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rcrsn51 · Posted: Sat 24 Nov 2012, 18:54 Post subject:

Here was my test procedure.

1. Booted off the Live CD. It found the sfs on the hard drive.

2. Selected all the defaults and immediately made a save file on an NTFS flash drive. There WAS a network connection, so I don't know how that's significant.

3. Rebooted. The save file was detected, followed by a kernel panic!

4. Repeated using "umount-FULL". No problems.

01micko · Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 7019 Location: qld

rcrsn51 · Posted: Sat 24 Nov 2012, 19:37 Post subject:

I repeated the procedure with both Wary 5.3 and Slacko 533 and got identical results. If I opened the bad save file from another Puppy, it was empty.

It's odd that when the save file is on an NTFS hard drive partition, it sometimes works.

01micko · Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 7019 Location: qld

Q5sys · Joined: 11 Dec 2008 Posts: 849

Perhaps an odd request... but is there anyway we can get the IRC client to assign default nicks like it did in the past (I think it assigned by hostname, it was something like pupuserc627d8 where the last 6 are a hex value).

Its getting really confusing in the freenode #puppylinux room, because people are assigned defualt names in numerical order.
It has happened more than once that we are helping someone who has the nick Spupuser1, and in the middle they've gotten disconnected. They rejoin soon enough but someone else has joined before them so that new person gets spupuser1 and the old person gets spupuser2.
All we see is the disconnect and reconnect. So we assume we are helping the same person. Unless we happen to look at the IP reconnect info in detail we dont realize there is a difference.

I've seen it happen a few times where we continue to assist the first person but since we are addressing them as spupuser1 (since thats what they were) we end up having a new person doing things to their system that might have nothing to do with them and could cause them issues if we are trying to work through a config issue with someone.

The way the old systems used to work the person could disconnect and rejoin within a short period of time and still have the same nick. This made help sessions in irc a bit eaiser to manager if a person has to be logging in and out.
I've seen this happen several times when people were trying to work out their x.org drivers and had to drop out of X and then back in and reconnect.

just a simple request. Is there a reason this was changed... or was it just something that happened to change without any thought or intention?

tlchost · Posted: Sun 25 Nov 2012, 00:21 Post subject:

[quote="Q5sys"

Its getting really confusing in the freenode #puppylinux room, because people are assigned defualt names in numerical order.[/quote]

That's why some of us suggest that a user with a "default" nick create a nick of their own.

Thom

Q5sys · Joined: 11 Dec 2008 Posts: 849

01micko · Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 7019 Location: qld

Q5sys

What is the limit of chars of a nick on IRC?

Here's what I can do:

Q5sys · Joined: 11 Dec 2008 Posts: 849

Q5sys · Joined: 11 Dec 2008 Posts: 849

oh wait there you are in the IRC now testing it. Razz

01micko · Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 7019 Location: qld

rcrsn51 · Posted: Sun 25 Nov 2012, 10:30 Post subject:

Jades · Posted: Sun 25 Nov 2012, 16:33 Post subject:

Sage · Joined: 04 Oct 2005 Posts: 4623 Location: GB

Several folks are reporting NTFS issues with different Puppies at this time. Not sure I subscribe to the above rationale. Testing these distros on a Windoze machine is a fine idea, but it doesn't strike me as logical to save alien OS files on there. If folks like what they see, there might be much better options. Top of the list has to be Gparted Wdoze into oblivion, it isn't difficult even for neophytes. My experience of a range of ages and abilities is that folks finishing with the devil's OS once and for all makes them ecstatically happy! Alternatives, esp. if the machine in question is shared, include second HDs which are dirt cheap on eBay for the size demands of Puppy, caddies, USB sticks (mentioned above), external HDs, other solutions also available. Most of Puppies' finest attributes can be had within modest confines. Why not another -[ oh, yes, older! ] - piece of hardware from the local boot sale, neighbour's spoilt kids, in the loft/garage/under the bed, for example. Just what is it that folks want to do that needs another Echelon in this world! Anyone living within range is welcome to select from my retinue of entirely suitable machines, gratis. Or I'll build to their spec. at cost.
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