Lighthouse 64 602 Beta2 with GIMP-2.8.4 (6-29-2013)

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Re: A strange, noobish question or two

#556 Post by Meshworks »

Deacon wrote:..... it's a 5GB save file, so while it works fine, it boots really slowly now.
If you are able to make a small (say 10gb?) linux partition on your drive formatted ext2 or ext3 ... you can boot from the usb key ... but have the savefile and sfs files stored on the (fast) hdd partition.

LHP 602 likes this config --- LHP 515F not so much.

Nice answers from GCM & Gobbi! When my savefile bloats out I simply cut a new one.

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File Shares on XP SP2

#557 Post by Meshworks »

Having trouble getting at XP shares? I tried various things eg builtin LHP tools, YASIM, and slamming my face onto the keyboard repeatedly.

After much messing around I installed:
clarf_pnethood-0.66.pet
mountcifs-1.5.pet
and linked
/bin/smbmount > /bin/mount

at which point pnethood was able to mount shares.
hoorah.

you could probably skip installing mountcifs.pet
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#558 Post by edoc »

GKrellM info says it requires GNU wget in order to view a webcam.

PPM shows that I have wget already installed but not GNU wget.

I tried to add http://www.earthcam.com/usa/newyork/tim ... am=tsrobo1 and it doesn't respond when I choose Reread Source then Apply.

Do I need a different version of wget or ??

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#559 Post by Gobbi »

Hi edoc ,

From my experience with GKrellM webcam plugin in LHP I can tell you this : I was never able to see any webcam that uses flash :!:

The only webcams seen were those sending mjpeg or jpeg... It is also important to set a low refresh rate ( to give time - I think - to the program to adjust the picture to the chosen dimension in pixels in GKrellM plugin ) ...

For example this adress works for me : http://www.katkam.ca/pic.aspx

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#560 Post by edoc »

OK, the old Flash hassle shows up in yet one more place - sure will be glad when we are finally rid of Flash.

I suppose it is theoretically possible to write a script to run a Flash webcam stream through a converter but I don't need it that badly.

Perhaps I can convince my son, just starting sophomore year as an IT major, to try it? It could make for an interesting learning experience.

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Lighthouse Puppy AMD Radeon HD 8180 Video Driver

#561 Post by Meshworks »

Restated the problem here in the video hardware section:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=95588

How do I create an environment to compile the 32bit drivers and integrate them?!

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#562 Post by edoc »

I can't get LH64 to access the photos on my Samsung Galaxy Nexus smartphone.

It doesn't have a removable sd-card so cable or wireless are the only ways to accomplish this.

Any suggestions, please?

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#563 Post by edoc »

Is there an app to batch process - scale-down - a folder of images?

I have 88 jpeg photos ranging from approx. 1.5 - 2.8 megs in size (e.g. a 1.9 meg photo is 2592x1922 pixels).

I'd like to make a reduced version of all of them down to 800x600 for use on a Web page.

Suggestions, please?

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#564 Post by Puppus Dogfellow »

edoc wrote:Is there an app to batch process - scale-down - a folder of images?

I have 88 jpeg photos ranging from approx. 1.5 - 2.8 megs in size (e.g. a 1.9 meg photo is 2592x1922 pixels).

I'd like to make a reduced version of all of them down to 800x600 for use on a Web page.

Suggestions, please?

Thanks - David
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=77345
^peasyscale seems to be what you're looking for, though i don't know if it'll work on lighthouse.

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#565 Post by edoc »

PeasyScale loads OK and creates the peasyscale folder with a ".count" file but no scaled jpg image.

Thoughts, please?

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#566 Post by Puppus Dogfellow »

edoc wrote:PeasyScale loads OK and creates the peasyscale folder with a ".count" file but no scaled jpg image.

Thoughts, please?

Thanks - David
i've never used lighthouse, but i think i remember it as being roxless. could that have something to do with it? in the peasyscale thread is the following link:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 3c5#198011

that's what peasyscale was based on. you could try that. beyond that, sorry. no idea.

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#567 Post by gcmartin »

Puppus Dogfellow wrote:Ive never used lighthouse, but i think i remember it as being roxless. ...
Lighthouse has ROX.

