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- Thu 21 Apr 2016, 11:26
- Forum: Bugs ( Submit bugs )
- Topic: Quirky Xerus 8.6 (Aug. 16), Beaver 8.7.1 (Sept. 21), 2018
- Replies: 920
- Views: 587633
- Fri 01 Apr 2016, 15:02
- Forum: Bugs ( Submit bugs )
- Topic: Quirky Werewolf 64-bit 7.4 released
- Replies: 259
- Views: 127317
Barry's News - Writing image to USB drive, in Windows
Barry
Does UNetbootin work to write Quirky image to a USB drive?
https://unetbootin.github.io/
https://sourceforge.net/projects/unetbootin/
Does UNetbootin work to write Quirky image to a USB drive?
https://unetbootin.github.io/
https://sourceforge.net/projects/unetbootin/
- Wed 08 Apr 2015, 05:26
- Forum: Bugs ( Submit bugs )
- Topic: Quirky April 7.0 - 7.0.3, 7.0.4, 7.0.4.1
- Replies: 769
- Views: 356348
Use this for crontab -e, it should message every minute: Code: * * * * * gxmessage Hello don570 The minute setting is always correct because UTC time and system time always uses the same minute. For instance 9 * * * * gxmessage Hello don570 will always pop up a message at 9 minutes after every hour...
- Tue 07 Apr 2015, 23:00
- Forum: Bugs ( Submit bugs )
- Topic: Quirky April 7.0 - 7.0.3, 7.0.4, 7.0.4.1
- Replies: 769
- Views: 356348
Re: cron uses UTC time
I think I'm close to tracking down the source of my cron job problems. crond app is using UTC time rather than system time. Computer installation: Windows XP machine ---> I've tried setting clock type to both Local time and GMT time and the problem is the same. I've tried booting april64 with a CD ...
- Sat 04 Apr 2015, 01:37
- Forum: Bugs ( Submit bugs )
- Topic: Quirky April 7.0 - 7.0.3, 7.0.4, 7.0.4.1
- Replies: 769
- Views: 356348
What is the best way to search for files and items inside files with Quirky? That Pfind program is completely worthless and never finds anything . Anyone know of a program that actually works that I can download and get the job done? If you are willing to learn a command line tool... grep It is not...
- Fri 03 Apr 2015, 03:17
- Forum: Bugs ( Submit bugs )
- Topic: Quirky April 7.0 - 7.0.3, 7.0.4, 7.0.4.1
- Replies: 769
- Views: 356348
I still can't get pschedule to do the following I suspect you have already tried the following... Using terminal do these work? This should give one message: gxmessage Hello don570 edit a crontab: crontab -e and put this in, it should message every minute: * * * * * gxmessage Hello don570 exit and ...
- Wed 18 Mar 2015, 05:45
- Forum: Bugs ( Submit bugs )
- Topic: Quirky April 7.0 - 7.0.3, 7.0.4, 7.0.4.1
- Replies: 769
- Views: 356348
The 2GB requirement is for running from live-CD or a frugal installation, as everything gets loaded into RAM. If you go to my blog announcement for 7.0.1, there is a link to install instructions. There is a file you download, then run a script to install to a flash drive or a hd partition. -- that ...
- Sat 24 Jan 2015, 02:25
- Forum: Puppy Derivatives
- Topic: Introducing April64 (and April i686 on page 12)
- Replies: 342
- Views: 143878
It may soon be easy to run puppy on a Chromebook.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2873561/ ... ebook.html
Bill
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2873561/ ... ebook.html
Bill
- Mon 24 Nov 2014, 18:36
- Forum: Puppy Derivatives
- Topic: My report on Quirky 6.0
- Replies: 955
- Views: 448464
QE crash on gmail.com
Barry wrote in `http://bkhome.org/news/?viewDetailed=00120`: The desktop of QE works, I can go online with Midori, except it crashes when I go to gmail.com. Barry, I recently had a problem with the Chrome website, crashing Linux Mint 17. I wonder if there is connection. Seems to be the video driver ...
- Tue 28 Oct 2014, 01:16
- Forum: Puppy Derivatives
- Topic: My report on Quirky 6.0
- Replies: 955
- Views: 448464
Re: gnumeric
1+don wrote:Is there a way to get gnumeric back on Unicorn? No pets I hjave tried will work.
gnumeric is essential.
