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Sorry late at night

[backi]

Here is something which looks quite interesting .

Compressing RAM with zRam .
I am not a a Linux expert but maybe someone more skilled can use this idea to make use of it in Puppy or elsewhere .
http://weirdfellow.wordpress.com/2011/05/04/compressed-ram-with-zram/

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Lupu News is no longer accessible in 529 with the instant_Update-3HD-002.1.pet applied to the original 529 sfs, using Seamonkey. Neither the Menu/Help/Lupu News Help nor the Quickpet news tab gives anything but a blank page in Seamonkey

the file /usr/share/doc/index99.html is not changed. however it no longer displays anything in seamonkey when clicked on in Rox. Totally strange.

What is even odder is that clicking on that file in Rox has totally diffferent behaviour with Firefox and again in Dillo. Dillo still opens the same pages that Seamonkey did in 529 original and also with 529 plus the instant update 001 (erroneously) installed. Firefox opens the Puppy Jumping off page!!! I presume that it id Dillo which is working properly?

Previously, and still with Dillo, this file loaded a local help page with a link to the page diddywadiddy.net/Lupu News/index4.html. Quickpet loaded, and still does in Dillo, the page diddywadiddy.net/Lupu News. (That page is however concerned with 528, not 529.)

[aarf]

luci003 default wallpaper lasted less than a minute from first boot
still see luci as the most polished puppy in the current kennels.
will see if the infrequent random crashing is still around in the current incarnation..

[playdayz]

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Thanks playdayz,

Installing the latest pet of Seamonkey fixed the problem in Seamonkey. I already had the latest pet of Firefox installed. Nevertheless, the problem in Firefox was fixed after I uninstalled Firefox and re-downloaded the same Firefox pet and installed it. So it's all good now but what the??? How did the problem occur and what has happened to fix it? I guess we'll never know.

I wonder if it would be possible to have the browsers as sfs files. I keep Firefox installed to handle the very occassional problem with rendering on some sites but use it very rarely. It seems that it would be more sensible to have alternative browsers as sfs's rather than enlarging the savefile?

[playdayz]

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I've never run the Bacon Recorder before. I cannot make it work. This is probably a bug in my head rather than one in 3HD but I can't seem to figure it out.

I am using this usb webcam as both camera and mic:

[playdayz]

Bacon Recorder
I thought the Bacon Recorder was audio only. Yes, it seems to be. http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?search_id=1546625594&t=69237

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I am sorry if I didn't make it clear. I am not expecting to get video on the Bacon recorder. However, the webcam is also a mic, the only one I have. Surely I should be able to use it to record sound? Sound is going into Puppy from it, the successful use of Skype is proof of that, so why can't I record that sound?

[playdayz]

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Thanks playdayz

I'll contact Don. I don't really need this, I'm just trying to be a helpful tester

Trying to record using mhWaveEdit and arecord both produce the same blank files as Bacon recorder. However, Puppy knows about the camera and knows that it is a sound capture device. Hardinfo, Puppy SysInfo and arecord are all in agreement on that (Although this may all amount to the same code underneath).

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@01micko, Hey mick I went to the link you provided to download the kernel sources but there is just a blank page. ?????? Help!

[playdayz]

[mill0001]

@playdayz: Thanks for the reply, but what I'm saying is the link to the kernel sources in the first message of this thread shows me nothing but a blank page. So is the link bad or is it something wrong with my Firefox browser?