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mikeslr · Posted: Thu 01 Aug 2013, 19:49 Post subject: Excess Ram

Hi greengeek,

As visiting New Zealand is on my bucket list, if you'll mail me a ticket I'll be glad to hand-deliver lots of RAM.
I'd add a "smiley-face" but for some reason --current opera?-- they don't work right.
The specs are of my desktop which doesn't make me wait impatiently when I tinker with something. After building anything, I transport it to my Thinkpad T42 to give it a real test.
I'll hunt for the "pupdesk.flg" file.

mikesLr

greengeek · Joined: 20 Jul 2010 Posts: 2097 Location: New Zealand

Done.
Gotta love google images - it makes international travel so easy...

mikeslr · Last edited by mikeslr on Thu 01 Aug 2013, 22:38; edited 1 time in total

Hi greengeek,

I apologize that I can not deliver the promised commodity as quickly. My staff seems confused about the assembling requirements.

mikesLr

P.S. Couldn't find a pupdesk.flg on any partition. Booted without difficulty into version 7. Am posting from it now via frisbee. SNS saw but failed to connect to my network. Not an unusual occurrence.

greengeek · Joined: 20 Jul 2010 Posts: 2097 Location: New Zealand

Thats definitely a whole lot of ram, but Oh deer, Oh deer, Oh deer! They obviously didnt follow the insertion instructions correctly...
Laughing

ps, I don't think the ram is new...looks a bit ewesed to me

Ted Dog · Joined: 13 Sep 2005 Posts: 2058 Location: Heart of Texas

LOL that is one confused Ram, his 'junk' is not even close to where it needs to be. Surprised

Ted Dog · Joined: 13 Sep 2005 Posts: 2058 Location: Heart of Texas

Looks like another demo has been requested mid August. Was asked for links, so we need to kinda quiet down the animal mounting, I figured their eyes would gloss over and never make it this far... Embarassed

greengeek · Joined: 20 Jul 2010 Posts: 2097 Location: New Zealand

You're probably right.
Mike - the image might need some pixelation...
Cool

As far as the links goes, I did actually include two of the oneswitch threads in the pre-installed Seamonkey bookmarks, but only the actual Oneswitch pet thread (software) and the keyboard modification thread (hardware), but not this particular one about switchpups.

Ted Dog · Joined: 13 Sep 2005 Posts: 2058 Location: Heart of Texas

Gave them the original thread... Where the ideas started and had Will's video links Wink

Ted Dog · Joined: 13 Sep 2005 Posts: 2058 Location: Heart of Texas

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?search_id=370717326&t=72589

Added this pet to play with and noticed I could not get sound at all.. Is the a 'BK' bug or did something change?

Wanted to add speech to radar.. where is the source? Embarassed

its a script... never mind Laughing

greengeek · Joined: 20 Jul 2010 Posts: 2097 Location: New Zealand

Interesting pet. Text-to-speech is one of the high priority functions I want to add as soon as poss. I won't be able to try that pet just yet and I would only be guessing about why it doesn't output sound on your system - but do you have ALL of your alsa "inputs" activated (ie: pcm etc etc). Maybe the particular audio stream output from the pet uses a different "line in" to what other software uses??? (Just a stab in the dark...)

EDIT : Current switchpups are based on Precise 5.6.1 so if strange behaviour happens it is worth comparing it with Precise561 to see if the same behaviour exists there. I don't think that I have changed anything that would affect the audio behaviour but then again, remastering can be a funny business...

EDIT2 : Brilliant! I couldn't resist trialling that pet and it works fine on my hardware (I've only tried it on an Acer netbook with the AutoStart switchpup so far, but should behave the same with the firstrun version too). The voice was a bit hurried, but better than nothing. I will come back to experimenting with this further when I'm happy the basic functionality of switchpup is solid and ready for enhancements.

ETP · Joined: 19 Oct 2010 Posts: 487 Location: UK

Hi Ted Dog & greengeek,

Try this ( Recorded with Vocaroo. Played with ISpeech in MouseCam Pup V6)

http://vocaroo.com/i/s17FsZp9CGQ0

My original post is here:

www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=710776#710776

I will certainly be including it in Obedient Pup. Smile

greengeek · Joined: 20 Jul 2010 Posts: 2097 Location: New Zealand

Very nice. She sounds lovely.
Actually sounds like Nigella Lawson - if she comes round to my place and makes my dinner I promise i will treat her better than that Saatchi chap did.
Smile

EDIT: For some reason I was not able to record on vocaroo when i first tried it a couple of weeks ago...something to do with flash version on my Slacko machine i guess. I will have to give it a try from switchpup.

greengeek · Joined: 20 Jul 2010 Posts: 2097 Location: New Zealand

Added new version of Radar_firstrun to first post. This cures a bug with Abiword not opening a file when the icon was clicked, adds a "DragWindow" function (which is much easier than hunting for the title bar when you need to reposition the window), and also repositions the desktop icons to allow better visibility when navbar is in use.

russoodle

Hi greengeek....been wondering why you haven't used your ftp account and storage space, then i see you haven't yet retrieved the pm with your pawsword attached...do you still want this account and space?

cheers,
russoodle

PS: by the looks of things, that RAM could be having compatibility issues.. Shocked

Ted Dog · Joined: 13 Sep 2005 Posts: 2058 Location: Heart of Texas