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Pawedcast 1 Feb 2012

#1 Post by Lobster »

Hi
Podcast (Puppy pawedcast) for Feb 1 2012
http://youtu.be/IRovb_kklFc
----- Previously

one audio format and one with (still) graphics hosted at youtube
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 787#595787
Subject = security briefing for Puppy School ---------

ogg format
http://tmxxine.com/sound/Dec2_2011.ogg 1.5 MB
mp3 format
http://tmxxine.com/sound/Dec2_2011.mp3 2.2 MB

Recorded on Android smartphone
Edited on Puppy Racy with Menu/Multimedia/MhwaveEdit
http://puppylinux.org/wikka/Racy
uploaded with Menu/Internet/gFTP

Subjects

Slacko 5.3.1
http://puppylinux.org/wikka/Puppy53

Openshot Video Editor 1.4
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 233#586233

Lucid - doing well
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 253#554253

Saluki - could this be Puppy 6?
http://puppylinux.org/wikka/Saluki

Woof2
http://bkhome.org/blog/?viewDetailed=02612
http://puppylinux.info/topic.php?id=94
Lobster attempts to use woof2 - decides to leave to smartdogs

ARM board
http://bkhome.org/blog/?viewDetailed=02610
http://bkhome.org/blog/?viewDetailed=02596
http://bkhome.org/blog/?viewDetailed=02605

New Forum and the return of Judge Dredd
http://puppylinux.info

forgot to mention Racy and Wary, in fact loads of things . . . :oops:
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#2 Post by tronkel »

@Ed

Thanks for the podcast! - interesting, useful.

2 sections of this podcast have mutual relevance, your sister and security. So how come?

Well, if you explain to your sister that banks in Australia are now recommending that on-line banking customers should be using live CDs (I believe Puppy was specifically recommended for this), she might then get a better understanding of why EXE and COM files are maybe not such a wonderful idea after all. They can contain viruses and stuff for example.

Might be possible for XP to function as a live CD somehow, but would almost certainly suffer security problems even if it was possible to create such a thing.

Too much to hope for, that Microsoft would have an understanding of this need?
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tronkel wrote:
Might be possible for XP to function as a live CD somehow, but would almost certainly suffer security problems even if it was possible to create such a thing.

Too much to hope for, that Microsoft would have an understanding of this need?
Thanks Jack

There are some (of dubious legality) XP live disks - probably with added trojan for good measure
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First of all she was shocked that the printer was not auto-recognized like on the Mac and the latest XP and Vistas.
We set it up easily enough by following the instructions
Her comment "Puppy is a bit technical isn't it?"
Compared with just plugging in the printer - she is right. :roll:
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from a PM - part of which I quote
All Chinese dialects on the mainland (except possibly Mongolian, Tibetan and whatever they speak in the North West) use exactly the same "simplified" characters. So, even if you speak Shanghainese version of Chinese you can still understand written Mandarin even if you can't speak it and vice versa. At least that is my understanding. So if puppy is available with Chinese simplified script almost any developer in mainland China can read it.
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Are there any Hindi Puppies in the works? There are loads of developers in India.
There has been some interest expressed
I am not aware of any Hindi Puppys - most developers in India know English
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#5 Post by tronkel »

@Ed

Just yesterday as it happens, Slashdot had an interesting contribution on tablets and talking about how the future looks for this class of device.

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/tablet ... ,9929.html

They use the example of an already long-since-available tablet - with similarities to the one you mention and make the point that these are, or have been to date, spectacularly unsuccessful.

I don't agree though with all of what they say there - personally speaking. Potential end-user interest in tablets must surely exist to a greater or lesser extent - depending on the extent of ones needs for portability and functionality in the workplace for example. These gadgets appear to me to have a useful potential for data retrieval. Linux could provide the essential security base on these gadgets.

The article is in no way pro Apple iPad. That much I do agree with.

They also make the point that Microsoft doesn't seem to have a clue about how to make a good desktop interface for tablets. The current full XP-style desktop interface is useless for the purpose. They (MS) seem to be totally unwilling to put in the necessary effort that it would take to develop a really effective user interface for tablets.

May well be though, that with the apparent runaway success of the Google Linux-based Android platform, a knock-on effect will emerge that will help to encourage the take-up of tablets.
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#6 Post by tubeguy »

Thanks for taking the time to do the pawedcasts! I like what you said about supporting puplets. Hits home with me because I did grab teenpup legacy a few days ago and try it out but have not posted any feedback. Same with Lighthouse. I see my pattern now though, if I try something and it works for me, I get on the forum and post away, as with dpup and PAW. I'm a big fan of dpup and PAW. But if I'm going to really be involved I have to also give feedback on stuff that doesn't work out for me.

