Re: [Discuss] mouse behavior

[Laura Conrad]

> "David" == David Rosenstrauch  writes:

David> The second issue is probably due to *clicking* the map wheel
David> when you're over a link, rather than rolling the wheel when
David> you're over it. 

Well, I don't believe I'm clicking any more than I did a year ago, and
I'm getting a lot more windows open.  Maybe there's a setting that
affects sensitivity to clicks that's changed the default?

David> XFCE I believe has a setting that clicking on a link with the
David> wheel will visit that link.  It's probably configurable
David> somewhere.  Maybe in the mouse section of the control panel?

I don't see anything at all helpful there.  I do in fact want to be able
to click with the scroll wheel, just not as often as xfce seems to think
I do.

>> When I scroll a page in the gpoogle-chrome browser by using the
>> mouse scroll wheel, it often opens links I have scrolled over.  I've
>> never managed to see this actually happen; usually I look up at the
>> list of tabs and there are suddenly a dozen tabs I didn't open.

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was Custer Rides Again, Joan of Arc II and Further Adventures of the
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[Discuss] mouse behavior

[Laura Conrad]

Last fall I upgraded both my laptop and my desktop to ubuntu 18.4
(actually Mint) from ubuntu 16.4.  In both cases I'm using xfce as my
desktop environment.

Ever since, I have no idea what using my mouse is going to actually do.
The specific problems are:

When I move a window by dragging with the left button in the title
bar, often instead of just moving the window, it puts the window
into full-screen mode.

When I scroll a page in the gpoogle-chrome browser by using the
mouse scroll wheel, it often opens links I have scrolled over.  I've
never managed to see this actually happen; usually I look up at the
list of tabs and there are suddenly a dozen tabs I didn't open.

Since it happens on two different computers with several different
mouses, I'm pretty sure it's software and not hardware.

Is there a way to either turn these behaviors off, or to figure out what
triggers them so that they don't happen unless I want them?

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There was a story going around that a management consultant, standing
in front of a number of software project managers at a convention. He
asked the collected group "How many of you flew here?" and watched all
the hands go up. He then asked "How many of you would get back on that
plane if you found out your software teams wrote the operating
software?" and all the hands went down.

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Re: [Discuss] Backing up evernote

[Laura Conrad]

> "Jerry" == Jerry Feldman  writes:

Jerry> I have two desires
Jerry> 1. Backup on my system (or Dropbox or drive) to preserve the notes.
Jerry> 2. Viable replacement for evernote that supports Android and Linux.

Does google Keep not do everything you need?

You would need to export the evenotes from you VM, but then if you read
them into Keep, you'd have them.

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Re: [Discuss] Running a mail server, or not

[Laura Conrad]

> "David" == David Kramer  writes:

David> - I got a Linode server, and tried to set up a mail server for it and
David> failed. I reached out for help here and it didn't work out. The
David> directions for setting up postfix/dovecot/procmail/spamassassin/certs
David> was incredibly long and complicated, and I'm not a SysAdmin, so I
David> never got a full working solution.

I have mailman running on a linode, which involves having a server that
sends and receives mail.  I did try to run my personal mail through
that, but ended up using zoho.com, which you may want to look at.  It
seems to work and be pretty reliable.

I used the linode mailman instructions for setiing up my mail, which may be a
little easier than following their mail server instructions.

You can read about my migration at
.



David> Questions:
David> - Are there any other solutions to my end goal (privacy and control
David> over mail routing to mailboxes) that I'm missing, other than running
David> my own mail server? Some other mail platform I can trust and also set
David> up very complex routing rules with?  GMail and Office365 are right 
out
David> on general privacy and trust principles, and client-side filtering is
David> not an option because I read my email on 4+ devices.

I was really glad to find zoho.com.  I've never solved the reading mail
on several devices problem to my satisfaction, but I'd bet on zoho being
a better place to start than your own server on linode.  I still get
complaints about mail bouncing from the mailman server (most recently
some (but not all) yahoo addresses).

My current "solution" to the mail on several devices problem involves
having an openssh server on my main computer and logging in to the
machine that gets the mail from zoho from the other devices and reading
it there.  That isn't some people's idea of a solution, but it works for
me.

David> - Are Postfix/Dovecot/procmail the best tools for me, and worth the
David> insane configuration process?

I don't hate postfix as much as I used to hate sendmail, but it did try
hard to be sendmail-compatible, so it has a lot of the same
complications.  I didn't get Dovecot working (after not very much
trying), but procmail is how fetchmail is delivering my zoho mail to my
mailbox, and it seems reliable and well-supported.  That is, I don't
really understand it, but I can always google and get a recipe that does
what I want.

David> - I've asked here before if anyone was willing to help me,
David> for free or for money (no I can't pay $50 an hour but I can
David> pay). Given that failure means my mail won't work, relying on
David> asking questions on mailing lists if I run into trouble is
David> problematic.

I did this two years ago, so my memory has probably lost many of the
more obnoxious details, but if you have questions, I may remember
something useful.


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After much pondering, I think I understand a basic reason why a glass
of something reviving is so welcome in the early evening.  Partly, of
course, it's just that, to revive, to relax, but it's also a
convenient way of becoming a slightly different person from your
daytime self, less methodical, less calculating -- however you put it,
somebody different, and the prospect of that has helped to make the
day tolerable.  And, conversely, it's not having that prospect that
makes the day look grim to the poor old ex-boozer, more than missing
the alcohol as such.  Changing for dinner used to be another way of
switching roles.  Coming home from work has a touch of the same
effect.

Writers haven't got that advantage -- when they finish work they're at
home already.  So perhaps they need that glass of gin extra badly.
Any excuse is better than none.

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Re: [Discuss] Need help/consulting with apache/SSL/owncloud/mail

[Laura Conrad]

> "David" == David Kramer  writes:

David> I've been trying to migrate mail and other things to a Linode server
David> (Ubuntu 14.04, ssh access).  It... hasn't been going well.

I gave up on mail on my linode (except for mailman) and just put all the
mail on .  

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If you find you are serving the same thing too often to the same
people, then invite someone else instead. It is much easier to change
your friends than your recipes.

