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tatamata · #1831 Post by **tatamata** » Thu 19 May 2011, 19:18

When trying to print anything, I get error: "Failed to load the PPM image".
What would that mean?

rcrsn51 · #1832 Post by **rcrsn51** » Fri 20 May 2011, 18:24

Post subject: Re: How to enable printing on fluppy?

In Fluppy, all the printer/scanner stuff is in a separate sfs package. See the first page of this thread.

Regarding your Samsung printer, read here.

tatamata · #1833 Post by **tatamata** » Fri 20 May 2011, 19:07

Thanks.
Enabled on SnowPuppy, according to your advices and attached samsung_printer-3.pet. Tommorow I will se with fluppy.
Yes, I have probably broken cups with unified samsung driver:(

rcrsn51 · #1834 Post by **rcrsn51** » Fri 20 May 2011, 19:16

With all the changes you have made to your Fluppy setup, it's hard to know if the Samsung PET will work. If it does not, you may have to start over and get the print/scan sfs package installed.

rcrsn51 · #1835 Post by **rcrsn51** » Fri 20 May 2011, 19:19

I notice that your SCX-4200 is also a scanner. The Samsung Unified package contains scanner software, but the setup is more complicated than for the printer. If you want, I can try to build a package for it.

Dave_B · #1836 Post by **Dave_B** » Fri 27 May 2011, 15:37

I have a frugal install of Fluppy 13 (sure works great on my dinosaur laptop) and the package manager doesn't have any packages or pets to install. When I refreshed the list, I see an error in retrieving the package file. How can I fix this?
Dave

edoc · #1837 Post by **edoc** » Sat 28 May 2011, 03:30

Every now and then I will be on a site and click a link and get an error saying that I am not from the correct region or something.

Is this a setting somewhere in the Web browser or is such a site looking at the IP address or something?

Is there a way to be region-neutral?

Just curious, it seemed odd for the Internet to be regionally-blocked.

Shep · #1838 Post by **Shep** » Tue 31 May 2011, 04:16

edoc wrote:Every now and then I will be on a site and click a link and get an error saying that I am not from the correct region or something.

Is this a setting somewhere in the Web browser or is such a site looking at the IP address or something?

The site is looking at your IP address, and concluding that it owes you no favours.

So says just go away.

Is there a way to be region-neutral?

No. But you can go through a proxy to make it seem that you are coming from a region the site regards as friendly.

Just curious, it seemed odd for the Internet to be regionally-blocked.

Bandwidth costs money, and some sites are reluctant to put money where they can be certain it will produce little or no return. Some UK & USA radio stations cater only to local listeners. TV stations often make their online videos available only to their local viewers.

For example, if a tv station wants to sell its own production to overseas stations, it won't be able to ask a very high price if the whole series can be viewed online for free by people in that country. So it places restrictions on who can view for free.

But if you are sufficiently determined, there are always ways to get around any obstacle placed in your path.

Shep · #1839 Post by **Shep** » Tue 31 May 2011, 04:18

Dave_B wrote:I have a frugal install of Fluppy 13 (sure works great on my dinosaur laptop) and the package manager doesn't have any packages or pets to install. When I refreshed the list, I see an error in retrieving the package file. How can I fix this?
Dave

Were you online when you clicked?

edoc · #1840 Post by **edoc** » Tue 31 May 2011, 13:30

Shep wrote:
Just curious, it seemed odd for the Internet to be regionally-blocked.
Bandwidth costs money, and some sites are reluctant to put money where they can be certain it will produce little or no return. Some UK & USA radio stations cater only to local listeners. TV stations often make their online videos available only to their local viewers.

For example, if a tv station wants to sell its own production to overseas stations, it won't be able to ask a very high price if the whole series can be viewed online for free by people in that country. So it places restrictions on who can view for free.

But if you are sufficiently determined, there are always ways to get around any obstacle placed in your path.

Now I get it, thanks!

Dave_B · #1841 Post by **Dave_B** » Tue 31 May 2011, 15:26

Shep wrote:
Dave_B wrote:I have a frugal install of Fluppy 13 (sure works great on my dinosaur laptop) and the package manager doesn't have any packages or pets to install. When I refreshed the list, I see an error in retrieving the package file. How can I fix this?
Dave
Were you online when you clicked?

