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- Wed 20 Apr 2011, 13:33
- Forum: Users ( For the regulars )
- Topic: firewall useless for puppy
- Replies: 182
- Views: 66754
A firewall (rules for iptables other than allow all) is not. No, iptables is the firewall. The rules are just rules (some, like Cisco, refer to them as access control lists). Puppy’s firewall (rc.firewall) can be measured precisely. On my computer running Wary 500 as I configured the firewall, it o...
- Wed 20 Apr 2011, 02:53
- Forum: Users ( For the regulars )
- Topic: firewall useless for puppy
- Replies: 182
- Views: 66754
Attackers try to break into sshd with brute force all the time. I run two Web sites, I see their dozens or hundreds of attempts in the logs every day. When I had port 22 open on my router I would receive hundreds of login attempts per day. It was so bad that I switched to using a non-standard port ...
- Mon 18 Apr 2011, 18:27
- Forum: Programming
- Topic: Creating array of class objects using DMA
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2055
There is some default optimization, but there is more that can be done. Compiler theory is not my strong suit, but I think I can give a basic explanation. The optimization levels are referring to speed optimizations. Some of these optimizations can actually increase the size of your executable or in...
- Mon 18 Apr 2011, 16:10
- Forum: Users ( For the regulars )
- Topic: firewall useless for puppy
- Replies: 182
- Views: 66754
- Sun 17 Apr 2011, 18:33
- Forum: Misc
- Topic: Arch or Debian unstable?... Or something else
- Replies: 11
- Views: 5338
I have used both Arch and Debian as the primary OS on my newest desktop (Puppy is usually the distro of choice on my laptops and older machines). I first began hopping around to other distros because I also wanted a proper repository and a more sophisticated package manager (also, I wanted a 64bit O...
- Sun 17 Apr 2011, 17:57
- Forum: Programming
- Topic: Creating array of class objects using DMA
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2055
- Sat 16 Apr 2011, 14:47
- Forum: Programming
- Topic: Creating array of class objects using DMA
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2055
Rule number 1 of debugging: Always fix the first error first. Your first error was not with the allocation of memory, but was: D:\CB_Files\bit_level_manip\code.cpp|108|error: aggregate `HalfAdder HA_array' has incomplete type and cannot be defined| This is because of the order in which you had thing...
- Thu 30 Sep 2010, 12:35
- Forum: Cutting edge
- Topic: Saluki, Puppy Remastered
- Replies: 350
- Views: 180614
- Tue 28 Sep 2010, 17:23
- Forum: Beginners Help ( Start Here)
- Topic: Does this new "menu.list" entry look correct?
- Replies: 21
- Views: 5565
It is. I have three drives, and my Linux partitions for 5 distros plus their in-commons (/temp, /swap, /home, etc.) are all on the third drive. However, I only have Mint and Puppy installed so far. I'd never seen someone make that many partitions on a disk, but for 5 distros it makes sense. In that...
- Mon 27 Sep 2010, 23:45
- Forum: Beginners Help ( Start Here)
- Topic: Does this new "menu.list" entry look correct?
- Replies: 21
- Views: 5565
- Fri 10 Sep 2010, 04:36
- Forum: Security
- Topic: Was told malicious code can be written to Processor.
- Replies: 28
- Views: 15579
- Thu 09 Sep 2010, 17:21
- Forum: Security
- Topic: Was told malicious code can be written to Processor.
- Replies: 28
- Views: 15579
What the Geek Squad guy said was a straight up lie. You cannot write anything to the processor. It has no permanent storage to write to. The CPU cache is basically just very expensive, very limited capacity, very fast RAM. Lobster points out that it could still be read from for a few seconds after p...
- Wed 25 Aug 2010, 23:58
- Forum: Security
- Topic: Does "security-hole" apply to puppy? (Solved)
- Replies: 8
- Views: 5058
- Sun 22 Aug 2010, 13:36
- Forum: Bugs ( Submit bugs )
- Topic: Lucid Puppy 5.1 Bug Reports and Fixes
- Replies: 363
- Views: 213654
Re: minor annoyance with set timezone.
When I set my timezone to GMT+1 and hover on the clock applet in the tray the tip says GMT-1. If I choose GMT-1 the tip says GMT+1.Not sure whether this is only a cosmetic issue or if it can actually cause wrong time display, for example if the hw clock is set to UTC. Workaround: instead of GMT+1 I...
- Thu 17 Jun 2010, 01:22
- Forum: Security
- Topic: Linux-Malware in Gentoo a Threat to Puppy?
- Replies: 21
- Views: 14082
If what I'm understanding is correct, the problem was with the people distributing the Unreal source code. It was some of their mirrors that were compromised, and they were the idiots that weren't signing their files with PGP. Without the PGP signature the people at Gentoo had no way of realizing th...
- Wed 16 Jun 2010, 00:30
- Forum: Misc
- Topic: Do you like Debian and Debian based distros?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 6014
Ubuntu and its derivatives are okay systems. The availability of packages is probably their strongest selling point as far as I'm concerned. Package selection and SMP support were the original reasons I started playing with Ubuntu instead of Puppy on my desktop. Both of those shortcomings have been ...
- Tue 18 May 2010, 23:00
- Forum: Beginners Help ( Start Here)
- Topic: Is there an equivalent to Debian's "apt-get update"?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3903
- Sat 01 May 2010, 16:27
- Forum: Truly off-topic conversations
- Topic: Linux is Useless in the Real World
- Replies: 65
- Views: 10839
- Sun 25 Apr 2010, 14:03
- Forum: Multimedia
- Topic: VLC-GTK 2.8.1 (Oct 3rd, 2017)
- Replies: 142
- Views: 184767
It is part of html5. Just to clarify for those that care, the HTML5 specification doesn't say what codec to use. Theora is supported by Chrome, Mozilla, and Opera. The h.264 codec is supported by Chrome, Safari, and upcoming versions of IE. Youtube is encoding video in h.264, which is annoying for ...
- Wed 07 Apr 2010, 14:06
- Forum: Beginners Help ( Start Here)
- Topic: Is there an equivalent to Debian's "apt-get update"?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3903
The newer Debian and Ubuntu based Puppy's could probably update their programs in roughly the same way as Debain and Ubuntu with some risk of screwing up your system. You cannot, however, update to a newer version of Puppy this way. The changes between Puppy versions are usually too large to do an a...