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#2146 Post by Colonel Panic »

starhawk wrote:Oh boy, I'd somehow managed to forget about that one.

Good choice :D
I think this discussion deserves its own thread - what car would Puppy be :)

Yeah, I'd settle for Puppy as a Reliant Scimitar; it was a great car (I like the name too). Just one caveat though, from experience of a short drive with a friend giving me a lift in one; if you're more than six feet (1.83 m) tall as I am, don't sit in the back.
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#2147 Post by Billtoo »

I've been using wmlive for several weeks and have now installed it to
the hard drive of my 2008 intel imac:

Summary
Computer
Processor 2x Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E8135 @ 2.40GHz
Memory 4032MB (1844MB used)
Operating System Debian GNU/Linux 8.3
User Name bill (Bill)
Date/Time Sun 14 Feb 2016 02:10:47 PM EST
Display
Resolution 1680x1050 pixels
OpenGL Renderer Gallium 0.4 on AMD RV610
X11 Vendor The X.Org Foundation
Multimedia
Audio Adapter HDA-Intel - HDA Intel
Operating System
Version
Kernel Linux 4.2.0-0.bpo.1-amd64 (x86_64)
Compiled #1 SMP Debian 4.2.6-3~bpo8+2 (2015-12-14)
C Library Unknown
Default C Compiler GNU C Compiler version 4.9.2 (Debian 4.9.2-10)
Distribution Debian GNU/Linux 8.3

I added many applications with the package manager (synaptic)
kodi,kdegames,etc. and after adding gdebi I was able to download and
install 64 bit versions of Google Chrome and Google Earth from the root
terminal.

Works great.
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#2148 Post by Colonel Panic »

Excellent! Window Maker's one of the best window managers out there.

I've always liked Exton's spins on popular Linux distros (including Puppy of course), and the latest one I've tried is Ex GENT, a live DVD wich is based on Gentoo and has Opera installed instead of Firefox.

It works well but for an over 2GB disk I think it should have LibreOffice installed as standard instead of AbiWord.

(I've also tried ExTix, another good distro and one based on Ubuntu 15.10. It's very good but oddly it doesn't come with XArchiver, so you have to download that if you want to unzip / untar anything.)
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#2149 Post by Burn_IT »

The Scimitar was always sold as a two plus two so that doesn't surprise me at all.
It was also a strictly dry weather car both because it leaked like a sieve and, more importantly, it was nose heavy and handled like an excited puppy or a pony on its first outing (it had an affinity for lampposts and hedges.)
"Just think of it as leaving early to avoid the rush" - T Pratchett

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#2150 Post by Colonel Panic »

Burn_IT wrote:The Scimitar was always sold as a two plus two so that doesn't surprise me at all.
It was also a strictly dry weather car both because it leaked like a sieve and, more importantly, it was nose heavy and handled like an excited puppy or a pony on its first outing (it had an affinity for lampposts and hedges.)
LOL. One good thing about it though is that it wouldn't rust, being made of fibreglass rather than steel.

There was another car from about the same time which also was made of fibreglass and had a Ford engine - the Gilbern. They were made in Wales and were very rare (I think I saw one once, but I can't be sure). Here's one of the later models, the Invader;

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbern#/ ... 994_cc.JPG
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#2151 Post by Burn_IT »

Unfortunately the chassis DID rust and the mechanics suffered badly as a result.
There were two engine sizes the 3litre and the 2.5litre.
The smaller one was actually the better engine since the lower power was not really a problem and it was far smoother to drive - and rarer.
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#2152 Post by Colonel Panic »

Burn_IT wrote:Unfortunately the chassis DID rust and the mechanics suffered badly as a result.
There were two engine sizes the 3litre and the 2.5litre.
The smaller one was actually the better engine since the lower power was not really a problem and it was far smoother to drive - and rarer.
I have to take my hat off to you here; you obviously know your stuff about cars. I do remember that Princess Anne had one in the '70s and got stopped for speeding in it.

