Hello all.
I think we forgot to have an inauguration ceremony for our Newsletter.
You know, the kind of ceremony where you invite a Medecine Man to ward
off bad spirits...
It still isn't too late, I suppose.
BFN.
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The things they do not tell you, are usually the clue to solving the problem.
When I was a kid I wanted to be older.... This is not what I expected
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When I was a kid I wanted to be older.... This is not what I expected
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LazY Puppy
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- Joined: Fri 21 Nov 2014, 18:14
- Location: Germany
Subscribed and got a confirmation mail.
Clicked the link in the confirmation mail and got a 'success' message for subscription to the Puppy Newsletter.
Clicked the link in the confirmation mail and got a 'success' message for subscription to the Puppy Newsletter.
RSH
"you only wanted to work your Puppies in German", "you are a separatist in that you want Germany to secede from Europe" (musher0) :lol:
No, but I gave my old drum kit away for free to a music store collecting instruments for refugees! :wink:
"you only wanted to work your Puppies in German", "you are a separatist in that you want Germany to secede from Europe" (musher0) :lol:
No, but I gave my old drum kit away for free to a music store collecting instruments for refugees! :wink:
I just checked, you're in the list so it seems to be working.LazY Puppy wrote:Subscribed and got a confirmation mail.
Clicked the link in the confirmation mail and got a 'success' message for subscription to the Puppy Newsletter.
The real test will be on 01 Feb 2017 when the next newsletter is published.
To me a newsletter should be a place to see news about what is going on in Puppy.
New programs
New Puppy versions
New improvements
New bug fixes
New ideas for Puppy
etc.....
Some ideas:
Testimonials
spotlight or profile of Puppy developers
Educational articles
“Classic
New programs
New Puppy versions
New improvements
New bug fixes
New ideas for Puppy
etc.....
Some ideas:
Testimonials
spotlight or profile of Puppy developers
Educational articles
“Classic
The things they do not tell you, are usually the clue to solving the problem.
When I was a kid I wanted to be older.... This is not what I expected
YaPI(any iso installer)
When I was a kid I wanted to be older.... This is not what I expected
YaPI(any iso installer)
Read this:http://www.freelists.org/privacy.htmlmarmalade wrote:Enough requests for email addresses already - how private are they? I get enough spam thanks!
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Rattlehead
- Posts: 368
- Joined: Thu 11 Sep 2008, 11:40
Thank you for the ideas Bigpup, they are great food for thought. I think I'll mostly stick to testimonials, educational articles and some tip. Feels adequate to my status (power user + plenty of years of shooting myself in the foot with everything Puppy, hopefully learning a trick or two... 
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@marmalade, I understand your stance, I am not very keen on email myself, even when it comes without spam. Just so that you know, you can also subscribe the newsletter via RSS, or just look at it randomly in the interwebs when you feel like it, in this nifty site: http://www.smokey01.com/newsletters. You can also send some article from there, if you feel like contributing.
)@marmalade, I understand your stance, I am not very keen on email myself, even when it comes without spam. Just so that you know, you can also subscribe the newsletter via RSS, or just look at it randomly in the interwebs when you feel like it, in this nifty site: http://www.smokey01.com/newsletters. You can also send some article from there, if you feel like contributing.
Like the idea of a Puppy newsletter too.
I wouldn't worry too much about email for the foreseeable future as the Russians are all busy reading the tens of thousands of emails they "got" from the Democrats.
Seriously though, I'm not too keen on subscribing via email, so I just pop over to the site every now and again and read it there.
BTW, how about a regular feature highlighting unusual uses for Puppy?
I wouldn't worry too much about email for the foreseeable future as the Russians are all busy reading the tens of thousands of emails they "got" from the Democrats.
Seriously though, I'm not too keen on subscribing via email, so I just pop over to the site every now and again and read it there.
BTW, how about a regular feature highlighting unusual uses for Puppy?
Last edited by Pete on Sun 15 Jan 2017, 22:27, edited 1 time in total.
Forgot to mention, like bigpup's ideas as well, especially a "new programs" section with a good description (and perhaps screen shots as well) and link/s to download it.
Although many "new" programs are announced on the forum as well, the announcements is usually "lost" in a day or two due to all the posts.
Would be nice to have them listed in the newsletter too.
