Starting a new terminal or running the file from the terminal didn't work (or maybe I did something wrong). But after a reboot the aliases defined in .bashrc were loaded when i opened the terminal :) Running a script (like .bashrc) by name like that really means "load a child shell, run this s...

rga wrote:Hi everyone,
I have tried putting them in ~/.bash_aliases as I do in Ubuntu, and I have also tried to put them in ~/.bashrc but i can't get them to work.

.bashrc should work, but you'd have to start a new term (or source the dotfile) to see it in the current session.

And as everyone knows, browsers are all about bookmarks! An odd claim. I've used browsers since Mosaic and don't remember anyone making (much less supporting) that claim before. * One might make a counterclaim that browsers are "all about" fitting on a 1.44MB floppy; Opera used to be famo...

I believe that taking and sharing (P2P) at the same time is a much fairer way to getting information than just being a taker without making any attempts to ever share .(as so many are). ... The availability and use of P2P does NOT mean misuse of Intellectual Property. It is merely a Publicly equal ...

Sandvine and other folks in the business say those things for money.

Why users carry water for them is less clear. Probably the same reason people forward misinformed, manipulative, highly emotional email chain letters that could easily be fact-checked with a 5-second google search.

Caneri wrote:It also tracks usage from peer to peer and stops/slows/reports abuses at a glance...thus torrents are no longer valid...unless you run a private group/server or have a Warez server that allows it.

It's possible to replace one file on a torrent and turn you into a botnet.

Think about it.

FUD.

I've never used Ekiga, but from their website I get the impression calling landlines and mobile phones is available: I do use Ekiga on my *buntu desktop, although I actually prefer the lighter Twinkle client much of the time. Ekiga is referring to diamondcard.us when it mentions outbound calls, alt...

The author seems to conflate "bash" and "shell". To complicate matters further, s/he also seems to believe that utilities like editors and find are functions of the shell.* The kinds of things one should know about bash in particular would be something like: bash-specific config ...

Thanks, trying it out now. I installed conky and got most of what I want. I removed the battery mon out of ~/Startup since it wasn't doing anything useful. Thanks for the nudge. BTW, I use fluxbox on my deskop; it's lovely and clean. I don't use it on the netbook because of all the rightclicking req...

Sorry for the late post, but I'm seeing this issue on my Eee 900. Stuck at 1%.

I'm hoping the hardware LED still starts blinking at 20%.

Hi All I was just about to say I have a bug then read the post about incompatible sfs's. But did not think that was going to affect the save files. At one time I think I remember puppylinux offering to upgrade a save file or something like that. If I was to rename it to the new name system would it...

1. get the rules set up the way you want them

2. From shell: iptables-save

3. from your /etc/rc.d/rc.local: {/path/to/}iptables-reload

I.e. if you install software from the Puppy 3 repo, then when you go to uninstall it you'd need to have the Puppy 3 repo selected before clicking to uninstall.

Didn't know that. Thanks for throwing it out there.

As I said, out of respect for the students it is my job to read exactly what the students submit. Could they be encouraged to submit their work in an open format or something closed but more portable (.pdf)? How about .rtf? It's controlled by Micro$oft but at least it is well-understood and support...

Hard to see how it could mess up an existing pupsave, since it only reads from it, creating a new pupsave at the end and leaving the old one alone. ... It sounds more like you had a file system problem. Puppy not being able to boot "pfix=ram" is a clue. I do warn people to use it only aft...

^I think you are referring to file encryption within the file system. I am referring to an option to encrypt and password protect the save file on a USB install. This is a user option that I only see referred to on the very first save of a USB Puppy - the user can specify heavy, light or no encrypt...

The problem is that I chose light encryption and created a password for login when I installed and I do not want folks using this password. Can the password be changed? Can encryption and password protection be removed? Dunno the answer but I am following along with interest. There is/was a .pet th...

I get into gmail fine on both 4.2 and 4.2.1 (seamonkey), using both http and https.

At least we know it's possible.

sacredzero wrote: I downloaded the additional drivers in the first post, but have no idea what to do with them. Maybe that will sort it out, but I need to know what to do with them.

Does the wireless appear to be functional (ie, can see your wifi router) but just can't connect to it, or does it not work at all?

luther349 wrote:hey im back at it

I'm glad to see you're back!