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Whether software runs faster and more efficiently on a 32 bit system or in a 64 bit system, depends on many factors. A 64 bit system is unlikely to run twice as fast as a 32 bit system. It is very possible that a 32 bit system might run a little faster than a 64 bit system. The older 16 bit and 32 b...

root# download_file https://1drv.ms/u/s!Ao-_qqv5iz91gS_gcmdsww-w_VOj?e=sgeHCr bash: !Ao: event not found The bash/sh/ash shell treats certain characters as special characters. For example, ! will execute a command in the bash history. !137 will execute line number 137, whatever it is. !cat will exe...

/proc/cpuinfo is information directly from the kernel. Maybe the kernel doesn't understand your hardware? You could install lscpu. For example, in this package lscpu is 32 bit for Ubuntu Trusty Tahr. https://ubuntu.pkgs.org/14.04/ubuntu-main-i386/util-linux_2.20.1-5.1ubuntu20_i386.deb.html It runs i...

I tried adding grep -v sda5 to frontend_rox_funcs It seems to work properly, in FossaPiup64 9.5 anyway. It's a very simple change. probepart lists all your drives grep -v sda2 removes that drive from the list, so the icon is not created on the desktop. And you can remove more than 1 drive from the l...

Drive icons seem to be created by the file /usr/local/pup_event/frontend_rox_funcs What do you want to disable? For example: # probepart /dev/sda1|ntfs|819200 /dev/sda2|vfat|532480 /dev/sda3|none|262144 /dev/sda4|ntfs|863868928 /dev/sda5|ntfs|62914560 /dev/sda6|ntfs|48373760 /dev/sdb1|vfat|31276728 ...

It's possible Win10 is using the extra 8 bits for, for example, a greyscale alpha pixel, overlaid over the RGB pixels. I don't know much about Win10, older versions of MS Windows definitely use only 24 bits of the 32 bits that are available. A little like binary coded decimal (BCD), 4 bits allows fo...

If the computer is truly, completely shut down, the operating system not running, not suspended, then yes, that would probably be in the bios. You can disable suspend when the lid is closed. Edit /etc/acpi/acpi.conf and unccomment the DISABLE_SUSPEND line, that is, change this: #DISABLE_SUSPEND='yes...

In the past, MS Windows gave you a choice of color depth including 16 bit and 32 bit. This was not wrong, the color numbers were being stored in 32 bit binary blocks, which a computer whether 16 bit or 32 bit or 64 bit can work with very efficiently. But 32 bit video was really only using 24 bits of...

That seems to be /etc/acpi/actions/powerbtn.sh You could try editing that file and add the line "exit" near the top of the file. That is, change this: #20140621 shinobar: skip shutdownconfig when power button pressed before quicksetup done, avoid multiple run TIMELIMIT=30 # sec, no dialog ...

Pressing the prnt-scrn key should pop up mtpaint with a screenshot ready to be edited and/or saved. You could select an area to crop (menu - Image - Crop or press shift+ctrl+X). You could scale the image (menu - Image - Scale Canvas or press pgup). You can save the image (menu - File - Save As or pr...

The default terminal emulator in most Pups is urxvt Urxvt comes with some perl extensions. When you highlight text in urxvt it is put in the primary buffer. One perl extension automatically copies the contents of the primary buffer to the clipboard buffer. ctrl+C and ctrl+V in geany or Firefox uses ...

this works with savefolder too or only with savefile? Yes, it should work with a save folder. The information is from the README.txt file in the Fossapup iso. So, "psave=sdb4:/lxpupsc/mysave" says that the savefolder is on the sdb4 partition in the "/lxpupsc" directory, named &q...

The psave parameter is supposed to do that: psave=:dad.3fs psave=:frenchiveruti.3fs The colon character (:) is necessary. This should be faster because it does not need to search the partitions: psave=sda1:/dad.3fs psave=sda1:/frenchiveruti.3fs which is assuming that the save files are on sda1 at th...

