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Added a few more updates to the PPM

QuiteRSS-0.16.1

What's New:

Main: Adblock integrated
Added: Support for feeds with local path (file://)
Added: Embedded browser. Determining and adding feeds from web sites
Added: Notifications. News grouping - display feeds title
Added: Notifications. Button to delete news
Added: Notifications. Button to mark read every news
Added: System tray. Mane item "Mark All Feeds Read"
Added: Option "Show close button on tab"
Added: Tab "Information" to "About" dialog
Added: Language: Galician
Changed: GUI. Visual tweaks
Changed: The process of news deletion is sorted by date of publication
Changed: RTL-model of news for Arabic and Persian languages
Changed: Process of displaying of the splash screen
Fixed: Wrong codepage while importing feeds
Fixed: Processing feeds that contains '&' symbol
Fixed: Processing some feeds that contains 'br' tag within the news
Fixed: Application activation after opening of the link in external browser and minimizing to tray
Fixed: Options dialog didn't fit monitors with low resolution
Fixed: Reset options while switching on tab that contains category
Fixed: Application crash when open "Options" dialog if "Downloads" tab is active
Fixed: Feed option "Disable update"



makagiga-5.0

2014-08-02 5.0 Codename: Ultra-sonicus ad infinitum

User Interface:

* Update password dialog window; new online password generator link
* Various bugfixes and improvements

RSS Viewer:

* Warn if an URL contains a 202e (Unicode right-to-left override) character
* Fixed: Resolve HTML Entities in "Add Feed" dialog window (e.g. show ">" instead of ">")

Notepad:

* EXPERIMENTAL: Java source and Patch/Diff syntax highlighting

Tasks:

* Fixed: Show items in Tasks summary panel again
after password protection remove
* Task table view optimizations

Tree:

* NEW: Search Bar: Add "Back" button which can be used
to switch between Tree and search results

Misc.:

* New old icon
* Linux: Basic Enlightenment and LXQt desktop environment support
* Fixed: Ignore system tray icon clicks if a modal dialog window is visible
* Fixed: Do not show "Add Task" menu in password fields
* NEW: Color choosers: Add "System" color palette (current Windows colors)
* Updated Polish translation
* Scripting: Temporarily hide script snippets that
don't work with Nashorn and Security Manager

Image Viewer:

* EXPERIMENTAL: Image Info: Add "Copy as data: URI" action




Treb

A Qt application that allows you to run mobile or small web pages in your system notification area.



Java

New java version 8, seems this is needed for some of the newer java applications such as makagiga-5.0, the older 7 version is now here http://smokey01.com/carolina/old_packages/

Update Converseen to version 0.8.1


Added to the PPM

Changelog:
0.8.1 – 2014-08-12 – Latest
- Fixed a bug with files with uppercase extensions

0.8 – 2014-07-28
- Fixed glitches and artifacts with picture previews.
- Added important improvements and optimizations to picture preview algorithms.
- Various bugfixes

Well my old PC finally died, bios failed, looking at buying a new one, all these old hand me downs I have are just not up to the task for what I need, ok for web browsing and not much else.

Buy a used IBM desktop. They are very durable.
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We got two of these refurbished HP Pavilion g7's to use as desktop pc replacements & they have worked well - and were cheap.

They are 64 bit so they may not meet your need.

don570 wrote:Buy a used IBM desktop. They are very durable.
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I need a new machine and it's coming up to fathers day so I'm dropping hints for this http://aldi.medion.com/md8239/au/?refPage=medion

Comes with win8, but that can go and I'll buy a win7, I have no idea as to whether puppy will play ball with the ati video, on even boot on it.


"AMD A8-7600 accelerated quad-core processor With 3.10 GHz, up to 3.80 GHz with AMD turbo-core technology and a 4 MB Cache with AMD Radeon™ R7 graphics
8 GB DDR3 memory with 1866 MHz Dual Channel"

Anyone have thoughts on this as a replacement PC?

I've patched skype version 4.2.0.13 so that it appears as 4.3.0.37, it now logs in, please test.

skype-4.2.0.13-lina-patched.pet 8.4M without QT suitable for Carolina.

skype-4.2.0.13-lina-patched.sfs 26M with QT suitable for Carolite.

I now have a new pc, Carolina doesn't find the wireless or the eth0, I'll continue to use the Lenovo Thinkcentre I have, it's a single core 2ghz with 2gigs of ram, should be good enough to compile with.

