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A few years ago I saw a 'man on the street interview' article; over half the people asked would trade their work password for a chocolate bar. :lol: . I don't know that I'd have expected those results, but I am not greatly surprised. People in my country (United States) have been trading privacy an...

How do I change my password when the forum software says my OLD password is not good enough?
And then rejects my attempt to change to a new one.

It’s a forum, not a banking site, why would I have had a super password?
I use different strength passwords for different levels of needed security.

A few years ago I saw a 'man on the street interview' article; over half the people asked would trade their work password for a chocolate bar.

This is incredibly stupid forum software: How do I change my password when the forum software says my OLD password is not good enough? And then rejects my attempt to change to a new one. It’s a forum, not a banking site, why would I have a super password? I use different strength passwords for diffe...

Umm.....because Linux Mint Debian Xfce already has Xfce 4.8 ?

People keep saying that the dev team is busy with the main edition and will get to Fluxbox later, but the dev team is always going to be too busy with the main edition. Kendall has not visited the forum since mid December or posted on the forum since September. May as well accept that Mint Fluxbox i...

I bought a small Shop-vac just for cleaning computers.
I have found that the canned compressed air will push the dust deeper into crevices in the computer.
I was cleaning a friends computer and the dust was being pushed into the fins of the heat sink.
Better to pull it out than pack it in.

If you read the official Ubuntu page you will see that LTS releases will still be released every 2 years. "A new LTS version is released every 2 years. In previous releases, a Long Term Support (LTS) version had 3 years support on Ubuntu (Desktop) and 5 years on Ubuntu Server. Starting with Ubuntu 1...

Last post dated September 29th, last visited the forum December 16th. ?????????

From the look of it I would not get my hopes of ever seeing a Mint Fluxbox release.

As for sources of packages for Debian there is a very large list here; http://sites.google.com/site/mydebiansourceslist You do need to be aware that some packages pull in enormous amounts of dependencies, and KDE programs are among those (but if you are running KDE then Gnome would be like that too)...

Another way;
This will make a text file listing all the packages currently installed.
This also works on live CD 's or DVD 's but of course you need to move the file to another device.

You might also try refractasnapshot and refractainstaller they are made for copying an installed system for reinstall.
Do note that it copies everything including files.

And I think 45 seconds is too long, but I still have a few things to improve yet. I know people who have Windows and expect boot times around 8 minutes. Debian HAD a reputation for slow booting until Squeeze when they introduced concurrent boot. Any distro that takes over a minute to boot I would re...

Terminal = terminal emulator
Same thing two different names.

Funny that Mozilla is saying that they will support 3.6 only for a short while, as it is a long term support version.

If I read what you are trying to do correctly you are trying to install Linux Mint Debian into 150 megabytes of disk space.
You might get Puppy Linux to fit in that small of a partition but the LMDE ISO is over 1200 megabytes and it is compressed.
No way will that work.
Also swap should be sda3.

Versions of Firefox higher than 3.6 hang badly.
The higher number versions if anything are worse.
It is the number one problem reported to Firefox.
I have tried every version from 4.0 to 7.0 and only downgrading to 3.6 solved the problem.

For me every version of Firefox since 4.0 through 7.0 has frozen my desktop completely on images over 200 kb and increasingly at random. Even the clock stops. I have cleaned the cache and only 3 pages later it froze again. I installed Swiftfox which is based on Firefox 3.6 and have had NO freezes no...

Sorry but no there is no way to expand a dockapp, they are intended to be 64 pixels by 64 pixels.

I would recommend conky to monitor internet signal strength and speed.

I have changed and Ubuntu has changed, we no longer suit each other. Will they bring in new users ? Maybe. Are they driving away current users ? Some. Any change "drives"away some people, also some are now ready for changes in different directions than Ubuntu is going. As you become a more experienc...