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Amendment to above: Interesting, ... when the machine boots up -- with LMDE/3 in SDA and LMDE/2 in SDB -- GRUB now doesn't detect the LMDE/2 system: in order to boot the LMDE/2 system from SDB I have to fish the BIOS menu and select SDB from the boot menu they have there. I suspect this is because t...

today i did a cold install on a virgin disk on a machine that has a UEFI capable MoBo my usual partitioning was refused; the installer demanded a uefi partition in FAT32 format and i had to set some kind of boot flag I did all that and got past the installer. However: on the first boot-up the system...

A while back I had an LMDE/2 go into a re-boot loop. It would come up to the logon screen, and shortly after that it would re-boot again from the beginning. To fix it I just re-installed the LMDE/2 system The system was configure in 3 partitions IAW current recomendations: root, home, and swap. I wa...

Some concern about application software after loading LMDE/3 I began work on my list of application software. These are selected applications for which I wish to place the launcher in the tray, or panel. Some of the application programs are more release-level sensitive than others. Libreoffice was f...

I ran through my 1st install of LMDE/3 today It looks to me like the MINT Team has done a lot of very beautiful work !! The only part I had much trouble with was the disk partitioning. As soon as I started by simply deleting the existing partitions and committing each change, 1 at a time as I got th...

Freedom from Facebook

of course you could just delete your account

Straight Debian + needed non-free stuff I've been running straight Debian now for the last year or so. the only thing I really notice is -- some of the KDE related programs don't work as well -- e.g. Kate, Gwenview. as a result -- I'm using slightly different programs more recently -- Shotwell rath...

I think this critter could be a top-shelf alternative to the "Chromebook" many people are rather unhappy with MSFT /Windows-10 and I think some of these have looked a Chromebook, or may be thinking about it. These customers are interested is using a computer -- not working on it: they want an "appli...

On our June News, I found this intriguing link MINT BOX MINI what a great concept -- particularly -- if one can just unbox it, plug it in, and log on. there are lots of good people who want to use computers but absolutely do not want to fuss with them. The "Chromebook" seems to approach this concept...

one thing that would help: do we know of a nice laptop -- a Dell 14" perhaps -- that converts readilly to MINT/Cinamon ?

one might ponder over the business case for this...... MSFT wants to move its software products into the Cloud --- and Canonical is a major player in the Cloud business. The question then,.... is who is taking over who here ? IMHO the old MSFT APIs -- are not viable. By moving their products into th...

just use PKZIP

this has only a symmetric key so ya have to agree on a key over the phone or some such alternate channel

but we could be on the right track here in its current state modern digital electronics are generally insecure and not suitable for business purposes. we know they are being used for business purposes. and we also know there is a huge cost for loss due to theft of data as well as ineffective efforts...

Hate to hear all this mess - it should be a relatively easy fix - if you could get your hand on the machine(s). And, you could probably preserve EVERYTHING instead of losing everything from an OS re-install. And Best Buy / Geek Squad ? Not in my lifetime !! Oh well, some days you eat the bear; some...

2d client reported having downloaded the .iso but was then unable to locate where the system stored the download. I asked him to look in /Downloads and if it's not found there to try the Windows search tool this probably doesn't matter: On my Win-8 VM when I right click on the .iso the option to "bu...

one of the two cases has recovered I assume you have asked him to tell you whatever he can remember about what he did to recover it (?) If not, do it quick. alas the gentleman reported spending 6 hours over 3 days with MSFT on the phone. and that he now has to re-install his optional app programs -...

one of the two cases has recovered but it wasn't pretty: I was able to FINALLY get windows loaded. It took almost 6 hours on the phone over 3 days, but I have my computer back. I have some of the software loaded back, still need to load a couple others. Thankfully I still have the old laptop which h...

I think I had one of these cases a couple of months back. I took the drive out of the computer, connected it to an external usb adapter, plugged that into a Linux machine, and deleted the hiberfil.sys (under the root of the system drive - generally C:\hiberfil.sys). When Windows can't find the corr...

thanks gentlemen I now have 2 clients with the same issue: bricked laptop and not happy with W-10 It's entirely possible they both have hybernating drives.... seems like I read someplace how to get around that you'd think W-10 would offer the user the opportinity to enter "Safe/recovery"-- the old s...

Mike since our LinuxMint is mainly based on the Ubuntu System: - wouldn't the detection be mainly from the original Ubuntu System ? sure, our LinuxMint is based on a Modified version of the Ubuntu System, and thus will have some control on what is actually done by the LinuxMint installer . . but, o...