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Re: [Discuss] Simplest HTML hosting for a 9-year-old engineer?

[Laura Conrad]

> "Daniel" == Daniel Barrett  writes:

Daniel> Next question: my nephew wants to create a public web site by hand 
in
Daniel> HTML. He knows the HTML, and he has a domain name registered for his
Daniel> site. However, he has no server to host the site. I'm thinking of
Daniel> giving him a Linode for $10/month and a Macintosh SFTP client for
Daniel> transferring his HTML files. But is this the simplest solution? I'd
Daniel> rather not maintain an additional Linode if I can help it.

Couldn't you just give him an account on some linode you're already
maintaining?  Or whatever other web host you're using already.

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...the house that is no more a house,
But only a belilaced cellar hole,
Now slowly closing like a dent in dough.

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Re: [Discuss] How to write .htaccess rules

[Laura Conrad]

> "John" == John Hall  writes:

John> You also might want to search for http 301 error, which may be
John> appropriate as well and may not use mod rewrite.

Thanks.  This is what I ended up doing -- there's a php file that
catches some url's that need special translation and then just sends
everyone else to the home page, in all cases with a 301 error.

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I had to breathe more frequently (but take smaller breaths), but also
to use all the air I had in reserve, and not mistake the lack of
oxygen for the need to breathe.

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[Discuss] How to write .htaccess rules

[Laura Conrad]

Can someone point me to a good explanation of this?  I've found some
that look understandable, but my rule still doesn't work.

My problem is that I rewrote a wordpress site into drupal, and I would
like old links to some pages on the old wordpress site to translate to the
equivalent page on the new drupal site.

For instance, the page
 should now
be .

My attempt at this rule is:

RewriteRule wordpress/?page_id=20=([0-9]+) "http://serpent.serpentpublication
s.org/drupal7/?q=piecepage/$1"

Based on the log, I can see that apache is definitely seeing this rule,
but it isn't for some reason serving the drupal page.  Before I switched
the site over, I managed to get a rule that sent all wordpress pages to
a page that redirects to the home page of the drupal site, so people
aren't stuck with just an error, but I want them to get the current
version of the page they were looking for.

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It can't be any new note. When you look at the keyboard, all the notes
are there already. But if you mean a note enough, it will sound
different. You got to pick the notes you really mean!

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[Discuss] no longer stumped

[Laura Conrad]

That is, I'm still not sure exactly what fixed the problem (Lenovo bios
couldn't find OS after rebuild of /boot partition), but it was some
combination of:

 rebuilding the /boot partition several ways
 booting off the hard drive from the systemrescuecd
 running grub-install on both /dev/sda and /dev/sdb

So whoever suggested systemrescuecd is the hero of the week.

Sorry for not replying to the original thread, or knowing the name of my
hero.  I was running email via imap from my laptop while the desktop was
out of commission, and now fetchmail on the desktop isn't downloading
the mail that I actually read on the laptop.

It would be really nice to have a gnus setup that used imap and left the
mail on the server, but did the nice splitting and spam checking that I
have now with fetchmail/pop/spamassassin/gnus.

But I have to use my computer to get work done this week.

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This will make a good story to tell the grandchildren, if we live that
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[Discuss] stumped: machine won't boot

[Laura Conrad]

My desktop is a lenovo I bought last fall.  It has only ubuntu installed
on it.  There is a 500M boot partition, which seems to have been
clobbered.  The / partition looks fine, and in fact includes a /boot
directory that looks normal to me.

I rebooted it a couple of days ago because of a new kernel, and it
wouldn't boot.

It says it can't find an OS.  I have tried boot-repair,  and it thinks
it has repaired things, but I still get the message about not being able
to find an os.

The bios was previously booting legacy only, and I have tried setting it
to auto and that doesn't change anything.

Any ideas?


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It is important not to separate mathematics from life. You can explain
fractions even to heavy drinkers. If you ask them, 'Which is larger,
2/3 or 3/5?' it is likely they will not know. But if you ask, 'Which
is better, two bottles of vodka for three people, or three bottles of
vodka for five people?' they will answer you immediately. They will
say two for three, of course.

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Re: [Discuss] stumped: machine won't boot

[Laura Conrad]

 Dan == Dan Ritter d...@randomstring.org writes:

Dan Can you boot from a rescue USB or disc? Sounds like you need to
Dan re-install a boot-loader (LILO or GRUB, most likely)

Yes, I can do either of those.  boot-repair is supposed to reinstall
grub, and thinks it  has, but not so I can boot.

I should have pointed at the most recent boot-repair output --
http://paste.ubuntu.com/11778560

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Einstein explained his theory to me every day; by the time we arrived,
I was finally convinced that he understood it.

Chaim Weizmann, describing a transatlantic crossing with Einstein,
quoted in a New York Magazine profile of Caroline Heilbrun's
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Re: [Discuss] vz outgoing mail

[Laura Conrad]

 Daniel == Daniel Barrett dbarr...@blazemonger.com writes:

Daniel My Verizon problem, which is still ongoing, appears to be a
Daniel bit different.  After some investigation, I've found that
Daniel Verizon's SMTP server, smtp.verizon.net, is rejecting my
Daniel authentication credentials, even though Verizon webmail
Daniel accepts them.

I have the same problem on Comcast.  I never solved it --  I just have
Comcast forward that mail to another account which I can pick up with no
problem.  Let us know if you manage to solve it.

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Einstein explained his theory to me every day; by the time we arrived,
I was finally convinced that he understood it.

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Re: [Discuss] Verizon getting out of being regulated by coercing customers to switch from copper to FIOS

[Laura Conrad]

 MBR == MBR  m...@arlsoft.com writes:


MBR Apparently I'm not Verizon's only victim.  Verizon's coercing
MBR customers all over the country to give up their regulated
MBR copper line service and replace it with unregulated FIOS.

And their policy of not repairing copper extends to places like
Cambridge, where FIOS isn't even an option.  

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Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired,
signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are
not fed, those who are cold and not clothed.

