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- Wed May 17, 2023 2:06 pm
- Forum: Beginners Help
- Topic: Austere browsers for modern websites?
- Replies: 24
- Views: 2091
Re: Austere browsers for modern websites?
Oyez, Oyez, let it be known that yesterday (16MAY23) Palemoon announced a new ‘major’ release - http://www.palemoon.org/releasenotes.shtml Humph! After having tried to massage useragent to encompass Firefox via Palemoon to regain access to snotty websites, without success, I decided to ‘bite the bull ...
- Thu May 11, 2023 10:38 pm
- Forum: Beginners Help
- Topic: Austere browsers for modern websites?
- Replies: 24
- Views: 2091
Re: Austere browsers for modern websites?
Hey, pp4mnklinux, are you clairvoyant (I nearly said fey, until I realised that has a gloomy association in your fine part of the world ... perhaps more appropriate to myself!) or is it just ‘great minds think alike’? - - you see, when I kicked off this thread early this morning I had no idea you had ...
- Thu May 11, 2023 7:51 am
- Forum: Beginners Help
- Topic: Austere browsers for modern websites?
- Replies: 24
- Views: 2091
Austere browsers for modern websites?
Faced recently with lots of ‘browser not supported’ messages and freezeups on my now-dated Palemoon, it’s time for me to grasp the nettle and move on. Mike’s terrific work has offered us a host of portable browsers: https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?t=5104 However, my own browsing needs are ...
- Thu May 11, 2023 7:42 am
- Forum: Beginners Help
- Topic: Formatting solid-state drives - latest thoughts?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 690
Re: Formatting solid-state drives - latest thoughts?
Thanks again, fellas, for these really valuable insights!
- Tue May 09, 2023 10:26 pm
- Forum: Beginners Help
- Topic: Formatting solid-state drives - latest thoughts?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 690
Re: Formatting solid-state drives - latest thoughts?
Wow, thanks everyone for your truly illuminating comments. Oh, how ‘moth and rust doth corrupt’ - Mike, can you believe I have got so far behind modern times still to have my own ‘rule of thumb’ for swap space to be half , rather than your double , available RAM .... I’m somewhat surprised to have To ...
- Mon May 08, 2023 1:02 pm
- Forum: Beginners Help
- Topic: Formatting solid-state drives - latest thoughts?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 690
Formatting solid-state drives - latest thoughts?
Although I'm a (very) grizzled old dog now, I'm posting this in the Beginners' patch 'cos I suspect that some guidance from our friskier experts may be valuable to many of our newcomers - as well as for me. Back in the day, there were many worries about the write-life of S-S storage - quite a ...
- Wed Dec 08, 2021 9:21 pm
- Forum: Vanilla Dpup
- Topic: Vanilla Dpup 9.x (x86 and x86_64) (old thread)
- Replies: 305
- Views: 37290
Re: Vanilla Dpup (x86 and x86_64)
Don't want to flog this ISO business to death, but I am one of those grey-muzzled old dogs who view Barry's well-considered decision to retire the format completely with some sorrow. Back in the day, I recall that clean booting a Puppy from a dedicated optical disk for the purpose of online banking ...
- Tue Sep 28, 2021 7:36 pm
- Forum: Off-Topic Area
- Topic: Ethernet speeds increasing - make sure your hardware can keep up
- Replies: 11
- Views: 895
Re: Ethernet speeds increasing - make sure your hardware can keep up
Many thanks, Clarity, for your kind hints but I fear we may be somewhat at cross purposes ... ... but first, for the record and in answer to your queries, I access my cellular data service via a USB ‘dongle’ modem connected to a PC - this offers no WiFi functionality (which I don’t need anyway). As p ...
- Mon Sep 27, 2021 7:45 pm
- Forum: Off-Topic Area
- Topic: Ethernet speeds increasing - make sure your hardware can keep up
- Replies: 11
- Views: 895
Re: Ethernet speeds increasing - make sure your hardware can keep up
Thanks all for this useful thread .... right now I have a vexing problem which may be related (or p'raps not?). Background:- mostly, I'm running Dpup Stretch 32 with Palemoon on a now-elderly (Pentium D) box, and living in rural UK I have been using exclusively a 3G cellular data link for years with ...