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by williams2
Wed Jun 26, 2024 5:51 pm
Forum: Beginners Help
Topic: What Causes Thumbdrive Corruption?
Replies: 23
Views: 782

Re: What Causes Thumbdrive Corruption?

sync used to block (wait) until all of the blocks of data were all copied. But it would stop blocking (stop waiting) the instant that the last block of data was ready to start copying. That is, sync unblocks before the last block of data starts to copy. I do not know if this is a bug or a feature ...
by williams2
Sun Jun 23, 2024 3:25 pm
Forum: Beginners Help
Topic: "PAE disabled" error loading BookwormPup32 onto Fujitsu Lifebook E8010
Replies: 8
Views: 544

Re: "PAE disabled" error loading PUP32 onto Fujitsu Lifebook E8010

32 bit addresses allows you to access no more than 4G of ram. If you have 8G of ram, only 4G will be seen by the operating system. PAE is a hack that allows you to access most of the 8G of ram. but one 4G block at a time. If you have less than 4G of ram, you do NOT need PAE. A few defective 32 bit ...
by williams2
Tue Jun 18, 2024 12:07 am
Forum: Browsers and Internet
Topic: Falkon, other webkit browser, KDE
Replies: 17
Views: 1752

Re: Falkon, other webkit browser, KDE

What Puppy are you using? pulse audio is used by most browsers to play sound, for example, the audio of a movie. Firefox runs whether pulse audio is available or not. If pulse is missing, Firefox can't play sound. Many (most) Pups either have pulse or apulse (pulse for alsa) Included in BionicPup64 ...
by williams2
Thu Jun 13, 2024 4:48 pm
Forum: Legacy
Topic: Strange disk usage
Replies: 14
Views: 1053

Re: Strange disk usage

I'm running Firefox in the tmpfs, so du shows (snip) 42M tmp/firefox/browser 62M pup_rw/root/.mozilla 62M pup_rw/root/.mozilla/firefox 62M pup_rw/root/.mozilla/firefox/gff0mhxb.default 65M pup_rw/root/.cache 65M pup_rw/root/.cache/mozilla 65M pup_rw/root/.cache/mozilla/firefox 65M pup_rw/root/.cache ...
by williams2
Tue Jun 11, 2024 4:49 pm
Forum: Legacy
Topic: Strange disk usage
Replies: 14
Views: 1053

Re: Strange disk usage

The tmpfs file systejm in ram has no more free space. This should show what is taking up space in the tmpfs: cd /initrd/mnt/tmpfs/ du -h pup_rw/ tmp/ | sort -hk1 you can copy/paste each line into a terminal or create and save a script file. You might need to delte a file in /tmp or /root first to ...
by williams2
Tue May 28, 2024 5:26 pm
Forum: Beginners Help
Topic: PeasyScale has disappeared from the right-click menu in Rox file manager
Replies: 168
Views: 8097

Re: PeasyScale has disappeared from the right-click menu in Rox file manager

has disappeared from the right-click menu in Rox file manage

the menu is generated by JWM (Joe;s Window Manager)
The menu is not generated by rox.

by williams2
Tue May 28, 2024 5:21 pm
Forum: Beginners Help
Topic: PeasyScale has disappeared from the right-click menu in Rox file manager
Replies: 168
Views: 8097

Re: PeasyScale has disappeared from the right-click menu in Rox file manager

And pfix=ram prevents the savefile or save folder being used. That is, any changes you made will be ignored. When Puppy shuts down, it will ask if you want to save your changes. pfix=ram has no other effect. It does not affect whether Puppy runs in ram or not. pfix=copy or pfix=nocopy sets that.
by williams2
Tue May 28, 2024 5:11 pm
Forum: Beginners Help
Topic: PeasyScale has disappeared from the right-click menu in Rox file manager
Replies: 168
Views: 8097

Re: PeasyScale has disappeared from the right-click menu in Rox file manager

Up' arrow taking an mtPaint 'screenshot'

type or paste in a terminal (console):

setxkbmap -rules evdev

or

setxkbmap -rules evdev -model evdev

If it helps, you can put it in /root/Startup/ or /root/.config/autostart/ to run every time X starts.

by williams2
Fri Jan 20, 2023 11:23 pm
Forum: Beginners Help
Topic: Failed to connect to wired network eth0 (solved)
Replies: 15
Views: 1148

Re: Failed to connect to wired network eth0

swap only between 2 windows - can I do that? If you are using jwm, you can switch desktop workspaces by pressing alt+1 and alt+2 (and alt+3) If you have 2 windows in your workspace, alt+tab will switch between those 2 windows. You can move windows to other workspaces so that just the 2 windows are ...
by williams2
Sat Jan 14, 2023 6:32 am
Forum: Off-Topic Area
Topic: Seeing in 3D by closing one eye
Replies: 3
Views: 515

Re: Seeing in 3D by closing one eye

The matrix screen saver has 3D information built in. xlock -nolock -mode matrix Motion, even very small amounts of motion, can be processed by the brain to show you the 3D information built into the video. So yes, motion, even a small amount of motion, enables the brain to process the 3D information ...
by williams2
Wed Jan 11, 2023 11:24 pm
Forum: Fossapup64
Topic: Unmount at shutdown too soon, causing flash memory filesystem corruption?
Replies: 21
Views: 1713

Re: Unmount at shutdown too soon, causing flash memory filesystem corruption?