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#568 Post by Puppus Dogfellow »

gcmartin wrote:
Puppus Dogfellow wrote:Ive never used lighthouse, but i think i remember it as being roxless. ...
Lighthouse has ROX.
my mistake. for some reason i remembered it as having been built around spacefm. :oops:

anyway, it appears the package i linked edoc to was built for 32 bit pups. as yet no report on whether the 64 bit version rcrsn51 built for fatdog works here.

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#569 Post by Eathray »

I'm not sure if this is the correct place to post this or not...

I was actually just wondering if anyone knows how tazoc's health is doing. Lighthouse64 is one of my regular pups, and I was just curious about it's creator. Hope he's well, but haven't seen any activity from him, or heard any news.

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#570 Post by Q5sys »

Eathray wrote:I'm not sure if this is the correct place to post this or not...

I was actually just wondering if anyone knows how tazoc's health is doing. Lighthouse64 is one of my regular pups, and I was just curious about it's creator. Hope he's well, but haven't seen any activity from him, or heard any news.

Eathray
I tried to reach out to him via email, but ive heard nothing in response. If i hear something I'll let you know.

gcmartin

#571 Post by gcmartin »

Hi @Eathray. Haven't had any contact with him since late fall of last year. He did share how grave it was but did not want it public.

I, like you and others have hoped for the best for him. He provided great leadership, even after his illness took its toll on his health as he completed the last release of Lighthouse. With what he shared with me it was an amazing feat from him to get this into our hands, even as his health was destabilizing.

It was absolutely amazing. I personally consider the LH64-602 release "A Work of Art" as he extended what he had accomplished in his prior release(s). And with his LH64 website, toolchain, and all he embraced for us, his presence, piecing knowledge, and the information he shared was a great guide to users; experienced or not.

Hope this helps

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#572 Post by edoc »

gcmartin - that was a wonderful & well-earned tribute to him. Thanks for sharing that.

While here - are there any updates that are critical to run - given the bad news about the Shellshock bug?
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#573 Post by Eathray »

Thank you all for the answers.

I certainly hope tazoc will enjoy a recovery... and hopefully someone can keep the community informed as to his condition.

I hope nobody will take this as morbid, but has anyone backed up all the Lighthouse releases and software packages... just in case? Obviously tazoc's illness is more than a cold or flu bug, and if the worst were to happen, it would be horrible to see all his wonderful work lost.

Just a thought. My wife lost both her parents this past year. We do loose people. Of course, my hope is to see a full recovery and a 700 series release of Lighthouse... I'm sure you all hope the same.

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#574 Post by Q5sys »

edoc wrote:While here - are there any updates that are critical to run - given the bad news about the Shellshock bug?
With the age of the software packages, if security is a concern, you're probably better off not running LHP. It pains me to say that, but I'm not going to try to convince you that its currently secure. Most of the default applications have had major updates since LHP 6.02 was released.

If you dont mind learning to ride a horse again... try out the latest Fatdog beta. It's got a bunch of features which will help keep it up to date as time goes on. (like an actual system update method)

Since TazOC is MIA at the moment... I'm focusing my efforts on improving that.
Eathray wrote:I hope nobody will take this as morbid, but has anyone backed up all the Lighthouse releases and software packages... just in case? Obviously tazoc's illness is more than a cold or flu bug, and if the worst were to happen, it would be horrible to see all his wonderful work lost.
He and I were talking about setting up an rsync to pull down everything onto another server I had, but we never managed to make it happen before his latest hiatus. I can scrape his server easy enough... but I dont want to kill his bandwidth and incur him charges if he's not ready for that.

Honestly of more importance isn't what hosted online... but all the scripts and stuff he has locally on his machine that he uses to build his releases. Having all of his prewritten scripts that one can update and drop into a future release instead of having to try to strip it all out of a past release and then update it would be the most important thing to have.

That way someone can pick up if he decides, or has to, completely back off from any future development.

I'll try to send him another message tonight.

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#575 Post by Eathray »

q5sys,

Thanks for the reply. Sounds like you've tried to be helpful to tazoc, and I'm glad for that. As I say, I think it would be awful to see his legacy disappear.

Not really too concerned about security. I have several computers running multiple versions of Puppy each, and I haven't had so much as a browser hijacker in more than half a decade, let alone anything serious. Puppy in all it's various incarnations seems to be immanently safe. I don't want to get cocky about that, but that's my honest experience.

Hopefully tazoc will recover and bring us a version 700 :D

Eathray

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