feisty_meow.git
4 days agonew fortune
Fred T. Hamster [Wed, 11 Feb 2026 18:00:16 +0000 (13:00 -0500)]
new fortune

4 days agostill in progress
Fred T. Hamster [Wed, 11 Feb 2026 16:35:31 +0000 (11:35 -0500)]
still in progress

4 days agogen deps is busted but faster
Fred T. Hamster [Wed, 11 Feb 2026 16:27:35 +0000 (11:27 -0500)]
gen deps is busted but faster

wheee!  ugh.  fixing the runtime performance has caused me to break the runtime correctness.  still working on this.

5 days agonice speed up for gen deps
Fred T. Hamster [Wed, 11 Feb 2026 07:10:59 +0000 (02:10 -0500)]
nice speed up for gen deps

using less calls out to sed now, and found a more efficient array search.
that being said, we probably need to move to associative arrays instead of normal ones,
and that will be wicked faster.

5 days agogetting closer to economy
Fred T. Hamster [Wed, 11 Feb 2026 06:38:51 +0000 (01:38 -0500)]
getting closer to economy

some sed calls have been replaced with in-bash variable expansions, which should really help the speed.
not everything is working again quite yet though.

5 days agospeeding up the dependency generation process
Fred T. Hamster [Wed, 11 Feb 2026 05:58:08 +0000 (00:58 -0500)]
speeding up the dependency generation process

lots of sub-shells being invoked, and many are not needed.  trying to root those out now.

5 days agoless aggressive factorial test with 12
Fred T. Hamster [Wed, 11 Feb 2026 03:01:52 +0000 (22:01 -0500)]
less aggressive factorial test with 12

37 was too big a factorial, just because i was using ints and they can't represent the number for 37!.
so, 12 is much nicer.

5 days agoturning on the callstack tracker for dev
Fred T. Hamster [Wed, 11 Feb 2026 02:53:37 +0000 (21:53 -0500)]
turning on the callstack tracker for dev

living dangerously.  want to see if any problems actually exist from this code.
next step would be turning off the callstack tracker and back on the memory
checker, which is a broken kludge festival if i remember properly.

5 days agoMerge branch 'release-2.140.190' into dev
Fred T. Hamster [Wed, 11 Feb 2026 02:40:41 +0000 (21:40 -0500)]
Merge branch 'release-2.140.190' into dev

5 days agonew release coming... 2.140.190! release-2.140.190
Fred T. Hamster [Wed, 11 Feb 2026 02:36:29 +0000 (21:36 -0500)]
new release coming... 2.140.190!

5 days agochecking in without callstack tracking
Fred T. Hamster [Wed, 11 Feb 2026 02:32:51 +0000 (21:32 -0500)]
checking in without callstack tracking

turning this back off for now, since we don't really want it on in general.  it's an awesome debugging helper though.

5 days agofixed concurrency issues
Fred T. Hamster [Wed, 11 Feb 2026 02:10:52 +0000 (21:10 -0500)]
fixed concurrency issues

hopefully everything is awesome now, given that the callstack tracker needed to manage each thread's stack independently, and wasn't, but now is.

5 days agofixed callstack tracker for multithreaded apps
Fred T. Hamster [Tue, 10 Feb 2026 20:31:33 +0000 (15:31 -0500)]
fixed callstack tracker for multithreaded apps

made the tracker thread local, so it adheres to the particular thread and keeps the stack right.
added tests for callstack tracker in the mutex test, since it already had lots of cool thread activity.
the stack tests invoke our macro, which checks the trace's validity; there's no specific other test
of the callstack tracker in test_mutex, but the current approach will add tests to the overall count
and also complain about any errors that occur.

5 days agoupdated fortunes
Chris Koeritz [Tue, 10 Feb 2026 19:23:04 +0000 (19:23 +0000)]
updated fortunes

5 days agosmall fixes for stack tracker
Fred T. Hamster [Tue, 10 Feb 2026 15:19:44 +0000 (10:19 -0500)]
small fixes for stack tracker

things seem really good; everything builds with this enabled now, and the test app for the tracker makes sense.
need to add a recursive test to the tracker tester, and also implement a multi-threaded test of it.
OR...  i could just add callstack tracking output in one of our current multi-threaded tests.  oooh, i like it!
re-use the macro for getting the trace, testing its validity, and printing it.

