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Re: Startup-sequence

Posted on: 2009/12/4 21:46 #1161

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@Ant

You're going to have to be a bit more precise in your descriptions.

First of all, what are you trying to accomplish? Normally, you shouldn't need to change the Startup-Sequence, only the User-Startup (which gets called from Startup-Sequence). Is there any special reason you are trying to change the Startup-Sequence?

Next, tell us the steps you are doing and what you would have expected to happen, and what happens instead (or doesn't happen). "Nothing happens" doesn't give us much to work with when we don't know *when* nothing happens.

Best regards,

Niels

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Re: SSD hd

Posted on: 2009/11/28 22:51 #1162

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@HammerD

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HammerD wrote:
@nbache

Your random access time and probably seek time should be much better than a normal disk. In fact it should be pretty much linear across the drive.

Well, I haven't actually made any measurements, it's just "fast enough". But I probably should try some disk benchmark, just to know better next time I'm asked

. Any recommendations?

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And of course you don't need to defrag :)

That much is true. Although I don't remember when I last defragged any of my drives.

Best regards,

Niels

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nbache

Re: SSD hd

Posted on: 2009/11/27 23:20 #1163

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@Antique

I've got a 30 GB MTron SSD as the only "HD" in my Sam440ep. I also disabled the case fan, so the only noise from my Sam is if I use the DVD drive. That alone is worth it! And since the drive doesn't get warm and doesn't vibrate, I could simply mount it inside the case by means of Velcro strips, no need for screws.

The speed is roughly the same as for a 2,5" traditional drive, maybe a little faster, but it's not significant.

But I can generally recommend using an SSD, especially for the noise-free and heat-free operation. And it's totally transparent to the system, it's just a hard disk.

Best regards,

Niels

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nbache

Re: old review ?

Posted on: 2009/11/13 22:40 #1164

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@Antique

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Antique wrote:
@TSK

Or maybe which locale you're using???

Hopefully not; menu shortcuts should never be changed during localization, since you tend to use them "blindly", i.e. without seeing the menu, so you don't see that they have changed when you use a system running under another language than you're used to. It can have pretty grave consequences.

If anyone sees localizations of menus in the OS (and programs delivered with it) where the shortcut keys are different from the ones in the English version, you should report this so it can get fixed.

Gadget shortcuts (the underlined letters on buttons etc.) are of course another matter, because you can see the shortcut indication before you hit the key, and because the translator is limited to the letters in the translated text anyway.

Best regards,

Niels

P.S. TSK was right; Amidock does have RA-E as shortcut for Edit Preferences.

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Re: OWB 3.18

Posted on: 2009/11/5 23:28 #1165

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@trixie

Quote:

trixie wrote:
@Sinan

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But IE's or Mozilla's fonts look more clear than OWB.

The quality of font display on lower-resolution devices (referred to as "hinting") is usually system-dependent (or application-dependent, if the app uses its own font display routines).

It's probably also worth a try to play around with the FONTHINTER tooltype in OWB.

Best regards,

Niels

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nbache

Re: Easter Eggs?

Posted on: 2009/9/17 23:08 #1166

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@magic

That's not an Easter egg, that's a terror bomb.

Best regards,

Niels

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Re: Zip250 drive in A1: can't use an RDB on it?

Posted on: 2009/9/10 23:38 #1167

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@dwolfman

OS4 enforces the rule which should have been enforced all along: A removable volume does not have an RGB (the acronym does stand for Rigid Disk Block). And vice versa, a volume with an RGB is not a removable volume.

At least this is how I understood the word of the elders back when it was last discussed.

Also remember that the RDB among other things is expected to carry information such as Last Disk and Last Unit. That also goes against the idea of it being there one moment and gone the next.

Best regards,

Niels

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nbache

Re: TCP/IP Printer on Sam440 ?

Posted on: 2009/8/31 21:57 #1168

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@freddix

This is the complete content of my ENV[ARC]:lpr.device file:

HOST=192.168.1.7 RAW

- in case that helps. 192.168.1.7 is the LAN IP of my print server, of course. I print through Turboprint, both Postscript and with the printer's own TP driver.

Even if you don't have a driver for your printer specifically, aqs long as Ghostscript can talk to it, you should be able to set up Postscript printing with Turboprint and Ghostscript and then onwards through lpr.device; it seems to work here

Best regards,

Niels

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nbache

Re: Bug or not ?

Posted on: 2009/8/30 23:18 #1169

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@freddix

Are you sure you didn't accidentally install an older version of Codebench from before Rigo fixed this issue?

(Just checking ...)

Best regards,

Niels

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nbache

Re: TCP/IP Printer on Sam440 ?

Posted on: 2009/8/30 23:14 #1170

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@freddix

I have it running (and so do many others). You need the lpr.device (http://os4depot.net/index.php?functio ... utility/print/lpr_dev.lha). Remember to read carefully through the doc file, you need less configuration on OS4.x than on older releases.

