rgb.txt: In the old days X relied on/kept the colorVALUE-colorNAME -listing in rgb.txt. Later/nowadays the listing became hardcoded in the source - and X no longer need the file. The rgb.txt present in a distro will likely just be a copy of the ancient rgb.txt-file. Hardcoding the listing in the so...

@dogle: Nice find The link below refers to a newspaper-article in english.The article contains some names for further searching. Research-result may be publisheded soon. https://www.yourdanishlife.dk/unique-danish-research-to-examine-and-certify-the-utility-of-masks/ ----------- Background:Like in U...

(I am faraway from linux,iconv,awk -so
just a possible idea/workaround to try)


Assuming an utf-8 locale:
iconv -f ISO-8859-1 < ISO-8859-1-data.txt | awk ....

Will the iconv-conversion produce valid data for awk ?

From a Danish University,certified by the Danish Lægemiddelstyrelsen, i.e. the equivalent to the FDA iin US. Blueprint on github,uploadet yesterday. Cheap standardcomponents - looks a bit robust. 24 items produced,expected production for the Danes: 1000 in a month. Mainlink: https://github.com/CoRes...

@MochiMoppel:Thanks.Very instructive posts.Rave on.

@JamesBond :Yes.(Apple has Facetime). -- At my location - the lockdown was rather early,total - and rushed. In one day smaller businesses,organitions,groups were scrambling to implement videoconferencing. Zoom was hyped,viewed as easy - "just another app,see" . Security-thoughts were proba...

A group over at MIT are trying to come up with a blue-print for a low-cost ventilator: General ptojext-outline: https://e-vent.mit.edu/ some blogposts: https://e-vent.mit.edu/mechanical/plumbing/ --- We may note - that for various reasons - in the developed countries the HealthAuthorities fx the FDA...

For grown-ups https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFcusdmFwgQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCMssBukczQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03o-6To7xMQ --and the kiddies https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuRCxakQt-c (Some trivia: Mr.Smith was inspired by " I got the rockin' pneumonia I need a shot of r...

Somewhat general on zoom:
https://www.popularmechanics.com/techno ... zoom-safe/
Eff-recommandations:
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/04/h ... oid-trolls

The entry site: https://www.google.com/covid19/mobility/ For a "direct" link for the behaviour in Arkansas -try: https://www.gstatic.com/covid19/mobility/2020-03-29_US_Arkansas_Mobility_Report_en.pdf Over at ycombinator.com there are some talking points: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?i...

eh..?

Have postingproblems - see next post.

@Flash: Some bleach needed.

@Fred:Nice and enthusiastic work DeepL have rather restrictive policies with respect to their property. The developer of trans can not support DeepL. https://www.deepl.com/pro-license.html#pro Google,Bing,Yandex have - seemingly - more lenient policies/strategies. EU ought to get their act together ...

Somewhat related to IOT and mop-mobbing on social-media the Register has a piece about a start-up - Den Automation -which tried to peddle the idea of remote switch-control: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/12/03/den_automation_liquidation/ Wonder if early adapters have lost control of their switch...

I had this same 'difference of opinion' with somebody over at LQ.org

This fellow?
https://cryptome.org/iq-org/IQ.ORG.htm

Just a hunch/idea reading the latest posts.
1. set LC_ALL=C gawk
2. check the manual about (s)printf %c

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows-1252

Yes I know about the differences.

The € -might be handy - but who needs the flyspecs?

One may note - that 2% seem to like the ISO,6% the Windows codepage--
the rest can do without.

Anyway . nice awk and idea.

On a decent distro

/usr/share/i18n/charmaps

-Contains even an edition of all unicodes
..
The compression used may vary between distros.

@gychang:
CatDude provides a how-to with pics:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 862#354862