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Re: [Discuss] color laser printer

[Laura Conrad]

 Dan == Daniel Barrett dbarr...@blazemonger.com writes:

Dan I've owned two Brother mono lasers in my life and hated both. One
Dan curled the paper terribly and made loud gronking noises that sounded
Dan like the internals were being eaten by robots. Brother replaced it
Dan under warranty and a few months later, the new one was gronking too.
Dan This was 8 years ago so YMMV.

Mine (HL5259DN, maybe 7 or 8 years old) gronks but only for a little
while after I've put new paper in.  The paper doesn't curl more than I
expect.  

I'm thinking the paper feeding might be getting a little less reliable
than it used to be, so I'm following this discussion with interest, but
I'll probably get another mono -- I usually manage to get somebody else
to do any color printing I need.


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Of course you cannot really play a fugue in three continuous parts on
the violin, but by dint of doublestopping and dodging from one part to
another, you can evoke a hideous ghost of a fugue that will pass
current if guaranteed by Bach and Joachim.

George Bernard Shaw, _London Music in 1888-89_, quoted in Ross
Duffin's _How Equal Temperament Ruined Harmony_
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[Discuss] Ubuntu won't talk to my router over the wire

[Laura Conrad]

I'm having an odd networking problem.  My desktop computer has been
wired to the D-Link router for several years now, and all of a sudden
the other day I rebooted, and it wouldn't get an IP address.  When I
told it what IP address to get, it didn't get the DNS.  

At this point I was running LUBUNTU 12.10.  I had disabled the wireless
networking through some convoluted scheme I couldn't remember, so I
decided that it made more sense to upgrade to 14.04, since it had been
working pretty well on the new laptop.  (As usual, there are things
wrong with both printing and sound, but nothing I can't work around.)

14.04 reported that the wired ethernet was disconnected, and connected
fine to the wireless network, so I am functioning.  But I still didn't
understand why the wired network didn't work.  I tried a USB ethernet
adaptor, and that didn't work either.  Plugging the ethernet cable into
the laptop running on Windows 8.1 works fine, but when the laptop is
running ubuntu 12.04 it doesn't.

Googling finds some people who had to edit /etc/network/interfaces to
tell Ubuntu more information about the connection, but none of that
works for me.

Any ideas?

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Re: [Discuss] linux install on windows 8.1 laptop

[Laura Conrad]

 Laura == Laura Conrad lcon...@laymusic.org writes:

Laura I'm having trouble.  

You'll be happy to know that once I got the right hardware, installing
lubuntu on the new UEFI hardware was no harder than installing it on any
other system.  

But why they use the disk partitioner the default install uses, which
does not work, instead of gparted, which works, I have no idea.  At
least they now include the working gparted on the install disk, instead
of making you get it separately.  But it was pretty scary when the junk
one reported that it had wiped windows completely off my disk and been
unable to install Linux.

Admittedly, it then admitted that it coudn't read the partition table,
and that I should use gparted, and dropped me into the linux on the
install disk, which had gparted on the menu.  This is better than the
install on my new computer two years ago, where the install disk also
couldn't partition the drive, but gave no clue as to what to do
instead.  (But I think it didn't also report that it had wiped
everything.)

But if anyone wants Joe Sixpack to be able to install a dual boot
system, thay'll have to do better than that.

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[Discuss] linux install on windows 8.1 laptop

[Laura Conrad]

I'm having trouble.  I think my current roadblock means I need to buy
some (cheap) hardware (1), but I'm wondering if instead of the dual boot
I've always used before, a VPN solution wouldn't make more sense in this
day and age.

Does anyone run linux (preferably an Ubuntu variant, but I'm not
bigoted) as a guest in a Windows 8.1 VPN? If so, are there good
directions somewhere?

(1) It looks like the machine won't boot from the SD card reader, even
with boot from USB enabled, and it looks like the only SD-USB drive
adaptor I can find isn't working, so I need to get another one.

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...in Calormen, story-telling (whether the stories are true or made
up) is a thing you're taught, just as English boys and girls are
taught essay-writing. The difference is that people want to hear the
stories, whereas I never heard of anyone who wanted to read the
essays.

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Re: [Discuss] Printer recommendations sought

[Laura Conrad]

 Bill == Bill Horne b...@horne.net writes:

Bill I'm seeking performance data and recommendations for mid-range
Bill laser printers.

I don't know whether this needs to be said in this era, but get a
networked one.  It's a lot easier to let another computer use it than if
it's a 'shared' printer connected to a computer.

I second the recommendation of Brother printers.  My more than 5 year
old Brother 5250DN has been as problem-free as you could ask for.  (That
is, you do have to give it paper and ink and a new drum every so often.)

The duplexing works better with some paper than with others, but there
are pretty cheap brands that work well.  My current favorite is the
Boise X-9 that Microcenter sells for $3/ream.

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Good teachers get fired; great teachers, killed -- Socrates, Christ,
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Re: [Discuss] Comcast goes all encrypted video in Cambridge

[Laura Conrad]

 Betsy == Betsy Schwartz bet...@gmail.com writes:

Betsy I wonder where the other end of his piece of cable is?

Presumably at the cable box on the side of the building.  

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...in Calormen, story-telling (whether the stories are true or made
up) is a thing you're taught, just as English boys and girls are
taught essay-writing. The difference is that people want to hear the
stories, whereas I never heard of anyone who wanted to read the
essays.

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Re: [Discuss] Comcast goes all encrypted video in Cambridge

[Laura Conrad]

 Bill == Bill Bogstad bogs...@pobox.com writes:

 My neighbor just plugs the coax from the previous cable
 subscription into his TV and he says it's better than any of the
 antennas he's tried.

Bill Are you sure that's not just because the cable company
Bill (Comcast?)  didn't bother to disconnect his wire from their
Bill system when the service was canceled?  Over the years, I've
Bill learned of lots of people who have seen this.  It is
Bill particularly likely if he has other services (phone or
Bill Internet) service with them.  Comcast would have to install
Bill special filters on his wire to only allow the purchased
Bill services into his house.  If he is a Comcast customer and
Bill lives somewhere where they are going all encrypted, he may
Bill find his service going away soon.

