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GarySmith
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Been Surfing...

#21 Post by GarySmith »

I've been surfing for over fifteen minutes using Puppy XP Like and OS-stop troubles are cleared away as far as Linux or even Pale Moon are concerned.

They do want my telephone number if I were allowed to sign-in. I never give my telephone number out to strangers and few that I know, so why would I want Google / YouTube to give me a telephone call???

Haven't gone back to my 64-bit machine with XenialPup64 as yet. Still working on how to ad an internal fan. For another machine I have cut a power supply fan out and placed that creature right over my CPU and I believe PS fans are almost indestructible. This will not work for fans with an "intelligence" reading with the motherboard.

Gary

musher0
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#22 Post by musher0 »

Hey, Gary!

Don't philosophize it! This isn't a struggle between your Linux Guardian
Angel and your WhineDose Evil Angel !!! :lol:

Facebook, I don't know, but certainly Google wouldn't push you towards
WhineDose, since they now have their own line of portable PCs.

Linux has always had a track record of getting more out of a PC than
WhineDose, so much so that a 5-year-old PC with say the latest Ubuntu
can be nose-to-nose performance wise with the latest Whinedose on the
latest hardware.

It may be something as simple as a plug-in that you have on your Linux
browser and that you don't have on your WhineDose browser.

Or different configs on those ad-blockers? The Linux devs can be dead
serious about ad-blocking. WhineDose devs? Not so sure.

Are you using Puppy's Pup-Advert-Blocker to populate your hosts file in
/etc? There's one that is Puppy-specific.

Just a thought. Anyway, you look like an articulate guy; I'm sure you'll
eventually find where the sore is.

BFN.
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musher0
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#23 Post by musher0 »

N-E-V-E-R give personal data of any kind to people you do not know,
especially over the Internet.

Your family and friends, your doctor, your professional association, maybe.
Even so, for this kind of thing, postal service is much more secure. Even
better: person-to-person, face-to-face.
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darry19662018
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#24 Post by darry19662018 »

Hey Mush,

As a Gmail user like Gary I have noticed Gmail give you the option to use your phone number as a way of identifying whether it is really you logging into an email account. Personally I find them over the top with this example I often use different devices to log in to my gmail and they see it as an unauthorized login like somebody is trying to break into my account because of this I was unable to login at the library.

GarySmith
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G-mail Intrusive

#25 Post by GarySmith »

darry19662018 wrote:Hey Mush,

As a Gmail user like Gary I have noticed Gmail give you the option to use your phone number as a way of identifying whether it is really you logging into an email account. Personally I find them over the top with this example I often use different devices to log in to my gmail and they see it as an unauthorized login like somebody is trying to break into my account because of this I was unable to login at the library.
Yes, G-mail is careful not to let me sign-in from an "unknown" device. What is their concern as long as the log-in and password is correct??? Right. In addition, who cares when they e-mail me telling that someone (myself) has tried to get into my account. I think this is a part of the trigger for the invasive question "please give us your telephone number" which is the only option. I believe they are trying to be more than my friend.

Probably why I'm paranoid about IPs and hosts.

Gary
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GarySmith
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Hard Drive Hot

#26 Post by GarySmith »

Great help and my hard drive has been hotter than I'd normally expect.

I've placed my PC on its side covering larger square footage than its normal standing profile. On top is an AC soft blade fan blowing downward into a ventilation above the processor that has its own heat sink and fan. This slow-speed fan should help the hard drive but has overall.

The results on my XPup64 heat monitor are astonishing and not rising out of the 20s. I suspect my YouTube experience will not shut down by freezing the OS but will update.

Thank you all,

Gary

GarySmith
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External Fan Overheating Drive

#27 Post by GarySmith »

Been surfing YouTube and CPU temperature never went above 32 but when without the fan blowing into the case was seeing as high as 38.

Gary

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#28 Post by musher0 »

Hi Gary.

Here's one thing I forgot to mention. Perhaps it can help.

Some BIOS' (not all) have a temperature section where you can set the PC
to shut down when its CPU reaches a certain temperature. If this setting is
set too low on your PC, it may account for the behavior. If your BIOS has
such a section, I would suggest NOT to set it over 80-85 C. (A lower
temperature is always better, but a man needs leg room!)

IHTH. BFN.
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GarySmith
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#29 Post by GarySmith »

musher0 wrote:Hi Gary.

Here's one thing I forgot to mention. Perhaps it can help.

Some BIOS' (not all) have a temperature section where you can set the PC to shut down when its CPU reaches a certain temperature. If this setting is set too low on your PC, it may account for the behavior. If your BIOS has such a section, I would suggest NOT to set it over 80-85 C. (A lower temperature is always better, but a man needs leg room!)

IHTH. BFN.
Musher is one of the best technical pulling "dogs" on the team. Yes, I have seen that temperature setting in the BIOS but not tinkered with a change. In the past I've burned up a processor in an experimental application using a whole PC within an enclosed setting. That time I had a spare processor. Thanks.

Gary

michel804
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Browser Linux

#30 Post by michel804 »

puppyluvr wrote::D Hello,
Yes, there is... Many...
I once released a Puppy Linux with 12 browsers.
If your question relates to running a modern browser on an older puppy it's an almost insurmountable problem.
However the latest Puppies will run the latest browsers with ease.
It all has to do with which libc and which gtk version the puppy has a built-in.. older puppies ran older versions of both.. newer puppies run the most up-to-date versions..
So in short, as an answer to your most "generic" question, yes...
Hi PuppyLvr,
Where is the puppy linux with the 12 browsers? I just want to have a browser that works well on facebook and be able to watch videos elsewhere or do webinars as well.
Thanks
Michel

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