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by Fossil
Wed 15 Apr 2020, 12:06
Forum: Security
Topic: Apple's/Googles new virus-management app
Replies: 52
Views: 13753

@ras, Fossil, would that change for you if you needed one to fly or travel or even go to the store? No! Fly. Travel. Shopping/Store go there in person. Never required such a device. To misquote Carl Marx: 'Smartphones are the opiate of the people.' It's an optically self-indulgent narcotic. Haven't...
by Fossil
Tue 14 Apr 2020, 19:06
Forum: Security
Topic: Apple's/Googles new virus-management app
Replies: 52
Views: 13753

@Burn_IT Most of those older people can think for themselves and don't NEED a Smartphone to tell them what is what all the time.!! Too true. Don't have a smart dumba$$ "Smartphone", Don't need one. Don't want one! @perdido Have you considered for one moment YOU are also contributing to th...
by Fossil
Thu 26 Mar 2020, 07:59
Forum: Beginners Help ( Start Here)
Topic: How to remove icons from the right side tray?
Replies: 12
Views: 1390

JWM. If you can live without the tray, only bringing it to the fore when required, why not just 'autohide' using, ptray-tray options?
by Fossil
Wed 18 Mar 2020, 10:54
Forum: Beginners Help ( Start Here)
Topic: [SOLVED] My avatar is not accepted (Solved)
Replies: 8
Views: 825

In case anyone doesn't like the animation; if using Firefox, right-click, "View image Info", scroll down left side, "Block image" place a tick in the box - and you're done. No more intrusive animations. He-He! :twisted: :lol:
Sorry one and all ! :arrow:
by Fossil
Mon 02 Mar 2020, 21:21
Forum: Misc
Topic: Do I need anti-virus?
Replies: 16
Views: 3455

Pup-Advert-Blocker is a Host selective file. :lol:
by Fossil
Mon 02 Mar 2020, 21:05
Forum: Beginners Help ( Start Here)
Topic: Slacko No-Go
Replies: 12
Views: 1082

As mikeslr suggested, you are not restricted to just one search engine in whatever browser you choose to run - there are loads out there! All can be installed by just a few clicks. There is also a website - the Mycroft Project - where you can download a considerable choice. The usual caveates apply!...
by Fossil
Mon 02 Mar 2020, 11:30
Forum: Misc
Topic: Do I need anti-virus?
Replies: 16
Views: 3455

It also helps to install a current Host file to thwart the malicious multitude.
by Fossil
Mon 02 Mar 2020, 11:19
Forum: Truly off-topic conversations
Topic: How hard will the robots make us work?
Replies: 4
Views: 600

... and remember your next nurse may be a robot....
As long as it ain't a proctologist! :shock: :(
by Fossil
Mon 02 Mar 2020, 11:00
Forum: Beginners Help ( Start Here)
Topic: Slacko No-Go
Replies: 12
Views: 1082

To help everyone concerned, please be precise and give full details of each computer: their processor, memory, hard drive and especially in this instance the video system. Is Slacko running directly from a CD or have you created a frugal install and saved it to the hard drive? These little pieces of...
by Fossil
Sun 01 Mar 2020, 13:38
Forum: Truly off-topic conversations
Topic: Do you live in a big town or small?
Replies: 22
Views: 1268

I'm in the bigpup and Mike Walsh category. Small village, no shops, lacks a post office, no mains gas and no bus service; nothing for over five miles except green fields,woodlands, a large river and the Cotswold hills beyond. Broadband stutters along at under 1 meg per second. Very rural. Know every...
by Fossil
Sun 01 Mar 2020, 13:14
Forum: Beginners Help ( Start Here)
Topic: Can Puppy run from USB and save to the same USB?
Replies: 8
Views: 878