If you're interested in cars and are from the Midlands, one of my heroes was a man called Spen King who is best known for designing the Range Rover (though he was in charge of terms which designed other cars such as the Triumph Stag ad the 16 valve Dolomite).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Spencer_King
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#2153 Post by Burn_IT »

I have always been keen on all sorts of technical stuff.
I ought to know about Reliant though since I live about a mile from where the factory used to be.
There was a big fuss locally because there was a preservation order on it, which the council very conveniently managed to bypass so it could build prestige housing - for sale.
They made an absolute fortune.

The 16 valve Dolomite was the Sprint and the only one worth buying.
It was the fastest standard saloon car you could buy when it came out.
Again build quality was poor.
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#2154 Post by Colonel Panic »

I edited my post whilst you were writing yours, by the looks of it! Interesting what you said about the land the Reliant factory was on being used for prestige housing - it's the way of the world now I suppose.

I remember the Dolomite Sprint being a very sought after car when it came out, almost like the BMW 5 series is now. Shame about the build quality though.
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#2155 Post by Colonel Panic »

Here's an interview with Spen. It's quite long and goes into a lot of detail so he lost me in places, but boy does he know what he's talking about.

http://www.aronline.co.uk/blogs/facts-a ... spen-king/
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#2156 Post by greengeek »

Some of the early Puppies I used were like the Reliant Robin.
Newer ones are more battle toughened though.
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#2157 Post by starhawk »

Ah... the Robin. I have a thing for three wheeled cars.

Never seen the tracked version before tho :D where did you find that?

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#2158 Post by greengeek »

starhawk wrote:Ah... the Robin....where did you find that?
I just used google images to search for "reliant robin". Actually, if you also google "reliant robin boat" it is amazing the depth of human creativity.

Someone even made one for the American market. Must've sold thousands over there. Even made it onto a TV series I think..
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#2159 Post by Burn_IT »

A lot of the so called Robins in the media are not Robins at all.
They are Regals; there were nowhere near as many Robins made,
They were both stupidly fast (in a straight line).
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#2160 Post by infromthepound »

I had the van version, you could drive them on a motor bike liscence then,
I never managed to roll it, or anything near.
A reasonable weight in the back made the front steering wheel a bit light; and going flat out on a straight road made the front wheel lift too, a bit frightening.
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#2161 Post by Fossil »

And not forgetting the 'Bond Bug'! :lol:
"A nice piece of Red Leicester, Grommit!" :roll:
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#2162 Post by Colonel Panic »

Fossil wrote:And not forgetting the 'Bond Bug'! :lol:
"A nice piece of Red Leicester, Grommit!" :roll:
Nice one. You couldn't get more '70s than that (for small cars anyway) :)

Bond made a bigger car too called the Equipe, which looked a bit like a baby Aston Martin (I think *it was based on the Triumph Vitesse). They were rarer than the Bond Bug, although I have seen one around Plymouth.

* Yes it was;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bond_Equipe
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#2163 Post by rokytnji »

Even trimarans know to put outriggers so to keep from rolling over.
I think the tech is only what? Only a few thousand years old.

Only in Texas. Speed limit on roads. 85mph.
http://www.delorean.com/

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#2164 Post by ETP »

Back off topic: :lol:
Puppy running off an f2fs partition on an SSD.

Full sized screen shot here: (Press F11 to toggle into full screen then click on link)
https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view ... HVZRDM5dmM

(Better looking than the original DINO)
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#2165 Post by Colonel Panic »

ETP wrote:Back off topic: :lol:
Puppy running off an f2fs partition on an SSD.

Full sized screen shot here: (Press F11 to toggle into full screen then click on link)
https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view ... HVZRDM5dmM

(Better looking than the original DINO)
Back offtopic again :) Sorry, but those headlights! It's got character I suppose though.

Fiat did a car in the late 60's with a Ferrari engine called - the Fiat Dino. There weren't many made and even fewer survive now, but I was lucky enough to see one in the grounds of my local hospital a few years back and it was a beautiful car.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiat_Dino

(The one I saw was the coupe, in blue.)

Back to distros; I've taken a look at the latest Slackware beta (14.2) and Slackware are going with Pulse Audio for sound configuration, which I've never had good results with on my machine so I've reinstalled Slackware 14.1 instead which is at least adequate.
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