Hi Steve,
On 15/3/20 16:39, Steve Litt wrote:
All of these are good ideas, but if it were me, I'd prioritize
simple-netaid-dmenu, in which all from-list selection and all user
input is done via dmenu.
Gtk2, Gtk3, qt5, and ncurses are all fairly big libraries. Dmenu is
tiny and depends only on
On Fri, 20 Mar 2020 05:33:04 -0400
Dan Purgert wrote:
> On Mar 19, 2020, tom wrote:
> > On Mon, 16 Mar 2020 21:29:51 -0400
> > Dan Purgert wrote:
> > >
> > > What, then, is so bad about PCI? Or hell, even ISA?
> > >
> > > Sure, it's super-limiting in terms of what you can buy off the
> > >
On Mar 19, 2020, tom wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Mar 2020 21:29:51 -0400
> Dan Purgert wrote:
> >
> > What, then, is so bad about PCI? Or hell, even ISA?
> >
> > Sure, it's super-limiting in terms of what you can buy off the shelf
> > -- but then again, so was the "compatible with Arduino(tm)" market
On Mon, 16 Mar 2020 21:29:51 -0400
Dan Purgert wrote:
> On Mar 16, 2020, tom wrote:
> > On Mon, 16 Mar 2020 08:38:04 -0400
> > Dan Purgert wrote:
> >
> > > On Mar 15, 2020, tom wrote:
> > > > [...] The biggest technical problem is the
> > > > lack of ASIC northbridge, or rather something to
On Mar 17, 2020, terryc wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Mar 2020 21:29:51 -0400
> Dan Purgert wrote:
>
> > I guess what I'm trying to ask is what would be so bad about a "RISC-V
> > Hobby Linux Machine(tm)" only offering these "older" peripheral
> > connectivity interfaces in interests of being inexpensive
On Mon, 16 Mar 2020 21:29:51 -0400
Dan Purgert wrote:
> I guess what I'm trying to ask is what would be so bad about a "RISC-V
> Hobby Linux Machine(tm)" only offering these "older" peripheral
> connectivity interfaces in interests of being inexpensive and also
> preserving end-user freedom?
>
On Mar 16, 2020, tom wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Mar 2020 08:38:04 -0400
> Dan Purgert wrote:
>
> > On Mar 15, 2020, tom wrote:
> > > [...] The biggest technical problem is the
> > > lack of ASIC northbridge, or rather something to interface the CPU
> > > to an PCIE bus. Currently the best thing
On Mon, 16 Mar 2020 08:38:04 -0400
Dan Purgert wrote:
> On Mar 15, 2020, tom wrote:
> > [...] The biggest technical problem is the
> > lack of ASIC northbridge, or rather something to interface the CPU
> > to an PCIE bus. Currently the best thing available you can get is
> > an FPGA and it is a
On Mar 15, 2020, tom wrote:
> [...] The biggest technical problem is the
> lack of ASIC northbridge, or rather something to interface the CPU to
> an PCIE bus. Currently the best thing available you can get is an FPGA
> and it is a severe bandwidth bottleneck. It's also super expensive
> getting
On Mar 14, 2020, Mark Rousell wrote:
> I am not opposing your central message in any way, but...
>
> On 13/03/2020 02:59, Steve Litt wrote:
> > involves programming, and most people can't
> > do that.
> >
> > Oh really? 12 lines of code and they can't do it (or have a friend help
> > do it)?
>
>
On Sun, 15 Mar 2020 17:20:51 -0400
Hendrik Boom wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 15, 2020 at 01:20:24PM -0700, tom wrote:
> >
> > But this may be a stop-gap if you /really/ need to get an X86
> > machine you already have running. My advice is to stop buying X86
> > in the future and invest in other arches.
On Sun, 15 Mar 2020 13:20:24 -0700
tom wrote:
> My advice is to stop buying X86 in the future and invest in other
> arches.
I love that virtualization has come so far that I don't have to care
what I run my stuff on.
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On Sun, Mar 15, 2020 at 01:20:24PM -0700, tom wrote:
>
> But this may be a stop-gap if you /really/ need to get an X86 machine
> you already have running. My advice is to stop buying X86 in the future
> and invest in other arches.
