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Excess Ram

#46 Post by mikeslr »

Hi greengeek,

As visiting New Zealand is on my bucket list, if you'll mail me a ticket I'll be glad to hand-deliver lots of RAM.
I'd add a "smiley-face" but for some reason --current opera?-- they don't work right.
The specs are of my desktop which doesn't make me wait impatiently when I tinker with something. After building anything, I transport it to my Thinkpad T42 to give it a real test.
I'll hunt for the "pupdesk.flg" file.

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#47 Post by greengeek »

Done.
Gotta love google images - it makes international travel so easy...
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Unanticipated delay in delivering promised Ram

#48 Post by mikeslr »

Hi greengeek,

I apologize that I can not deliver the promised commodity as quickly. My staff seems confused about the assembling requirements.

mikesLr

P.S. Couldn't find a pupdesk.flg on any partition. Booted without difficulty into version 7. Am posting from it now via frisbee. SNS saw but failed to connect to my network. Not an unusual occurrence.
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#49 Post by greengeek »

Thats definitely a whole lot of ram, but Oh deer, Oh deer, Oh deer! They obviously didnt follow the insertion instructions correctly...
:lol:

ps, I don't think the ram is new...looks a bit ewesed to me

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#50 Post by Ted Dog »

LOL that is one confused Ram, his 'junk' is not even close to where it needs to be. :o

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#51 Post by Ted Dog »

Looks like another demo has been requested mid August. Was asked for links, so we need to kinda quiet down the animal mounting, I figured their eyes would gloss over and never make it this far... :oops:

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#52 Post by greengeek »

You're probably right.
Mike - the image might need some pixelation...
8)

As far as the links goes, I did actually include two of the oneswitch threads in the pre-installed Seamonkey bookmarks, but only the actual Oneswitch pet thread (software) and the keyboard modification thread (hardware), but not this particular one about switchpups.

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#53 Post by Ted Dog »

Gave them the original thread... Where the ideas started and had Will's video links :wink:

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#54 Post by Ted Dog »

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 26&t=72589

Added this pet to play with and noticed I could not get sound at all.. Is the a 'BK' bug or did something change?

Wanted to add speech to radar.. where is the source? :oops: its a script... never mind :lol:

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#55 Post by greengeek »

Interesting pet. Text-to-speech is one of the high priority functions I want to add as soon as poss. I won't be able to try that pet just yet and I would only be guessing about why it doesn't output sound on your system - but do you have ALL of your alsa "inputs" activated (ie: pcm etc etc). Maybe the particular audio stream output from the pet uses a different "line in" to what other software uses??? (Just a stab in the dark...)

EDIT : Current switchpups are based on Precise 5.6.1 so if strange behaviour happens it is worth comparing it with Precise561 to see if the same behaviour exists there. I don't think that I have changed anything that would affect the audio behaviour but then again, remastering can be a funny business...

EDIT2 : Brilliant! I couldn't resist trialling that pet and it works fine on my hardware (I've only tried it on an Acer netbook with the AutoStart switchpup so far, but should behave the same with the firstrun version too). The voice was a bit hurried, but better than nothing. I will come back to experimenting with this further when I'm happy the basic functionality of switchpup is solid and ready for enhancements.

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#56 Post by ETP »

Hi Ted Dog & greengeek,

Try this ( Recorded with Vocaroo. Played with ISpeech in MouseCam Pup V6)

http://vocaroo.com/i/s17FsZp9CGQ0

My original post is here:

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 776#710776

I will certainly be including it in Obedient Pup. :)
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#57 Post by greengeek »

Very nice. She sounds lovely.
Actually sounds like Nigella Lawson - if she comes round to my place and makes my dinner I promise i will treat her better than that Saatchi chap did.
:-)

EDIT: For some reason I was not able to record on vocaroo when i first tried it a couple of weeks ago...something to do with flash version on my Slacko machine i guess. I will have to give it a try from switchpup.

