I'm afraid I find myself in very much a similar position. My computer time is now mainly spent trying to fix friends laptops, or work out how to analyse detector out put to work out how particles in a collider decayed (sample data I'm afraid, I'm not trusted with real data until next year). If there...

Unless you can explain better, I seems to me you are in effecting saying that you're suspicious a crime (tainting of the kernel) has occurred. In a summary sense that is how I interpret your position. Am I mistaken? If so how? I'm not saying it has happened, personally I highly doubt that it has. I...

Bruce: The ability to read C (Which I have) doesn't automatically include the ability to understand C. Not everything does exactly what you'd expect all the time. It's really not that hard to write code that looks perfectly harmless, but does something slightly unusual. I'm sure the NSA submitted co...

Um, I hate to say it, but selinux was merged with the main kernel tree.
And who wrote selinux? The NSA, that's who (in part anyway, and that's enough)

"Open source" I hear you cry? So what?: http://underhanded.xcott.com/

You should be able to change the levels. Left and right to select channel, up and down to set it. M to (un)mute

This would also be great for troublesome applications that don't load. Perhaps it could also monitor the return code. If we get something before a couple of seconds is up, (and it isn't 0 ) then chances are something has gone wrong, so why not include an option to pop up a dialog offering to try aga...

No worries. I'm afraid I still haven't had chance to test it either, I've been
having hardware issues with my laptop, and all my other machines are buried (literly!) under junk I've been reduced to using my dad's ppc.

Sorry. it's been quite a while since i last used the installer but doesn't it put the Kernel on the root of the disk? ie /vmlinuz, not /boot/vmlinuz? when grub comes up press C then type root (0,0) kernel / <now press tab, twice if nothing happened first time. > This should show all the files on the...

Ok, this a quick and dirty fix, of course really we should be looking for the problem, but of well. :) Hopefully something like this should work: while [ 1 ]; do dhcpcd eth0 $PID=$? sleep $(( 60 * 15 )) kill $PID done I'm afraid I'm using windows at the moment, so can't test it, but it looks ok. Per...

I'm not really sure, I'm no expert, I just dimmly remember something like that happening to me at one point. It does explain what we're seing. I honestly can't tell you why it isn't working, if this is the problem, but there is a pretty easy test. Next time it goes out run those commands, (drop the ...

pnethood works perfectly with my slug (running debian). A word of advice, if you have a reasonably large network prevent the slug from becoming local master, I allowed this on my uni network and it crippled the poor thing (100% CPU use) This is the first time I've used pnethood (I'm a CLI boy) and I...

More gibberish :P Ah, but meaning full gibberish! I can't claim to understand it all in full, but I can pick out the bits that are of interest. Unfortunately it doesn't actually tell us anything much. It should be checking the lease with your ISP every 10 minutes, and if it was failing you'd be see...

Oh, sorry, my bad, I forgot that dhcpcd is a bit dense. You'll need to do

It's the same kernel as in 301, so use ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributio ... rc_301.sfs
Rename it to kernel-src_400.sfs, but other than that just use it as normal.

I'm not sure what happened about it, but there used to be a bug involving dhcp timeouts (leasetimes). It might be worth investigating the timeout, if it's ~30mins then that might be the culprit... You can check it with dhcpcd eth0 -d Feel free to post the output here if you want help interpreting it.

Last time I looked Puppy doesn't include the full software RAID packages. I wrote out some basic instructions in this thread: http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=22015 Most of that is concerned with setting up the array. DON'T do those steps! Some of them will destroy all your data! If you ...

IIRC there is no reason at all why the files shouldn't be in a subdirectory on the server.

I wouldn't recoment Ubuntu on a machine like that. Perhaps if you have real trouble with Puppy, but I warn you, Ubuntu will be pretty slow.
Burning the CD will be even worse with Ubuntu anyway, it's a much much bigger iso to burn.

Where did you download from?

I have a feeling it's contents may only actually exist when you look at it.