Repo Updates


copyq-2.4.0-i486 (QT A cut & paste history utility)

Changelog:
v2.4.0
- Separate dialog for user commands and global shortcuts
- Search for item by row number
- Command highlighting
- More shortcuts can be mapped on Windows and X11
- New "copy" command to copy from current window to clipboard
- New "dialog" command to show dialog with custom input fields
- Fixed crash on log out on Windows
- Fixed clipboard monitoring on Windows
- Fixed argument encoding from client on Windows
- Fixed log output when printing messages from multiple processes
- GUI fixes

focuswriter-1.5.3-i486 (Qt text writer)

Changelog:
2014-08-17 version 1.5.3:
* FIXED: Find did not take smart quotes into account
* FIXED: Style hierarchy was not always loaded in ODT
* FIXED: Ignored text sections in ODT files
* FIXED: Was not reading styles for OOXML files
* Translation updates: Hebrew, Portuguese (Brazil), Swedish

skype-4.2.0.13-lina-patched (Qt Skype Telephony)

Patched so as to spoof as version 4.3.0,37

crosti-1.12.0-i486 (QT Build your personal cross stitches)

Changelog:
v.1.12.0 2014-08-25
* Added Gamma flosses brand.
* Similiar color areas on the design are marked with bold rectangles.
* Minor stability improvements.

QuiteRSS-0.16.2-i486 (QT QuiteRSS is a RSS/Atom feed reader written in C++/Qt4)

Changelog:
Version 0.16.2 (18 Aug 2014)

Added: Displaying of label markers in news description
Changed: GUI. Some visual tweaks
Changed: Printing web-page frame
Fixed: Creation of the filter with condition "State"
Fixed: Filter operation for some atom-feeds
Fixed: RTL support for new description
Fixed: Application shutdown
Fixed: Javascript operation in categories
Fixed: Application crashes while using RegExp in filter condition

converseen-0.8.3-i486 (Qt imagemagick Batch image converter)

Changelog:
0.8.3 – 2014-08-27
- Various bugfixes

0.8.2 – 2014-08-20
- Added code fixes to work with FreeBSD
- Fixed a bug with PDF files conversion

knowthelist-2.2.3-i486 (Qt Party Music Player)

Changelog:
2.2.3 [2014-08-26]
- Get rid of dependency to Boost
- Bugfix where adding a song caused a segmentation fault
- Switched to Homebrew package installer for MacOS
- Set CUE button to untranslatable
- Translation updates (fr & cs)

ClipGrab, compiled in Carolina.

Rss Guard compiled in Carolina, a qt application.

rssguard-2.0.0.0-i486.pet

Geoffrey wrote: ... Anyone have thoughts on this as a replacement PC?

Looks like a feature-rich CPU and system. Should handle all of your 2014 and beyond needs as you envision.

BTW what kinds of monitor(s) will it connect? HDMI? TV?

Cheers!

gcmartin wrote:

Geoffrey wrote: ... Anyone have thoughts on this as a replacement PC?

Looks like a feature-rich CPU and system. Should handle all of your 2014 and beyond needs as you envision.

BTW what kinds of monitor(s) will it connect? HDMI? TV?

Cheers!

It seems to be a nice machine, has VGA and HDMI out, but I can't dual boot with Puppy, I have to disable UEIF and enable Legacy in the bios and Carolina doesn't have the drivers for the Eth0 or Wlan, that's the price one pays for having the latest technology I guess.

Added iqpuzzle to the repo.

Description:
iQPuzzle is a diverting I.Q. challenging puzzle. Pentominos are used as puzzle pieces and currently 47 different board shapes are available, which have to be filled with them.

Updated knowthelist to version 2.2.4

Added to the PPM

Changelog:
2.2.4 [2014-09-14]
- Fixed a bug which prevent correct monitoring of changes
- Improved quick search in collection: added search in genre, multiple
strings
- Changed alignment of some display controls
- Allow more audio file formates
- Added a mutex to get more thread safety for database access

Hi Geoffrey,

If you can find the time could you please create a pet or sfs of XBMC 12 ? There are lots of channels which do not work properly in 11. Currently I am using the xfce version of Linux Mint Qiana for thet reason (it is the closest OS to Carolina so far) but it is still 2nd choice. I like the portability of Carolina way better.

So far nobody on the forum has been able to create a carolna installable XBMC 12

Dromeno wrote:Hi Geoffrey,

If you can find the time could you please create a pet or sfs of XBMC 12 ? There are lots of channels which do not work properly in 11. Currently I am using the xfce version of Linux Mint Qiana for thet reason (it is the closest OS to Carolina so far) but it is still 2nd choice. I like the portability of Carolina way better.

So far nobody on the forum has been able to create a carolna installable XBMC 12

Dromeno, there is XBMC 13.2 SFS that was built by battleshooter for Carolina, see Here

Added the latest Bleachbit version 1.4 to the repo

Added skype-4.3.0.37-apulse-lina.pet and skype-4.3.0.37-apulse-lina.sfs to repo.

