Yes, although the ones I've seen lately just ask for an alternate e-mail address, which seems reasonable.

A couple of years ago I was rearranging the living room, so had to power down and disconnect the PCs, router, and modem. Got everything hooked back together again and powered on, and no internet. Went through the usual bit of checking all the connections, plugging and unplugging modem and router, re...

Swartz's family calls his death a suicide, but blames the prosecution:

http://rememberaaronsw.tumblr.com/post/ ... r-of-aaron

Depending on where he was sent, the prison may well have been a terrifying place.

Apparently the government wanted to make an example of him. If anything his death was the opposite of what was intended. Now the government just looks cruel.

Swartz was facing federal prosecution for hacking the JSTOR system to download documents. He killed himself. The article is mostly about the case.

You should read more.

I hadn't heard of this until it was mentioned on a political blog I follow. Sure sounds like government over-reach. I could see something like this being punished by a low $10K fine, but jail time and $1M? Absurd. And the sad conclusion:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz

No he will not:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/oc ... s-set-free

He may still face charges in the UK though.

The U.S. has one major political that thinks government is bad, and does its best to prove it whenever it gets the chance. Half of the other major political party (including the president) thinks the first party has some good ideas , even though the first party has been wrong about everything for th...

FWIW, I was able to run "standard" Puppy (as it was 2 years ago anyway) on a Compaq Deskpro (Pentium III/512M) without any problems I can recall.

I had some hassle getting Tiny Core Linux to work right on that box because of a peculiarity in the soundcard (had to change the clock rate).

Had it not been for an enormous amount of government R and D, there wouldn't be any computers or an internet for either proprietary or open source developers to make use of. Unless you know the history of every piece of software, blanket statements about whether proprietary or open source developers...

Maybe I'm lucky, but I live in a community where I can ride a bus or a taxi without being robbed. I can put my money in an FDIC-insured bank and be reasonably sure I'll be able to get to it. I can leave my clothes at a dry cleaners and they don't get stolen. There are lots of people who choose to us...

Personal computing is the equivalent of keeping your money under a mattress. Today's cloud computing is roughly the equivalent of what banks were in 1930. Maybe safer than your mattress, but you could still lose everything if the bank went under. The answer was bank reform. The government started re...

For the point of view of the founder of Tiny Core Linux (and others), see here:

http://tinycorelinux.com/forum/index.php?topic=9060.0

Hilarious.

Per nooby's suggestion, marking this as solved.

Thanks, nooby. No, it doesn't look like TCL has a forum there. In any case I didn't even think of looking first (blush). Anyway the TCL forum is back up and looks to be accepting posts.

I'm taking the liberty of starting this thread because the Tiny Core Linux website has been down since yesterday. This was scheduled but the downtime appears to be lasting longer than had been anticipated. I'd like to leave this here as a place for TCL users (some of whom also use Puppy) to exchange...

Er, I really don't have a horse in this race, but shouldn't there be a bucket for "0"? You're only going to count people who've had threads deleted and there must be a lot who haven't.

I use Tiny Core Linux, where you start with a very small base system and then download extensions with the applications you want: http://www.tinycorelinux.com/ It's a good distro if you want maximum customization. I had to invest a fair amount of time getting it to work right on my old hardware thou...

More paranoia (with apologies if it's been posted somewhere else):

http://rt.com/news/cryptome-classified- ... wikileaks/