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Chatgpt did much better on "Who is wizard on the Puppy Linux forum".

On the Puppy Linux Discussion Forum, the user wizard is an active and respected member who has contributed significantly to discussions, particularly in assisting new users. As of early 2022, wizard had made over 1,800 posts and ...

ozsouth


Interesting, only seems to work well if the search term is unique.

Here's the result of "Who is wizard"

A wizard is generally defined as a person skilled in magic or sorcery. The term often appears in fantasy literature and folklore to describe individuals with supernatural abilities ...

Two additional programs to help security:

Use dns-changer2 from here: https://www.forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?t=13135

This will insure your DNS server is legitimate.

If you must leave a boot session open:
* Close the browser
* Use Puppy's internet connection tools to disconnect from the ...

@Chelsea80

Some may not work due to limitations of your hardware. Do you have a particular method in mind?

Thanks
wizard

This topic is a summary of some of the methods discussed on the forum that will improve your Puppy security when doing financial, online buying or other sensitive transactions on the web.

Regardless of what level of methods you choose, make yourself a small target.
* Boot
* Complete your ...

@mikewalsh

Well that sucks Thanks for the effort to fix it.

wizard's rule #8 "A web link will always die"

wizard

@bpuppy

You don't need xrectsel. Just set TAS to "Region"
* move cursor to the top left of the area you want
* click (don't try to drag)
* move cursor to the bottom right of the area you want
* click

wizard

@dimkr

Been running a Thinkpad X220 every day for several years and have never had video tearing with any Puppy. Curious, was your issue on an external display?

wizard

@jp734

2. Boot PC, reboot and this time, it will ONLY let me create a savefile. Can't create a savefolder. Why is that?

Rufus formats the USB flash as fat32, folders can only be created on Linux ext formats.

wizard

@PunchyMchurtyfist

Using VLC media player for videos on two Lenovo Thinkpads, runs no issues.

Regarding Wayland, pretty sure that's a no go on Puppy at this time.

wizard

bigphil

Lots of Celerons do not support virtualization, which would explain your problem. If you can tie down the CPU to it's model number we can verify on the Intel site.

wizard

edit: Just did a little checking, based on your msg the 1.8ghz Celeron is likely a T3000. That's a dual core, 64bit ...

@bigphil

Make, model, and what CPU is installed in the non-working computer?

wizard

@vtpup

The ISO can probably be started off of a thumb drive, instead of CD, to make it a little quicker to load.

Have you tried this yet? If you can install the ISO to USB and boot, seems it would solve the RO issue.

wizard

@vtpup

Your 600e had a Pentium 3 CPU (hacked in), the T43 has Pentium M, wonder if you used another Pentium 3 laptop, if it would work better. Is there a list of known working models?

wizard

@vtpup

Mikes way is best, but many times have resorted to copy and pasting the file name to eliminate my errors.

wizard

@bigphil

Try checking your bios/setup to be sure virtualization is enabled.

wizard

@mikewalsh

Nice job Mike, great example of things that can be done with Puppy.

Thanks for sharing
wizard

Have an old Samsung CLP-315 color laser, not used for many years, decided to connect it with BookwormPup64. Dusted it off, turned it on and printed a test page, yup still works (gotta love lasers for that)

Tried:
* Cups built in drivers = fail
* downloaded clp-315 ppd = fail
* downloaded Samsung ...

@bigphil

Running fossaPup64 9.5, using virtualbox-6.1_6.1.34-150636.1~Ubuntu~eoan_amd64.deb, installs and runs without any issues.

wizard

@rockedge

Just to double check, should be a socket 478 CPU and pata ribbon cable only hardrive connect, yes?

wizard

@rockedge

Nice save , have a 3ghz hyperthread CPU that needs a home if you want it

wizard.

jp734

If you want to stay with Linux and Puppy, try learning Bash programming. You'll find lots of help on the web like here: https://www.w3schools.io/terminal/bash-tutorials/ and plenty of helpful members on the forum.

You have the right attitude for the change of pace that comes with ...

@Clarity

BTW: Did you find anything glaring or missing to address its use? Your insight is valuable.

Don''t use Google Docs, so have not viewed it. Why not just put it in a simple .doc file and add as an attachment?

wizard

@Clarity

It would be better if you posted a copy of the document directly on the forum.

Thanks
wizard

@JusGellin

Since both do what I want(share files from my main desktop), are there advantages for using one or the other?

Think sshfs is more secure, but samba is easier to set up.

wizard

@Trapster
@JusGellin

Does the server need to be running samba? Your script doesn't work for me.This is with the firewall turned off.

Yes, see this post for setting up the server: viewtopic.php?p=132971&hilit=file+server#p132971

wizard

@JusGellin

As an alternate to the last message, mntshare.sh can be used to configure Rox (or any file manager that uses bookmarks) so your network share is available as a bookmark directly in the file manager.

wizard

JusGellin

For me, I wouldn't need to have this connected to the remote server unless I needed it also
So I wouldn't have a need to make it start up automatically using fstab.
Also having a menu like this is just what I need

Have 3 samba shares used often, just edited a copy of mntshare.sh and ...

bigpup

Have you used this to remaster BookwormPup64?

Yes, for 10.0.10 and older

A little review is in order. The remaster feature has always been part of a standard Puppy (my use began with Puppy v1.0.4), although it has not always been maintained well.

What does the standard remasterpup2 ...

@JusGellin

You could use the attached program, mntshare.sh, open in geany, edit the indicated lines and put in the /root/startup directory

wizard