Like what the libre-risv / libre-soc project is working on (
On Mon, 16 Mar 2020 06:05:49 +1100
Andrew McGlashan via Dng wrote:
> Actually, we've got more to fear with hardware [and the lower level
> firmware / EFI / SecureBoot / IME / vPro and other crap] these days
> whether we avoid Winblows or not.
>
> The Intel and AMD flaws, Intel Management Engine
Hi,
On 16/3/20 5:51 am, Andrew McGlashan via Dng wrote:
> On 13/3/20 1:59 pm, Steve Litt wrote:
>> It's called POSIX. With POSIX, I always have shellscripts, AWK and sort
>> ready to do my work for me. With POSIX, I can pipe a stdout into the
>> next stdin. With POSIX, I can plug in anything
Hi,
On 13/3/20 1:59 pm, Steve Litt wrote:
> It's called POSIX. With POSIX, I always have shellscripts, AWK and sort
> ready to do my work for me. With POSIX, I can pipe a stdout into the
> next stdin. With POSIX, I can plug in anything conforming to POSIX,
> such as dmenu, a genius of a program
On Sat, 14 Mar 2020 14:51:51 +0100
aitor wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 13/3/20 4:24, onefang wrote:
> > After implementing some of their protocols, I started calling
> > FreeDesktop.Org FatDesktop.Obscenities.
> After reading some comments on this thread, i decided to develop also
> another interface
On Sat, 14 Mar 2020 15:08:37 +
Mark Rousell wrote:
> I am not opposing your central message in any way, but...
>
> On 13/03/2020 02:59, Steve Litt wrote:
> > involves programming, and most people can't
> > do that.
> >
> > Oh really? 12 lines of code and they can't do it (or have a friend
>
On 3/15/20 9:35 AM, Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:
> Anno domini 2020 Sat, 14 Mar 23:54:07 -0700
> tom scripsit:
>> On Sat, 14 Mar 2020 15:08:37 +
>> Mark Rousell wrote:
>>
>>> I am not opposing your central message in any way, but...
>>>
>>> On 13/03/2020 02:59, Steve Litt wrote:
involves
Anno domini 2020 Sat, 14 Mar 23:54:07 -0700
tom scripsit:
> On Sat, 14 Mar 2020 15:08:37 +
> Mark Rousell wrote:
>
> > I am not opposing your central message in any way, but...
> >
> > On 13/03/2020 02:59, Steve Litt wrote:
> > > involves programming, and most people can't
> > > do that.
>
On Sat, 14 Mar 2020 15:08:37 +
Mark Rousell wrote:
> I am not opposing your central message in any way, but...
>
> On 13/03/2020 02:59, Steve Litt wrote:
> > involves programming, and most people can't
> > do that.
> >
> > Oh really? 12 lines of code and they can't do it (or have a friend
>
I am not opposing your central message in any way, but...
On 13/03/2020 02:59, Steve Litt wrote:
> involves programming, and most people can't
> do that.
>
> Oh really? 12 lines of code and they can't do it (or have a friend help
> do it)?
Really. There is no way on earth that the average
Steve Litt writes:
[...]
> FreeDesktop.Org doesn't like me doing 90 minutes of programming
> (and actually Lego(R) block assembly). Their preferred method goes
> something like this:
>
> * Use Gnome.
> * Find Gnome software that solves your problem:
> - Ask your LUG
> - Ask on
On Thu, 12 Mar 2020 22:59:28 -0400
Steve Litt wrote:
> For me, it's all about POSIX.
I immediately understood the UNIX philosophy when I first heard
of it; tiny, single-purpose programs which can be stitched together.
I agreed with it, but found all the tools incredibly complex mainly
because
On 2020-03-12 22:59:28, Steve Litt wrote:
> Now the guys from FreeDesktop would read this email and wring their
> hands: Oh, no, your kludge involves programming, and most people can't
> do that.
>
> Oh really? 12 lines of code and they can't do it (or have a friend help
> do it)? FreeDesktop.Org
Hi all,
A recent discussion here reminded me why I really like Linux. And then
a couple hours later I had a need...
I have four 8 foot shelving units: Three with seven shelves and one
with eight. Over the years, stuff's just been crammed into them, and
the situation is busting my productivity
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