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« on: June 22, 2012, 10:59:44 am »
I'd also like to tack on Debian to the list. If you grab the netinst image (the preferred CD ISO for installation), you have many options of installation. You can even start out with the bare minimum and install nothing, preferring to install packages later after the installation. The install is quite similar to the Arch's install process, but with less hands-on configuration. On a side note, if you choose to try out Debian, use the CLI installer. Less user friendly, but it's not as confusing, especially for partitioning. (The CLI is a little bit confusing too, but it doesn't pretend that the options you choose are wizard like where you have to hit "Next >" to select your options...  ) Also, two tips for lightness in Debian:
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« on: June 21, 2012, 10:56:15 pm »
EDIT:
Oooh, guess what i found:
http://hg.slitaz.org/tazpkg/raw-file/tip/doc/tazpkg.en.html#convert
This is a... ehh, tad bit risky. I have doubts that you can take any package and do that, unless I'm wrong and this thing is smarter than I think it is.
For instance... say you try to convert the meta-package, kubuntu-desktop. Will it download all the dependencies and convert those?
(Although that is indeed an extreme case, many packages require dependencies in order to run. You probably don't want to run around downloading them!)
Yeah,i guess. However, I do not see any programs right now that i want to install that are not in the slitaz package manager.
Also, I have used the "alien" command in ubuntu to install rpm's before,and it seemed to work fine, so I dont see how this is different.
The alien tool was written by a Debian developer, who not only understands his project's own dependency requirements, but also other package managers as well. Not saying that the person who wrote that tool is not capable of writing a good tool, but it's kinda unlikely that success will occur. Also, the alien tool's man page does say that this conversion is done with rebuilding the entire source, so... and Ubuntu highly discourages this method of installing packages due to the possibility of dependency problems. If you'd like to put it to the test, here's a package that you'd might like: http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/tilp2Download the DEB that matches your architecture, and then convert and install the package. I'm quite curious as to whether SliTaz can install this guy without a hitch or not. If it does, it will be quite the technological achievement! 
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« on: June 21, 2012, 10:45:32 pm »
EDIT:
Oooh, guess what i found:
http://hg.slitaz.org/tazpkg/raw-file/tip/doc/tazpkg.en.html#convert
This is a... ehh, tad bit risky. I have doubts that you can take any package and do that, unless I'm wrong and this thing is smarter than I think it is. For instance... say you try to convert the meta-package, kubuntu-desktop. Will it download all the dependencies and convert those? (Although that is indeed an extreme case, many packages require dependencies in order to run. You probably don't want to run around downloading them!)
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« on: June 21, 2012, 10:14:53 pm »
It's pretty solid. The only cons are that some drivers (especially wireless drivers) may not be available, so be prepared to install some yourself. The other con is the lack of a "major" packaging system (like Debian/Ubuntu DEB, Fedora RPM , etc. binary compat support). I know they have their own, but... Otherwise, I like it quite a bit - very clean and simple. The "light" OS that I currently use though is Puppy Linux, which may be a bit more user friendly at the cost of a little more resource usage. ISOs are around 90-150 MBs each, and RAM usage is quite low. EDIT: I should also mention that you should download the Slackware version of Puppy. That's the binary compatibility I was talking about that I like. 
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« on: June 11, 2012, 04:09:11 pm »
here it is https://github.com/Hoffa/nSDL/blob/master/include/SDL_platform.h#L105
in the nSDL github
Aha, I found it: In tools/build/nspire-gcc (of the ndless source), there's one line - the final line - that has that runtime define: "$GCC" -mcpu=arm7tdmi -I "$DIRNAME/../include" -I "$USERPROFILE/.ndless/include" -fpic -fno-builtin -D _TINSPIRE "$@"Kinda sneaky, eh? I still would prefer to have that define in the header itself (which you can prod the devs to do), but yup, that define works for now.
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« on: June 11, 2012, 03:33:47 pm »
Looking at the nSDL code its _NSPIRE for nspire
and I was thinking that if there isn't one that __PRIZM__ or _PRIZM would work if it wasn't too hard to add in
The _NSPIRE you see doesn't actually exist yet in the Ndless includes (or maybe my searching foo is terrible ). Instead, it may be a runtime define ( -D_NSPIRE) instead of an in-SDK one. These are relatively easy to add in compared with the other tasks of making a good SDK, but you just need to let them know!
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« on: June 11, 2012, 03:23:19 pm »
I think you would need to contact the Ndless maintainers and the PrizmSDK maintainers.
(Namely, ExtendeD for Ndless and Jonimus for PrizmSDK.)
I think something like __NSPIRE__ and __NDLESS__ for building on Nspire, and __PRIZM__ for building on Prizm would work.
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« on: June 08, 2012, 11:03:48 am »
Nice!  I've heard about this in the works, so it's great to see it working!
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« on: June 05, 2012, 11:52:44 am »
Guys, I recently installed the homebrew channel on my wii. If you don't already know, The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall has been released as freeware by Bethesda Softworks. So, I downloaded it onto my sd card so I could run it using DOSBox, on my wii. But, when I try to mount my sd card in DOSBox on my wii, it said that there was no such directory as "sd:\". So, I downloaded another copy of wii dosbox, and I needed a usb keyboard. So, after I get a keyboard, Daggerfall keeps on saying "Looks like you inserted the wrong cd rom. Please insert your Daggerfall cd rom into the cd rom drive." The thing is, I don't have a Daggerfall cd rom, and I don't think DOSBox will be able to read the cd rom on my wii. All of the files are on my sd card. Please help me!
I'm not an expert on this, but try the following: Open DOSBox and do some mounting of directories to virtual drives, and then execute the programs in the virtual drives. Otherwise, CDRom support is not available for the port (for obvious reasons). I don't know if that includes emulation.
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« on: May 27, 2012, 09:13:08 pm »
I'm kinda miffed by Axe/ASM because I've been in the computer programming waters for quite some time.... but it's likely that I *might* participate in the C section for Ndless/Prizm dev. It's a big IF though. I may not even be here for the deadlines...
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« on: May 22, 2012, 11:01:48 am »
I found this for C++ on nspire, no clue if it still works
http://blog.tangrs.id.au/?p=712
That is the same guy that is writing the bFLT loader here. You can PM him (tangrs) and ask him about the status. So far, no code (bFLT or experimental C++ support) has been merged with the official ndless tree yet.
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« on: May 20, 2012, 07:07:02 pm »
but hey, free shipping is free shipping. That's pretty impressive coming from China to the US.
That warrants a refund, usually. It takes 2-3 weeks usually for me.
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« on: May 16, 2012, 02:57:30 pm »
Bump #2. View the reply at: /index.php?topic=12378.new;topicseen#new
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« on: May 14, 2012, 02:29:37 pm »
Yeah, that's pretty much the same for everything that offers free domains (.tk, .co.cc, name it), spammers will register zillions of them in bulk (cuz it's free) and use them to spam.
That's kinda why domain names are paid and have certain restrictions depending of the TLD, they want to make sure the DNS system will be used for good by legit people, or else everything gets blocked because the number of spam registrations outnumbers the number of legit registrations.
Well... it's not to say that spam domains aren't registered en masse either. For instance, there's this website that I went to for investigating how much GoDaddy is losing (the SOPA scandal), and there were a lot of gibberish domains being registered on GoDaddy (like afaklfwiorthqiaoghaio.com). But as always, the majority (I hope ) is legit, so there's no reason to block.
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