didiwiki save new

If you are new  to didiwiki on Puppy linux and have a half-height netbook acreen, you may be baffled if you are not experienced at saving wiki pages.

TIP: SCROLL DOWN your new  page.

Ah-Ha ! There are the hidden SAVE and PREVIEW buttons.

I really must rewrite this app in Curl ( from www.curl.com ) — arguably the easiest way to create new Puplets in RAM ...

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Precise Puppy tagainijisho folies

Precise Puppy linux running in RAM on a netbook is a delight — but surely no ordinary user could have configured the tagainijisho app to run after install !

The problem was not just the absence of Qt libraries; the challenge was to configure and update the package manager so as to find them !

The chief reason to use a variant of Ubuntu linux ceteris paribus is precisely the pkg manager.

The Precise Puppy 5.4.3 ISO may have been built before the optional packages were in the respective repositories.

Had the last step in ISO preparation been an update of the pkg mgr, could this stumbling block have been avoided ?

Not entirely ... not without a menu item and with Tagaini installing elsewhere than /opt ... the user still required a script.

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Asus 900A EeePC with Puppy linux on SDHC

Getting a suitable linux for my old Asus Eee PC 900A netbook has been a bit of a trial.

Chromium OS was a LOCK-N-FREEZE disaster. Android was only marginally better. There is no straight Ubuntu that is not quirky and a wifi nightmare. And there is the worry that some update to ACPI settings will leave the fan disabled and the Intel Atom CPU toasted.

Today I finally have what MAY be workable: Puppy linux for Eee PC. I have one basic version on the SSD and a version with some add-ins on an SDHC chip.

 Two web pages were essential :

• http://wiki.eeeuser.com/howto:installpuppylinux 
• http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=34159 

From the latter, I install the drivers (the first and then the group-of-4.) Click DOWNLOAD but don't download when prompted : opt to open in the default package installer. You will have to start with an ethernet cable and use the simple connection tool once the drivers are in place for wifi.

The default browser is SeaMonkey, so on the expendable SDHC chip I have installed Chromium. Firefox is also available as a package already listed for download in the pakage manager. So far, so good ...

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Pharo Smalltalk linux config

This would seem to be essential to working with Pharo Smalltalk on a daily basis on linux: pharo.st

uzbl browser versus useable Arora

I was looking for user info (not programmer info) for the uzbl browser when I stumbled into a nasty thread in which a new user was attacked for not having read the README file.

I installed uzbl from an Ubuntu 'maverick' repository (as I recall) and the README that I found said to read the README in /usr/share/uzbl/docs

Now that will be no help to a user.  This is a browser, and there is a readme.php at their site - whcih says to read the README in /usr/share/uzbl/docs

Personally, I would rather see a linux browser install to /opt

My sudo apt-get install uzbl had not installed a /docs but only an /examples

I'm also a programmer, so I ran

   git clone https://github.com/dusanx/uzbl.git

and I got more - but not a docs directory

Then I tried

  git clone https://github.com/Dieterbe/uzbl.git

and this time I get /docs but not documentation and not a README.  There is a file README.cookies

So how to start with uzbl?  I recommend starting with arora and using it to look for user documentation.  What you will find is that in spite of their use of python, what could have been a great tool for site-specific browsing is instead yet-another unix tool.

Perhaps the user will get a light-weight browser now that Tcl 8.6 will have TclOO as standard.

If you are a unix scripter, uzbl looks great;  otherwise uzbl is anything but useable.

This posted from an Arora tab on a netbook running Ubuntu maverick.