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What causes that [hardware errors]? And is there a way to fix it? Thank you. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Failure_of_electronic_components What is this for? I do not click on links to wikipedia. It supports them if you do. It's a page that answers your question. It describes a myriad of hardware e...

fresh_breath wrote: ⤴

Wed Sep 11, 2019 1:50 am

What causes that? And is there a way to fix it? Thank you.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Failure_o ... components

Doesn't the bad guy already have to have physical access to the computer in order for a short login password to be of concern? My understanding is that especially if you are not using encryption you've already been pwned whether you have a long password or not.

It's not booting from the dvd then. Two possible reasons for that. Maybe it's not a properly burned bootable LM dvd, for example maybe it's a blank dvd. Or it is a LM dvd but the bios is not actually set to try to boot from dvd first. Depending on what options your bios has, you might be able to set...

Maybe try a different slot if you have any. Worth a try.

Obviously those are example folder names shown to explain how they should sort under his method.

Based on what rene said, can't he just make his own LC_COLLATE, sorting underscores above letters? Or does that have undesirable effects across the os?

If you have a router that has VLAN capability then I think you could keep the two computers in different VLANs so they couldn't communicate. Similarly, on wifi you could put the windows computer on the guest wifi and set your guest wifi to be isolated.

fresh_breath wrote: ⤴

Sun Sep 01, 2019 3:30 am

Can't seem to figure out how to load a live session.

Specifically, what are you having trouble figuring out? When you follow these instructions: https://linuxmint-installation-guide.re ... index.html what part are you getting stuck on?

Did you manage to run the live session? Was the mouse still acting up in the live session?

If you physically unplug the laptop monitor would that achieve what you are trying to do? It should be a ribbon inside the laptop that you can unplug.

I don't know how to fix the permissions.

My only idea is that maybe hfs is causing the issue, and maybe ntfs would not have the problem?

https://linuxmint-installation-guide.re ... index.html

Go through that and stop before the part where it tells you to install. We don't want to install, we just want to load the live session and test the mouse.

If evil hackers swapped the ISO, they might also have swapped the checksum file. We verify this didn't happen by running a GPG check. But if evil hackers swapped the ISO, then you are running a live session from a hacked ISO. The gpg in the hacked ISO might falsely report the ISO to be authentic. I...

Wait. You guys are talking about using the iso to run a live session, and then using that live session to check the authenticity of the iso?

Why are you checking it if you already trust it? Logically speaking you cannot check authenticity this way.

Maybe deleting the thumbnail cache would help?

If you try to copy a 1mb file or a 200mb file to the router do you get the same error? Can you copy any files to the router?

If multiple mice plugged in in multiple ways are going nuts in both linux and windows, then this is not a linux problem. And now you've even eliminated the touchpad as the source of the problem by disabling it in bios. Try running the Mint live dvd, but don't install linux from there and wipe out al...

Whether it makes a difference or not is mostly based on how large you'll be displaying the scanned image. The examples I gave are when higher dpi will make a difference. Roughly speaking, when you view the image on a computer it looks huge but when you print it out it's much smaller. So if your targ...

I guess if you are using NTFS and you get ransomware in windows it could encrypt all your files even on the linux side. No?
Personally I wouldn't even trust the malware known as Windows 10 to not monkey with your linux on the dual boot...

My 2 cents, 350 dpi seems low to me if it's a matter of saving photos for posterity. Since you are doing the scanning work anyway, might as well go 600dpi. Consider if you want to make enlarged prints, or crop smaller parts of a photo and blow them up to a normal size. And consider the future of 4K ...