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#58 Post by greengeek »

Added new version of Radar_firstrun to first post. This cures a bug with Abiword not opening a file when the icon was clicked, adds a "DragWindow" function (which is much easier than hunting for the title bar when you need to reposition the window), and also repositions the desktop icons to allow better visibility when navbar is in use.

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SwitchPuppy for the disabled...

#59 Post by russoodle »

Hi greengeek....been wondering why you haven't used your ftp account and storage space, then i see you haven't yet retrieved the pm with your pawsword attached...do you still want this account and space?

cheers,
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PS: by the looks of things, that RAM could be having compatibility issues.. :shock: :lol:
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#60 Post by Ted Dog »

Ted Dog wrote:Gave them the original thread... Where the ideas started and had Will's video links :wink:
Demo did well ( both mousecam and switchpup where DOA on the University Dell's ) it has to be a pp5.6.1 issue we really need to put our efforts on a stable base, What happened to the Wary base idea?

OK feedback and ideas flowed back and forth, got more practical insights into other types of disability that would benefit from OneSwitch. Cerebral palsy would benefit if we can 'cut the cord' having a dangling cord is dangerous, so came across two USB wireless keyboards (one is a TV remote looking thing )

http://www.amazon.com/SANOXY-Wireless-R ... f_se_s_t_9

and the other was a flexible keyboard (which we can remove and wire a single switch)

http://www.amazon.com/HDE-Silicone-Flex ... 7&sr=1-321

I like the second one since its not shipped from china (long wait) and looks easier to convert into a hand-held 'clicker', since someone already got that type of keyboard working. :wink:

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#61 Post by Ted Dog »

Also came across a idea to place autocomplete 'speech' buttons on the far left of the keyboard Left of the (F1,ESC,TAB...) so that after a key press the next logical group of 6 auto completes would serve as the row selectors.

[SAY ] [F1][F2]....
[AUTOCOMP1] [ESC][1][2][3]...
[AUTOCOMP2] [TAB][Q][W][E]..
[AUTOCOMP3] [CRL][A][S][D]...
[AUTOCOMP4] [SHIFT][Z]..

As to not waste too much time row select would start on the extreme right of the Autocomplete button when switching to column mode. That would also keep the cursor movement at a known starting area and the keyboard from wiggling about.

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#62 Post by Ted Dog »

Also If the Say Button is pressed the top 5 used speech (autocomplete or user chosen to be there) would be available if first time into the keyboard after switching from radar

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Re: SwitchPuppy for the disabled...

#63 Post by greengeek »

russoodle wrote:Hi greengeek....been wondering why you haven't used your ftp account and storage space, then i see you haven't yet retrieved the pm with your pawsword attached...do you still want this account and space?:
Hi Russoodle, yes I am very keen to use the account please - there are two reasons I haven't used it yet:

1) I only wanted to upload versions I was really happy with, and although switchpup009 is very close to what I want to release it still has a sensitivity to any pupdesk.flg file left on disk.(I have sent a PM to BK asking the best way to "immunise" switchpup against finding the pupdesk.flg and dropping into xorgwizard unnecessarily but he has not replied yet). I really want to get to version 1.0 before I "officialise" it by putting it on your server.
2) It's actually a long time since I FTP'ed :oops: The last time I did it I was using FileZilla on a windows box so I need to find out how puppy does it. Unfortunately a family member had a serious medical crisis this week and any serious thinking fell by the wayside. I hope to be uploading in the near future. (many thanks for the space!)

BTW - love the "pawsword" spelling :)

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#64 Post by greengeek »

Ted Dog wrote: both mousecam and switchpup where DOA on the University Dell's ) it has to be a pp5.6.1 issue we really need to put our efforts on a stable base, :
Hi Ted Dog, were you able to get any other puppy booted successfully on the Dells? (I have not had much success with Wary and Oneswitch - I had issues with the radar screen falling behind other windows so did not pursue it any further)

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#65 Post by Ted Dog »

I had my laptop with switchpup booting via USB flashdrive, but the DR was wanting to see MouseCam (my laptop did not have internet) and I had burned a few copies of both to DVD's to handout.

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