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technosaurus

basic microeconomics 101 Each job can produce 10 more indirectly. Basic mathematics: The above *cannot be true* in any finite economy. Its not an infinite economy, but 7 billion people in the global economy is close enough that even long double couldn't differentiate. If ttuuxxxx earns 100 and spen...

technosaurus

6502coder wrote:
WIckedWitch wrote:At the risk of offending Americans here, I'm slightly inclined to say that American English is itself unnecessarily verbose.
Er.....

UK:
"I refer the right honorable gentleman to the response I gave some moments ago."

US:
"Already answered that."

aluminium

technosaurus

I started to write a similar utility for all mime types (generated by the same tool as the menu), but eventually came to the conclusion that the desktop icon spec needs a way to be able to determine if an app can only read files of a particular type or if can also write them, soas to distinguish bet...

technosaurus

It is amazing how easily you dismiss all the jobs the "megabucks" company provides...and the income for the employees....and the taxes those employees pay...and the flow of money into the businesses frequented by the employees...and so on... And you didn't address the fact that the increa...

technosaurus

That is not what I said. Doctors should earn a reasonable salary, but certainly not 20 times the minimum wage (~ CAD$13 /hr here as I write these lines). Let's do the math. Up front cost for minimum wage job: * $0 (all primary/secondary education is free, including some trades) * 0 time (can even d...

technosaurus

Speaking of Rox though, if we used Rox-directories with .DirIcon for the categories (and optionally subcategories) which contain links to the corresponding *.desktop files, we could have a "Menu" that is more usable for users that have trouble manipulating the mouse for traditional menus (...

technosaurus

My categories and subcategories were based on the xdg specs... Xdg groups them. I stopped trying to be compatible with puppy apps that ignore the specs and meant to intentionally break misbehaving apps to get them fixed. I also localized the menu from the desktop files, but it only helps if the upst...

technosaurus

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=70804
I ran into that idiocy when doing jwm tools ... See link above.

technosaurus

That would fit on a floppy disk from 1987 ! Have you considered adding this project to a github repo? Actually the 5.25" HD floppies from 1982 would probably work. I started doing a rewrite as PLiNG but I am busy working on other projects at the moment. Fortunately I documented things first as...

technosaurus

I once did an experimental build called microsaurus . It used Xvesa, jwm, rxvt and a small shell with a minimal kernel and custom init written in C. Boot time: ~ 0.5s Total compressed size: ~ 1Mb RAM usage with X, jwm and rxvt running ~3Mb (5Mb with background image) Limitations: everything else - T...

technosaurus

I think tiny core Linux does this.

technosaurus

Back when C11 came around, I thought _Generic expressions would bring some of the power of templating of more bloated languages to C but due to the legacy of the C pre-processor, this step is done after the preprocessing phase so it can't effectively use macros internally, so it is pretty damn usele...

technosaurus

1 Noooohhh, you don't say!!!... Pulling our leg, are you, technosaurus!!! :lol: My guess: the init No need to guess, follow the link where I demonstrate how to combine multiple scripts into 1 the way busybox does it (only in shell instead of C - thus the name bashbox). A single large shell script i...

technosaurus

bigpup wrote:How many scripts does it take to make it a Puppy Linux OS

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technosaurus

There are so many variations of init in the various puplets, the only way to know is to read the /init in your initrd. IIRC, though most of them reserve half of the available RAM for /tmp and/or /dev/shm. Some newer pups also set up some of the ram as compressed RAM. @drunkjedi, FWIW if you are goin...

technosaurus

In case anyone is interested in adding some graphics to bash scripts:
https://developers.slashdot.org/story/1 ... s-for-bash

technosaurus

Tesla (Nicola) once made an wireless AC powered car while he was in Colorado. LIke many of his inventions, he never brought it to commercial market ... most because he hadn't invented an AC battery or super capacitor. His work at Wardencliff to advance wireless AC got shutdown by his investors becau...

technosaurus

IIRC, Goingnuts did some work on xhippo, probably in the pupngo thread....most likely for gtk1 though in case you are interested.

technosaurus

Can you post a tar.gz of the file... It may just have a stray non-ascii character.

technosaurus

The function requires curly braces. It can be any compound statement which also includes a subshell " ( ... ) " in Posix and " [[ ... ]] " in bash, ksh (since 1988) and any modern shell including busybox and just about everything but dash. I didn't realize that even with " ...

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