My setup is with a print server (D-Link DP-G321) which in turn has the printer (Canon S630) connected by USB, but it should work equally well with a printer connected directly to the LAN.

I use the RAW mode, it seemed to give me the least fuss when I set it up, and works well.

Best regards,

Niels

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nbache

Re: Wow. I love AREXX...

Posted on: 2009/8/26 22:43 #1171

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@Samurai_Crow

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Samurai_Crow wrote:
@nbache

Is that accessed with a stem?

Yes. A compound variable is built from a stem with arbitrary extensions and can (with a bit of care - it admittedly does not always intuitively work like at least I expect, especialy when you go beyond two levels

) perform lots of tricks for which you'd expect to need hashes or Dictionaries or associative arrays or whatever "modern" languages call them. And then some ... due to the interpretitive nature of ARexx.

Most people never use stem/compound variables as more than a simple array, like e.g. stem.1, stem.2, etc., and perhaps keep the count in stem.0, but you can do so much more.

Best regards,

Niels

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nbache

Re: Wow. I love AREXX...

Posted on: 2009/8/24 23:15 #1172

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@Samurai_Crow

Quote:

Samurai_Crow wrote:
@thread

Python is definitely more powerful than AREXX. Its dictionary datatype (aka hash table) makes for some easy coding.

Sounds like you haven't studied ARexx compound variables closely?

Best regards,

Niels

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nbache

Re: The Dark Rings of Saturn

Posted on: 2009/8/16 2:38 #1173

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@BillE

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BillE wrote:

Could you send me a list of the ones that cause problems and I will see what I can do.

Will do; I'll try to get it to you together with the other stuff I'll be sending shortly.

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I agree that is not really convenient. I only chose those key shortcuts as I looked around for applications that used zoom functions and had menu shortcuts and only found AmiPDF and AmiGS which both use RA with the square brackets,

Hmm, I should probably nag Anthony about that. I didn't notice it before.

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I can quite easily change them, how about RA + and RA -. The plus key is awkward in the main keyboard section as it is shifted but the + and - in the numeric keypad should be the same for all keyboards.

Plus and minus would work fine at least on a Danish keyboard. Neither of them are shifted; minus is just to the left of the right shift key, and plus is just to the right of the zero key. I'm not sure where other national keyboards have them, but as you say, there's always the numeric keypad to fall back on.

Best regards,

Niels

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nbache

Re: The Dark Rings of Saturn

Posted on: 2009/8/14 23:06 #1174

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@BillE

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BillE wrote:

You can use the menus, shortcut RA [ and RA ] to change the field of view.

That reminds me; some menu shortcuts are not necessarily so well chosen for those of us with non-English keyboards and/or Locale settings.

For instance, on my Danish PC keyboard, which I use on the A1, the square brackets are on the 8 and 9 keys in the main key section, requiring Alt Gr. So using them as menu shortcuts involves pressing Right Amiga together with the right Alt (Alt Gr) and the 8 or 9 key. Except that Right Amiga plus Right Alt also serve as the keyboard equivalent of the right mouse button! So that is not really possible.

(Luckily it is possible to substitute the left Alt key for the right one and press Right Amiga, Left Alt and 8/9; clumsy, but at least working.)

Best regards,

Niels

P.S. Oh yeah, thanks for the tip about the rings. Awesome display; wish I could see it directly. But Saturn is not visible from here, partly due to its low inclination (currently only above the horizon during the day) and the surrounding buildings and trees, partly because of all the light pollution. And (partly as a consequence of those conditions) I don't have any astro scope.

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nbache

Re: AmigaDos

Posted on: 2009/8/12 23:42 #1175

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@Elwood

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Elwood wrote:
@nbache

Hehe, it's not AmigaDOS

No, but in post #3, diamond mentions all the old manuals, including Workbench, hoping to find them in electronic form on the CD; that's why I thought to mention it.

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but it's still nice

At least better than what was there previously.

Best regards,

Niels

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nbache

Re: AmigaDos

Posted on: 2009/8/10 23:42 #1176

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And then of course there's the nice friendly lightbulb (WBHelp) in your AmiDock ... or just hit the Help (Scroll Lock) key in WB.

(Elwood may be too modest to mention it, but I have no shame

).

Best regards,

Niels

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nbache

Re: Open an URL from Yam with OWB or getVideo

Posted on: 2009/8/5 23:06 #1177

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@gurus2000

Hey, great to hear

And interesting to see that a variable name of "%p" is valid in a shell script, I didn't know that. I wasn't quite clear in my description if this, I know, but I had just imagined some arbitrary variable name like "myurl" or whatever in the shell script. I.e.