I'm sure he's not a Comcast customer.  He doesn't believe it's cable
he's getting.  He may be wrong, in which case it will stop working soon.


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Re: [Discuss] Comcast goes all encrypted video in Cambridge

[Laura Conrad]

 Bill == Bill Bogstad bogs...@pobox.com writes:

Bill Any advice on cord cutting or good HDTV antennas?

Don't literally cut the cord.  My neighbor just plugs the coax from the
previous cable subscription into his TV and he says it's better than any
of the antennas he's tried.

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Re: [Discuss] Cable Modem Woes / Looking to Compare Notes

[Laura Conrad]

 Rick == Rick Umali rickum...@gmail.com writes:

Rick However, the outages continue to happen. Now Comcast has
Rick suggested we replace the cable modem. We're hopeful this makes
Rick our Internet stay alive.

Rick Has anyone had any similar experiences? My big fear is that
Rick replacing the cable modem won't fix anything.

You could rent one of their modems for a month, and see if that helps
and then buy a new one if it does.

My internet from comcast is usually pretty good, but I had a morning
when it was intermittent -- on for a minute, down for two minutes...  I
turned eveything off and then on again, and that didn't help.

I called support, and they said there was jitter on my line and they
reset my modem, and it worked normally again.  

I have one of those deals that includes a phone, so I have to use their
modem, and because of the phone it has a battery, so just disconnecting
it from the power doesn't kick it hard enough.  Another good reason not
to use their more expensive plans (besides that they cost too much
money).

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Re: [Discuss] pseudo-off-site backup

[Laura Conrad]

 Tom == Tom Metro tmetro+...@gmail.com writes:

Tom John Dvorak on last weekend's This Week in Tech (twit.tv) says
Tom he keeps a 1 TB portable drive (hopefully encrypted) in his car
Tom as a pseudo-off-site backup.

Tom Although way more likely to be damaged along with your house,
Tom compared to a real off-site backup, I bet if one looked at the
Tom percentage of cars destroyed along with their affiliated
Tom houses, the cars probably survive over 50% of the time. (If
Tom your car resides in a garage in or under your house, that
Tom likely goes down.)

The person I actually know who would have benefited most from an
offsite backup had all his electronics confiscated by the police when
they found some marijuana plants in his apartment.  I don't think having
it in his car would have worked.

Are there really people who don't have somewhere they go regularly that
they can leave a backup at?  I use my mother's house because I sometimes
go there for several days and it's theoretically useful for being able
to do work on those days (although I actually usually use the network),
but I have several friends who would let me use their place.  Maybe John
Dvorak should get out more?

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At dawn, the magpie sings, and by day the black cockatoo wing their
way across a sunny sky.  The koala, possum, dingo and carpet snake are
silent on the land below.  A mist covers the mountains.  We and our
land are crying for you.

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Re: [Discuss] Google Reader Retiring

[Laura Conrad]

 Gordon == Gordon Marx gcm...@gmail.com writes:

 On 3/13/13 20:09 , Chris O'Connell wrote:

 Now I'm in a pickle.  I use Google Reader on ALL of my
 devices... Anyone know of any substitutions?

Gordon Digg and feedly are both allegedly working on direct clones
Gordon of Google Reader. A friend has also mentioned liking
Gordon NewsBlur.

After reading the kerfuffle yesterday, I went to feedly and told it to
connect to my google reader account and spent about 10 minutes finding
the buttons to make it look more like google reader.  I have now closed the
google reader tab and I'm reading all my feeds from feedly.  

I don't know whether I'll have to do something new and different when
google reader actually shuts down, but for now it isn't a problem.  They
claim they will have it covered.

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A pro basketball player named Micheal (yes, that's the way he spells
it) Ray Richardson once famously said of the New York Knicks
franchise: The ship be sinking.

When a reporter asked him how far it could sink, Richardson reportedly
replied: Sky's the limit.

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Re: [Discuss] The Windows tax

[Laura Conrad]

 Brendan == Brendan Kidwell bren...@glump.net writes:

Brendan I wonder how many people buy a Chromebook and don't even look at 
the
Brendan Google Play store before erasing the whole thing and putting a 
free OS
Brendan on it. 

Linus has one, but he has been looking at Chrome OS while deciding which
distro to
install. https://plus.google.com/u/0/102150693225130002912/posts/1kGLuKDjSFd
and https://plus.google.com/u/0/102150693225130002912/posts/dk1aiW4JjHd.

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If there happens to be a number of greater voices in the Concert than
your own, they will swallow you up; therefore in such a case, I would
recommend to you the resolution (tho' not the impudence) of a
discarded actor, who after he had been twice hissed off the stage,
mounted again, and with great assurance he thundered out these words:
I will be heard.

William Billings

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Re: [Discuss] Server won't boot kernel. initramfs problem?

[Laura Conrad]

 David == David Kramer da...@thekramers.net writes:


David One other suggestion I saw was to boot an older version of
David the kernel.  I have 4 different versions of initrd.img and
David the other files. Oddly, there's only the recent kernel in the
David grub boot menu (regular and recovery mode) and memtest.  I
David know that grub2 lost the ability to only list a certain
David number of kernels (MORE features lost for no reason), so I
David don't know why that would be.  I'm pretty sure
David update-initramfs found all 4 kernels, so I don't know why the
David others are not in the boot menu.

David Any other ideas?  Thanks.

I had a problem that might be relevant.   In my case, I was installing
new kernels as they came out, but grub wasn't booting (or listing) them.

It turned out that the install scripts for the new kernel I installed
were updating the new grub configuration file, and the version of grub I
had was using the old one.  So look at whether menu.lst has the old
kernels and grub.cfg doesn't.

I forget exactly how I fixed this, but I'm sure it involved completely
reinstalling grub2 and running some grub init script.

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-- They all loved me most while I was cooking -- and I am not a good
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Re: [Discuss] [Slightly OT] Streaming video services?

[Laura Conrad]

 Scott == Scott Ehrlich srehrl...@gmail.com writes:

Scott Who likes which service, and why?

