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gcmartin · Joined: 14 Oct 2005 Posts: 2640 Location: Earth

Using 'help' from the Puppy 5.1.1 desktop. The help browser hangs and top shows"

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Our son is trying to use a Dpg converter to convert a mkv video file to dpg.

The original file is 343mb.

The computer crashes and powers-off.

Help?

EDIT: When I try Dpg4x on my computer I get the following error text. It was working so I don't know what may have changed in the week or so since I last used it. I do see python2.6 using pfind.

In the Doghouse · Joined: 03 Oct 2010 Posts: 6

Set my P.L.510 desktop settings to hardware clock UTC, time zone Pacific. Kept getting the wrong time at bootup. Looked at /root/Startup/settime, which has the single command:
hwclock --hctosys --localtime
The man page for hwclock says --localtime is telling hwclock that my hardware clock runs local time. Why would the settime script contain the --localtime option when I have used the desktop time settings to say I run utc on the hardware clock??? Shouldn't the desktop settings change the the content of the settime script??? Anyway, I changed settime to:
hwclock --hctosys --utc [--utc says my hardware clock is utc]
Now my Puppy Linux boots up with the correct time.
Is it time (excuse the pun) for a bugfix?

P.S.-I would maintain the current utc time on my hardware clock with Psync, but: who wants to have to dismiss the Psync dialogue box after every bootup? Why not add an instruction to Psync for the dialogue box to remove itself after, say, 10 seconds?

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