6 days agogood state with updated static built apps
Fred T. Hamster [Tue, 10 Feb 2026 13:03:33 +0000 (08:03 -0500)]
good state with updated static built apps

buildor_gen_deps is cranking along nicely now.  fixed another bug in it about absolute paths.
regenerated the statically built apps that we hadn't done recently (by excluding the clam_tools).
these all compile and link properly now.
have not actually tested the callstack tracker yet.  that's next.
but it builds now, so it must be correct code, yes?  hahahaha, i amuse myself.

6 days agobuildor gen deps still working
Fred T. Hamster [Tue, 10 Feb 2026 07:06:34 +0000 (02:06 -0500)]
buildor gen deps still working

albeit slowly.

6 days agofully functional death star
Fred T. Hamster [Tue, 10 Feb 2026 05:23:22 +0000 (00:23 -0500)]
fully functional death star

seems like buildor gen deps is back again.  it works with the debugging noise enabled; now we get to try with it off.
and i think i just saw how that will break everything (due to empty if then statements).  oh fudge.

6 days agoclosest to working in a while
Fred T. Hamster [Tue, 10 Feb 2026 05:11:54 +0000 (00:11 -0500)]
closest to working in a while

hopefully this will do the right thing this time.
last big edit was to encapsulate debugging noise in checks, so we can turn it on and off at will.

6 days agobreaking change with callstack tracker enabled
Fred T. Hamster [Tue, 10 Feb 2026 04:25:36 +0000 (23:25 -0500)]
breaking change with callstack tracker enabled

this doesn't compile right now, but is getting closer.
currently trying to resolve the problems in buildor_gen_deps, but may have just found the smoking gun.  or bug.  bad bug.

6 days agoadded better error checking and messaging
Fred T. Hamster [Mon, 9 Feb 2026 22:47:27 +0000 (17:47 -0500)]
added better error checking and messaging

6 days agoadded error checking before replacement
Fred T. Hamster [Mon, 9 Feb 2026 15:53:17 +0000 (10:53 -0500)]
added error checking before replacement

never want this to whack a chunk of good includes in the code file it's modifying, if it trips over its own feet.

6 days agoreverted to prior semicolon-lessness
Fred T. Hamster [Mon, 9 Feb 2026 15:26:07 +0000 (10:26 -0500)]
reverted to prior semicolon-lessness

the FUNCDEF macro should compile fine with or without a semicolon after it.  had momentarily added semicolons during build problems with callstack tracker, but don't want unnecessary changes going in, or a bad standard for requiring semicolons to be forced on anyone.

6 days agoholy crowbar lots of callstack tracker changes
Fred T. Hamster [Mon, 9 Feb 2026 15:20:19 +0000 (10:20 -0500)]
holy crowbar lots of callstack tracker changes

this was an attempt to bring back in the callstack tracker feature, after maybe 15 years of it not being alive in the codebase.
lots of struggle with that, and it's not working yet, but is a bit better.  currently the feature is disabled in the codebase,
but hopefully it can be enabled soon...

7 days agotest timer driver is working again
Fred T. Hamster [Sun, 8 Feb 2026 20:43:44 +0000 (15:43 -0500)]
test timer driver is working again

had to bring back some old windoze code for it, in event_extensions.  this will not build for real yet on windows, but that's a task for another day.
the tester is working great on linux!

7 days agosystem values test is online
Fred T. Hamster [Sun, 8 Feb 2026 19:39:44 +0000 (14:39 -0500)]
system values test is online

and the code is building again...

7 days agobreaking change to add system values test
Fred T. Hamster [Sun, 8 Feb 2026 19:25:42 +0000 (14:25 -0500)]
breaking change to add system values test

working on it now.

7 days agotest registry config is in now
Fred T. Hamster [Sun, 8 Feb 2026 19:23:08 +0000 (14:23 -0500)]
test registry config is in now

not sure it does anything; it's intended for working on windows where there's a global system registry (also known as an operating system single point of failure).