I use Netflix quite a lot.  For a while, I was just getting the DVD's
without the streaming, and I did miss the streaming.  Obviously, there
are problems:

They're missing things (even on the DVD side) that they should have.

They aren't ever going to give you current TV shows.

You can't stream on Linux.  (I have a Blu-Ray player that has a
netflix app, so that's how I do it.)

But I use it anyway, and miss it when I don't have it.   In general, it
doesn't look like the competition would replace it, although Amazon
streaming does have some things that Netflix doesn't, and will probably
improve fairly fast.

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His idea of rehearsals was to hear one reading and say, 'Perfect,
let's go out for a beer'.

Sada Thompson about Dylan Thomas.
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Re: [Discuss] Disabling UEFI and dual booting Linux and Windows

[Laura Conrad]

 Derek == Derek Martin inva...@pizzashack.org writes:

Derek On Sun, Nov 04, 2012 at 03:14:32PM -0500, Laura Conrad wrote:
  Rich == Rich Pieri richard.pi...@gmail.com writes:
 
Rich I'll bet more of you have Secure Boot capable computers than you
Rich realize. 
 
 So how do we tell?

Derek A better question might be, Does it matter?  Even if your
Derek hardware is capable, sounds like it probably doesn't affect
Derek you unless A) you're running a compatible OS with the feature
Derek enabled, and intend to dual-boot on that machine, or B) you
Derek specifically want to test installs with it, for purposes of
Derek installfest or other.

I'm pretty sure it doesn't matter to me at the moment (I've bought a
computer in the last year, but it was a refurb from a year or so before
that).

However, I typically install Linux leaving whatever Windows the machine
comes with installed, so that if something doesn't work I have a shot at
telling whether it's hardware or software.  And when Amazon or somebody
manages to make it too difficult to use Linux, I have a shot at getting
my download anyway.  So when I buy a computer that has it enabled, it
will matter (in some infrequent but often high-pressure situations) if I
don't figure out how to deal with it.

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You want the listener not to think he's taken a breath, rather what
nuanced phrasing!

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Re: [Discuss] Disabling UEFI and dual booting Linux and Windows

[Laura Conrad]

 Rich == Rich Pieri richard.pi...@gmail.com writes:

Rich I'll bet more of you have Secure Boot capable computers than you
Rich realize. 

So how do we tell?

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Mom got to be quite a rabid fan, though...Everything I did was
sensational as far as she was concerned.  Now my father, as far as
*he* was concerned I never got a hit.  If I got a single, my mother
would scream, Willie's hit a triple.  And Pop would say, Ach, the
guy should have caught it.

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Re: [Discuss] Yet Another Laptop Recommendation Thread

[Laura Conrad]

 David == David Kramer da...@thekramers.net writes:

David Any comparisons of HP vs Lenovo, or specific models that have
David worked or not worked with Linux would be great.

I don't have any experience with HP laptops, but I've been buying HP
desktops for my last two machines, and the sound is unreliable on
Linux.  I think the chips are the same in the laptops, so if that
matters to you, you might want to go with Lenovo.  

This page
http://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/sound/alsa/HD-Audio.txt seems
to be the explanation for why I have to plug my speakers into the front
headphone jack and can't use any of the 6 rear jacks.  If you buy an HP
and that turns out to matter to you and you get the rear jacks working
by trying all the options and hitting on one that works, let me know.

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I've been singing. I've been taking a part in White sand and grey
sand.  I don't know anything about it. Never mind. I'll take any part
in anything. It's all the same, if you're loud enough.

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Re: [Discuss] Google wants images of my passport, driver's license, bank statement, etc.

[Laura Conrad]

 Daniel == Daniel C dcrooks...@gmail.com writes:

Daniel I don't see why you couldn't use Skype (or other videoconferencing
Daniel tool of your choice) to connect with a customer service center and
Daniel show them your ID, though.

Daniel Unless they're being *really* evil and screencapping their
Daniel calls just to get sensitive data, this seems like a
Daniel semi-reasonable alternative, though admittedly I haven't
Daniel really thought it through.  Can anyone see potential
Daniel problems with doing it this way?

Lots of people don't have a working skype setup?

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depends on his not understanding it.

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Re: [Discuss] HDTV's as a computer monitor

[Laura Conrad]

 Doug == Doug  sweet...@alum.mit.edu writes:

Doug Can it be done?  Should it be done?  I saw a 36 Sony WEGA
Doug HDTV 1080i available on Craigs list.  My 28 Hanns-G probably
Doug roasted a capacitor somewhere and now the screen washes out
Doug for large sections.  BIG is good, but computer monitors stop
Doug in the the 28 range.  Anyone using an HDTV for their computer
Doug monitor?  I have a mac mini.

I've connected a computer to my 32 HDTV to watch netflix and youtube.
It's fine for that, but as far as doing email or text editing, you
either have to sit too close to see the whole screen or too far to see
text at normal sizes.

I'm not saying it's impossible to imagine a setup where it would work,
but I didn't achieve one in the few hours I spent with it (admittedly
not trying very hard).

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Einstein explained his theory to me every day; by the time we arrived,
I was finally convinced that he understood it.

Chaim Weizmann, describing a transatlantic crossing with Einstein,
quoted in a New York Magazine profile of Caroline Heilbrun's
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Re: [Discuss] 802.11N confusion

[Laura Conrad]

 Tom == Tom Metro tmetro-...@vl.com writes:

Tom David Kramer wrote:

 So I'm shopping for a new Wireless router to replace my WRT54G...
 My needs are simple enough; Wireless N, 4 or more ports, would be
 nice if it was DD-WRT compatible.  Recommendations welcome.

Tom I pity the average consumer going to buy a wireless N router.

This discussion was more than 2 years ago, but I saved it because I knew
I was going to be buying one some day.  I just had to reboot my wireless
G router for the second time in a month, so I think it's time.

I want wireless N, 4 or more wired ethernet ports, good enough range to
websurf in the back yard, and other things being equal, cheaper is
better.  Any recommendations?

As people said two years ago, even the expensive ones from reputable
companies have a remarkable number of bad reviews.

