The phrase that is abounding is 'Corporate Criminals' .... keeps this stuff apart from the conspiracy mumblings.
mike
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- Wed 08 Jul 2020, 19:59
- Forum: Truly off-topic conversations
- Topic: Facebook and the US Federal Trade Commission
- Replies: 5
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- Wed 08 Jul 2020, 15:38
- Forum: Truly off-topic conversations
- Topic: Facebook and the US Federal Trade Commission
- Replies: 5
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Hmmm thats just the fine...and they carry on merrily! How much money in gossip lol... actually I noticed years ago how fewer adverts I got when I blocked facebook at the router. Most likely not paying tax in countries where they make money either...definitely the case in the UK. Just another leech o...
- Thu 02 Jul 2020, 09:23
- Forum: Security
- Topic: Cookies. Cookies. Cookies. Use our Cookies or else.
- Replies: 35
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Duck ducky behaving here but have had their server keel over on occasion....getting popular. In town there is a big billboard advertising them at the moment. I did use ask for ages mainly for the less cluttered results. Also tried kiwi browser on this tablet..... chrome renderer but independant ever...
- Wed 01 Jul 2020, 19:48
- Forum: Documents
- Topic: NEW - Softmaker's "Textmaker" as a stand-alone WP
- Replies: 23
- Views: 6192
Yes changing defaults is a bit of a puzzle. Problem was that the default font was too small for these old eyes. I wonder if squinty vision was developed by bill G. Perhaps MS devs did not notice monitors getting bigger. One of the joys of linux is usually nice smooth readable text. I am allowed an m...
- Tue 30 Jun 2020, 04:20
- Forum: Security
- Topic: Cookies. Cookies. Cookies. Use our Cookies or else.
- Replies: 35
- Views: 5925
Ok technical head prevailing. Google were struggling to keep up with their educational commitments...eg virtual classroom during lockdown due to the extra bandwidth needed. After all their servers main traffic appears to be serving mindless crap to the masses al la TV. It was a bit embarrassing henc...
- Mon 29 Jun 2020, 19:32
- Forum: Misc
- Topic: Laptop - a Limerick
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3046
hooks into nearly every section in the registry. so no longer unix like? Related to the move to Intel cpu etc... Yes I feel helpless when their stuff appears, it would drive me to several beers (if i drank) but lets wait and see, if this waste can procee.....d for another 25 years... sorry mike ps ...
- Mon 29 Jun 2020, 19:26
- Forum: Security
- Topic: Cookies. Cookies. Cookies. Use our Cookies or else.
- Replies: 35
- Views: 5925
- Mon 29 Jun 2020, 09:58
- Forum: Security
- Topic: Cookies. Cookies. Cookies. Use our Cookies or else.
- Replies: 35
- Views: 5925
The is usually a setting to block third party cookies too. Google have not wandered into my banks waving the flag of 'security' yet. Indeed https is shielding their activity...after all cookery recipes don;t really need all that encryption. Like a certain virus ...be aware, learn what you can and im...
- Mon 29 Jun 2020, 09:49
- Forum: Users ( For the regulars )
- Topic: Light browser chews up 100% of the CPU power
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3344
serious mp4 playback eh...... ye olde technology. :D Streaming a web video is not rocket science in itself. The symptoms you describe sound like ram filling up.... either the ramdisk or directly. There is much to cause this on the web (javascript and excessive css) now and may not necessarily be the...
- Sat 27 Jun 2020, 16:43
- Forum: Security
- Topic: Cookies. Cookies. Cookies. Use our Cookies or else.
- Replies: 35
- Views: 5925
Elsewhere on this forum are some nice examples of /etc/hosts files designed to block many of these sites which I found as a fringe benefit this here olde lenovo laptop works a whole lot faster on the net. The hosts approach is neat, avoids the problem with https and routers and is good for linux and...
- Thu 11 Jun 2020, 21:09
- Forum: Hardware
- Topic: Which Puppy for HP 2133 and ASUS EEE PC 900?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2543
I suffered a HP2133 for some time. Here are some random accumulations https://www.dropbox.com/sh/14ydqfonpdwee78/AABa3dx1vbnFdf-vrejMCHN0a?dl=0 You may notice these were used on puppy 4.12 and lucid. Support for the via chipset is abysmal though i eventually did get 3d video working. Broadcom wifi w...
- Sat 06 Jun 2020, 15:31
- Forum: Documents
- Topic: NEW - Softmaker's "Textmaker" as a stand-alone WP
- Replies: 23
- Views: 6192
- Sat 06 Jun 2020, 09:07
- Forum: Beginners Help ( Start Here)
- Topic: How to tell if I have enough RAM to run Puppy?
- Replies: 44
- Views: 4851
- Fri 05 Jun 2020, 22:27
- Forum: Users ( For the regulars )
- Topic: How can I accelerate Libre Office 6.3 start? (SOLVED)
- Replies: 30
- Views: 3079
Windows 7 had some 50MB fonts.... they were for chinese and other graphic fonts hence the size. The softmaker i have is 2012, I never got to use later versions. https://www.dropbox.com/s/cvmae26yi8thmmx/Textmaker-free_sfs4.sfs?dl=1 I had a commodore plus 4...it had a wordprocessor on tap..... took a...
- Fri 05 Jun 2020, 06:54
- Forum: Beginners Help ( Start Here)
- Topic: How to tell if I have enough RAM to run Puppy?
- Replies: 44
- Views: 4851
- Fri 05 Jun 2020, 06:50
- Forum: Users ( For the regulars )
- Topic: How can I accelerate Libre Office 6.3 start? (SOLVED)
- Replies: 30
- Views: 3079
Hm. Interesting; I never thought of that. So; can you delete the 'planmaker'/'presentations' stuff out of the shared freeoffice directory in /usr/share, use just the 'textmaker' /usr/bin entry, and run it as a dedicated, standalone word-processor? Yes each is a self contained binary blob... very li...
- Thu 04 Jun 2020, 12:18
- Forum: Security
- Topic: Cookies. Cookies. Cookies. Use our Cookies or else.
- Replies: 35
- Views: 5925
- Thu 04 Jun 2020, 12:17
- Forum: Beginners Help ( Start Here)
- Topic: How to tell if I have enough RAM to run Puppy?
- Replies: 44
- Views: 4851
- Thu 04 Jun 2020, 10:47
- Forum: Users ( For the regulars )
- Topic: How can I accelerate Libre Office 6.3 start? (SOLVED)
- Replies: 30
- Views: 3079
- Thu 04 Jun 2020, 10:45
- Forum: Security
- Topic: Cookies. Cookies. Cookies. Use our Cookies or else.
- Replies: 35
- Views: 5925
The truce is that one upon a time I too did try to join a movement on holding up this stupidity with software. I did fail, got no where. Anti engineering. CB radios used to be sold on weight rather than the quality of the electronics.... computers seem to have gone down the same path like those sev...