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benali72

Great video. Thanks for posting.

I wonder why CrowdStrike didn't do an incremental rollout (since their code was not defending against a zero day exploit).

And why they would roll it out on a Friday, when their engineers will be off for the weekend when it hits.

Seems to me the entire debacle ...

benali72

Thank you all for the good advice. I will try Bigpup's good suggestions.

Also thanks for the advice about VGA and HDMI being similar.

Cheers.

benali72

I agree, to me it makes more sense just to go directly to antiX and use it. Or if you have to go smaller with the download or disk space for installing, use Puppy.

It's cool if DSL-2024 comes out as another option, but I just don't see it getting wide use compared to established distros that ...

benali72

If I read the DSL justification correctly, it seems the reason he gives for a DSL revival is that he wants a distro to fix on a 700 meg CD.

To me, that's not a compelling reason. Only really old computers depend on CDs ... even computers up to 20 years old have a DVD that holds 4.7 gig.

Not to ...

benali72

My display is like maybe 12 or 15 years old.

It's a Samsung 22" 1920 x 1280 (16:9) 60hz connected by VGA.

I'm wondering, if I bought one of those new sub $100 monitors from Amazon, would it give me a sharper display? Crisper text?

Even if I stuck with VGA? Or would I need to switch to HDMI make a ...

benali72

Seamonkey fills a couple gaps other browsers ignore (like its Composer editor, as @Trapster notes). There aren't many wysiwyg html editors around that are not specifically focused on html coders.

Also, it's really useful to have several different browsers installed. There are those cases where a ...

benali72

I agree with @vtpup, too. Well said. Puppy's diversity is its strength. Different users will naturally favor different versions depending on their needs. Hopefully the article reflects this attitude. There's room for folks who use all different Puppies for their different needs and purposes.

benali72

Thanks to everyone's feedback, an improved version is now available.

The part on Puppy versions is the most updated section -- https://rexxinfo.org/howard_fosdick_articles/puppy_linux_review/Puppy%20Linux:%20The%20Tinkerer's%20Delight.html#whats_puppy .

But there are also a few other updates ...

benali72

@mikesir -- I agree that a better way to indicate supported Puppies is in order. The goal should be to point a person new to Puppy to the most current releases.

I've worked with Puppy since 2006, have installed it on many dozens of computers (I do refurbishing), and have written reviews of it in ...

benali72

Thank you all for the feedback.

The article now states it is licensed under Creative Commons license, CC BY-ND 4.0 . (BY-ND says that only the author can change its contents).

Anyone can post it anywhere they think it might be of use.

Also a line is added that states the review covers FossaPup64 ...

benali72

A new Puppy review and intro is posted here -- https://rexxinfo.org/howard_fosdick_art ... light.html

benali72

I remember around 2000 when some websites claimed they would only work with IE.

Then that monopoly broke, and they had to support Firefox, too.

And now the OP notes that some are back to "monopoly thinking" with Chrome.

Ugh!!

benali72

Hi Wizard,

Yeah, from what I hear from friends, they say that most Win 8 and earlier computers can run Windows 11. But around here, at least, it seems a lot of people and small businesses are tossing them as insufficient for Win 11.

Maybe it's cause the original Win 11 requirements were more ...

benali72

Many cities and towns in the U.S. run "electronics recycling" facilities.

Depending on where you live, they often let you sift through the stuff being tossed and take an item or two.

With Windows 8.1 going out of support back in January, I'm seeing many nice Windows 7/8.x computers being trashed ...

benali72

Wow, that's a tough one.

All I can think of is....

1. Try a different OS on the affected machine, just to see if you get the same problem
2. Check the video driver
3. Switch between Xorg and Xvesa when booting Puppy, and also different screen resolutions, to see if that fixes it. I've run across ...

benali72

@puppy_apprentice, thanks for those links on how OS/2 and AmigaOS are still around. That gave me some interesting reading to update myself.

@wiak, good link to the Tutorialspoint Rexx course. That's a gold mine. I also found http://www.RexxInfo.org useful.

I've mainly written some text processing ...

benali72

Ah, yes, the Amiga. A good system that had a bad end. Rexx was also the bundled scripting language on OS/2, another system that faded away about the same time.

benali72

Thanks for the link to that article.

In the past we've always been immune. But I have to wonder... with malware being so renumerative for the bad guys, it's probably only a matter of time before they target even the few percent of us who use linux. I sure hope not.

benali72

Anyone here scripting with Rexx?

It's in the standard repostory for FossaPup (and others) as "Regina Rexx".

I've been having fun with it for some text processing scripts.

I saw where you can now get a free membership to the Rexx Language Assocation - http://www.RexxLA.org . Good place to get ...

benali72

Wow, thanks for that list! Very cool.

I know DOS was still used until just a few years ago by some vendors as a bootable operating system for UEFI/BIOS updates. But now even linux will fit on a usb so it's fallen by the wayside for that use.

benali72

Maybe look up the doc for your model of tv online. Nearly all TVs made in the last decade have a button that switches input and selects which one is active between the several ports on the tv. Then get a new remote for it if you have to.

benali72

Thanks, @mouldy, for the info.

I've been looking into this further based on your feedback, and just as you say, it's complicated. I didn't realize there were so many different Kindle devices, and it seems like they change the devices so frequently (like how many ports they have, whether they runs ...

benali72

I don't have a kindle, so I'm hoping someone who does can answer this question.

I have some HTML files on a USB stick.

Can I plug the USB stick into a Kindle, then double-click on the HTML files, and read them by a browser on the Kindle?

My understanding is that some Kindles have micro-USB ports ...

benali72

In the end, here's what I did to solve the problem of slow snaps on that computer I've been refurbishing.

I listed which apps are installed as snaps -- snap list

After identifying them, I deinstalled them. I followed the instructions here -- https://askubuntu.com/questions/1280707/how-to ...

benali72

Whats annoying some linux version software now only offered as snap/flatpak. I get it they want to make it as idiot-proof and as linux universal as possible, but its annoying and they can be extremely huge. I havent tried taking one of these apart.

Now the appimage, they offer some portability ...

benali72

I worked on refurbishing a 6 yr old computer this weekend. It ran Kubuntu pretty well but, unfortunately, the person who had it before me had installed snaps.

Snap services added 25 seconds wall time to the boot process. And then when you tried to load a snap product, like a browser like Firefox or ...

benali72

I saw this item about the free browser Flashpeak-Slimjet (usually referred to as just Slimjet) -- https://borncity.com/win/2018/03/26/is-flashpeak-inc-shipping-slimjet-browser-with-a-backdoor/

Anyone know anything about it? The article suggests that Slimjet may contain a backdoor to exfiltrate ...

benali72

I re-installed Fossapup64 95, and edited the menu it gives you towards the end of the install process. I was able to make the changes I wanted and my problem is solved.

But something's definitely different with GRUB4DOS because the only menu.lst I can find to edit does not match the boot menu I ...

benali72

Thanks for your feedback, Marv.

Yes, what you're talking about is exactly what I've always done in the past.

I normally just edit the menu.lst file and I'm done. (For background, I installed Puppy frugally with GRUB4DOS and checked the option to create a traditional menu.lst file).

But this time ...

benali72

I have Fossapup64 9.5 frugal installed on my boot partition, and installed GRUB4DOS along with it.

I wish to alter the GRUB4DOS menu that displays (not a single line of it, which I could do with the GRUB "E" command, but rather other parts of the thing, like the DEFAULT selection and TIMEOUT ...

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