7 days agogot test path config working
Fred T. Hamster [Sun, 8 Feb 2026 19:14:41 +0000 (14:14 -0500)]
got test path config working

more goodness!

7 days agoupdated progress note
Fred T. Hamster [Sun, 8 Feb 2026 18:57:28 +0000 (13:57 -0500)]
updated progress note

7 days agoadded finalization noise after test
Fred T. Hamster [Sun, 8 Feb 2026 18:51:03 +0000 (13:51 -0500)]
added finalization noise after test

8 days agomuch closer to working
Fred T. Hamster [Sun, 8 Feb 2026 14:19:23 +0000 (09:19 -0500)]
much closer to working

and more upgrade bits added.

8 days agocloser to working ini parser test
Fred T. Hamster [Sun, 8 Feb 2026 14:12:48 +0000 (09:12 -0500)]
closer to working ini parser test

8 days agoadding in another retro test
Fred T. Hamster [Sun, 8 Feb 2026 14:07:27 +0000 (09:07 -0500)]
adding in another retro test

test ini parser inna house.  also broken.  will work on it and the upgrader script in tandem.

8 days agodoc mod
Fred T. Hamster [Sun, 8 Feb 2026 14:03:48 +0000 (09:03 -0500)]
doc mod

8 days agotests for break signal and ini config working
Fred T. Hamster [Sun, 8 Feb 2026 13:58:33 +0000 (08:58 -0500)]
tests for break signal and ini config working

resolved the weird issue with double_plus.  added optional time parameter for break signal time out.

8 days agoini config test is working again
Fred T. Hamster [Sun, 8 Feb 2026 05:06:07 +0000 (00:06 -0500)]
ini config test is working again

the test exposed an insufficient size when performing double_plus operations, since we shifted the number into an int as part of truncation operation.  changed this to a long long instead, which seems to have sufficient size for our purposes.  previous result was that it was garbling the number and turning it negative as it handily overflowed 32 bits.

8 days agoini config tester close to working
Fred T. Hamster [Sat, 7 Feb 2026 23:28:53 +0000 (18:28 -0500)]
ini config tester close to working

8 days agoadding in test for ini configurator
Fred T. Hamster [Sat, 7 Feb 2026 23:14:38 +0000 (18:14 -0500)]
adding in test for ini configurator

and some more fixes for the upgrader script

8 days agocloser to building test for dirtree fcopy
Fred T. Hamster [Sat, 7 Feb 2026 22:56:42 +0000 (17:56 -0500)]
closer to building test for dirtree fcopy

need one more fix in our upgrade script and that should do it.

8 days agofixations continue on upgrader
Fred T. Hamster [Sat, 7 Feb 2026 15:20:27 +0000 (10:20 -0500)]
fixations continue on upgrader

found it can fix old application shell constructor calls.

8 days agotest dirtree fcopy after one upgrade run
Fred T. Hamster [Sat, 7 Feb 2026 15:17:13 +0000 (10:17 -0500)]
test dirtree fcopy after one upgrade run

found a fix for __argv and __argc to add in upgrade script.  want to get this version in before running it again to see if any severe tire damage occurs.

8 days agobreaking change - adding test for dirtree fcopy
Fred T. Hamster [Sat, 7 Feb 2026 15:14:01 +0000 (10:14 -0500)]
breaking change - adding test for dirtree fcopy

getting this older test up to speed.

8 days agoworking towards easier porting
Fred T. Hamster [Sat, 7 Feb 2026 15:09:34 +0000 (10:09 -0500)]
working towards easier porting

updated the porting script, and now it mentions the actual product it's porting to (feisty meow).
got break signal test app compiling and working now too.

9 days agohoohah, test command line compiles now
Fred T. Hamster [Sat, 7 Feb 2026 01:44:19 +0000 (20:44 -0500)]
hoohah, test command line compiles now

and it runs, and seems to yield the appropriate results.  we're on our way now..!