The dmidecode executable file returns information about the bios. In this case, it is checking the year that the bios was built. If the bios is older than 2007, it prints a message saying cpu scaling might not work. That is all that that line does. I don't know why the dmidecode file is not there. M...

Puppy should not change the hardware clock unless you actually run a program designed to change the hardware clock time. I set the HC about a year ago, and have been tweaking the drift setting in /etc/adjtime to set the system time using the drift correction accurate to within a few thousands of a s...

You can tweak the settings how you like. The main options are the governor and if you choose ondemand, you can tweak the up_threshold I have a choice of ondemand and performance. Performance is good for a desktop, I am running a laptop at the moment. It normally runs about 54C to about 68C If I set ...

In a text terminal console: # cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/policy0/scaling_available_governors ondemand performance # echo ondemand > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/policy0/scaling_governor # echo ondemand > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/policy1/scaling_governor # echo ondemand > /sys/devi...

In urxvt

ctrl+alt+v will paste from the clipboard buffer.

shift+insert will paste from the primary buffer.

Clicking the left and right mouse buttons simultaneously should be the same as a middle click.

failed with the report "puli7.3.sfs could not be found" or words to that effect Basically, all that the bootloader does is copy the kernel, vmlinuz, to ram, and also copy initrd.gz to ram. Then the bootloader passes control to vimlinuz in ram. The bootloader has finished running, it has d...

You can recursively set the permissions of files and dirs like this: The script, the way it is written, will only change permissions of files, not dirs.

A 1 line script to recursively set the permissions of all files to not writable and to not executable by group and world: #!/bin/sh find "$@" -type f -exec chmod go-wx {} \; Ignores symlinks. To not ignore symlinks, use find -L For example, if you name the script chmodr: This would change ...

You can increase the size of objects displayed on your screen. For example, you can edit the hidden file /root/.Xresources and change the dots per inch number. For example, you can change: Xft.dpi: 96 to Xft.dpi: 192 then restart X, or reboot. A smaller number might be better. You can use a viewport...

If you are running BionicPup64 then the printscreen button should work. I think my BionicPup64 is configured by default to put the urxvt text in a pdf file. You can configure it to copy the text to a txt file, by following the instructions in previous posts. You can do it this way, if you like: 1) C...

Again: To select, for example, all of the text in a urxvt window, and all of the scroll buffer, you can: 1) Left click at the bottom of the selection. 2) Scroll up to the top, by pressing and holding shift+PageUp 3) Right click the other end of the selection, at the top. You can right-click as many ...

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=1049623&search_id=655143988#1049623 If you boot, let the save sfs's load and then once booted you remove all of those sfs's and then run a 'save' (click the desktop save icon), it in effect rebuilds all of those multiple save sfs's consolidated in...

A long time ago, Puppy did not use unionfs or aufs to make a layered file system. In these old Pups, the savefile was mounted directly on /root, so only /root was writable. /bin was read-only /sbin was read-only /usr was read-only /root was writable /etc was writable, but only because it was a symli...

I have the firefox files in /tmp/firefox/ with a symlink in /opt The configuration files are in /root/,mozilla I always boot ram only, no savefile, pfix=ram with an adrv.sfs instead of a savefile. Every time I boot, the .mozilla configuration files are exactly the same as they were when I did the la...

I'm not sure, but I think what you want is for rc.firewall to execute automatically when Puppy boots, and then you want to run your firewall script after rc.firewall runs. it says in /etc/rc.d/README.txt: When the firewall is installed, it will be in /etc/rc.d folder as "rc.firewall" and t...

You can run anything, for example, an internet browser, as user "spot" spot is a very, very, very unprivileged user. Many distros allow the unprivileged user to run anything with root's powers and permissions, using sudo So you can become root by typing "sudo su" Puppy's spot can...

Running this in a text terminal might show you what started the cat processes: Or you can run htop and press t
(for a tree display)