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I used Dragon to dictate hundreds of pages of law lecture notes back to text

It worked very well, as long as you stayed in a zen-like emotion free state. The subject matter helped

... I know that others are using either Adobe Readers or Foxit software and I thought of getting PDF Studio but it is still too steep. So my question is: Is there a Linux Mint alternative to those programs that is free of charge, or do I need to pay to be able to work with pdfs? I went through a si...

[Update for latest version 1.22] In case anyone searches for how to install veracrypt 1.22... The latest version is not (yet) in the PPA above, but can be downloaded from the veracrypt website: https://www.veracrypt.fr/en/Downloads.html The instructions to install are slightly different... when the ...

Hi Andy,

Welcome.

Let me give you a couple of reasons you might not want to use Linux: 1) If lack of compatibility with that 10 year old printer you use with Windows is a show stopper. In my case, just the reverse... my HP 1010 printer (manufactured September 2003) was not supported in Windows7, but was supported in...

Unfortunately any change to law has to have a political element, by definition, as politicians tend to be law-makers :evil: But I'll try to give a neutral view, i.e. not left or right (or even centrist) Here's a thought: Lets say a major international ISP is owned and controlled by persons with cert...

In the Update Manager/View/History of Updates what is the date of the last updates? I haven't seen many lately--mine shows 12/13 My last one is 2017-12-16 - 12:58:26 multisystem 1.0406 1.0407 so maybe there is no update out there anyway and this has been a false alarm? UPDATE at 3.44pm 23 December ...

Hi all41,

I tried that and still do not find any updates...

My favourite was a BMW 318is coupe that I got in 1994.

Only 140 BHP but back wheel drive and perfectly balanced.

On 16th December, I was trying to upgrade to a later version of master-pdf-editor (4.3.61_qt5.amd64) which had a dependency on qt5. The versions of qt5 in Synaptic were not at a high enough version to satisfy that dependency, so I downloaded qt-opensource-linux-x64-5.10.0.run and tried to install it...

I want to make LM even more secure. I am watched by many I suspect and I would like added layers of securing my system in any way possible via LM. I suggest you read the excellent guide given by Pjotr: https://sites.google.com/site/easylinuxtipsproject/mint-cinnamon-first This has several topics th...

I suspect I have a Remote Access Trojan installed because sometimes my mouse cursor scrolls a bit downwards. I have disabled my touchpad and my mouse is relatively new. It's a 'Loki' gaming mouse. I had a similar problem about two months ago with a new install of Linux Mint 18.2 Cinnamon on a brand...

Send them here and Moem will teach them some manners

@mperkel I too was a system admin for many years. In that time I only ran with elevated privileges for specific tasks and to carry out specific changes to user files. I would not dream of running as root by default. As both revian and Pjotr have elegantly explained why normal operation should not be...

Looks like anyone using Tor (or reading about it) is an evil extremist anyway

https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing ... xtremists/

so anybody who reads this thread is probably in trouble.
A bit like the killer video from Scary Movie 3...

Same thing happens in 17.3 Cinnamon 64bit Nemo 2.8.7 You get a lot of options in gnome-search-tool - which is what I use and have added to my panel (bottom left quick links). It has the added feature of showing the "Date-Modified" in the results list, without having to display it by 'right-click a c...

Distro hopping was A LOT(!) of fun for several years. But then real life kicked in. From my adventures I had come to realize that one could actually use Linux for serious work. Then I found that I needed the dreaded Killer of Distro Hopping---rock-solid stability. So my final destination became Min...

Re the original question... back in the late 80s, hard drives had a lifespan of less than a year in desktops. I went through a few in those days. I think the introduction of UPS and filtered power supplies helped a lot. That said, I believe every laptop should be based on SSD, as it is daft to have ...

" Errant cosmic particles don't help either. A very interesting article. I wonder if there is a greater impact on certain parts of the earth's surface where the atmosphere is thinner e.g. where there is a hole in the ozone layer? Are there any stats to compare Australia with the US? Should/Do data ...

If you own a website, you can do what I have always done - create a hundred "throw-away" email addresses. All mail to that address will be automatically forwarded to my gmail account. If I start getting spam to that address, I just delete it... That is very effective. I do it on a lesser scale: I h...