This Website
I have made a few changes, nothing too significant.http://www.smokey01.com will still take you to my blog.
http://www.smokey01.com/menu will still take you to the main download area.
http://www.smokey01.com/devs will take you to the developer area without the menu bar.
However, If you now click on the header or title bar above, or on the download icon you will redirect you to the main download area. To access the developers area simply click on the little dude in the white coat, 5th icon from the left.
Nice pretty buttons now links to the developers.
Cheers
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CopyDVD
Earlier in the year I made a video of a golfing trip with a few of my mates. It was too big to burn to a single layer DVD so I bought some dual layer DVD. The problem was I couldn't manage to make copies of it for my mates, so I made my own application to do the job.The good thing about Puppy is, it has all the required software included. All I had to do was build a very simple GUI to make it easy to drive.
There are no bells and whistles but it works fine for me on Lucid-525. It copies and burns both single and dual layer DVD. Download here
Instructions:
1. Place the DVD to copy in the DVD drive and wait for the DVD icon to appear on the desktop.
2. You will find CopyDVD at Menu>Utility>General Utilities>CopyDVD
3. Click on the copy icon. This will create an ISO of your DVD in /mnt/home. The name of the ISO is your.iso. Remember to rename it if you would like to keep it as it will be over written next time you copy a DVD. It will take some time before the disk activity stops. Please be patient. Once copying has completed, remove the source DVD and place a blank DVD in the drive. It must have the same or greater capacity than the source DVD.
4. Click on the burn icon and a new identical DVD will be created.
I take absolutely no responsibility for related consequences using this software. Use entirely at your own risk.
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Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas to one and all.I hope you all enjoy the festive break and Santa fulfills all of your wishes.
All the best for the new year.
Be well.
Smokey01
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Distribution Page
I have revamped my distribution or ISO page.When you now click on the DVD icon displaying ISO you will be presented with a table with links to many distributions. In many cases I have provided links to the following:
Devx SFS files for developers
Pets files for the appropriate distribution
A link to send a Private Message to the developer on the Murga forums
A help link that will redirect you to the appropriate forum thread
Kernel source files
It's pretty much a One Stop Shop.
Click here.
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VirtualBox
Lately I have been playing with VirtualBox. This is a great piece of software. It allows you to setup virtual computers so you can run multiple operating systems at the same time.You start with a host operating system which in my case is Lucid Puppy 525. I then installed VirtualBox. VB allows you to install many different OS. You can run them one at a time or more than one at a time. It's a very nice way to test a new OS.
What a few of us do, mainly CatDude, Dpup5520, Stripe and myself, we connect via Psip so we can communicate with each other and all test the same OS at the same time. This is a great shared learning experience. As they say, four heads are better than one. This is a great way to test and solve problems and it's also a lot of fun.
Now just to add to this great experience we have a shared DropBox account so we can share information and files. One person drops a file into his local folder and we can all see and share it. This is much better than having to manually upload files to a server so the others can download it or email it to each other.
VirtualBox
Dropbox
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