 3D image to appear? As I recall there was a brief time in the early 90s when they became something of a fad. There were books of them, and there was even software you could buy to make your own ...

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There is another, more subtle reason for always binding the "*" to the variable name. It has to do with the declarations of variables. The declaration int *countPtr; says that the variable "countPtr" is a pointer to an int. The compiler will also accept int* countPtr; which one c...

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As you say, this is purely a matter of style. Kernighan and Ritchie used the style with the opening brace at the end of the line where the block starts and the closing brace aligned with the start of that same line. Since K&R wrote THE definitive book on C, this became a standard. Then, later a ...

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Every Puppy has a "devx" SFS file that contains the stuff needed to compile from source. Have you loaded your Puppy's devx SFS?

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@wizard

Aren't SFSs "under" the main Puppy sfs? (Whereas PET-installed apps are "over".)

https://bkhome.org/archive/puppylinux/d ... works.html

See "Architectural Overview" diagram.

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@amigo It's explained in the comments to my AWK multiplier program, but as you may not have seen those, let me clarify that the purpose of my testing was not to compare speeds with iq. I wrote my AWK program merely to have a way to verify the results from mul, and speed was not a consideration at al...

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Here's a modest contribution to the testing. I tested "mul" on 50 pairs of long random numbers. Bottom line: no errors found. I chose "mul" for the simple reason that I was pretty sure I could quickly crank out a multiplication program that I could reliably use to verify the resu...

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@amigo

I am intrigued by numerical methods so I did have a quick look at your work. It's really amazing stuff. I only wish I had a better grasp of what's going on, so that I'd have a better idea of what would make good test cases, excluding nonsense inputs.

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Perhaps it's a matter of semantics. Do you consider "ncurses" to be a UI library? A Linux terminal emulator window is certainly capable of some some degree of "graphics." For instance "dialog" is used to make what most people I think would consider to be graphical user ...

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I know this is somewhat off-topic, but out of genuine curiosity...who needs so many significant digits in their work? Number theorists, obviously, and historically astronomers needed mind-boggling precision, but who else? One of the first lessons I learned when I studied numerical methods was that i...

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The confusion between "console" and "terminal" has gotten so messy that I prefer to avoid the whole mess and stick to "command line interface," or CLI. Those of us who cut our teeth on UNIX remember that the "console" was a dedicated TTY device, usually printi...

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Log4j has nothing to do with EasyOS per se. Log4j is a Java library. As far as I know, nothing in EasyOS itself uses Java. This does not mean that an EasyOS user has nothing to worry about. Lots of apps and web sites use Java, and the Log4j library in particular. If you use EasyOS to run such apps o...

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For big money and hot girls, chess pales in comparison to poker, IMO. That's why chess players switch to poker: Dan Harrington and Howard Lederer, for instance. Daniel Negreanu is a rare counter-example of a top poker player taking up chess.

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@Spright My apologies for steering you wrong: I thought that the Pentium MMX was roughly contemporary with the Celeron, and therefore newer than the Pentium II. I didn't realize just how ancient the Pentium MMX really is. Bad job on my part for not doing the proper research. Regarding your latest qu...

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@benali72 I'm no expert on the technical requirements of desktop environments, so I wondered if perphaps xfce or lxqt might be in some way be more adaptable to the tablet-type devices, and I was just curious. I fully agree with your points about taking advantage of the power of newer hardware. I run...

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...The oldest Pentiums I've ever heard of running Puppy are the P3s.....and this thing predates even those. I'm running Puppy 4.1.2 Retro on a Compaq Armada 1700: Pentium II (yes, P2), 233 Mhz, with a mere 96 MB RAM. Standard frugal install. Runs flawlessly. Dual-boots with the original Win95. And ...

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That ranking of best distros that run in ram that JASpup linked to says that Puppy is becoming obsolete. Exactly the same way Damn Small Linux did some years ago. See https://www.slant.co/topics/1837/~best-linux-distros-that-run-entirely-in-ram Putting an xfce or lxqt Puplet on the main download pa...

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Looks like you have a Pentium MMX, 233MHz or thereabouts. Since all you want to do is save files off your hard drive, an old Puppy will do just fine. I'd suggest Puppy 4.1.2 Retro, which you can get here: https://ftp.nluug.nl/os/Linux/distr/puppylinux/puppy-2_&_3_&_4/puppy-4.1/puppy-4.1.2ret...

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If you don't want "ls" to use coloring to distinguish different types of files, edit your ~/.bashrc file as follows: Find the line that reads alias ls=...blahblahblah... and change this to alias ls="/bin/ls --color=never" If you want directories to be marked with a trailing "...

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Laptop A: Came with Win95. Dual-boots Win95 and Puppy 4.1.2 Retro Laptop B: Came with Win98 Release 1 Now runs only Wary Puppy 5.1.4.1 Laptop C: Came with WinXP Now quint-boots WinXP, Precise Lite, DPupStretch, Slacko5.8, and DevuanPup Also runs Slacko 5.7 off USB flash drive. Laptop D: Came with Wi...

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Well, those (hjkl) are the cursor movement keys in the "vi" editor, so it's somewhat of a UNIX/Linux standard, much as the "Wordstar diamond" was a standard back in the day.

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I often run across articles , particularly regarding security issues, that I think may be of significant interest, but whose practical impact on Puppy users I am not qualified to judge. What I usually do is to quote a few sentences in the article that seem to summarize the problem and/or impact. One...

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I suspected as much! Well, hopefully someone else might have learned something new...

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This has nothing to do with your untrashable file, but just to clarify two things I saw in your screenshot in the original post: A) ".." is shorthand for "the directory one level up from the current working directory". So if you are in say /root/my-applications, then "..&quo...

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I have gone through this registration process several times over the years, on both Windows and Linux, and it has never been an issue for me. I think one or two of those installations was via a PET, but most of the time I used the installers downloaded directly from Softmaker.

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The thread title is misleading because the article cited does not in fact discuss symbolic links at all. It explains the difference between relative and absolute PATHNAMES, but it says nothing about the difference between relative and absolute SYMBOLIC LINKS. An explanation of symbolic links and whe...

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@pupgg It is important to understand that there are differences between "standard Linux commands", "bash commands", and commands like "inxi." The "standard Linux commands" are those commands are present in any ordinary end-user Linux OS. By "ordinary"...

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Temporary stuff should always go in /tmp, that is what is it for. There is no reason to clutter your home directory with crap that does not need to be preserved. Whenever I see an app or script that writes temporary files to /root I want to track the author down and kick his ass. What happens when t...

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I run BionicPup64 on a 3-yr old HP laptop. I have some ancient 32-bit laptops and run Pups on all of them, but this is my only relatively new laptop and therefore the only one that is capable of running an up-to-date browser without hassles. And of course I cannot stand Windows. As for why BionicPup...

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@stuvxz Not to worry. Stuff IS hard to find in the Puppy forums. I knew I had seen this repo fix discussed but when I to search for it to send you the link, I couldn't find it! Luckily I keep a notes file where I often record useful URLs related to Puppy tips that I think might be useful "somed...

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