Also got a few laughs, you're a funny (dare I say quirky?) guy.
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#7 Post by Lobster »

tubeguy wrote: Also got a few laughs, you're a funny (dare I say quirky?) guy.
:)
I try to be serious during the pawedcast - anyways done another
for April 11 2010 - details in first post

mp3 - try this first - plays direct from browser
http://tmxxine.com/sound/April_11_2010.mp3

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http://tmxxine.com/sound/April_11_2010.ogg
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Audibility

#8 Post by drongo »

Pawedcasts seem a bit louder now, Lobster. I always used to have trouble hearing them even with headphones.

I hadn't realised how pretty the visualisations were in Gxine before today. Or maybe I have finally lost all of my critical faculties. I used to dislike the ones in Mediaplayer intensely.

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#9 Post by Lobster »

Or maybe I have finally lost all of my critical faculties
LOL
I lost mine a long time ago by staring at psychedelic
patterns. Glad the sound is better.

Next time I hope to record directly once again using Puppy Quirky and Precord.
Hopefully someone else might have a go too . . . 8)
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#10 Post by Lobster »

New podcast for July 2010 (this sounds like a Puppy in the background - that is the compression) Sounded better to me
http://tmxxine.com/sound/july1_2010.mp3

New podcast for July 2010 - this sounded a bit jerky (not just me)
http://tmxxine.com/sound/july1_2010.ogg

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  • New Luk compile of Quirky
    Woof
    Lucid 5.1
    Background people
    3 Developer Puppy?
Sorry I do ramble on a bit
have not done one for a while
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#11 Post by Lobster »

Subjects - Sept 4 2010

Puppy 5.1.1 - Latest release
Puppy 6 - Back to Basics
Puppy Wary
Running as Root (myths)
Running from CD/DVD (myths)
Developers on IRC

ogg format (use this much clearer)
2.1MB file
http://tmxxine.com/sound/sep6_010.ogg

mp3 (weird noises from compression - don't play backward
you might hear the Pope singing 'Stairway to Heaven' from Led Zeppelin)
2.3 MB file
http://tmxxine.com/sound/sep6_010.mp3
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#12 Post by chrome307 »

Thanks for this, wondered why there hadn't been a new one for awhile

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Pawedcast for Sep 30 2010

http://tmxxine.com/sound/ver.mp3 3400k
http://tmxxine.com/sound/ver.ogg 1500k

details first post in this thread
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Always something interesting.................... :)

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#15 Post by Iguleder »

Interesting, the second pawedcast I download.

I like it, good job. I agree with you about the difference between wooflets and plain puplets, wooflets indeed require more work but often push Puppy forward more than puplets :)

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#16 Post by Lobster »

Sorry Igu :oops:

Iguleder it is . . .

thanks guys 8)
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LibreOffice

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Headline news this week is the emergence of an important fork of OpenOffice called LibreOffice.

This fork comes under the umbrella of the recently established "documentfountation.org" whose remit is to support a fully FOSS implementation of Openoffice without any non-free extensions, separate from Oracle and which fully supports the ideals of the ODF file standard.

All the major Linux distros including Debian and Ubuntu will fully support this fork and expect that this will become their default office package. It's as yet not known if Oracle itself will join the gang or if it will donate the name OpenPoffice to the foundation.

This has implications for Puppy Linux as well. We will need sfs packages for this current LibreOffice Beta.

I have tried to do an experimental compile under Debian Squeeze but no joy so-far I'm afraid. At this early stage supplied build is also a bit unstable running under Debian Squeeze, but this is likely to be rapidly fixed.

It's good news really. Look here:

http://www.documentfoundation.org
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#18 Post by Lobster »

Pawedcast for Nov 15 2010

ogg format trying out a £1 headset - whistling is probably my computer
which is open at the moment . . .
http://tmxxine.com/sound/nov13.ogg

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5.2
http://puppylinux.org/wikka/Puppy52
Woof
Wary
http://bkhome.org/blog/?viewDetailed=01964
Dpup
http://www.dpup.org/
Quickpet
Bacon
http://bkhome.org/bacon/my-1st-gtk-app/index.html
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#19 Post by ttuuxxx »

here's a link that compares iron vs chrome http://www.srware.net/en/software_srwar ... s_iron.php
actually looks much nicer.
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If you strip the bin and remove the extra locales it will reduce the package by 6MB compress to 19MB compressed.
The sources are just stupid, I'm not downloading them, lol the first part of three is 300MB.
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#20 Post by jemimah »

The SRWare website is covered with google ads, and other intrusive advertising. Just a little hypocritical.... Iron is a scam.

All their patch does is hardcode the privacy options already in Chromium. Here is a link with the diffs.

http://chromium.hybridsource.org/the-iron-scam

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