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You can't lead if no one will follow.  People throw up their hands,
then sit on them.  They just want to get on with their lives.  The
leaders keep saying, We need strong leadership, then they sneak off
to peek at their poll ratings.

Margaret Attwood

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Re: [Discuss] XBMC ported to Android

[Laura Conrad]

 Tom == Tom Metro tmetro+...@gmail.com writes:

Tom   As it sits right now, XBMC doesn't run on Google TV. I tried
Tom   running it on both the Logitech Revue and first generation
Tom   Sony Internet TV.

I got a refurb Logitech Revue a couple of months ago because I was tired
of how much better my TV worked with my remote controls than listening
to music or watching video.

So far, I have it working well for music streaming and youtube and
Netflix, but not so much for watching my own videos (which I don't have
many of anyway).

The program I use is called Plex, and cost me $.99 for the android
client and the server was free for linux.  I have hopes of getting it
to stream videos some time, but the music worked pretty much out of the
box.  

The alternative was getting back to using an old computer with the TV,
but that seemed like much harder work than sending Newegg a little money
for the Revue.  So on the whole I'm reasonably satisfied with my
purchase, but it isn't yet doing everything it's supposed to.

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In keeping with longstanding family tradition, they had not spoken to
each other in many years.

Margalit Fox, describing the two daughters of Wolfgang Wagner in his
obituary in the New York Times, March 23, 2010
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Re: [Discuss] installation problem

[Laura Conrad]

 dan == dan moylan j...@moylan.us writes:


dan i put xubuntu 12.04/xfce on my asus and was quite pleased --
dan no problems -- think i'll stay with it until i see something
dan better.

dan however, when i installed it on my acer aspire, i must have
dan screwed up somehow.  when i tried to login via the gui, it
dan went off into never, never land -- blue xubuntu screen, no
dan response from anything.

My experience of xubuntu over the last year or two is that it doesn't
have a big enough population to support testing for things like making
laptop graphics or power management work.  Actually, my last install was
on my new desktop and there was a bug with the grub installation which
had been fixed a month previously in ubuntu but the fix hadn't gotten
into xubuntu.

I have been experimenting with linux mint and lubuntu.  Linux mint 12
was quite good (and is what is currently on my desktop), but linux mint
13 decided to try new stuff, none of which is usable on both my laptops.
Lubuntu 12.4 works well on my Acer Aspire, but has power management
problems on the ancient ThinkPad.

So I'm currently planning on lubuntu 12.4LTS on the desktop when I get
annoyed enough at Mint 12, but at the moment it's not bad enough to
justify a reinstall of the desktop.

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Re: [Discuss] Low end color laser printers

[Laura Conrad]

 Jerry == Jerry Feldman g...@blu.org writes:

Jerry I'm seeing some Brother Color Lasers for under $300
Jerry (HL-3045CN and HL-3075CW). I also saw on a quick check
Jerry yesterday a Brother network color laser with a duplexer for
Jerry under $300 (HL-4150 refurbished).  

I have a Brother HL5250DN, which is black and white but has a duplexer,
and I really like it.  I've never dealt with as problem-free a feeding
mechanism.  The duplexer just works and there are hardly ever jams.

Since having laser printers in general, I have trouble understanding why
anyone bothers with inkjets.

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The dipsomaniac and the abstainer are not only both mistaken, but they
both make the same mistake: They both regard wine as a drug and not as
a drink.

G. K. Chesterton

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Re: [Discuss] Has Comcast broken the internet? (Resolved)

[Laura Conrad]

I got the attached message from Comcast.  Probably the same one I would
have gotten if I'd just said, The internet is broken.

I ignored the part about clearing caches, but I did turn my router and
cable modem off and then on again, and that fixed the problem.

If it happens again, I'll turn them off one by one and replace the one
that caused the problem.  I hope it's the router, which is old and
should be replaced for other reasons anyway, and not the cable modem,
which is fairly new.  



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Mom got to be quite a rabid fan, though...Everything I did was
sensational as far as she was concerned.  Now my father, as far as
*he* was concerned I never got a hit.  If I got a single, my mother
would scream, Willie's hit a triple.  And Pop would say, Ach, the
guy should have caught it.

Willie Kamm, quoted in The Glory of their Times by Lawrence S. Ritter

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Re: [Discuss] Has Comcast broken the internet? (Resolved)

[Laura Conrad]

 Laura == Laura Conrad lcon...@laymusic.org writes:

Laura I got the attached message from Comcast.  

I guess we have Mailman configured to delete attached mail.  So here it
is in plain text.  

I wrote them at 1 AM last night:

Laura Since about 1 this afternoon, I''ve been having trouble
Laura accessing the internet via web browser.  I can view https:
Laura sites, but not http: ones.  I can also do smtp, nntp, and
Laura ssh.  So there isn''t a physical problem with the connection,
Laura but there must be something wrong with your proxy setup or
Laura something.  My phone seems to have the same problem as my
Laura desktop computer, so it seems to be the line, not my machine.

Laura I''m emailing instead of phoning because I went out for the
Laura evening and hoped it would get fixed without me doing
Laura anything, and now it''s bedtime, but I''ll be happy to talk
Laura to a human about the problem tomorrow.


And they replied at about 1:30 AM:

Gilbert Dear Laura,

Gilbert Thank you for contacting Comcast, home of the Customer
Gilbert Guarantee. My name is Gilbert and you have reached Xfinity
Gilbert Internet email support. I will do my best to assist you
Gilbert with your concern.

Gilbert I understand that you are having issues with connecting to
Gilbert a website. I know how important it is to log on to your
Gilbert preferred news website in order to get the latest news for
Gilbert today. I can certainly feel the inconvenience this issue
Gilbert may have caused you. If I were in the same place, I would
Gilbert feel the same way too. I will be more than happy to provide
Gilbert you helpful information about this issue. Rest assured that
Gilbert this issue will be taken care of.

Gilbert Laura, if you are unable to connect to certain web sites,
Gilbert you may want to run a few checks to verify that you are
Gilbert resolving hostnames correctly. The first thing that should
Gilbert be done would be to clear the cache, history, and cookies
Gilbert files. Any one of them could be causing a cached page to
Gilbert load instead of the one you are currently trying to reach.

