Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

oblivious · Joined: 14 Apr 2007 Posts: 304 Location: Western Australia

I don't know what anybody's talking about, but if you want regular people to have access to the downloads (if that's what you are even talking about), you need to make them normal http/ftp. Believe it or not, some people don't know what bittorrent, metalink, p2p are. (and don't want to find out.)

EDIT: Why does the protosite "look up" slfea.org and "get data" from success-and-career.ch? What's that all about?

tombh · Joined: 12 Jan 2007 Posts: 422 Location: Bristol, UK

oblivious · Joined: 14 Apr 2007 Posts: 304 Location: Western Australia

tombh · Joined: 12 Jan 2007 Posts: 422 Location: Bristol, UK

BarryK · Posted: Sun 30 Mar 2008, 20:50 Post subject:

Okay, I've signed up with hostgator.com. My domain puppylinux.com is the primary domain, and I'll be moving over from Servage soon.

As announced earlier in this thread, forum member WhoDo has also signed up with Hostgator, and puppylinux.org will be moved there. Thanks for your generosity WhoDo.

Hey guys, my primary domain is pointing to directory 'public_html', but do you know if it is possible to change that? In Cpanel, I see that additional domains can be set to a particular directory, but there does not seem to be any way to change the directory of the primary domain.
Probably it doesn't matter really, as I suppose the directories of additional domains can be alongside 'public_html', not in it, so there should be no interference ...well, I hope so.

I've signed up for the 'baby' account, but I notice the next one up, 'swamp', has unlimited downloads ...can that really be true?

tombh · Joined: 12 Jan 2007 Posts: 422 Location: Bristol, UK

@Barry: Yes it's nice to have a tidy root directory, it just keeps things consistent. I'd reckon the absolute best way to redirect pupplinux.com to a sub directory would be to get Hostgator to do it for you. Then you'd be using the same method that redirects other parked/addon domains to sub directories (ie. Apache's httpd.conf). But if Hostgator won't do that then I've found that this code in the .htaccess file works --

disciple · Posted: Mon 31 Mar 2008, 06:34 Post subject:

Barry was trying to centre the pages on his new website. By they are all left-aligned in my Firefox - should they be?

nic2109 · Posted: Mon 31 Mar 2008, 10:51 Post subject:

Aitch · Joined: 04 Apr 2007 Posts: 6825 Location: Chatham, Kent, UK

@nic2109

Also taking account of end user's "fair use" policy imposed by ISPs, their "Traffic Shaping" for torrent & p2p use, and "Timeslicing" so that they can oversell available bandwidth

Where I am on evenings or a Sunday afternoon I get c6/700Mb for a 2Gb line speed

And that's quite apart from the increasing use of "virtual servers"

All in all, none too clever, IMHO

Aitch

BarryK · Posted: Mon 31 Mar 2008, 11:58 Post subject:

prit1 · Joined: 03 Jan 2008 Posts: 540 Location: Los Angeles

capoverde · Posted: Tue 01 Apr 2008, 07:15 Post subject:

Have read the first 6 pages of this thread, greatly appreciating Tom's job (real cool!) as well as everyone else's senseful, expert and positive contribution.

Then with sore eyes and little time left, I jumped to the last page since my contribution can't by any means go further than pointing out that the large light-blue paws in the page background still have only 3 toes -- the small black paws at the left of each link are OK with 4 (BTW, the mouse-on dotted underlining is nice but I'd prefer links to be underlined as usual).

Just a consideration: the rather messy and confusing impression given by the intricate overlapping of official Puppy sites actually indicates a lot of pulsating life! Barry's creature runs and plays, and will conquer ever more fans like us because it brings new life in any PC-related activity.

Strong vitality seldom shows up with perfect order: just let it breathe freely, don't educate it too much Wink

cthisbear · Joined: 29 Jan 2006 Posts: 2943 Location: Sydney Australia

" Strong vitality seldom shows up with perfect order:
just let it breathe freely, don't educate it too much :wink: "

Amen.

Chris.

tombh · Joined: 12 Jan 2007 Posts: 422 Location: Bristol, UK

Website Update

I've had a few full days to work on the site and there's some new stuff to play with:
Latest News
Screenshots
User Blogs

I've tested out the registration process too and it works, so if anybody would like to register and have a go with those links above that'd be great. I find them easy to use, buts that's because I made them, so if anything isn't very clear I liked to make using the site as straightforward as possible. Oh, all those links have RSS feeds too!

Oli has been very busy on the manuals and is currently working his way through integrating his third one -- the Spanish version of 3.01.

There are have been lots of general bits and bobs added, some of them probably worth mentioning but I can't remember at the moment.

Does anyone have any thoughts on the automatic welcome email template?

Béèm · Posted: Wed 02 Apr 2008, 06:38 Post subject:

@tombh
Is this Barry's site in a new coat?
Is it an own initiative?

I am afraid that different flavors of sites can confuse newbies.