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Thanks, everybody, for your kind welcome!

Hello, my friends. My first computer ( :lol: ) was a Commodore Vic 20 with 4 kByte memory, a cassette tape unit for saving your files and the TV as a monitor. I used it most for Morse Code and Radio Teletype on ham radio (I am XE1UFO here in Mexico and KA5SUT in the U.S.) And I still have my Commodo...

P. S.: When I type $ sudo winecfg
[sudo] password for *******

I get the following strange answer:

wine: /home/steve/.wine is not owned by you

I have run the following, but nothing changes.:

sudo chown -R $USER: ~/.wine

Dear friends: I am not the brightest light in the firmament. Hopefully, somebody can help me with this. I have successfully installed Wine 4.0 and have installed about a dozen of my Windoze programs, mostly related to Bible study and also book writing. While they are all working very well, I do have...

Simply go to Preferences and then Hot Corners.

I also have both FlashPlayer and PepperPlayer installed. Suddenly neither work any more. And I have been on Mint since version 13, and before that, Ubuntu since version 9, without problems with the FlashPlayer. I would love to know why it suddenly no longer works. I have tried Firefox, Chrome and Ch...

I have both FlashPlayer and PepperPlayer installed. Neither work any more. And I have been on Mint since version 13, and before that, Ubuntu since version 9, without problems with the FlashPlayer. I would love to know why it suddenly no longer works. I have tried Firefox, Chrome and Chromium, with N...

I certainly appreciate all the people who have tried to help the rest of us, and am happy to see many have had success. I have done everything on here and have not had success. Linux Mint 17, 64-bit, Samsung Galaxy Note 3.

We have several forum active members who have physical disabilities and are looking for this feature. I am certainly surprised how little is available in proprietary Linux for voice dictation/speech recognition. These are available by the truckload for free on Android, so it should not be too hard f...

Thanks again, awesome friend Kurotsugi! Worked great!

Thanks, friend Kurotsugi! How do I do that?

Dear friends: Suddenly there is no possible way to enter text in Gnome Terminal. I get my user info followed by the $ sign, but the mouse does nothing when I click to add a command. I even removed and reinstalled it, without success. Of course, there are many other Terminal substitutes in the reposi...

My sound suddenly began working. I have no idea why. I would love to know what to do next time this happens.

Thanks in advance!

This is a Sony Vaio VPCSA laptop, running 64-bit Linux Mint 15. It was working fine until yesterday. I have tried restarting several times. I have VLC, Banshee, Gnome Player, etc. None work for my saved MP3 or Ogg Vorbis.

Thanks in advance!

I am also having problems shutting down. I log out, and it gets to the screen with the Linux Mint logo, and it just parks there forever, until I physically turn it off. This is a Sony Vaio VPCSA laptop, running 64-bit Linux Mint 15.

Thanks a million, DrHu!

Be blessed!

Dear Friends, I have twenty old media files (*.ram). They are supposed to be audio sermons. I cannot open any of them with anything. I have tried the usual: --RealPlayer --Helix --Audacious --Audacity --Banshee --AlsaPlayer --VLC ...to name a few, and a half dozen more. Any ideas? Their icons show &...

Wow! You guys were fast! Thanks!

So I guess I will set aside some time to make a fresh install.

Have a blessed 2010!

Dear Friends, I have been running various flavors of Linux on many of my machines for a long while. Started with Mandrake 7.0, then RedHat 7.3, 8.0 and 9.0. Then Suse 8.2, 9.0 and 10. Then several Fedoras. But I have settled on Ubuntu now for several years. I have a desktop Linux box that I currentl...