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by Offenbach
Sat 17 Apr 2010, 13:52
Forum: Games
Topic: wesnoth-1.2.4.pup
Replies: 24
Views: 28954

waiting for wesnoth

I would like wesnoth to appear in the puppy package manager.
Wesnothpup ISO would be alright, as long as it worked from the disc alone.
by Offenbach
Sat 17 Apr 2010, 13:06
Forum: Puppy Derivatives
Topic: Unable to download FlightPup (Solved)
Replies: 3
Views: 3504

flightpup

It works from the disk - no need to load anything.
My eight year old nephew thanks you from the bottom of his heart.
Me too - Oh! T H A N K Y O U !
by Offenbach
Fri 26 Feb 2010, 11:22
Forum: Suggestions
Topic: Barry for australian of the year
Replies: 4
Views: 2332

Barry for australian of the year

Someone who knows him needs to nominate
also the new inventors
midwest business awards
australian story etc etc
by Offenbach
Sat 30 Jan 2010, 06:39
Forum: Beginners Help ( Start Here)
Topic: USB Boot Error
Replies: 12
Views: 4260

damaged or unbootable USB partition

I get this error message in bios. DAMAGED OR UNBOOTABLE USB PARTITION The officialpage on this subkect does not mention that you may have to reformat the USB drive as ext3 rather than the windows friendly vfat or ntfs file format supplied on most USB drives. Puppy does most of this for you with a fe...
by Offenbach
Sun 17 Jan 2010, 12:32
Forum: Beginners Help ( Start Here)
Topic: Is puppy 431 64 bit?
Replies: 2
Views: 1172

Is puppy 431 64 bit?

Stupid question but I can't find the ansswer.
If I search for "64 bit" across the forums there are 129 possible threads but I did not see this question.
by Offenbach
Sat 16 Jan 2010, 12:46
Forum: Beginners Help ( Start Here)
Topic: Newbies - Puppy needs YOUR help too!
Replies: 1113
Views: 661150

Aitch Thanks for the tip "You need to restart x after changing settings" I don't know what that means yet. "You can test each resolution is working and use cont alt backspace until it's OK, with a 22" you should be trying 1280x1024 or similar, maybe?" Yep thanks for that one...
by Offenbach
Wed 13 Jan 2010, 13:52
Forum: Beginners Help ( Start Here)
Topic: does anyone have DVICO DVB-T Hybrid TV tuner card?
Replies: 2
Views: 886

Thanks 4 reply

John Did you have to generate channel.conf file to make it work? The closest I can see to support is http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1064288&highlight=channel+w_scan+issues but this is not working in ubuntu, so I am considering trying puppy, did you get the thumb tuner working out of th...
by Offenbach
Tue 12 Jan 2010, 13:24
Forum: Beginners Help ( Start Here)
Topic: does anyone have DVICO DVB-T Hybrid TV tuner card?
Replies: 2
Views: 886

does anyone have DVICO DVB-T Hybrid TV tuner card?

I have this card and just interested to know if anyone has managed to get any type of TV tuner card working in puppy?
by Offenbach
Thu 07 Jan 2010, 02:24
Forum: Puppy Power
Topic: Newby suggestion
Replies: 0
Views: 1009

Newby suggestion

I have an idea for promotion of puppy although no ability to execute it. What about making a link to a website that 'looks like' a puppy desktop. It would be like 'look before you invest your time, this is what you get' with puppy. The desktop comes with pre-installed icons, each of these could be a...
by Offenbach
Thu 07 Jan 2010, 00:22
Forum: Beginners Help ( Start Here)
Topic: Newbies - Puppy needs YOUR help too!
Replies: 1113
Views: 661150

second boot

Downloaded puppy yesterday on my PentIV ubuntu rig. twenty minutes to play before work, I make my second attempt with live CD. It would be easy to know the screen resolution if I was logged into ubuntu, but I can't see that from here, so I choose the lowest screen resolution available. I like the ar...
by Offenbach
Wed 06 Jan 2010, 14:13
Forum: Suggestions
Topic: wish list for next puppy release
Replies: 384
Views: 318560

wish for live CD to select video resolution automatically

Something I love about computers is that they can do many operations per second. They can do automatic things. Total Newby here wishing that the live CD would pick a graphics resolution for me. Any resolution will do as long as I can see it. It could be changed from within puppy once the first boot ...
by Offenbach
Wed 06 Jan 2010, 12:52
Forum: Puppy Power
Topic: How YOU Can Promote Puppy
Replies: 131
Views: 178270

Open Source Conference 2010

There is an open source conference occuring in mid 2010 in Malaysia.
Here is the link
http://www.facebook.com/pages/MSC-Malay ... 4170351613