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tenfoot wrote: ⤴

Mon Apr 02, 2018 4:24 pm

Way, way back in the 1980s when I was using an IBM compatible, my favourite application was Sidekick (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borland_Sidekick) and then I abandoned the PC when Microsoft Windows was released and went to the Acorn A5000.

I too loved this product.

Ozo wrote: ⤴

Fri Mar 09, 2018 12:25 pm

I am wondering how accurate these stats are?

Accurate for what? OS wars is what it looks like.
They use it to sell toasters.
Lies, damn lies, and "statistics"

Dubious.

Any other Macs around you?

I use Plex with Roku.
Just finished digitizing my 255 DVDs too, what a chore. My iMac handled it like a champ (and w\only 8G of RAM)

Good Luck and Have Fun!

Mr Mate wrote:Hi,

I want to use a password manager, but I have two operating systems on my computer, and with each I use a different browser, so I wonder if it's possible for the password manager to work for both systems?

Lastpass!

**PLONK** was the sound of the "user" landing on an ignore list, or kill file.
Usenet action from the mid '90s
IDK what they use it for bow.

Those files in that directory, on my system are the Menu Items.

You may wish to reconsider deletion candidates.

https://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3335-1/

Local exploit.

Wait a bit before installing it. Pretty serious bug on the current release: https://fosspost.org/2017/06/20/debian-9-live-images-broken-developers-working-fix/. Wait for new ISOs to be published. There is a bug in the Packages files included on the live images, causing the included Debian Installer...

hd_scania wrote:Besides TW and LM2 I am also going to taste few times for ArchBang and few lightweight Gentoo derivatives.

What is this "LM2" you speak of?

Linux Mint Debian Edition 2?
LMDE2.?

Hope you "land" somewhere safe and with Air Conditioning.

Darthneo64 wrote:I want to see how the family is using he PC.

Try talking to them about it.

who seems to really know his stuff. James: You'll find lots of this type of material. Most is well intentioned, but in the long run, it comes down to simple experience. I emphatically discourage such outlets. There is no substitute for experience. Advice: As a learning exercise, run through it in V...

Users.

And what I would like to avoid is spending a week or two researching and customizing a Conky setup Suit yourself. and that makes me a bad what? You win. I'm a terrible person. I put your conky ahead of your social activities. Shame on me. I'm not here to "fix" anything. That is your job. I'm done h...

The ultimate guide to Linux for Windows users may help. I can't speak to the "ultimate" but it does cover the basics in a nice manner. and the ubiquitious Linux Is not Windows We can help you identify partition(s) and their arrangement(s) from a LiveCD environment, connected to the Internet and ope...

It's also plain rude as it implies I'm an idiot who because I have no interest getting into scripting my own solution. I know all of that, hehe, and yeah, what I want is to avoid spending that year custom building something myself, because I'd spend way more time than I can afford solving this pret...

Sudo: you're doing it wrong - PDF @ 171 pages.
Sudo: you're doing it wrong - YouTubeVid @ 1h:11m

Get Some!

Any helpful ideas are appreciated, but please don't simply repeat the canned instructions, I already tried them and they do not work. I would appreciate though if someone replicates my procedure and indicates whether or not they were able to install these SE's. I find it poor form for someone to as...

I am a newbie as a Mint favorer - and I have settled on Mint after years of distro-hopping - so go easy if I am violating some tribal etiquette here. I do have some search engine preferences for SE's which are not by default provided in LM. I have followed the instructions from both Mozilla and Min...