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Hope it works - you might try altering some of the main page so it translates better - maybe there are less ambiguous ways of using language - sort of 'machine translatable english?

I don't think so. Actually I don't trust much on automated translators. To be honest, results are usually disgusting to the reader, if not completely confusing.

Let's have the opinion of our german, portuguese and french friends.

I'd ask gliezl, since she Napakaganda mo ("is very beautiful" according to wikipedia), but I don't think this worldlingo guys translate into philippino.

I was reading that topic about the "official" documentation. I think, MHO is, that documentation should go under wiki's category "documentation", and everything else (help related) under UserContributions, for example.
If you ask me, I'd prefer to start translating the more static things first. So if an official, finite, version of the documentation turns up, I'd prefer to start (and to finish) translating that, both to the /doc and to the wiki.

I'm confident that as Puppy's word spreads, more people wishing to translate will turn up, which will be far better than using automated translators.

Maybe you can put into a page to translators something like this:
"Translators, check this automated translation and choose if you prefer to use it as starting point or not" and a link to the worldlingo's version.
or for users "we don't have a custom translation available for your language yet, but check this automated version out".

Actually, I think there are no good "how can I help" routes to Puppy, are they? Wouldn't be positive a page like that with things to do, or to help with? There you can include different categories of help, translation or even how to make dotpups, for example. What about a competition, with poll included, for people to design the next Puppy's wallpaper? Or one with "what would you like to see in the next version of Puppy?"

My usual usuless thoughts

In fact, Lobster, you can yourself give your opinion of the humanly translated into spanish page (good spanish quality), re-translated into english using worldlingo:

http://www.worldlingo.com/wl/translate? ... l_lp=sp-en

What do you think?

Yep it is weird - no doubt BUT it makes much more sense than the Spanish.

I can get the gist of it . . .

Lobster, I need your help, are you awake?

I've read this snippet: "All you do is download usr_devx.sfs (size 43M), save it to /mnt/home (if /mnt/home is an NTFS partition, you have to do that from Windows), then reboot Puppy -- that's it, you're ready to go"

I followed that, but I see no difference. Where is the stuff? I don't know what would happend after reboot, but I tried different things, even typing into a console prompt "cc" or "gcc", and that doesn't work.
So, I think something is left, at least for me, to that "you're ready to go".
What's missing between "reboot" and "cc program.c"?

When did you download usr_devx.sfs ?
From what URL?

The current version here:
ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/puppylinux/
is for Puppy 1.0.6.

Did you save to c:\usr_devx.sfs ?

Mark

I downloaded it 1 hour ago, using the attached bittorrent (just rename it from .zip to .torrent).

I'm using a full installation of Puppy Chubby 1.0.5 (it's own partition under grub), so after downloading, I've copied it to /mnt/home as instructed, and then I rebooted.
I don't have a clue of what should I see after that, so to know if it's worked. Should I mount something?

that's my torrent file, i think it is for the correct usr_devx.sfs for Puppy 1.0.6 ... i checked the md5sum before i made the torrent file ... if the torrent program is working properly, it does thorough checksums for every chunk it downloads, so usually if your torrent client says it downloaded ok, then it probably did download ok

if usr_devx.sfs is working properly, then if you type gcc -v in a console (rxvt) window, it should display the version information ... otherwise, it would display an error message, something like gcc: command not found

Thanks GuestToo, I'll try to find a usr_devx.sfs for Puppy Chubby 1.0.5 then, which is my installed version, because the one I've downloaded doesn't work (gcc=command not found).

It will not be easy to find, as it is always replaced with a new version.

Try here, but this will just work, when i am online.
http://terminatux.dyndns.org/usr_devx.sfs-105

Tell me, when you downloaded it, so i know when i can turn off the computer.

Mark

I'm downloading at 20k, about half an hour left. If you have to go to sleep I can do it tomorrow

no, no problem

Just go on.
I will go asleep in 1 hour or so

Are your downloads always so slow, or is that my provider?
I had some problems to log in today.

Mark

This is not a state of the art connection, but today I was downloading at nearly 50k. So, dunno.

Thanks for waiting, 20m left.

Hm, usually it should be 170 kb/s.

Well, never mind, if it just will transfer without error
Of course, you must rename it to usr_devx.sfs after download.

Ok, thanks for letting me know. 10 min left now. I wonder what's the time zone for murga.org, I think that server's clock should be put on time

I think you can set up the timezone in the boards preferences

yep, but even though is about half an hour ahead of my time
Anyway Mark, the download just finished,
thanks a big lot!

Ok, let us know if it works or not.

Good night
Mark

ok: it didn't... I wonder what's wrong. Ok, will try to find out tomorrow.

Thanks, good night.