9 days agocloser to compiling...
Fred T. Hamster [Fri, 6 Feb 2026 21:49:01 +0000 (16:49 -0500)]
closer to compiling...

found that deadly_error became non_continuable_error, which i like better but still don't think is the perfect name.
fixed some other shifts also.

11 days agorevised name for 'apps' to be 'source'
Fred T. Hamster [Thu, 5 Feb 2026 12:30:01 +0000 (07:30 -0500)]
revised name for 'apps' to be 'source'

makes a lot more sense, since we store source there and not built apps.
plus the 's' letter is no longer colliding with anything else in my standard names?  wheeee....

11 days agoclosing in on getting cmd line test working
Fred Hamster [Thu, 5 Feb 2026 02:56:17 +0000 (21:56 -0500)]
closing in on getting cmd line test working

the upgrade hoople to yeti script still does the mostly right stuff, despite neither of those being the current product name.
just a few errors left, i hope...

11 days agoadded notes on progress
Fred Hamster [Thu, 5 Feb 2026 02:46:56 +0000 (21:46 -0500)]
added notes on progress

11 days agobringing back in some tests
Fred Hamster [Thu, 5 Feb 2026 02:43:53 +0000 (21:43 -0500)]
bringing back in some tests

these have been pending for a while.  not at all ready yet though.

13 days agonew file listing the kona java dependencies
Fred T. Hamster [Tue, 3 Feb 2026 02:38:45 +0000 (21:38 -0500)]
new file listing the kona java dependencies

seems like a handy thing, and i'd rather not have to re-learn this yet again...

13 days agoworkbench looking better
Fred T. Hamster [Tue, 3 Feb 2026 01:31:51 +0000 (20:31 -0500)]
workbench looking better

everything is building properly in eclipse now except the osgi junk.  ugh.

13 days agoworking on java jar dependencies for eclipse
Fred T. Hamster [Tue, 3 Feb 2026 01:12:03 +0000 (20:12 -0500)]
working on java jar dependencies for eclipse

this could take a while to get right, although i think i'm on the right track.

2 weeks agochanges due to internal feisty meow cloud
Fred T. Hamster [Mon, 2 Feb 2026 03:46:30 +0000 (22:46 -0500)]
changes due to internal feisty meow cloud

the nuage has been modified and these related scripts had to change.
used to be a magic_cabinet folder under nuage, but now it is just cabinet.

2 weeks agotectonic shiftlets
Fred T. Hamster [Mon, 2 Feb 2026 03:26:01 +0000 (22:26 -0500)]
tectonic shiftlets

moving the computer tasks into a conjoined pile.

2 months agocorrected error in seeking packages
Chris Koeritz [Wed, 17 Dec 2025 17:11:21 +0000 (12:11 -0500)]
corrected error in seeking packages

was inadvertently using a grep character set match instead of the
literal thing in brackets.  oops.  dang.

2 months agoadded a guard to catch an unusual error
Chris Koeritz [Wed, 3 Dec 2025 16:25:20 +0000 (11:25 -0500)]
added a guard to catch an unusual error

ran this recently and seemed to think things were installed, but then xsecurelock wasn't really there.
this at least catches this situation; still need to fix deeper cause of problem.

2 months agocleanups after successful updates
Chris Koeritz [Mon, 1 Dec 2025 18:44:50 +0000 (13:44 -0500)]
cleanups after successful updates

start xwin screensaver is awesome now!  and seek package is very handy.

2 months agonew seek_package script for precise install checks
Fred T. Hamster [Mon, 1 Dec 2025 17:14:23 +0000 (12:14 -0500)]
new seek_package script for precise install checks

and removed yum case from list_package, which was redundant.
and fixed the screensaver setup script to use seek_package, so it's an exact check now. sweet.

2 months agonew fortune ish and reverted decision on saver
Fred Hamster [Mon, 1 Dec 2025 15:39:02 +0000 (10:39 -0500)]
new fortune ish and reverted decision on saver

cannot have screensaver script trying to install stuff during our basic feisty meow startup.  duhhh.
that needs to be managed separately, perhaps as an x window auto-start item.

also a new fortune or two, although one is actually a bad joke.

