puppylinux.info was closed Jan 14, reopened Jan 28, 2012
reopen and hosting
Let's give it a week and then let's see what we think by then.
Here's an excellent hosting that I recently discovered (ubserversDOTcom). Runs lightspeed and has US$25/year VPS, hah, unbelievable. Their low-cost VPS deserves a topic here (please PM me when you start one).
EDIT: @saintless - you're the lucky guy.
Here's an excellent hosting that I recently discovered (ubserversDOTcom). Runs lightspeed and has US$25/year VPS, hah, unbelievable. Their low-cost VPS deserves a topic here (please PM me when you start one).
EDIT: @saintless - you're the lucky guy.
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That means I'm the only population of the village now.Dave_G wrote:I think saintless' php session ID is still valid, so unless others were also
logged in as Raffy closed the site/made it R.O. then they can't post.
I feel like Vincent Price :
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058700/
Re: inherit
I will walk around deserted streets and peeping through the windows waiting for you to came back peopleraffy wrote:We could take that as ominous sign that the forum will live on if you take it under your care.
http://cdn.c.photoshelter.com/img-get/I ... 008022.jpg
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I havent been active in posting to puppylinux.info, only when I have found spesific questions about stuff, which I have also compiled, so that I have had possibility to point to the link, which has at least one solution.
But.....I have noticed that several active coders...command line power users have found puppylinux.info a good place to share code and thoughts. Vovchik, Big_bass, RSF, Dave_G to mention some. That gathers testers and feedback. And keeps the developing and innovations fruitful and meaningful.
I would say that puppylinux.info has served as the place for many small nice new scripts.
Not speaking of that a lot new Puppy user has gotten friendly help and answers.
I have followed several threads with keen interest.
No opinions otherwise....just my observations...
http://puppylinux.info/topic/help-peopl ... with-woof2
That was the thread which awakened my interest just before closure....
But.....I have noticed that several active coders...command line power users have found puppylinux.info a good place to share code and thoughts. Vovchik, Big_bass, RSF, Dave_G to mention some. That gathers testers and feedback. And keeps the developing and innovations fruitful and meaningful.
I would say that puppylinux.info has served as the place for many small nice new scripts.
Not speaking of that a lot new Puppy user has gotten friendly help and answers.
I have followed several threads with keen interest.
No opinions otherwise....just my observations...
http://puppylinux.info/topic/help-peopl ... with-woof2
That was the thread which awakened my interest just before closure....
I haven't try Woof but if you can offer some links to Woof tutorial I can post them there for you.pemasu wrote:http://puppylinux.info/topic/help-peopl ... with-woof2
That was the thread which awakened my interest just before closure....
Just like post-by-proxy service
And then someone posted an over large image which messed up page formatting for this topic ....
Later: thanks for fixing.
Later: thanks for fixing.
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Can i ask why puppylinux.info is closed? I thought there was alot of interest and alot of people have put time into makeing readable articles.... was it just a backup forum for when this was down? or was it not popular enough to continue with?
Alot of VPS providers dont like forums and almost all dont like irc traffic or even perfectly legal torrents downloaded from or served from your VPS.
Ive used 3 separate VPS plans that where similarly priced at $25 a year all went out of business before the term of my contract. Im using a VPS's from www.fusevps.com altho the service is awesome i wouldnt like to speculate if these guys will stay in business or not.
The thing is that places like Linode that have been around since day one are 10 times more expensive for half the specs. I would prefer to pay $5 a month than $50, even if it means that i need to move the site to another VPS when the company im using goes out of business.
Alot of VPS providers dont like forums and almost all dont like irc traffic or even perfectly legal torrents downloaded from or served from your VPS.
Ive used 3 separate VPS plans that where similarly priced at $25 a year all went out of business before the term of my contract. Im using a VPS's from www.fusevps.com altho the service is awesome i wouldnt like to speculate if these guys will stay in business or not.
The thing is that places like Linode that have been around since day one are 10 times more expensive for half the specs. I would prefer to pay $5 a month than $50, even if it means that i need to move the site to another VPS when the company im using goes out of business.
It's a sad news for me this morning, but I fully understand Raffy's decision.
I have always believed it's far better to act freely (freely as "it doesn't mean you should, just because you can") than to be restricted by merciless and freezed rules.
This is it what distinguish both this and puppylinux.info forums from other ones, and why I like them so much.
