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...

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 ...

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...

I am interested so I just ran comprehensive "ShieldsUp" security tests with my firewall off and with my firewall on and in both cases the results were identically perfect. In my experience, if your computer is behind a router or modem that performs NAT (ie. you have a local IP address lik...

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...

Thanks a lot for your help You're welcome. . . . I thought the compiler should show at least some kind of warning if not an error . . . there is a line "if(i=0) ... " . . . I thought the compiler would show some warning for this . . . Turbo C++ and it shows a warning at this line . . . wh...

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...

jemimah wrote:EDIT: I am now having zero problems with youtube in Chrome. Maybe firefox is the culprit.

Chrome normally contains its own copy of Flash built in. I never checked to see if the Puppy version did this, but I assume so. That would account for the difference.

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...

That would be the 3rd hard drive and the 15th partition on that drive. I highly doubt that's correct.

"article and comments, Apr 16 2008" That article doesn't make sense. First it says the processor is hacked by special firmware, then it say that the trick was to alter the logic gates (hardware). The rest of the article seems to indicate that the hack is not an infection but a physically ...

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...

Technically it does, as Pizzasgood as said. It doesn't make a huge difference though. A privilege escalation attack is pointless in Puppy. The whole point is to trick the OS into running the code as root, but Puppy is already doing that without being tricked. Puppy runs (nearly) everything as root.

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...

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...

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 ...

Just dropping in an update on the subject of updates. The newly released Puppy 5.00 (LuPu) does have an update script built in. No updates yet, so I don't know how well it works, but it is there.

A few years ago, Steve Ballmer (as in MS CEO Ballmer) said that Linux accounted for 60% of the market share in the server world. I'm pretty sure that he was lumping in BSD, etc. with Linux, but that still looks like a big number for something that is "useless". Google runs their server far...

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 ...

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...