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tasmod · Posted: Wed 05 Aug 2009, 15:27 Post subject:

Dave,

many thanks, I messed around a bit and this time tried GB rather than UK and it all worked.

I had been trying to alter my Psync Time Synchroniser to work correctly with 214 but 214 doesn't handle 'locales' the same.

It works but the main report is incorrect.

ecomoney · Posted: Wed 05 Aug 2009, 16:23 Post subject:

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davesurrey · Joined: 05 Aug 2008 Posts: 1201 Location: UK

ecomoney wrote;

davesurrey · Joined: 05 Aug 2008 Posts: 1201 Location: UK

Hi Rob,

ttuuxxx · Posted: Wed 05 Aug 2009, 17:28 Post subject:

Yes ecomoney I do view online newsfeeds from BBC, have been doing it ever since they started newsfeeds, plus many other western countries, but when you view the BBC news clips/feeds they have a Australian content, It used to be ING Direct but for the past few months its been global destiny, http://www.globaldestiny.com.au/TvAdvert.aspx#
That's the actual commercial they play here in oz, The video doesn't work in 2.14X due to its a windows format. but you can still listen to it with gxine, Below is a tar.gz with the actual ad-brite script they use to localize the commercial for Australia Viewers.
ttuuxxx

sinc · Joined: 22 Jul 2009 Posts: 523 Location: Tampa, FL USA

maybe this is just for me but ttuuxxx since you mentioned the next release might not be too far off i wanted to make a list of the issues/ideas that have been brought up since page 64 when you announced v7. I'm obsessive and like to keep track of things Rolling Eyes

1. minnesota says the connection wizard is old and needs updating 2. mhhp would like an easy way to change mouse cursors 3. davids45 and davesurrey have brought up a few times an sfs boot-loader 4. tempestuous - spaces in directory names issue pg 67. 5. transplant the "MODULES PREFLIST" pg 67. 6. olddog mentioned updating adobe flash 7. davesurrey's list 8. parcellite 9. xlock icon? 10. clarf - searchmonkey gtk errors 11. pupsave expansion fix 12. ecomoneys ideas 13. tasmod mentioned the psync time sychroniser, that would be nice:)

and 2 other questions of my own.
a. how do i turn off the 2 barks after every reboot?
b. any thoughts on making rutlit startup as the default wireless manager without having to start the program?

OlddogNewtricks · Joined: 07 Jun 2009 Posts: 124 Location: U.K.

ttuuxxx · Posted: Thu 06 Aug 2009, 01:21 Post subject:

Ok to change a cursor go to http://www.kde-look.org/?xcontentmode=36 and download any cursor you want to try out, then extract it to /root/.icons right click on the extracted folder and select "link" and make a link to the folder called default and then restart X-server. I've tried to patch the kernel but all the kernels so far that Barry prepared are already patched and they don't like to be updated, well 2 out of 3 so far, I did want the latest patched version of this kernel, the last releases of it was in 2.16. I don't think I'm at the level where I could take a pristine kernel and do all the patching needed, but there's one more prepared one I'll try Smile

Hey sinc great followup list that's really helpful. I'll work on the list a bit also and keep ya informed Smile

ttuuxxx

davesurrey · Joined: 05 Aug 2008 Posts: 1201 Location: UK

ttuuxxx
I just tried out 01micko's Versioninfo-1.6.pet and whilst it worked fine in Puppy 412 it doesn't in 214X.

Specifically it will run by manual intervention ie from a terminal or by clicking the script but not automatically on boot or restarting the xserver.

At the suggestion of 01micko I made a new script to run rox at startup and that also didn't work in 214X7 automatically only manually. So it looks like a problem associated with /root/Startup of 214x7

If you want the thread is in the forum's Additional software section.

Thanks
Dave

tasmod · Posted: Thu 06 Aug 2009, 09:36 Post subject:

OK, after a bit of detective work I've altered Psync to suit 214R.

The pet contains a slightly modified rclocal0 where for some reason it saved the TZ as PUP. (Any special reason tuuxxx?)

The first reported offset is always 0.0000 but on setting via Psync214R it will report actual offset.

Hope you don't mind tuuxx I'll post the pet here as it's 214R specific, please test.

Updated due to omission

sinc · Joined: 22 Jul 2009 Posts: 523 Location: Tampa, FL USA

tasmod,

thanks for making that pet. it installed corectly with no issues. i am in eastern time US and i don't know if it has anything to do with daylight savings or any of my settings but it set my clock back 1 hour. its 10 and the time adjusted to 9. it pops up with a dialog box that says the "offset was" ... ? nothing? i really want to use this puppy as my main OS is there anyway to set the settings and then automate the service at bootup?

davesurrey · Joined: 05 Aug 2008 Posts: 1201 Location: UK

tasmod.
Well with my set-up I get an offset reported but it sets my UK time to GMT not BST ie an hour behind when I select a UK Time Region Server.
Dave

sinc · Joined: 22 Jul 2009 Posts: 523 Location: Tampa, FL USA

i changed my timezone to a few different timezones and it sets it to GMT -5 no matter what I change my timezone to.

davesurrey · Joined: 05 Aug 2008 Posts: 1201 Location: UK

Looking in the Help file it seems to say changing GMT offsets may not do anything.

And if I read it correctly it seems to say to set the TimeZone by City/Place but in 214X7 I have only GMT offsets and no separate list of Cities. Whereas in puppy 420 there is such a list.

Dave

EDIT:
Moved the directory /usr/share/zoneinfo from a Puppy 420 installation and replaced the 214X version with it, rebooted but still don't have a list of countries.

ttuuxxx....where are you Smile

Dave