Although many "new" programs are announced on the forum as well, the announcements is usually "lost" in a day or two due to all the posts.
Would be nice to have them listed in the newsletter too.
Most of bigpup's ideas are already included in the Feb and Mar editions.Pete wrote:Forgot to mention, like bigpup's ideas as well, especially a "new programs" section with a good description (and perhaps screen shots as well) and link/s to download it.
Although many "new" programs are announced on the forum as well, the announcements is usually "lost" in a day or two due to all the posts.
Would be nice to have them listed in the newsletter too.
I'm happy to include it all but someone needs to make me aware.
@smokey01
I may just do that.
After reading your post, got thinking about what is the most unusual thing I have used Puppy for.
Don't know if this qualifies, but around 2 years ago, I built a simple monitoring system for a local FM radio station which had no budget for a professional monitoring system.
They needed a way to keep tabs on two things:
1) If their transmitter was still up, and
2) Monitor for any long periods of silence which would indicate the transmitter was on but there might be something wrong with the audio chain.
Especially important between 1 and 5 am where the music was "canned", i.e. played from computer with no presenter in the studio.
Essentially the monitoring set-up consisted of a modified car radio tuned to their frequency.
I took the voltage from the stereo indicator led, through an opto-coupler and fed that to the parallel port.
If the led went off, it meant that they were off-air.
I also took the audio output and fed that via a rectifier and onto a monostable.
If no audio was present for more than a minute, the monostable would trigger and feed the output to the parallel port as well.
A script would poll the parallel port every couple of seconds and log any "errors" to a file which could then be checked on a regular basis.
The computer was an old Toshiba laptop running Puppy 4.3.1 ( if I remember correctly).
Will try and dig up the schematic and script if anyone is interested.
I may just do that.
After reading your post, got thinking about what is the most unusual thing I have used Puppy for.
Don't know if this qualifies, but around 2 years ago, I built a simple monitoring system for a local FM radio station which had no budget for a professional monitoring system.
They needed a way to keep tabs on two things:
1) If their transmitter was still up, and
2) Monitor for any long periods of silence which would indicate the transmitter was on but there might be something wrong with the audio chain.
Especially important between 1 and 5 am where the music was "canned", i.e. played from computer with no presenter in the studio.
Essentially the monitoring set-up consisted of a modified car radio tuned to their frequency.
I took the voltage from the stereo indicator led, through an opto-coupler and fed that to the parallel port.
If the led went off, it meant that they were off-air.
I also took the audio output and fed that via a rectifier and onto a monostable.
If no audio was present for more than a minute, the monostable would trigger and feed the output to the parallel port as well.
A script would poll the parallel port every couple of seconds and log any "errors" to a file which could then be checked on a regular basis.
The computer was an old Toshiba laptop running Puppy 4.3.1 ( if I remember correctly).
Will try and dig up the schematic and script if anyone is interested.
Pete,
Sure looks like something to submit to the newsletter.
The submit input buttons are at the top of the newsletter web page.
http://www.smokey01.com/newsletters/
Sure looks like something to submit to the newsletter.
The submit input buttons are at the top of the newsletter web page.
http://www.smokey01.com/newsletters/
If you would like to contribute to the newsletter it must be created in notecase. It's very easy to learn and use. Try and keep your articles to less than 1000 words. Photos and images should be no bigger than 1024 x 768.
The deadline for articles is the 20th of each month. Let's not worry about time zones. I know it may be the 20th in Australia and only the 19th in the USA but I can live with this. If it's more than 24 hours late with respect to Australian CST then your article may be pushed right into the next edition. I expect proof reading to take less than a week which will provide about four days to publish at the beginning of each month.
I will upload the Newsletter to my site at http://smokey01.com/newsletters. There will be two versions. One will be an xz compressed notecase file and the other will be a html file so it can be read in a browser. The naming convention will be pln-2017-01.ncd.xz and pln-2017-01.html respectively. The formatting of the html is not brilliant but readable. The newsletter is intended to be downloaded and read in notecase.
The things they do not tell you, are usually the clue to solving the problem.
When I was a kid I wanted to be older.... This is not what I expected
YaPI(any iso installer)
When I was a kid I wanted to be older.... This is not what I expected
YaPI(any iso installer)