Gilbert Clearing the Internet cache from Internet Explorer is often
Gilbert necessary to solve certain web page and browser problems
Gilbert that sometimes occur.

Gilbert The Internet cache in Internet Explorer contains locally
Gilbert saved copies of recent web pages you've visited. This is
Gilbert done so that the next time you visit the page, Internet
Gilbert Explorer can load it from your saved copy which will be
Gilbert much faster than loading it from the Internet.

Gilbert Clearing the Internet cache in Internet Explorer is
Gilbert completely safe and should not remove any important data
Gilbert from your computer.

Gilbert Follow the easy to follow steps below to clear the Internet
Gilbert cache from your Internet Explorer browser:

Gilbert 1. Click the Start button in the bottom-left corner of
Gilbert your computer's main screen and select Control Panel.

Gilbert 2. Click Network and Internet and select Internet
Gilbert Options. Press the Safety button.

Gilbert 3. Click Delete Browsing History and click the check
Gilbert boxes next to the various categories of stored information
Gilbert you want deleted.

Gilbert 4. Put a check mark in the Preserve Favorites Website
Gilbert Data to keep any cookies or files associated with the Web
Gilbert sites in your Internet Explorer's Favorites list. Click
Gilbert the Delete button to clear Internet Explorer's cache.

Gilbert If you are still experiencing a problem, and are running
Gilbert Windows 7, try flushing the DNS cache.

Gilbert To flush the DNS cache:

Gilbert Vista/ Windows 7

Gilbert 1. Click the Start button
Gilbert 2. In the search box, type: command prompt
Gilbert 3. In the list of results, right-click Command Prompt and
Gilbert then click Run as administrator
Gilbert 4. Click Continue
Gilbert 5. In the DOS/Command window that opens, type: ipconfig /flushdns
Gilbert 6. Press Enter

Gilbert Sometimes it is necessary to completely shut down your
Gilbert cable modem connection when something isn't functioning
Gilbert properly. This is similar to rebooting your computer. For
Gilbert best results, the modem should be connected directly to the
Gilbert wall power outlet and not to a powerstrip. You'll also want
Gilbert to make sure that there are no splitters or filters on the
Gilbert cable line between your cable modem and the wall cable
Gilbert outlet.

Gilbert If the cable modem is spontaneously re-booting and there is
Gilbert no evidence of signal-related problems, check the
Gilbert electrical conditions near to the cable modem. Possible
Gilbert causes of causes

Re: [Discuss] Low end color laser printers

[Laura Conrad]

 Shirley == Shirley Márquez Dúlcey m...@buttery.org writes:

Shirley On 6/25/2012 10:49 AM, Laura Conrad wrote:
 Since having laser printers in general, I have trouble understanding why
 anyone bothers with inkjets.

Shirley Photos. Affordable color laser printers don't print them as
Shirley well as a good inkjet with special photo paper does.

But nobody I know bothers with the special paper.

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I believe in hell because the theological virtue of faith makes me
believe in hell, but the theological virtue of charity makes me
exercise the theological virtue of hope that no one is there!

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[Discuss] Has Comcast broken the internet?

[Laura Conrad]

I can send mail and read mail and news and do rsync's and pings, so
there can't be anything wrong with the physical connection.  But for the
last two hours, I haven't been able to use any browser to get to any new
webpage.  I'm pretty sure the ones that are still displaying are in my
cache.  In other words, nntp, smtp and ssh are all working fine, but
http seems to have gone on vacation.

On my android phone, I can do a google search when I'm using t-mobile
3G, but not when I set it to WIFI, which is using my comcast connection.
I can ssh into my dreamhost account and run lynx with no problems on the
sites I'm having trouble with from my home computer.

Is anyone else having trouble?  If so, have you reported it?  And if you
did, would you guess saying, Nntp, smtp and ssh work and http doesn't,
would be better or worse than saying, The internet is broken?

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I value kindness to human beings first of all, and kindness to
animals. I don't respect the law; I have a total irreverence for
anything connected with society except that which makes the roads
safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper, and old men and women
warmer in the winter, and happier in the summer.

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Re: [Discuss] Has Comcast broken the internet?

[Laura Conrad]

 Tony == Tony Koker tko...@gmail.com writes:

Tony    Not sure about the services that are working for you,
Tony whether they use DNS or not, but this sounds like a problem
Tony I've had in the past when the DNS for the ISP isn't working.

I'm not using the Comcast DNS,  because when it broke a year or so ago,
I read advice to use the google dns at 8.8.8.8 instead.  But it doesn't
surprise me if Comcast DNS is broken.  Would they have trouble routing
packets or something, even if I'm not using it directly?

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Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired,
signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are
not fed, those who are cold and not clothed.

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Re: [Discuss] Has Comcast broken the internet?

[Laura Conrad]

 Tony == Tony Koker tko...@gmail.com writes:

TonyMaybe log into comcast (http://customer.comcast.com) and
Tony check service status (maybe with your phone). I'm not longer
Tony on comcast, or I'd have given it a peak myself.

I can't find service status.  As Tom suggested, I used
https://customer.comcast.com and was able to sign in, and there are no
alerts, but I can't find the service status.

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The dipsomaniac and the abstainer are not only both mistaken, but they
both make the same mistake: They both regard wine as a drug and not as
a drink.

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Re: [Discuss] Has Comcast broken the internet?

[Laura Conrad]

 Tom == Tom Metro tmetro+...@gmail.com writes:

Tom Laura Conrad wrote:
 ...http seems to have gone on vacation.

Tom Perhaps their transparent proxy has failed.

Tom Try accessing a site hat uses HTTPS. If it works, then that's
Tom likely the explanation. (And for many sites that support it,
Tom using the HTTPS version might be a short-term workaround.)

That seems to work.

 ...would you guess saying, Nntp, smtp and ssh work and http
 doesn't, would be better or worse than saying, The internet is
 broken?

