I started this thread about four years ago and the other day I had the need to test a few USB Drives. I had forgotten how to do it then I remembered this thread. To make things a bit easier, if the need arises again, I wrote a little script. It only test read speeds using the hdparm utility but it p...

Is there a way to make a functional progress bar that actually shows progress and not just activity?

I would like to be able to have a progress bar that shows the progress of a function with a number of different commands.

function() {
command 1
command 2
command 3
}
export -f function

Mike, Back Seat Driver 3.24 is the latest and has been for a while now. I have no intention to develop it further.

memo, you might find this interesting.

http://smokey01.com/newsletters/2017/Ap ... 17.html#10

I preserved many of our old icon sets on my site.
http://smokey01.com/icon-sets/

I did some work in the area some time ago and wrote about it in the Puppy Linux Newsletter. You might find it useful.
http://smokey01.com/newsletters/2018/Ju ... 018.html#7
http://smokey01.com/newsletters/2018/Au ... 018.html#7

Search in this forum for Multipup and Isobooter, they both do a good job.

Not looking to do any more development just trying to make it more compatible amongst different puppy platforms.

Mike, I'm obviously working too fast for you. The script has been modified two more time so I have now bumped it to 3.23. SFR made some changes so it should work better on alternative distros to Fatdog. This is mainly related to file transfers. The nc (ncat) in Fatdog is different to the nc in many ...

You have some serious talent zigbert. Well done.

I have sets of instructions for installing Shinobi and ZoneMinder . That would be great and I'm sure many would find it useful and interesting. I could also include some recipes and tips for installing web servers with varying degrees of power and complexity. LAMP, LHMP for example. Yes please. I a...

A very powerful cli app is taskwarrior that might do what you want.

https://taskwarrior.org/

Hello, The goal is to create a live flash drive of Xubuntu Bionic Beaver 18.04 using my Tahrpup-6.05 system. @Sky, you could try MultiPup: http://smokey01.com/software/multipup/MultiPup6-r24.tar.gz A video guide. http://smokey01.com/videos/Multipup.mp4 Forum: http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto...

Marley, It does appear you are running with a save file. This is your personal storage which is shown in your tray, the flashing icon in your tray. If this fills completely it will cause problems. Any of those pets you have installed are actually placed in your save file. Are you sure your storage f...

I've been playing with BSD in my home network, and it works no problem. Today, I've tried it over the internet from separate connections and it doesn't connect. It seems like the perfect solution to one of my needs, but if I cannot figure out how to make it work over the web. Is there a guide to ge...

Scott99 wrote:Thank you Oscar. It worked and I'm back on track. This thread can now be marked as resolved. cheers, Scott

Scott, as you started this thread you are the only one that can edit the title to solved.

is there a way to remove the USB stick after boot, run from RAM layer, then reinsert the USB stick before shutdown and save the RAM layer onto the USB stick? i seem to bump the USB stick into everything as it protrudes 2 inches out of the side of my laptop. i tried currently, but when i re-insert t...

Try backgrounding it.

Not knowing where you left your keys is not the problem, not knowing what they are used for is.

Seems to be working in ChatZilla.