This uses apulse which adds PulseAudio emulation for ALSA, it seems to work ok out of the box, please test,
the sfs version contains the QT library files, the pet doesn't, Carolina has QT by default so use the pet package in the PPM, if using Carolite with no QT use the sfs version.

Edit
C̶o̶m̶p̶i̶l̶e̶d̶ ̶b̶a̶s̶h̶ ̶4̶.̶3̶.̶2̶5̶ ̶(̶2̶)̶ ̶r̶e̶l̶e̶a̶s̶e̶,̶ ̶t̶h̶i̶s̶ ̶f̶i̶x̶e̶s̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶v̶u̶l̶n̶e̶r̶a̶b̶i̶l̶i̶t̶y̶ ̶b̶u̶g̶.̶
C̶o̶m̶p̶i̶l̶e̶d̶ ̶b̶a̶s̶h̶ ̶4̶.̶3̶.̶2̶6̶ ̶(̶1̶)̶ ̶r̶e̶l̶e̶a̶s̶e̶,̶ ̶t̶h̶i̶s̶ ̶f̶i̶x̶e̶s̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶v̶u̶l̶n̶e̶r̶a̶b̶i̶l̶i̶t̶y̶ ̶b̶u̶g̶.̶
C̶o̶m̶p̶i̶l̶e̶d̶ ̶b̶a̶s̶h̶ ̶4̶.̶3̶.̶2̶7̶ ̶(̶1̶)̶ ̶r̶e̶l̶e̶a̶s̶e̶,̶ ̶t̶h̶i̶s̶ ̶f̶i̶x̶e̶s̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶v̶u̶l̶n̶e̶r̶a̶b̶i̶l̶i̶t̶y̶ ̶b̶u̶g̶.̶
Compiled bash 4.3.28 (1) release, this fixes the vulnerability bug.
Apps such as inxi, "inxi is a fork of infobash 3.02, the bash sys info script by locsmif", this needs a recent bash version to function correctly, the default bash in Carolina is to old.

T̶h̶e̶ ̶b̶a̶s̶h̶-̶4̶.̶3̶.̶2̶5̶-̶2̶.̶p̶e̶t̶ ̶c̶a̶n̶ ̶b̶e̶ ̶f̶o̶u̶n̶d̶ ̶i̶n̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶P̶P̶M̶
T̶h̶e̶ ̶b̶a̶s̶h̶-̶4̶.̶3̶.̶2̶6̶-̶1̶.̶p̶e̶t̶,̶ ̶b̶a̶s̶h̶_̶D̶O̶C̶-̶4̶.̶3̶.̶2̶6̶-̶1̶.̶p̶e̶t̶,̶ ̶b̶a̶s̶h̶_̶N̶L̶S̶-̶4̶.̶3̶.̶2̶6̶-̶1̶.̶p̶e̶t̶ ̶
T̶h̶e̶ ̶b̶a̶s̶h̶-̶4̶.̶3̶.̶2̶7̶-̶1̶.̶p̶e̶t̶,̶ ̶b̶a̶s̶h̶_̶D̶O̶C̶-̶4̶.̶3̶.̶2̶7̶-̶1̶.̶p̶e̶t̶,̶ ̶b̶a̶s̶h̶_̶N̶L̶S̶-̶4̶.̶3̶.̶2̶7̶-̶1̶.̶p̶e̶t̶
The bash-4.3.28-1.pet, bash_DOC-4.3.28-1.pet, bash_NLS-4.3.28-1.pet
can be found in the PPM

CVE-2014-6271 (original shellshock): not vulnerable
bash: shellshocker: command not found
CVE-2014-6278 (Florian's patch): not vulnerable
CVE-2014-7169 (taviso bug): not vulnerable
CVE-2014-//// (exploit 3 on http://shellshocker.net/): not vulnerable
CVE-2014-7186 (redir_stack bug): not vulnerable
CVE-2014-7187 (nested loops off by one): not vulnerable

Thanks Geoffrey, I've been busy, but appreciate you looking out for our security

@battleshooter,

I think this will need some testing to be sure that bash works ok, I've compiled version 3.0.18 the original version with the fix to full back on if 4.3.26-1 breaks anything, in the mean time I rebuilt the puppy_lina_1.2.sfs with the new bash so I can make sure things like the save file still work, it's been reported elsewhere that frisbee is broken, not having a wireless device that works in Carolina makes it hard to test some things, so if anyone can test it would be appreciated.

Edit: the patch does break Frisbee, even with version 3.0.18 gives just about everything