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40hz - that's a brilliant photo! Did you take it or is a 'net find?-Darwin (September 29, 2008, 08:32 AM)
I see this one lately on Slashdot:
"Give a man a fire and he is warm for a day, put him on fire and he is warm his whole life."
-Shades (September 11, 2008, 12:06 AM)
Updating and archiving
As you can see, Puppy consists of only 4 files. (actually, it is possible to have usr_cram.fs inside image.gz, reducing Puppy down to just 3 files -- the web download sites may have that configuration available. It is convenient for booting off a network to have just the two files vmlinuz and image.gz to worry about)
To update to the latest version of Puppy, you just need to get the latest vmlinuz, image.gz and usr_cram.fs. Updating is so very simple, but with v0.9.8 I made it even simpler by building an update option into the installation scripts. That is, boot up the latest live-CD and run the install-to-USB, install-to-Zip or install-to-hard-drive script and choose "update" rather than "new installation".
...but, it's so simple, you could do it manually if you wish.
Puppy does have a couple of archive programs, including one that I wrote that backs up only the changed files from /root each time. However, all your personal data, really, a snapshot of the entire the state of the system, is in the pup001 or pup100 file, so you can save a complete system snapshot just by making a copy of the pup001/100 file. Then compress it, like this (assuming the copy is named pup100-12dec04):
# gzip pup100-12dec04
and you will have pup100-12dec04.gz. Or use "zip" or "bzip2", Puppy has them all! Archive that anywhere you want.
You can mount an archived pup100 file at any time, and view its contents:
# losetup-FULL /dev/loop2 pup100-12dec04
# mount -t ext2 /dev/loop2 /mnt/data
You can also view the contents of pup100-12dec04 from Windows, by using the Explore2fs program. There is also a free native ext2 filesystem driver for Windows NT/XP.
BTWW circle work is in there for a joke, it's the Australian country young people's hobby of driving pickups (we call them utes) in circles kicking up dust and wearing out tyres. And having fun.
(and learning valuable driving skills for when you accidentally start skidding....)-Fred Nerd (September 28, 2008, 05:33 AM)
hehe.. i can't believe this! Darwin, you're posting my 3434th post on your 4646th post!.
(see attachment in previous post)-lanux128 (September 28, 2008, 11:22 AM)
I agree with Deozaan, I have a Facebook which says "see my MySpace" and a Bebo which says the same, and if any of my friend are on another network, I'll register and say the same thing....-Fred Nerd (September 27, 2008, 03:47 AM)
And horse riding? The proper kind, just a bridle, and going wild across the paddocks.....-Fred Nerd (September 27, 2008, 05:02 AM)
I've thought for many years that this is going to be the future of movie making. In the next decade i predict that when a new movie is released i theatres, the complete unedited raw footage of the shooting of the movie (hundreds of hours of different takes, etc.) will be available on the web for people to reassemble and re-edit.-mouser (September 26, 2008, 03:15 AM)
2.2. QEMU
From the site: "QEMU emulates a full system (for example a PC), including a processor and various peripherals. It can be used to launch different Operating Systems without rebooting the PC or to debug system code."
In other words: QEMU is a virtual machine. A virtual machine is a program that acts like computer hardware. In such a virtual machine, you can install an OS (Linux, Windows, BSD, whatever). This OS "sees" a processor, which is the real processor (I'm lying...), "sees" a hard drive, which is a big file on the host machine, "sees" a network card, which is emulated by QEMU, and so on. After shutting down the virtual machine, all that's left on the host (or USB memory stick) is just one big file: the virtual hard disk.
From the point of view of the host OS, QEMU is just a simple program which allocates a lot of memory, eats a lot of CPU cycles and opens and closes a couple of files. That's it.
the file system I want to mount is not a partition - it's just a file!
where are our japanese and russian brothers and sisters!!!-mouser (September 12, 2008, 10:57 AM)
You mean our Japanese Otaku and Russian Comrades?-Deozaan (September 26, 2008, 12:06 AM)
I gave up on those long ago (use NOD32 now).-Carol Haynes (May 17, 2008, 04:10 PM)
This seems pretty standard to me, actually. Check out the program files folder for any program that offers to install a toolbar - particularly Yahoo! toolbar - and you'll probably find the installer for the toolbar lurking there, even if you opted not to install it. AFAICT, un-checking the "eBay Shortcuts" option does stop the installer from running, but it does dump the exe file into the unlocker directory under Program Files.-Darwin (September 24, 2008, 08:40 AM)
)Iron: Chrome for privacy fanatics
Posted Sep 24th 2008 1:00PM by Christina Warren
If you want to use Google Chrome but are concerned or have questions about Google's policies for collecting usage data, you might want to give Iron a try.
Iron, developed by German software company SRWare is Chrome stripped of all the user ID information that gave the German government cause for concern.
I don't speak German, but the guys at the Incomplete-News Project have helpfully published an English translation. According to them, Iron is essentially the Chromium source code, with the following modifications:
* No unique user-ID
* No user-specific information is sent to Google
* No alternative error messages
* Crash information is not sent to Google
* No Google updater
I'm for petanque... not too much traditional "sport" but trust me, you'll need to be in nice fit to be able to play long tournaments etc...-simakuutio (September 24, 2008, 12:06 AM)
Shouldn't that be "all your case are belong to us"? I get the quote, but it would be funnier...-wreckedcarzz (September 23, 2008, 10:10 PM)
i can second that haha-gjehle (September 24, 2008, 03:15 AM)
It won't be soon before you, like most of us, switch to Google Reader.-sri (September 24, 2008, 06:59 AM)
Downloaded it... might play with it next weekend.... Thanks for the analysis 40hz.-Armando (September 22, 2008, 09:34 PM)
