Thanks for your great suggestions, Shavinder. I've grown more curious about Linux and the popular Ubuntu, and have only just heard about Puppy. Something about carrying an OS around on a stick sounds really great. I will have to give it a try. Though I do use some pretty high end graphics programs (such as the Adobe Creative Suite), I don't use them often much anymore, and may be quite content with some of the FOSS apps out there. While I'm in grad school I do a little adjunct teaching on the side, and it makes me so mad that the college requires the students to purchase MS Office 2007 Professional. They can get it for only $59, but if I ran the world, I would have every college and university on Open Office. Students already have too many expenses.
Thanks again! David On Jan 7, 9:12 pm, shavinder <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi David, > Try puppy! its great, its a dekstop linux with good looking GUI. I > have been running off a USB stick for many months now. You would have > to get used to rox filer(its a desktop manager like Gnome and others > but is very minimal). The right click context menu is very different > from ubuntu or windows other full desktops OSes. For example the best > way to copy/move a file from one place to the other is by opening the > source and target folder in separate windows and just click-dragging > the file. It then gives you option of move or copy. Its different from > rightclick>copy>paste paradigm :) > > Abiword comes bundled with it but I am not happy with it. It does a > very poor job of dealing with MSWord files. Its better to separately > download Open Office SFS files, which you can search on puppy forums. > Besides Open Office you might be interested in installing Pidgin > (multiprotocol chat client) and Firefox (of course). Both are > available as PET files which just install in seconds. You can find > links for these on forums. > > Like tiddlywiki puppy community at IRC #puppylinux is quite helpful. I > think you ought to try the standard version first and later digress to > modified ones which are known as Puplets. > > On Jan 7, 11:19 pm, David <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Shavinder: Your talk about Puppy Linux on a usb stick got me very > > curious, so I've done some quick searches on it. One unanswered > > question for me is, does Puppy come with a GUI (or can one be added)? > > I've avoided Linux because I'm a spoiled Mac user who has never even > > opened Terminal (though I did use command line interfaces back in the > > dark ages). Just wondering about GUI. > > > David > > > On Jan 7, 11:07 am, shavinder <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I have uploaded the modified Tiddlysnip file. I tried it again and the > > > xpi installs ok on FF 3.5.7. on PuppyLinux4.3 > > > > On Jan 7, 4:51 am, Morris Gray <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > On Jan 7, 5:21 am, shavinder <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > You can trick FF by changing entries in the tiddlysnip install files. > > > > > try this: > > > > > >http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlysnip/browse_thread/thread/e5edef... > > > > > That sounds great. Since you've done all the hard work, and to save > > > > others that exercise, why don't you put it in the Files section of the > > > > TiddlySnip Group and we can all give it a try on other systems. > > > > > Morris > > > > > On Jan 7, 5:21 am, shavinder <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > You can trick FF by changing entries in the tiddlysnip install files. > > > > > try this: > > > > > >http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlysnip/browse_thread/thread/e5edef... > > > > > > This method circumvents not only the unsecure updates error, but also > > > > > the FF version error :-) > > > > > > Hope this helps. If it does do tell us, cos i tried this only on Puppy > > > > > Linux, I would like to know if it works on other systems too. > > > > > > -shavinder > > > > > > On Jan 6, 9:48 pm, "Mark S." <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > I would also be interested if there are other tools that do > > > > > > something > > > > > > similar, even if not explicitly for TW. > > > > > > > The problem with TiddlySnip, is that it appends to the bottom of > > > > > > your > > > > > > TW file. Which means: > > > > > > > 1) You have to make sure you've saved your current TW before > > > > > > a TiddlySnip session > > > > > > 2) You have to reload your TW before you see the changes. > > > > > > > I used to have a text editor that could accumulate text as you > > > > > > copied. > > > > > > Something like that used in conjunction with Its All Text plugin > > > > > > might > > > > > > result in a better work flow. > > > > > > > Mark > > > > > > > On Jan 6, 5:42 am, Neil Olonoff <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > Hello - > > > > > > > > When I heard about "TiddlySnips" it sounded great. It's a plugin > > > > > > > for Firefox > > > > > > > that will automatically upload a clipping to TiddlyWiki. > > > > > > > Unfortunately, the > > > > > > > latest version of Firefox will not install it because it does not > > > > > > > do secure > > > > > > > updates. > > > > > > > > I'm wondering if there are any other tools that will upload a web > > > > > > > clipping > > > > > > > (or clipboard clip) to TiddlyWiki. It would be a really cool > > > > > > > gadget. > > > > > > > > thanks, > > > > > > > > Neil
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