- Sun 16 Mar 2014, 01:35
- Forum: Puppy Derivatives
- Topic: My report on Quirky 6.0
- Replies: 955
- Views: 448464
Re: link to live cd ?
Does anyone know the link to the lkive cd where BK is talking about Here ? http://bkhome.org/news/?viewDetailed=00074 If you want to install Quirky Tahr 6.0.5 on a computer that will not usb boot (before Barry releases a live cd): + put all the Quirky Tahr 6.0.5 files on external storage, flash or ...
- Sun 02 Mar 2014, 00:26
- Forum: Puppy Derivatives
- Topic: My report on Quirky 6.0
- Replies: 955
- Views: 448464
.... thanks, folks ....sorry if I am now drifting somewhat OT but, Bill, am I correct in inferring from the Barry quote that the .pet process is self-checking download-wise (assuming that the download is completed fully)? If so, sheesh! - I never knew that - every day is still a schoolday! Exactly....
- Thu 27 Feb 2014, 03:55
- Forum: Puppy Derivatives
- Topic: My report on Quirky 6.0
- Replies: 955
- Views: 448464
- Wed 26 Feb 2014, 21:39
- Forum: Puppy Derivatives
- Topic: My report on Quirky 6.0
- Replies: 955
- Views: 448464
VLC Web PlugIn has crashed
Quirky Tahr 6.0.5 Chrome Version 32.0.1700.107 Tried to stream music from this site and: VLC Web PlugIn has crashed http://www.wdav.org/streams/wdav-24k.m3u Used pupRadio which opened VLC and it is playing. Also playing the stream directly in VLC works. Then tried SeaMonkey 2.24 and it is playing wi...
- Wed 19 Feb 2014, 01:08
- Forum: Puppy Derivatives
- Topic: My report on Quirky 6.0
- Replies: 955
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Re: Suggested feature for Quirky Tahr
Barry, this suggested useful feature was absent in Puppy and the same in Quirky Tahr. From one who cannot code from scratch, could you please devise a labour-saving way of copy and pasting complex command lines from say a web page, directly to the console terminal to avoid making typing mistakes. T...
- Sun 16 Feb 2014, 18:55
- Forum: Puppy Derivatives
- Topic: My report on Quirky 6.0
- Replies: 955
- Views: 448464
Quirky Tahr 6.0.5 Chromium installed from PPM This Chromium is working great. I removed ALL Flash Players and Chromium WILL play TED http://ted.com/talks but SeaMonkey will not . Is there something about HTML5 not working in SeaMonkey for TED? TED gives this message: It appears that we are unable to...
- Sun 16 Feb 2014, 18:35
- Forum: Puppy Derivatives
- Topic: My report on Quirky 6.0
- Replies: 955
- Views: 448464
I noticed one thing wrong. When running as root (not spot), the default download directory is supposed to be pre-set in /file/portable/chromium/profile/Default/Preferences to download to /file/downloads However, when I did a download, it defaulted to /root/Downloads I looked at Chromium settings, I...
- Sun 16 Feb 2014, 15:46
- Forum: Puppy Derivatives
- Topic: My report on Quirky 6.0
- Replies: 955
- Views: 448464
- Sun 16 Feb 2014, 07:40
- Forum: Puppy Derivatives
- Topic: My report on Quirky 6.0
- Replies: 955
- Views: 448464
Quirky Tahr 6.0.4 upgraded + service_pack-6.0.4_TO_6.0.5-tahr.pet + devx_service_pack-6.0.4_TO_6.0.5-tahr.pet Posting with Chromium installed with PPM. Chromium Version 32.0.1700.107 Built on Ubuntu 14.04, running on Quirky 6.0.5 Seems fast! + Plays the youtube I tried. - Fails to play http://ted.co...
- Sat 15 Feb 2014, 20:03
- Forum: Puppy Derivatives
- Topic: My report on Quirky 6.0
- Replies: 955
- Views: 448464
Quirky Tahr 6.0.3 upgraded to 6.0.4 SeaMonkey 2.23 Previously I wrote how I enabled an external mail handler in SeaMonkey so I could use sylpheed to handle mailto links. http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=757596#757596 It worked in Quirky Tahr 6.0.4 that had been updated incrementally from...