And I really think that people here and there (mostly they are the same people) are truly great and unique - sometimes I visit (as a guest) one film forum, which has rules and is moderated, and it's hard to find there a single thread WITHOUT personal attacks.
It's all up to us.
I only expressed my feelings, and all what I mean is: "That which doesn't kill us, only makes us stronger".
Thanks Raffy for maintaining that pleasant place. I hope it's not the end and we ALL will meet there again.
And thanks John for this forum.
PS. Thanks for taking care of scripts, Saintless
Greetings!
I have always believed it's far better to act freely (freely as "it doesn't mean you should, just because you can") than to be restricted by merciless and freezed rules.
This is it what distinguish both this and puppylinux.info forums from other ones, and why I like them so much.
And I really think that people here and there (mostly they are the same people) are truly great and unique - sometimes I visit (as a guest) one film forum, which has rules and is moderated, and it's hard to find there a single thread WITHOUT personal attacks.
It's all up to us.
I only expressed my feelings, and all what I mean is: "That which doesn't kill us, only makes us stronger".
Thanks Raffy for maintaining that pleasant place. I hope it's not the end and we ALL will meet there again.
And thanks John for this forum.
PS. Thanks for taking care of scripts, Saintless
Greetings!
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I also would like to see puppylinux.info be resurrected.
But hopefully I would want it to return to the forum I saw when it started.
That is without heated arguments, name calling, degrading countries and members.
If the Puppy Linux Speakers Corner was removed, it might also help to keep those spats from starting.
It does not have to have all the sections that this forum does.
But I guess what I am getting at is if opened back up, the one rule I would like is "Keep all discussions civil or you are gone. No exceptions for anyone."
There, I would have just made some enemies and trampled on Freedom of Speech according to some.
But there are forums that are made for discussions on country, politics, religion, etc. for those that are so inclined.
A Puppy forum does not need to cater to those types of discussions as it is in fact a Puppy forum for discussion of things relating to Puppy.
One thing that did bother me was that a new member had attempted to join just before the forum closed.
That new member was Lycos and if you would like to know a little more of him, just visit YouTube and do a search for his work.
He did a number of videos on using Puppy and even hinted that he was in the process of making a new Puppy version!
Nuff said by me.
What changes would you like to see in the event the help forum opened back up?
But hopefully I would want it to return to the forum I saw when it started.
That is without heated arguments, name calling, degrading countries and members.
If the Puppy Linux Speakers Corner was removed, it might also help to keep those spats from starting.
It does not have to have all the sections that this forum does.
But I guess what I am getting at is if opened back up, the one rule I would like is "Keep all discussions civil or you are gone. No exceptions for anyone."
There, I would have just made some enemies and trampled on Freedom of Speech according to some.
But there are forums that are made for discussions on country, politics, religion, etc. for those that are so inclined.
A Puppy forum does not need to cater to those types of discussions as it is in fact a Puppy forum for discussion of things relating to Puppy.
One thing that did bother me was that a new member had attempted to join just before the forum closed.
That new member was Lycos and if you would like to know a little more of him, just visit YouTube and do a search for his work.
He did a number of videos on using Puppy and even hinted that he was in the process of making a new Puppy version!
Nuff said by me.
What changes would you like to see in the event the help forum opened back up?
8-bit wrote:
You said it all 8-bit:
If you post something offensive or don't behave, your post gets deleted,
if it happens three times, you're out.
I have no doubt that some will jump on the free speech bandwagon but
the forum has rules and expected behaviour.
It's pretty much the same if you go visit someone at their home, respect
their rules and customs or don't visit.
Simple really.
I believe there should still be an off-topic area for general banter
and humor.
The admins being more strict.What changes would you like to see in the event the help forum opened back up?
You said it all 8-bit:
Why not implement a sort of three strikes and you're gone concept.Keep all discussions civil or you are gone. No exceptions for anyone
If you post something offensive or don't behave, your post gets deleted,
if it happens three times, you're out.
I have no doubt that some will jump on the free speech bandwagon but
the forum has rules and expected behaviour.
It's pretty much the same if you go visit someone at their home, respect
their rules and customs or don't visit.
Simple really.
I believe there should still be an off-topic area for general banter
and humor.
Confine discussion to Puppy derivatives and associated hardware and software issues. Take a stand against blatant thread drift which is as annoying to some of us as dogmatic expressions of nationalist/political/religious views. The worst culprits are usually the most boring contributors. Do not have an Off-Topic section .... that only encourages them!
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