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#91 Post by mavrothal »

"mystery man" must be really old. He clearly preseeds linux history (sic) :wink:
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#92 Post by rockedge »

debugging micro-code, space program, pre Altair 680b and the Apple 1... worked on code for mainframes that had magnetic core RAM.....a tick older I would agree.

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#93 Post by MochiMoppel »

Must be user prehistoric.
Do I get a prize?

Edit: Ah...Moat and mavrothal were faster. Seems I wasn't built for speed :lol:

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#94 Post by perdido »

Mystery man was a nice read. Freddie FADAC, teletypes, paper tapes and nixie tubes, how computing was meant to be!

Thanks for the nice read.

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#95 Post by smokey01 »

MochiMoppel wrote:Must be user prehistoric.
Do I get a prize?
:lol:
Yeah, you get to help me solve this:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 935#962935
:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

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#96 Post by 6502coder »

The newsletter index file has been updated thru the August 2017 issue.
Get it here as usual:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 064#950064
Going forward smokey01 is including a link to that post directly in the newsletter itself.

Pelo

First one is dated 2009

#97 Post by Pelo »

when you enter puppy Linux, the first screen is with Puppy linux news (by raffy)..
First one is dated 2009
The place exist, it has been updated up to 2014..
I repeat 'its the first screen for the new comer' What about updating it, and giving link to news really new..
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#98 Post by 6502coder »

The Puppy Newsletter Index file has been updated. Get it here as usual:

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 064#950064

(Someday I'm going to figure out how to update that attachment so that it doesn't keep resetting the download count to zero... :? )

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#99 Post by smokey01 »

6502coder wrote:The Puppy Newsletter Index file has been updated. Get it here as usual:

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 064#950064

(Someday I'm going to figure out how to update that attachment so that it doesn't keep resetting the download count to zero... :? )
Clicking on the Update button usually works for me. I think the filename needs to be identical though.

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PNI.txt updated

#100 Post by 6502coder »

The Puppy Newsletter Index file has been updated. Get it here as usual:

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 064#950064

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#101 Post by 6502coder »

The Newsletter Index has been updated through the November 2017 issue.

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#102 Post by MochiMoppel »

smokey01 wrote:Clicking on the Update button usually works for me. I think the filename needs to be identical though.
No, it doesn't. The forum software doesn't care for the filename. It manages attachments by IDs (check URLs of attachments, they all end with something like mode=attach&id=112535).

When you push the "Upload New Version" button, the old file, linked to a certain ID, will be deleted and the newly uploaded file will be registered with the same ID.

If you push "Delete Attachment" and then upload a file with the "Add Attachment" button, then the old file is deleted and the ID previously assigned to this attachment will not be reused. If you try to access an URL with such "dead" ID you will seethis. On the other hand the newly added attachment will receive a brand new ID and count starts with 0 views.

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#103 Post by smokey01 »

MM you are probanly right regarding the filename not having to be the same but clicking on the update button does not reset the download counter which was the original objective.

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#104 Post by MochiMoppel »

My "No" was meant to refer only to the identical filename assumption. Sorry if my quoting caused confusion.

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#105 Post by smokey01 »

MochiMoppel wrote:My "No" was meant to refer only to the identical filename assumption. Sorry if my quoting caused confusion.
Thanks for clarifying the filename use. All good here.

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#106 Post by greengeek »

I have always been confused about the "new version" button - it has never previously worked for me. However, seeing this exchange made me try it again and i think it may be worth noting that it is not self-explanatory (at least not to me...)

It is not effective to just click "upload new version" - that does nothing.

It is imperative to click "choose file / add attachment" first. That uploads the new file to the forum cache. After that you can click "upload new version" then the update will occur. After that the new version appears and the counter updates with each new upload (without resetting the upload counter).

Dunno if that makes sense to others but that is the only way that works for me.

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Download link bug: 2017 July Read Online

#107 Post by Greatnessguru »

http://smokey01.com/newsletters/

2017 July Read Online:
http://smokey01.com/newsletters/2017/July/

Right-Click, then Save Link As:
WRzJNCn1.html

It should be:
0007-PuppyLinuxNewsletter-July2017.html

Example:
0008-PuppyLinuxNewsletter-August2017.html

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#108 Post by 6502coder »

The Puppy Newsletter Index file has been updated through the December 2017 issue. Get the index here as usual:

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 064#950064

EDIT: reposted to incorporate an editorial suggestion by mfb

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#109 Post by smokey01 »

Over the past 12 months I've mentioned this newsletter is supposed to be community based. This simply means, for it to survive, the community needs to contribute and sadly it hasn't. There have been a few regulars and I have very much appreciated their help.

The last couple of months has been particularly shorter on content and the Jan 2018 edition will be no different, if and when I manage to publish it.

In a nutshell, If more people are not willing to help, I'm afraid the newsletter will die.

Happy New Year to all.

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#110 Post by s243a »

smokey01 wrote:Over the past 12 months I've mentioned this newsletter is supposed to be community based. This simply means, for it to survive, the community needs to contribute and sadly it hasn't. There have been a few regulars and I have very much appreciated their help.

The last couple of months has been particularly shorter on content and the Jan 2018 edition will be no different, if and when I manage to publish it.

In a nutshell, If more people are not willing to help, I'm afraid the newsletter will die.

Happy New Year to all.
In my opinion there was lots of content on the December news letter. That said don't let the news letter consume you too much. As popular as the news letter seems to be, In my opinion the work that you have done keeping older non-official puppies alive is more important.

Your website is often the only place that one can find a large collection of pets and sfs files for older non-official puppies.

Thanyou for all your hardwork for the puppy community :).

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