2 months agodropped error noises for continuable ones
Chris Koeritz [Mon, 1 Dec 2025 15:23:41 +0000 (10:23 -0500)]
dropped error noises for continuable ones

and fixed the seldom or never seen text greeting to feisty.

2 months agoadded assume yes on apt install line
Chris Koeritz [Mon, 1 Dec 2025 15:12:05 +0000 (10:12 -0500)]
added assume yes on apt install line

2 months agoupdated with some helpful info
Fred T. Hamster [Mon, 1 Dec 2025 14:55:24 +0000 (09:55 -0500)]
updated with some helpful info

2 months agoadded in the missing steps in xwin screensaver
Fred T. Hamster [Sun, 30 Nov 2025 23:46:33 +0000 (18:46 -0500)]
added in the missing steps in xwin screensaver

now installs the packages needed, although the code is not super beautiful for that, and kills off xscreensaver if it's running.

2 months agomade the xss startup not errorful
Fred T. Hamster [Sun, 30 Nov 2025 23:29:45 +0000 (18:29 -0500)]
made the xss startup not errorful

there are too many things that can seem to go wrong with the xss-lock startup,
but which leave it in a still functional state, so we made the error check after
running it allow continuation.

2 months agoadded code for modifying saver_xscreensaver
Fred Hamster [Thu, 27 Nov 2025 18:36:54 +0000 (13:36 -0500)]
added code for modifying saver_xscreensaver

to update to latest location of xscreensaver, enabling xsecurelock to use it properly.
this code is not quite right yet.

2 months agoadded notes for next steps
Chris Koeritz [Wed, 26 Nov 2025 21:29:01 +0000 (16:29 -0500)]
added notes for next steps

working on odd bugs on cuboid host now.

2 months agoadded a usb drive
Fred Hamster [Tue, 25 Nov 2025 02:42:01 +0000 (21:42 -0500)]
added a usb drive

2 months agoadded mpv as mp3 player when available
Fred T. Hamster [Sun, 23 Nov 2025 20:34:36 +0000 (15:34 -0500)]
added mpv as mp3 player when available

also added pavucontrol note for multimedia tools.

2 months agoadding debugging to track mp3 play issues
Fred T. Hamster [Sun, 23 Nov 2025 15:25:26 +0000 (10:25 -0500)]
adding debugging to track mp3 play issues

2 months agoadded support to start a screensaver for x windows
Fred Hamster [Fri, 21 Nov 2025 15:25:10 +0000 (10:25 -0500)]
added support to start a screensaver for x windows

tries to be subtle by only hooking in if the xsecurelock software is installed, if x windows is running, and if there is no existing screensaver hooked.

2 months agoadded xsecurelock variable to fred custom scripts
Fred Hamster [Wed, 19 Nov 2025 17:01:23 +0000 (12:01 -0500)]
added xsecurelock variable to fred custom scripts

this tells it to use xscreensaver as the display saver when locked.

3 months agoupdated naming for overload report
Fred Hamster [Sun, 16 Nov 2025 19:16:58 +0000 (14:16 -0500)]
updated naming for overload report

3 months agoupdated logout script to clear console also
Fred Hamster [Sun, 16 Nov 2025 19:07:57 +0000 (14:07 -0500)]
updated logout script to clear console also

3 months agofixed debug line
Fred T. Hamster [Fri, 7 Nov 2025 16:38:16 +0000 (11:38 -0500)]
fixed debug line

3 months agosnorky
Fred T. Hamster [Tue, 4 Nov 2025 10:44:28 +0000 (05:44 -0500)]
snorky

9 months agoadded surprisingly missing net-tools for prep
fred t. hamster [Tue, 6 May 2025 01:02:25 +0000 (21:02 -0400)]
added surprisingly missing net-tools for prep

9 months agoprogressions
fred t. hamster [Tue, 6 May 2025 00:58:53 +0000 (20:58 -0400)]
progressions

9 months agoadded kgpg as os package for prep
Fred Hamster [Tue, 29 Apr 2025 18:41:21 +0000 (14:41 -0400)]
added kgpg as os package for prep

