I used a sledgehammer on a HDD, and was astonished at how tough it was. I've found it's better to go buy the proper size Torx screwdriver and take the hard disk apart, dismount the platters and then bend, scratch and break them up. dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda In regards to using dd to wipe disks......

Beautiful post, Myke... thanks! pre-Renaissance civilization You're not kidding about the Ptolemies' Alexandria being pre-Rennaissance! South of the border in the USA we lose all this historical perspective. Our sense of history goes back two hundred years and ends at our revolutionary war in 1776.

I spent most of the day yesterday cutting a hard-drive Puppy installation down to a meager size of 16 megabytes in order to trim the fat off of a little utility I have that simply boots up so that it can change the graphics mode of my Asus Eeepc. I found it really delightful to work with the command...

...when I became a self-made millionaire. ... Puppy is one of the coolest toys I've seen in a long, long time. It got me going down a road I haven't traveled in many years. Barry has done a great job building a gismo and it's one that can be used for practical purposes. Unfortunately few of the one...

If I type geany it opens. If I type in geany filename.txt, it does nothing. I had to code my own little text editor for Linux. I found nothing that was satisfactory out there, and it's pretty easy to toss together a little program using Tcl/tk's text widget tool. Writing is such a central part of w...

Wow... I didn't mean to make you get on your knees and beg forgiveness! It was only four words, after all! It is a feature. I am very familiar with this retort, which is thrown out whenever someone new comes in and begins inferring that he thinks that things ought to be done differently than folks h...

Hi, Bernie by the Sea! Total nonsense. Why, what a retort! You have a lot of interesting and cool ideas, but you seem like quite the frosty individual on the internet, so I really don't have a desire to chat with you. Sad you didn't approach the converation with a bit more humility. We could have a ...

Yes, I also was able to finally build acpi_call.ko on the stock Puppy 5.2.5. It was simply a matter of running "make prepare" on Barry's patched source, as you had suggested. I guess I need to hunker down and learn all about C programming. I really have very little insight into how "m...

I did finally get acpi_call.ko properly built and installed... and I learned that through it, I have all the functions that the Asus Graphics Switcher offers on my Eeepc 1015pn . I'm quite satisfied now. I even was able to cut down a version of Puppy to install on a harddrive that allows me to do a ...

Bruce B wrote:It is a feature. If you want it to work like Windows, then configure just
one desktop (like Windows)

There's no need to get snippy.

I'm experiencing the same behavior with Joe's Window Manager, even with only one virtual desktop. Are you seeing something different happen?

Thanks for your help. I see what happens using the Open Box Window Manager. That's quite a measured movement from one screen to the next. It reminds me of using Compiz and navigating a desktop wall. In Joe's Window Manager, the controls are much more hot. That's what I'm concerned about. I mean, it ...

Hmmm... It looks like switching to Ice Window Manager or OpenBox solves this problem. For anyone also having this problem... you can download Ice through the Puppy Package Manager. Is this cycling thing just stock behaviour under Joe's Window Manager?

Is there any way to make the windows on the new Puppy stop at the side of the screen when you drag them, rather than looping around to the other side? On a small screen, it can get quite dizzying.

Can you point me to the information as to what boot parameters I need to use to get your Icepup to show me the vgaswitcheroo folder?

Also, how exactly did you modify the Synaptics driver to make it work with the Elantech touchpad?

Oh.. Duh! I see what you're saying. Yes, it is possible to do that, but it isn't Puppy that will get the computer going for you. In order for it to work your motherboard's BIOS has to have what's known as a RTC Real time Clock Alarm system. Check your motherboard manual to see if you have that optio...

The touchpad works, right? However, it's a pain not to be able to turn it off and on, though - is what you're saying? I'm still working on that with my brand new computer - an Asus Eeepc - which has an Elantech, rather than a Synaptics touchpad A quick Google search tells me that your laptop has an ...

Do some research. Good luck!

I frankly think that performance and bloat lie in opposite directions on the scale. When a manufacturer or tech support person say that you need such and such hardware to run such and such thing... they have in mind a particular operating system, which has its own unique characteristics. Windows 98 ...

mickee wrote:Maybe my lappy is too old?

What model and make is it?

Cool! Thanks!