I was. I have two laptops with the exact same issue.
Looking through the .packages directory & files, all seems in order. I'm stumped.
Dave

tatamata · #1842 Post by **tatamata** » Tue 31 May 2011, 17:37

Dave_B wrote:
Shep wrote:
Dave_B wrote:I have a frugal install of Fluppy 13 (sure works great on my dinosaur laptop) and the package manager doesn't have any packages or pets to install. When I refreshed the list, I see an error in retrieving the package file. How can I fix this?
Dave
Were you online when you clicked?
I was. I have two laptops with the exact same issue.
Looking through the .packages directory & files, all seems in order. I'm stumped.
Dave

Same with me.

Dave_B · #1843 Post by **Dave_B** » Tue 31 May 2011, 18:07

tatamata wrote:
Dave_B wrote:
Shep wrote: Were you online when you clicked?
I was. I have two laptops with the exact same issue.
Looking through the .packages directory & files, all seems in order. I'm stumped.
Dave

Same with me.

If you're looking for applications, look here:
http://www.puppeee.com/files/sfs
and
http://www.puppeee.com/files/pet

Dave

edoc · #1844 Post by **edoc** » Thu 09 Jun 2011, 02:22

Any news about Moonlight (Linux version of Silverlight) for Midori, please?

Might running this risk breaking Midori and/or other apps?
http://www.go-mono.com/moonlight/download.aspx

Moonlight should work on any modern 32bit and 64bit Linux distributions under Firefox versions 3.0 through 4.x, as well as Google Chrome, from both stable and dev channels

We make sure that the plug-in available from this site works on the following platforms: SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11, openSUSE 11.x, Ubuntu 9.10, and Fedora 12.

http://www.go-mono.com/moonlight/faq.aspx

I found this reference to it:

Web Application Support

Many of you may be thinking “looks fine and all, but can it run Flash/Java/HTML5/AJAX?

CoronelN · #1845 Post by **CoronelN** » Thu 09 Jun 2011, 11:27

jemimah wrote:WLM is short for Windows Live Messanger which replaced MSN messager years ago.

If you read the link, you will see the the msn-pecan plugin is a replacement for the msn plugin. There's no reason to have them both.

Just try it with your normal MSN credentials and see if it works. There's not continuity because these are alpha/beta/experimental releases. I change stuff around to see what works best.

Hello, dont know if you are aware but:

Microsoft changed things in the WLM protocol and pidgin cannot connect now using pecan.

the MSN protocol in pidgin connects just fine.

Thanks for pupeee and flupy BTW

very mature and nice looking !

ShakaZ · #1846 Post by **ShakaZ** » Thu 09 Jun 2011, 13:34

Hello,

I've just done a frugal install of Fluppy 13 on an Aspire One D260.
Of course it's very fast compared to the Windows Starter edition that came with the machine, which is exactly why I told my friend we should try Puppy on her machine. She was pretty impressed with the responsiveness.
Fluppy detected the wifi card fine, and flash being already provided was a bonus too, as she's mainly a heavy browser user.

Now about the big issue that remains before having Fluppy take over.
The fn (function) key is always active, which means that any key providing an alternate symbol with the fn key will print that symbol instead of the normal one unless fn key is pressed.
This is a real showstopper for someone who writes a lot of news and articles on the internet.
Keyboard layout is set to french Belgian. I tried to change the keyboard config several times, including using the xorg method, but the function key remains active.

ShakaZ · #1847 Post by **ShakaZ** » Thu 09 Jun 2011, 13:36

sorry double post....

edoc · #1848 Post by **edoc** » Thu 09 Jun 2011, 14:11

It sounds as though it may be an error in the Belgian version as I have Fluppy on several laptops and netbooks and it does not occur in English.

Hopefully someone will be able to duplicate your problem, identify where is the coding error, and repair it quickly.

It is wonderful news that Fluppy has impressed your friend as a superior replacement for a MS version of windows.

ShakaZ · #1849 Post by **ShakaZ** » Thu 09 Jun 2011, 17:41

Thanks for helping edoc.

I tried US keyboard which worked, then rebooted with a clean Fluppy. At reboot I remembered the enable CapsLock option was selected the first time I configured Fluppy.
This time I didn't select it and now the keyboard works as expected with Belgian layout

Now there's just one little issue left, I couldn't remember it when writing the first post.
I'd like to have the mouse pointer move a bit faster but couldn't find how to do that in the mouse configuration.

edoc · #1850 Post by **edoc** » Thu 09 Jun 2011, 23:08

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Function Key on Aspire One D260

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