.KEY myurl

in the first line, and later on e.g.


internet:owb/owb <myurl>

to refer to it. But if it works with %p ... hey, why not

BTW, another little thing that most people like to do in shell scripts with parameters is use the .BRA and .KET directives at the start, like so:


.KEY myurl

.BRA {

.KET }

...

internet:owb/owb {myurl}

This redefines the variable delimiters from <> to {}, which will avoid risking getting them confused with the redirection operators.

Best regards,

Niels

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nbache

Re: Open an URL from Yam with OWB or getVideo

Posted on: 2009/8/1 23:15 #1178

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@gurus2000

Without actually having tested it, your first idea with the script looks like it should work. You just need to make your %p placeholders into script arguments, using the .key keyword (if in doubt, see Documentation/Kickstart/Shell.doc, the entry for EXECUTE). Then save the script under some filename and make it executable (E and S bits set - as well as at least R, of course). In YAM's settings you should then be able to set it to execute the script with the URL as your %p parameter, it should then be seen inside the script as the .key variable.

You might need some double-quotes around the %p in YAM and/or the bracketed variable in your script.

Hope this is clear, otherwise get back and I'll try putting an example together.

Best regards,

Niels

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nbache

Re: Cannot add 2nd HDD to my Flex 800 system??? (SOLVED)

Posted on: 2009/7/28 23:00 #1179

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@Slayer

Quote:

Slayer wrote:
@nbache

I've read the same documentation but I can see you're one of this people that like to be concise at all times...

Heh - guilty as charged

. I generally find it saves time for myself when I find concise information, so I strive to give it in the same way.

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I am of course quite correct because there is no H and if you used F and your device could use G then it wouldn't use the best...

So G sets the best possible mode regardless of whether it accomplishes this via a fallback protocol... by design it fills this end

Yes - or rather by the coincidence of G currently being the highest UDMA mode designator, and of the fallback mechanism being in place. And again, only if we can assume that the drive always reports its capabilities correctly and conservatively (since the driver falls back to what the drive reports, not necessarily to what actually works reliably).

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btw, your concerns about the device setting the speed wrong is probably because of any limitations with the IDE interface, surely with SATA we do not have to worry about the cables etc not handling TOP gear...

You may be right, I don't have much expertise in that field. But I wouldn't have thought cabling was the main issue there, but rather cheap/buggy optical drives which may work at a certain speed given a certain hardware and OS (i.e. your average Win PC), but have never been tested in more exotic environments such as ours, and so they report the mode they have been seen working with.

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one last thing too, your posts are always helpful and in good faith so, continue being yourself I just wish there were more nbaches in the world of cpu forums

Thanks! *blush*

Best regards,

Niels

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nbache

Re: Cannot add 2nd HDD to my Flex 800 system??? (SOLVED)

Posted on: 2009/7/27 23:40 #1180

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@Slayer

Quote:

Slayer wrote:

And if I'm not correct G isn't actually a speed rating but a request to set each device at the best achieviable?

From Documentation/IDE/sii3114ide_dev.doc:


- sii3114ide_xfer



  Allows to define the xfer mode which will be used for each drive. Compose

  4 chars (prim master, prim slave, sec master, sec slave) using :



                     0 - Automatic PIO (driver will use the best PIO mode

                         that the drive claims to support)

                     a - PIO 0  (  3 MB/s, modeid 8)

                     b - PIO 1  (  5 MB/s, modeid 9)

                     c - PIO 2  (  8 MB/s, modeid 10)

                     d - PIO 3  ( 11 MB/s, modeid 11)

                     e - PIO 4  ( 16 MB/s, modeid 12)

                     A - UDMA 0 ( 16 MB/s, modeid 64)

                     B - UDMA 1 ( 25 MB/s, modeid 65)

                     C - UDMA 2 ( 33 MB/s, modeid 66)

                     D - UDMA 3 ( 44 MB/s, modeid 67)

                     E - UDMA 4 ( 66 MB/s, modeid 68)

                     F - UDMA 5 (100 MB/s, modeid 69)

                     G - UDMA 6 (133 MB/s, modeid 70)



  NB : sii3114ide will fall back to the best mode that the drive claims to support

       in case you ask for an unsupported mode.



  Default : if you don't set this envvar, sii3114ide will use the best PIO mode

            supported by the drive.

So G means explicitly set the highest UDMA mode, 70 (133 MB/s).

Of course, it probably won't harm anything, as the driver will just fall back to whatever the drive claims to support. But I usually prefer explicitly setting the mode which experiments and/or queries have identified as the best one for the drive in questions, since that reminds me and others of the fact that it was actually researched. Also, then I don't have to rely on the driver falling back to the correct mode and maybe getting it wrong (e.g. if the drive claims more than it can deliver, which I've heard is not uncommon for optical drives).

Best regards,

Niels

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