@Scrappy I plan on downloading ALL the lightweight browsers and other add ons to the HD just to get a feel for them, play a bit with this old clunker, then rip out HD and just run off USB if i can . Whatever would possess you to destroy a perfectly good - working - hard drive? If nothing else it co...
by Fossil
Thu 13 Feb 2020, 12:51
Forum: Puppy Derivatives
Topic: Precise-light - 17March2019 - for older hardware
Replies: 506
Views: 313087

jrb " ...Then I found this ca-certificates-2019-03-08.pet lurking in my Downloads. Can't remember downloading it and searches haven't found it. It's more up to date than Sid and it downloaded your test package with no argument. I would like to give credit to the creator, maybe they will see th...
by Fossil
Wed 05 Feb 2020, 02:07
Forum: Users ( For the regulars )
Topic: Firefox menu fonts configuration (Solved)
Replies: 8
Views: 917

Auronius . Do you want to change the font or, just enlarge the menu's and bookmarks in your browser? If that is the case, you need to edit the browser's (personal) Userchrome.css See: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Pane_and_menu_fonts This is an old example, but you can get the gist. * * Edit this file ...
by Fossil
Mon 03 Feb 2020, 21:07
Forum: Graphics
Topic: Script to crop images en masse
Replies: 4
Views: 3336

" Cropping images in mass ImageMagick Recently a friend told me: I have to remove the watermark of hundreds of images , you could do it with a program like GIMP but are hundreds of images, I know that you can automate this process using some commands of the ImageMagick suite; I need your help ...
by Fossil
Sun 26 Jan 2020, 11:13
Forum: Puppy Derivatives
Topic: Precise-light - 17March2019 - for older hardware
Replies: 506
Views: 313087

Minimal requirements. In case the subject does come up, I've been running (for fun!) Precise March 17 2019 on an ancient Compaq Ipaq desktop 500 mHz with 250 megs of RAM and double that amount swap partition using a security tightened-down Firefox 27 and a Palemoon_27.9.4 SSE GLIBC19 portable. It ma...
by Fossil
Thu 23 Jan 2020, 20:38
Forum: Beginners Help ( Start Here)
Topic: BBC Video doesn't work with Bionicpup64
Replies: 14
Views: 1283

franzjh Welcome. Have you installed Flash? On viewing the BBC website I get this reply. Picture below. P.S. Hungry swans have learned to ring a bell and in return receive food from the building alongside the moat adjoining the Bishop's Palace, in Wells, Somerset, UK. Two pictures enclosed. Just for...
by Fossil
Sat 18 Jan 2020, 12:11
Forum: Misc
Topic: "When does the Puppy Linux security model make sense?"
Replies: 15
Views: 2958

Speaking as a practical user rather than a 'theorist', I've used Puppy Linux for well over fifteen years starting with a 0.-something distribution, probably 0.8 and then moving on through 1.3, 2.14 to the marvellous 'MeanPup', then 'Firehydrant' and equally excellent 4-series and up to today. In all...
by Fossil
Mon 13 Jan 2020, 14:08
Forum: Beginners Help ( Start Here)
Topic: How to install input language indicator?
Replies: 7
Views: 778

I suspect that firethumbs is hoping to switch languages between English and Persian via a menu or window style task-bar key. As far as I'm aware - please correct me - Puppy does not have this form of configuration. @firethumbs. Is this correct, is this what you want to do? Yes or No. An alternative ...
by Fossil
Fri 13 Apr 2018, 17:44
Forum: Wireless
Topic: Temperamental wireless cards
Replies: 13
Views: 2867

Ahem! Could this be the orientation of your network card in relationship to your laptop and router? Where and how is it located. Is the polarization in just one plane? The chair - wood or metal? Any other metalwork close by; artificial leg, etc? Failing any other (sane) answer, take the laptop down ...
by Fossil
Fri 13 Apr 2018, 11:43
Forum: Truly off-topic conversations
Topic: Pic Of The Day
Replies: 3906
Views: 324693

bigpup Have you ever visited the Cotswolds? A strange place....!!! :shock: whu....hoooo!