Hopefully the answer is "don't sweat it" !!! Yes, the correct answer is don't sweat it Can someone provide some simple steps to Cleanly unmount at shutdown?? No. You can't unmount the file system because it is being used by the Puppy operating system. Like this: # mount-FULL -o loop bionicpup64save ...
by williams2
Mon Jan 09, 2023 8:50 am
Forum: Users
Topic: How do you install Clamav? (solved)
Replies: 2
Views: 437

Re: How do you install Clamav?

# wget https://www.clamav.net/downloads/production/clamav-1.0 --2023-01-09 02:34:08-- https://www.clamav.net/downloads/product Resolving www.clamav.net (www.clamav.net)... 104.16.218.84, 104.1 # Click the deb to install ... or unzip and copy to /usr/ Edit the config file # Comment or remove the ...
by williams2
Mon Jan 09, 2023 4:32 am
Forum: EasyOS
Topic: EasyOS version 4.5.5 released
Replies: 134
Views: 24074

Re: EasyOS version 4.5.4 released

When X is running, you can change keymaps like this:

Code: Select all

setxkbmap fr

Type setxkbmap --help

There may be GUI programs to set the keymaps.

The programs that you are using set the terminal (console) keymaps,
when X is not running.

by williams2
Tue Jan 03, 2023 9:26 am
Forum: Users
Topic: Terminal command to exit to prompt
Replies: 8
Views: 955

Re: Terminal command to exit to prompt

wmexit has a bug in Xenial and Bionic. The bug is fixed in FoassaPup and later versions of Woof ce. If the window manager is started from a script or from a compiled executable wmexit can not kill the process because it is no longer executing. oir example, if you type xwin jwn it can try to run jwn ...
by williams2
Mon Jan 02, 2023 8:03 am
Forum: Off-Topic Area
Topic: Seeing in 3D by closing one eye
Replies: 3
Views: 515

Seeing in 3D by closing one eye

3D Most video files contain much 3D information builtin. The brain is smart enough to see (using 2 eyes) that the television or computer monitor is a flat screen and so shows the picture as a flat picture without 3D processing. If the brain is tricked into not seeing the picture as a flat picture ...
by williams2
Fri Dec 23, 2022 7:00 pm
Forum: Beginners Help
Topic: Today's boot procedure with fossapup64_9.5
Replies: 101
Views: 5410

Re: Today's boot procedure with fossapup64_9.5

Puppy is about as easy to install as it gets. To install Puppy I just copy the puppy.sfs file to my hard drive. That's it Puppy is installed. I add a couple of lines to my syslinux boot loader cfg file..Like this (these are the exact lines I just used to boot the Puppy I am now running) label b8 ...
by williams2
Sun Dec 11, 2022 3:59 am
Forum: Beginners Help
Topic: How to kill everything when Puppy is going to freeze due to 100% CPU usage?
Replies: 28
Views: 2068

Re: How to kill everything when Puppy is going to freeze due to 100% CPU usage?

looking for the arguments needed to generate a shutdown By shutdown do you mean shutdown an app like Firefox or do you mean shutdown the Puppy operating system ? EarlyOOM shuts down running applications like Firefox, Pale Moon,Geany, Abiword, mpv. etc. So you have enough free ram to keep going, and ...
by williams2
Sat Dec 10, 2022 10:02 pm
Forum: Security
Topic: The system takes forever to shut down, while doing nothing useful for me.
Replies: 16
Views: 1292

Re: The system takes forever to shut down, while doing nothing useful for me.

Shutting down, Linux usually unmounts file systems that are mounted. Puppy's can not unmount a file system that is being used. Usually, the save file/folder is in use by the entire Puppy operating system, so the OS tries to unmount the save FS, trying to remount it ro, forcing a lazy unmount etc etc ...
by williams2
Fri Dec 09, 2022 10:28 pm
Forum: Beginners Help
Topic: How to kill everything when Puppy is going to freeze due to 100% CPU usage?
Replies: 28
Views: 2068

Re: How to kill everything when Puppy is going to freeze due to 100% CPU usage?