9 months agochewing through canonicalize
Fred T. Hamster [Sun, 27 Apr 2025 16:43:44 +0000 (12:43 -0400)]
chewing through canonicalize

9 months agomore conversion on filename helper
Fred T. Hamster [Sun, 27 Apr 2025 10:29:52 +0000 (06:29 -0400)]
more conversion on filename helper

9 months agoremoved squish dirs code to squish current
Fred Hamster [Fri, 25 Apr 2025 11:06:14 +0000 (07:06 -0400)]
removed squish dirs code to squish current

if there were no parameters, it happily started squishing every directory in the current dir.
i typed it accidentally with no parameters in my home directory, and it started squishing every freaking thing.  not right.
also, there was somehow data loss, even though this is supposed to zip first before removal.  how did that happen?

9 months agomore progress
Fred Hamster [Thu, 24 Apr 2025 18:54:11 +0000 (14:54 -0400)]
more progress

9 months agomore progress
Fred Hamster [Thu, 24 Apr 2025 10:15:40 +0000 (06:15 -0400)]
more progress

9 months agomore progress on filename helper in python
Fred Hamster [Tue, 22 Apr 2025 15:46:20 +0000 (11:46 -0400)]
more progress on filename helper in python

and string slicing, wheee!

9 months agocleaned up debug wording a bit
Fred Hamster [Tue, 22 Apr 2025 13:21:06 +0000 (09:21 -0400)]
cleaned up debug wording a bit

9 months agomore good converting
Fred Hamster [Tue, 22 Apr 2025 02:05:22 +0000 (22:05 -0400)]
more good converting

9 months agoimplemented same file method in python
Fred T. Hamster [Mon, 21 Apr 2025 21:08:16 +0000 (17:08 -0400)]
implemented same file method in python

10 months agofixed host list for gruntose domain
Chris Koeritz [Fri, 18 Apr 2025 02:51:14 +0000 (22:51 -0400)]
fixed host list for gruntose domain

10 months agonew pattern for vim edits
Chris Koeritz [Fri, 18 Apr 2025 00:44:20 +0000 (20:44 -0400)]
new pattern for vim edits

this one fixes the old school bash line that looks like this:
  #!/bin/bash
to look like the more modern version:
  #!/usr/bin/env bash

also renamed the directory to be vim for uhh modernity.

10 months agosaving minor updates
Fred Hamster [Thu, 17 Apr 2025 21:46:30 +0000 (17:46 -0400)]
saving minor updates

10 months agomore tasty work in python
Fred Hamster [Thu, 17 Apr 2025 21:44:02 +0000 (17:44 -0400)]
more tasty work in python

10 months agocontinuing work on filename helper in python
Fred Hamster [Thu, 17 Apr 2025 21:20:25 +0000 (17:20 -0400)]
continuing work on filename helper in python

10 months agosplunge!
Fred Hamster [Thu, 17 Apr 2025 17:37:06 +0000 (13:37 -0400)]
splunge!

10 months agoconverted generate aliases to python
Fred Hamster [Thu, 17 Apr 2025 17:35:22 +0000 (13:35 -0400)]
converted generate aliases to python

now just need to work on the library files it uses.  filename helper is the first level down, but there may be others...

10 months agomore progress
Fred Hamster [Thu, 17 Apr 2025 15:52:14 +0000 (11:52 -0400)]
more progress

10 months agomade archive for older codes
Chris Koeritz [Thu, 17 Apr 2025 14:24:26 +0000 (10:24 -0400)]
made archive for older codes

plus some good progress on the conversion of the alias generator.

10 months agogeneralized the syncthing conflict locator
Fred T. Hamster [Wed, 16 Apr 2025 14:41:37 +0000 (10:41 -0400)]
generalized the syncthing conflict locator

10 months agocloser to functional
Fred T. Hamster [Wed, 16 Apr 2025 14:24:09 +0000 (10:24 -0400)]
closer to functional

10 months agomore plowing through the python
Fred T. Hamster [Wed, 16 Apr 2025 13:02:22 +0000 (09:02 -0400)]
more plowing through the python