All This Talk About Running Puppy As root... *growl* In puppy linux your user account is called root, but is not root. In puppy root is user. Root in puppy root is the underlying ramdisk. the main "PUPversion.sfs" is, or contains (actually, installs again each startup), the root file syste...

Starhawk, Dell Latitude cp's work well with most puppys. I have a cpi that I run 3.x and 4.3.x on and an older cp that I use for an old laptops compatibility platform. It has a p-1 with mmx, 166 mhz, 128m ram, of which half is now gone most of the time, for the socket being bad. MMX is late p-1, sta...

A correction to my previous post in this thread: Puppies do not leave trails of changed permissions on normal linux systems, as I said, they change permissions to 'root' only when they save, normally when a change has been made and is saved (by the user normally).

pemasu, Exprimo and Polar-Pup both fail to find installation files on slow-to-start CD drives. They stop "searching for puppy files" before a slow CD is spooled up to read speed. Snow and Ice puppies have an extra bit of nap time built in to pause their searches while slow CDs work up to s...

The noted potential of puppies to be used to intrude is product of puppies being able to identify and mount partitions they recognize on hard disks they are installed to. This ability is not peculiar to puppies, it is common among knoppix-based 'live-cd' linuxes and mini and micro 'rescue disk' linu...

And for a next generation of drone-craft... A combination of the hacking and cracking capabilities of the WASP project with the Flying Ball the Japanese Defense Tech people have developed, demonstrated in a youtube video at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mUNIvlgYKk&feature . Able to fly in clo...

Looking into hushpuppy's Watchdog 2, it appears he went from a puppy base to a Debian live-cd base, for which it ceased to be a puppy.

darkcity, Watchdog puppy 2 appears to still be available for download at this url: http://www.doubleburgerbar.com/watchdog/ Version 2, uploaded in December 2008, is apparently based on a Debian package build of puppy that the url below indicates hushpuppy was working on in June, 2008: http://www.mur...

To answer the question asked in this thread, "Who is Major Hayden? ", here is a recent quote by now General Hayden:

[““As an intelligence professional, I stand back in absolute awe and wonderment at the Chinese espionage effort against the United States of America,

Bruce B, Under "Utilities" in the puppy menu there is an "SFSConverter" utility. It should be able to make 4-series sfs files 3-series. If not you unsquash a 4-series and resquash it a 3. You would also have to install puppy's sfs mounting at startup system, in the boot-manager s...

The perennial problem with doing banking, or anything else you want sure security for, from anywhere out and about is router insecurity. Router insecurity can be "router security", and is in most provided wifi settings. This because "for security", meaning for defense against bei...

nooby, I am afraid I neglected to emphasize sufficiently that to make the securing of root by moving it into spot work you have to use the puppy you are going to experiment on for a time, saving files to the on-disk pup-save file. It is the separation of the ramdisk root and pup-save root (in puppy'...

I've decided I'm not a fan of LPS. It is too opaque. Not easy enough to see inside and for the casual user to monitor. It doesn't appear to be significantly more secure than a puppy and is less serviceable. Puppies are, for the most part, not easily enough transparent (but nothing can be), are decen...

Amigo, You are right: I did not create a real virus, or even a real "puppy-virus". Viruses (virii?) are bio-medical organic compound entities capable of altering cell structures. They are life-forms and so are able to invade, infect, propagate, migrate and mutate opportunistically, without...

Nooby, You forgot to include the line before the first you quoted, that identified the recipe for a "puppy virus". Here is some further explanation from the other thread: Note that my recipe for "securing" root by moving it into spot is a puppy-virus recipe. It is fun in puppy be...

dru5k1, Do you run samba? If you opened a folder of pictures to share, maybe translating through a samba-network-neighborhood or such it might have set up an environment that let your friend telnet into the "shared" space on your computer. I don't do samba, so I don't know what permissions...

dru5k1, I don't know if the server that auto-connected, or if where the pinging was directed from was .gov. I assumed the pinging was of WikiLeaks, since it was being attacked then. I assumed a government or enforcement entity directing, but would assume that whoever it was they were .com, since the...

Oooh, looks like I hit a three for one sale on posts on Sunday. Unless the post bounced off the walls and hit the board in three ricochets. Three for the price of one is too good a deal to pass up, even when the one is free... About the Firefox browser problem I met in Lighthouse: First, I should ha...

Lobster, Carried away in my paranoid hallucinations, I forgot to address the serious issue you raised, about diving behind the sofa. I have found that this works very well, provided you have a nice tin-foil sham on the back of the sofa. In my experience, drawn from experimentation, I have found that...

Lobster, Carried away in my paranoid hallucinations, I forgot to address the serious issue you raised, about diving behind the sofa. I have found that this works very well, provided you have a nice tin-foil sham on the back of the sofa. In my experience, drawn from experimentation, I have found that...