Again, the kernel has a builtin out of memory killer. Which does not work well. earlyOOM does work, very well. earlyOOM uses about 200kb of ram. # ps5 Private + Shared = RAM used Program 152.0 KiB + 52.5 KiB = 204.5 KiB earlyoom It handles tail /dev/zero effortlessly. WARNNG, without earlyOOM, tail ...
by williams2
Fri Dec 09, 2022 10:07 pm
Forum: Programming
Topic: python or bash snapshot current cpu realtime binary calculations
Replies: 5
Views: 609

Re: python or bash snapshot current cpu realtime binary calculations

I think /dev/mem is what ram that the kernel can access. But the kernel will not allow you to see all of the ram in /dev/mem in case you are a hacker with evil intentions. For example: https://bakhi.github.io/devmem/ Directly Access Your Physical Memory (dev/mem) - Heejin Park bakhi.github.io/devmem ...
by williams2
Fri Dec 09, 2022 9:49 pm
Forum: Fossapup64
Topic: 14 questions about Fossapup I have not yet found answers to
Replies: 68
Views: 4966

Re: 14 questions about Fossapup I have not yet found answers to

I simply do not understand how Puppy OS can be running from my internal drive when I boot from the CD and choose the copy to ram option. As I said before, this can only be due to a programming error on the CD. Can anyone explain this? I do not know what how Puppy OS can be running from my internal ...
by williams2
Fri Dec 09, 2022 5:01 am
Forum: Beginners Help
Topic: How to kill everything when Puppy is going to freeze due to 100% CPU usage?
Replies: 28
Views: 2068

Re: How to kill everything when Puppy is going to freeze due to 100% CPU usage?

Many (or most or all) Linux kernels have a builtin Out Of Memory killer (OOM) which for most kernels doesn't work well, if it works at all. EarlyOOM works very well. My machine has not slowed down because of out of memory, since I installed earlyoom. See https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?t ...
by williams2
Thu Dec 08, 2022 12:02 am
Forum: Users
Topic: Poor Quality Sound when running Puppy [Sort-of Solved]
Replies: 29
Views: 2245

Re: Poor Quality Sound when running Puppy

The pc speaker is a little buzzer on the mother board. Is it possible that you have made the pc speaker the default sound card? Typing in a terminal: lsmod | grep pcsp pcspkr 16384 0 shows that my machine has the pcspkr loaded. You can unload the pcspkr module by typing (copy/paste) like this rmmod ...
by williams2
Sat Dec 03, 2022 7:59 pm
Forum: Beginners Help
Topic: radio streamer Bionic 32 (solved)
Replies: 27
Views: 2190

Re: radio streamer Bionic 32

like the backend ie mpv and ffmpeg needs to updated There are static builds of ffmpeg. Most software that uses ffmpeg do not use the ffmpeg executable directly, they use the ffmpeg library files. Updating to a newer static build of ffmpeg might not update the ffmpeg libs. Installing a newer version ...
by williams2
Fri Dec 02, 2022 7:07 am
Forum: Off-Topic Area
Topic: need programmable usb output timer.
Replies: 2
Views: 346

Re: need programmable usb output timer.

Freebasic can access hardware ports, for example serial ports.

i do not know if Freebasic can access usb serial ports.

Freebasic uses the same syntax that Microsoft;s Qbasic and Quickbasic used.

by williams2
Fri Dec 02, 2022 7:01 am
Forum: Programming
Topic: python or bash snapshot current cpu realtime binary calculations
Replies: 5
Views: 609

Re: python or bash snapshot current cpu realtime binary calculations

can the current pc work be displayed in binary with bash or python? Python is very slow. Bash is very, very slow. I do not think either would work to write what seems to be a monitor program. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_code_monitor If you are trying to watch micro code as it is executing ...
by williams2
Thu Dec 01, 2022 10:13 pm
Forum: DebianDogs
Topic: Firefox 102.5 & Bookworm lost setting
Replies: 2
Views: 437

Re: Firefox 102.5 & Bookworm lost setting

The default zoom value for your user configuration is probably in the user config file /root/.mozilla/firefox/xxxxxxxx.default/prefs.js (change xxxxxxxx to your user path. If it is working, your personal ptrefs file is being overwritten, or maybe it is not being saved. The line in my prefs file is ...
by williams2
Thu Dec 01, 2022 6:12 pm
Forum: Users
Topic: Who's treated themselves to some new hardware recently..?
Replies: 124
Views: 15892

Re: Who's treated themselves to some new hardware recently..?

If the BLUETOOTH standby function is set to ON, the orange CHARGE indicator will remain lit even when the speaker is powered off or has finished charging.

https://www.sony.com/electronics/suppor ... s/00142974

by williams2
Tue Nov 29, 2022 6:32 pm
Forum: Beginners Help
Topic: Fossapup64_9.5 CD won't boot
Replies: 38
Views: 2348

Re: Fossapup64_9.5 CD won't boot

I shut down, I was not given an option to save anything - could that have anything to so with the mounting/unmounting of drives?. The way a big mainstream distro works, it's file system is a mounted file system in a partition, and anything written to the file system is written directly and ...
by williams2
Mon Nov 28, 2022 2:03 am
Forum: EasyOS
Topic: Questions & observations after trying EasyOS
Replies: 10
Views: 1491

Re: Questions & observations after trying EasyOS

Real time network traffic monitor for the text console It does not seem to show who is connected to what. This should list some of the networks connections netstat -utape I find iftop useful, and also nethogs (both executables are about 60KB, not compressed.) Also, ifconfig shows you total traffic ...

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