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Thanks for the reply. I did find a way to ftp via command line, but it just hung. Then the wireless, although connected, refused to go anywhere. I rebooted--twice!--and it seems to be working now, but I don't know for how long. I've been using my precious connection time to google How to Tell if My ...

For years, I've been FTPing files between my laptop and desktop, using VSFTP and Dolphin as the GUI interface. All of a sudden, FTP has stopped working on the laptop. I enter Fish or FTP and the IP address for the desktop, and immediately a notice pops up saying it can't connect. If you know FTP, yo...

Sorry, qwertz, I didn't realize you weren't the OP. But the topic's still findable with a SOLVED, so that's good. I agree the solution isn't ideal, but you've identified the culprit, which is a huge step. And if you put / (root) on a separate partition, it's only about 15 minutes to reinstall. So yo...

I'm really glad you got this sorted, on behalf of all KDE users. Where KDE works, it's brilliant. But sometimes they make decisions for users without thinking it through. Please mark your first post SOLVED. Just edit the post and change the subject line. Other people will have your problem and you h...

Hi Karl: Thanks for the quick reply. I am most embarrassed. :oops: :oops: I called the shop because it's too far to go if they were only going to fob me off (Linux support here is abysmal). The technician I spoke to swore he'd tested the drive. He had me unplug everything then plug it in again. As s...

Hi Karl: "sudo fdisk -l" gives details about the partitions on the harddisk /dev/sda only. If I plug a USB stick in, it shows up: (Skim down to the green text) Disk /dev/sda: 250.1 GB, 250059350016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders, total 488397168 sectors Units = sectors ...

This must have been answered somewhere, but I can't find it :-( I took the old hard drive out of a dead computer and put it in a USB hard drive enclosure. Actually the tech at the shop did it for me so I'll assume nothing went wrong there. When I plug it in, it doesn't mount. The drive isn't encrypt...

These people will custom build a laptop for you:

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I suspect this problem is just me, as googling returned no results for KDE5. Just installed Mint18.1. Among several problems and disappointments, I can't figure out how to add plugins to KOrganizer. The "Configure Plugins" box is greyed out. From what I can gather, they're installed. I hav...

richyrich wrote:

1. Boot up, wait till the HD light stops flashing.
*** Hit Fn + F5 key combo *** , then

Yes, thanks. I just left out a line

This is mostly a lack-of-progress report. She tried the Fn-F5 combination this way: 1. Boot up, wait till the HD light stops flashing. 2. Hit right arrow key once. 3. Hit Enter. She also tried with right arrow key twice and three times. No luck. Next step is to pull the laptop apart, which could tak...

Marc, thanks so much for this. I've emailed a link to your post to my friend. I hope she has the courage to unscrew her laptop. I know she has the screwdrivers.

If she has success I'll mark this solved.

Connect external monitor and reboot/power off->on computer and check if external monitor is auto detected; No, sadly. we already tried that. If nothing work you can try with a live USB image and see there if you have any result. We tried that too. this is how it look the menu if you press the Fn+Fx...

Yes, her computer needs to be running before the function keys will work. Sorry, I guess I wasn't clear. I meant does XFCE itself have to be running? Because she can't log in to get it running. IOW, can she use the Fn keys while XFCE is loading? After boot-up, try the function key combo, followed b...

There should be a Function (Fn) key combo for her laptop to switch between internal and external monitors. Does she have it ? Have you tried it ? OMG, neither of us ever thought of that! I shall immediately google her laptop & see what I can find. Thanks so much! LATER: Just got off the phone w...

A while back, I installed Mint18 XFCE on a friend's laptop for her. She loves it, but her laptop screen has died, and she wants to use it with a regular computer monitor. I'm a KDE user, so completely unfamiliar with XFCE commands and such. Nor have I ever had this problem myself. It seems to me we ...

For some reason, the pictures aren't loading for me, so I can't see the thing, but: Although HP itself is fairly careful about distinguishing notebooks from laptops, I've learned that other people are much more casual. The crucial difference is that notebooks have fans on the bottom, and therefore c...

Depending how much non-English typing you're doing, it may be easier to use Compose rather than a different keyboard. As you'll see it works in FF. I don't have cryptocat so I can't test that, but I know it works in LibreOffice. For those not familiar with Compose: It's a nifty built-in program for ...

Thanks for the amazingly quick reply, administrollaattori.

Will do as suggested, but I guess I won't mark it as solved until I'm pretty sure that thing doesn't show up again.

I had several tabs open in FF, but none of a web page I hadn't visited many times before. I don't think I clicked anything. In fact, I'm pretty sure I hit Ctrl-W to close the tab I was on. In any case, FF closed and when I reopened it, a voice was telling me I had a trojan, and to call a number to g...