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greengeek

The attachment has some third party application current updates.
Thanks for the updated files. I have downloaded them and will possibly try them later. Are you suspecting that my current versions of those files may be causing me problems?
I do have (some version of) those libs onboard and plinej ...

greengeek

This program rips the titles not any specific VOB. A title could spread across multiple VOB files.

Thanks! I think I finally understand what I have been missing... I previously thought each vob was part of the whole video and had to be processed sequentially - even if it was a "foreign language ...

greengeek

What does all of this have to do with AI? :roll: :?: :?: :?: :?:
Potentially "AI" can become one of the greatest tools for those who seek to exert power over other people.
Sort of like "Digital Dynamite" - something useful for the good of mankind - that can instead be used to create misery.
As a ...

greengeek

I don't want this program to just rip the longest title. If you're ripping a disc that's a TV series it will have multiple titles that will be of similar length.
Good point. I just bought a bunch of DVDs from a charity shop and many of them are "TV series" so i guess they have multiple episodes ...

greengeek

I have a couple of tips to offer:
- The speed of the rip/convert seems to be about 1:1 (ie: ripping&converting takes as long as watching the video). At least that is what seems to be the case on my hardware.
- When you see the list of vobs to rip I think it is a good idea to select only one at a ...

greengeek

Are you trying to record audio from Micropone or from Soundcard (what-you-hear) ? I am selecting Soundcard. My intention is twofold:
1) Record what I am watching/hearing in my browser
2) Record what I can hear through the speakers when I am playing a CD

It looks like that you only have one "real ...

greengeek

I have not yet found a 64bit Palemoon that behaves well on Facebook (seems unable to enter text into various Facebook fields).
Am I expecting too much from Palemoon? Is it only suitable for simpler websites?

greengeek

I am trialling the .pet version on my Fossa64 9.5 setup but cannot get sound to record.

Should this soundcard selection field be adjustable?
TAK_SoundcardChoice.jpg
.
It offers no selections other than what is shown, and does not allow me to change from card 0 to card 1.

I had a look at .take_a ...

greengeek

Interesting - thanks.

So far I have succeeded with one DVD, failed with another - and have also made some progress with getting specific vobs off a third DVD that has previously beaten me totally.

Will do more testing to see if I can learn to drive this utility to best advantage.

(Testing on a ...

greengeek

Thanks for the ffconvert pet in the first post.
Working so far for me (Using F95Small V5 at the moment...)

greengeek

williwaw wrote: Fri Mar 07, 2025 9:03 pm
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42861047

Interesting stuff there.

This sounded simple to differentiate between robots and crawlers:
(not that I know the difference...)

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greengeek

Imagine how bad this could become when every Joe Blow is running their own AI LLM at home and training them on sites/forums such as this one.
It'll be a potential nightmare.

greengeek

gychang wrote: Wed Mar 05, 2025 7:18 pm
@MochiMoppel works well! I put it in my .bashrc as an alias and works perfectly. thanks!

Hi gychang - could you give any more detail about how you did this please? Sounds interesting - but what is an alias within .bashrc? How is this done please?

greengeek

As far as I can tell this is a link to the official Mercury website & developer:

https://thorium.rocks/mercury

greengeek

Hello

Update time.

I now have a Brother HL-1112A on the way.

To "find printer" in CUPS I assume the printer needs to be conected (USB in this case) and on before opening the CUPS interface?

Brother have a .DEB driver package which they list as being for Ubuntu and related distros for download ...

greengeek

To be honest - this is my new favorite browser.
Dunno if it's going to steal my passwords or track me in some dangerous way - but I am enjoying the speed and clarity of it's performance.
Luv'n it!
(Using the SSE4 version to match my hardware...)

greengeek

I'm pleased to discover that it runs happily with Alsa so that I can hear audio on Youtube - without having to resort to pulseaudio.
Seems a nice browser so far. :thumbup:

EDIT: - I found that some screen items did not display on certain websites - but turns out this is because of the default ...

greengeek

Thanks. Quite worrying.
I think we in the Linux world have been lured into accepting libs and glibc etc that are never evaluated for their safety.
We just assume that they are safe.
My guess is that many such concerns will be revealed in future years.

EDIT : especially important for systems or ...

greengeek

I think puppylinux must be very stressed about it.
PuppyLinux is not a top distribution with many followers or users. It is hard to attract new users, and if, when they do arrive, they land on a page that takes too long to load, they will simply forget about their interest in the distro.
Actually ...

greengeek

Keep in mind that the claimed vs actual speed of flash drives can be all over the map. Have tested some USB 3 drives that were much slower than USB 1.0 , especially write speeds.

wizard
Yeah, the performance of modern drives really concerns me.
I have been really upset by the performance of a ...

greengeek

@rockedge - Whatever you have done in the last couple of hours seems to have banished the gremlins.
Back to rocket speed here downunder... (in the arse-cheeks of the western world)

greengeek

Perhaps it's time for "scheduled maintenance" on the Forum? What I mean is take it offline for oh, maybe 4 to 6 hours.
I wonder if the whole forum could be made "password entry only" for those 4-6 hours - rather than totally offline?
I imagine that would keep the bots out (although I guess they ...

greengeek

The title is - "USB ports - How to tell which type? - so I wonder if there is some way to write a utility that pops up a yad/xmessage etc - that alerts the user to the following when they plug in a USB device:

- which physical port you just plugged in
- which other devices share that hub
- which ...

greengeek

I wonder if there are any speed test utilities that spit out some data regarding how the system sees each device under test.
Not sure what is controlled by the port hardware / firmware of the port and what exactly is controlled by the software (is choice of EHCI or other driver)

greengeek

@greengeek

I have often encountered the situation where a "fast" usb drive is plugged into a "fast" usb port - but copying of data is very slow.

Keep in mind that the claimed vs actual speed of flash drives can be all over the map. Have tested some USB 3 drives that were much slower than USB ...

greengeek

Updated the tar file in previous post https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?p=138528#p138528

Just some minor changes and fixes.
Added a help button for options.
Now ROX Application. Drag 'n drop an image onto it to start with the gui.

Still made for personal use... Use at own risk.
I think ...

greengeek

My favourite approach to printing is to buy second hand Brother laser printers or MFC ("MultiFunctionCentre") for around $5 and then utilise the multi-model brlaser driver mentioned by p310don here:
https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?p=2874#p2874
He lists the Brother models known to work ...

greengeek

I also have no savefile. I don't use PuppyPin and load a ROX default pinboard via startup script. If you use JWM shortcuts you also have to "retain changes" somehow. How do you do this now?
Ordinarily I don't retain any changes at all - unless for some specific reason I decide to build them into ...

greengeek

HerrBert I have been having a lot of fun with this little utility!
We had our 6 year old grandson over for the weekend and he loves playing with his Lego. He came up with a "tunnel boring machine" complete with a working set of gears so he could turn the boring head by hand.
So I decided to see if ...

greengeek

rockedge's new fdrv is set for usrmerge puppies only - firmware is in /usr/lib (not /lib , where fossa-small is looking). Need Jammypup, Bookwormpup, Noblepup type puppies. Your iwlwifi disappeared as you were running without accessible firmware.
Thanks for the explanation. Just retested on the ...

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