00:00:00 --- log: started forth/16.03.11 01:07:01 --- quit: karswell` (Read error: Connection reset by peer) 01:08:13 --- join: karswell` (~user@55.197.125.91.dyn.plus.net) joined #forth 01:15:00 --- quit: ASau (Ping timeout: 248 seconds) 01:24:25 --- quit: true-grue (Read error: Connection reset by peer) 01:42:50 --- quit: proteusguy_satri (Ping timeout: 252 seconds) 02:43:26 --- quit: proteusguy (Ping timeout: 240 seconds) 02:53:19 --- nick: Keshl_ -> Keshl 02:56:14 --- join: proteusguy (~proteusgu@ppp-110-168-229-144.revip5.asianet.co.th) joined #forth 02:56:14 --- mode: ChanServ set +v proteusguy 03:05:33 --- join: proteusguy_satri (~proteusgu@49.229.159.28) joined #forth 03:16:47 --- quit: proteusguy_satri (Ping timeout: 244 seconds) 03:35:08 --- join: little_bit (~tomkl@unaffiliated/tomkl) joined #forth 04:40:41 --- quit: mnemnion (Remote host closed the connection) 06:17:37 --- join: nighty (~nighty@q029220.ppp.asahi-net.or.jp) joined #forth 06:34:07 --- quit: impomatic (Ping timeout: 244 seconds) 06:54:56 --- join: impomatic (~impomatic@145.2.112.87.dyn.plus.net) joined #forth 06:57:29 --- quit: beretta (Ping timeout: 260 seconds) 07:10:23 --- join: beretta (~beretta@cpe-65-185-42-203.columbus.res.rr.com) joined #forth 07:18:13 --- join: proteusguy_satri (~proteusgu@49.229.159.63) joined #forth 07:19:49 --- join: pointfree (~pointfree@c-174-62-81-78.hsd1.ca.comcast.net) joined #forth 07:31:55 --- join: Indecipherable (~Howl@41.162.59.11) joined #forth 07:46:31 --- quit: beretta (Ping timeout: 276 seconds) 07:46:47 --- nick: karswell` -> karswell 07:47:56 --- quit: karswell (Read error: Connection reset by peer) 07:49:14 --- join: karswell (~user@55.197.125.91.dyn.plus.net) joined #forth 07:52:38 --- quit: proteusguy_satri (Ping timeout: 244 seconds) 07:59:29 --- join: beretta (~beretta@cpe-65-185-42-203.columbus.res.rr.com) joined #forth 08:39:05 you have a 4G file. you would like to create another file that is precisely some byte value, smaller than 4GB. In order to keep this second file interesting you want to use contents of the 4GB file. 08:39:14 --- join: true-grue (~true-grue@176.14.216.104) joined #forth 08:39:56 --- quit: beretta (Ping timeout: 240 seconds) 08:40:00 your options are: 1. dd if=bigfile of=smallerfile bs=1 count=precisebytevalue 08:40:18 2. write a little program to open the one file and then write precisebytevalue bytes of it to the other file 08:40:33 3. cp bigfile smallerfile; truncate smallerfile -s precisebytevalue 08:40:53 which of these do you choose, and why? 09:11:47 --- join: Kumool (~kumool@adsl-64-237-234-107.prtc.net) joined #forth 09:49:23 --- join: bedah (~bedah@dyndsl-031-150-092-030.ewe-ip-backbone.de) joined #forth 09:49:36 --- join: Zarutian (~zarutian@168-110-22-46.fiber.hringdu.is) joined #forth 10:47:46 I went with #3, it was quicker to do than #2. and #1, for the record, takes like a week to run. in a several minutes before I returned to the terminal and interrupted it, dd had copied less than 300MB. one syscall per byte is *slow* 11:39:34 --- quit: karswell (Read error: Connection reset by peer) 11:40:42 --- join: karswell (~user@55.197.125.91.dyn.plus.net) joined #forth 11:55:32 --- quit: karswell (Read error: Connection reset by peer) 11:56:43 --- join: karswell (~user@55.197.125.91.dyn.plus.net) joined #forth 12:01:23 --- join: JDat (~JDat@89.248.91.5) joined #forth 12:02:19 --- join: mat4 (~Claude@ip5b40bd37.dynamic.kabel-deutschland.de) joined #forth 12:02:22 hello 12:02:58 o/ 12:10:53 ☷☶☵☴☳☲☱☰ 12:23:06 --- quit: oceanpollen (Remote host closed the connection) 12:23:51 --- join: oceanpollen (~jfondren@50.116.75.241) joined #forth 12:25:15 I found this an interesting idea: https://github.com/mikaelpatel/Arduino-Shell 12:29:31 reminds me of https://bitbucket.org/paulbone/plasma/src/a35cb09749f36f3d007f1fd8461b821e8125817c/examples/pzt/fib.pzt 12:29:45 a stack languagae used as a compilation target, more than something you'd use 12:33:15 thanks for the link 12:35:12 "The Plasma programming language strikes a balance between functional and imperative programming" 12:37:12 it's being developed by one of the mercury developers. the goal is something a little more approachable than Mercury, I imagine. 12:40:54 I know to some extend the Mercury programming language. However above statement is like trying to combine a hot-dog with sushi and still expecting an ordinary taste ;) 12:54:41 Wow. They want you to type "ret" at the end of the every word. 12:59:54 probably that is one aspect of the early state of development 13:02:46 --- join: ASau (~user@netbsd/developers/asau) joined #forth 13:11:58 --- quit: Indecipherable (Quit: Too late I heard the howling, that broke your heart at last...) 13:15:12 --- join: mnemnion (~mnemnion@c-73-223-96-148.hsd1.ca.comcast.net) joined #forth 13:21:40 --- quit: mat4 (Quit: Leaving) 14:01:24 --- quit: true-grue (Read error: Connection reset by peer) 14:52:49 --- quit: JDat (Ping timeout: 250 seconds) 15:03:04 --- quit: nighty (Quit: It's time to kick ass and chew bubble gums and I'm all out of gums!) 15:11:31 --- quit: dys (Remote host closed the connection) 16:05:23 --- quit: Kumool (Read error: Connection reset by peer) 16:09:55 --- quit: mnemnion (Remote host closed the connection) 16:14:43 --- join: mnemnion (~mnemnion@c-73-223-96-148.hsd1.ca.comcast.net) joined #forth 17:16:37 --- quit: bedah (Quit: Ex-Chat) 18:01:08 --- quit: Zarutian (Quit: Zarutian) 19:20:47 --- quit: little_bit (Ping timeout: 240 seconds) 19:22:50 --- join: Kumool (~kumool@adsl-64-237-234-107.prtc.net) joined #forth 19:51:21 --- quit: malyn (Quit: "") 20:02:25 --- quit: Kumool (Read error: Connection reset by peer) 21:22:47 --- quit: pointfree (Ping timeout: 240 seconds) 21:45:31 --- join: Indecipherable (~Howl@41.162.59.11) joined #forth 22:33:41 --- quit: karswell (Remote host closed the connection) 22:34:42 --- join: karswell` (~user@55.197.125.91.dyn.plus.net) joined #forth 22:54:26 --- quit: karswell` (Read error: Connection reset by peer) 22:55:42 --- join: karswell` (~user@55.197.125.91.dyn.plus.net) joined #forth 23:00:51 --- join: Skuzzzy (~Skuzzzy@host-13-149.miancou.clients.pavlovmedia.com) joined #forth 23:47:50 --- join: dys (~dys@ip-109-44-1-8.web.vodafone.de) joined #forth 23:59:59 --- log: ended forth/16.03.11