Tom That's a tough call with consumer support. I guess I'd start
Tom off by asking whether there are any known problems happening
Tom affecting web access. If it's a busted proxy, they'll be
Tom flooded with complaints.

So it sounds like they aren't flooded with complaints so I'll have to
complain myself?

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The opposite of funny isn't serious; the opposite of both funny
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Re: [Discuss] The next Linux desktop

[Laura Conrad]

 Richard == Richard Pieri richard.pi...@gmail.com writes:

Richard I think that Laura's experience is indicative of the state
Richard of the Linux desktop especially on portable kit.  In short:
Richard it sucks.

In the light of later discussion, I want to point out that nothing I
complained about was directly related to the desktop at all.  

If the developers are tweaking the desktop experience at the expense of
fixing the bugs in power management and graphics, there might be an
indirect relationship, but I actually was using XFCE on Xubuntu, so my
problems had nothing to do with the desktop wars.  

I'm actually quite a lot like the non-technical users -- I just want
something that works the way I'm used to.  The difference is that I got
used to X windows in the 1980's.  So I *need* focus follows mouse.

As long as I can run the applications I want, I don't really care what
the desktop looks like.  But when I was having trouble with the
screensaver hanging, I kept remembering how impressed my friends were
with xscreensaver in the mid nineties, and wondering why I couldn't
still impress them that way.  Thanks to Mint, now I can.  A small
blessing.

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Re: [Discuss] How do I determine what hard drive screws I need?

[Laura Conrad]

 Scott == Scott Ehrlich srehrl...@gmail.com writes:

Scott I'd ask where you got the drives then contact where they came
Scott from and tell them you also need the screws - go back to the
Scott source first and have them try to fix the problem.

I had a problem like this once, and I looked more carefully on my living
room floor and the little envelope with the right screws for the drive had
fallen under the sofa. 

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G.P. 7: Never despise a drink because it is easy to make and/or uses
commercial mixes.  Unquestioning devotion to authenticity is, in any
department of life, a mark of the naïve -- or worse.

Kingsley Amis, _On Drink_

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Re: [Discuss] Firefox vs. Chrome

[Laura Conrad]

 Robert == Robert La Ferla rob...@laferla.net writes:

Robert On Jul 21, 2011, at 12:15 AM, Rich Braun wrote:


 Has anyone else gone through this switch?  What steps could have
 been taken to troubleshoot Firefox to avoid having to make this
 switch?  I basically disabled all plugins, flash, Java,
 everything--and it still took over my whole system.  I'm saddened
 by the collapse of Firefox but maybe it's just me, doing
 something wrong.
 

Robert Same here.  I have used Mozilla and Firefox for many years
Robert but recently Firefox has been both a memory and cpu hog.


My experience exactly.


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With all these books, as with any on the subject, do not expect to
turn yourself into an expert via the printed word alone.  You can
commit to memory everything Lichine has to say about Gevrey-Chambertin
and still have no idea whether you would like the wine.

Kingsley Amis, _On Drink_

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[SPAM] [Discuss] [SPAM] Re: Distribution that tests printing

[Laura Conrad]

 Dan == Dan Ritter d...@tao.merseine.nu writes:
 It's a Brother 5250DN, and ever since I've gotten it I marvel at how
 well the duplexing works, and how easy connecting all the computers in
 the house is.

Dan I have that printer, and it works very well with stable Debian.
Dan No issues except on a machine that intermittently drops WiFi,
Dan where re-establishing the connection and restarting cupsd solves
Dan it.

That sounded like a plausible solution, so I downloaded a Debian Stable
live CD and tried printing my book.  From the command line (lpr
filename.pdf), it causes the printer light to blink yellow for a while
and then gives up without printing anything.  

There's hand-waving in that last paragraph -- it was by no means simple
to configure the printer and get the file, because the cursor was
invisible.  

So I think I may just bring the laptop with 10.04 installed upstairs
next to the printer and do my printing from there.  Either that or
investigate different ghostscript versions on the desktop.

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When people talk about write what you know instead of writing SF, I
always say that the one thing we're all qualified to write is the
story of being thirteen years old and surrounded by aliens.

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[Laura Conrad]

 edwardp == edwardp  edwa...@linuxmail.org writes:

edwardp When running the Debian Live image, make sure that it has
edwardp configured the printer properly.  

I did print a smaller PDF file, that has no trouble on any of the
systems I've tried it on, and it printed fine.  It's dealing with large
files that seems to be a problem.  

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I gave Cuellar more chances than my first wife.

Hall of Fame Orioles manager Earl Weaver, after he stuck with lefty
Mike Cuellar way too long, finally pulling him out of the rotation
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Re: [Discuss] Distribution that tests printing

[Laura Conrad]

 Jack == Jack Coats j...@coats.org writes:

Jack For moderate duty printing, printing directly to a network
Jack attached printer is pretty awesome.

When it works, yes.  

It's a Brother 5250DN, and ever since I've gotten it I marvel at how
well the duplexing works, and how easy connecting all the computers in
the house is.

But since the upgrade, I've been having files that won't print at all
and files that print some and then stop.  All without leaving any
messages in any log I can find.  The particular file that was being
problematic when I wrote the original message was an 8-page update to
the book, and it was printing 7 of the pages.

The printing some and then stopping isn't new, but the book I'm
working on (about 120 pages) used to print in 2 pieces, and now takes
too many to bother with (at least 4 or 5).

I'm sure it's the upgrade, and not the printer hardware, because I have
a laptop that's still running 10.04LTS, and it has the old problems but
not the new ones.

Jack If you are doing 'across the internet' printing and are fairly
Jack 'light duty', the remote printer feature in Chrome works
Jack pretty well.

If you're talking about this
http://www.reviewon.com/google-cloud-print-prints-documents-from-any-web-enabled-device.html,
it looks like it doesn't work with linux yet.  So even if I could figure
out how to use it from Windows (at the moment I seem to be in an ugly
loop where I can't tell it where to print to), I'd have to keep Windows
booted, and that would be even more of a nuisance than using the 10.04
laptop to print.  But long term it might be a better solution than
depending on the Ubuntu community to test printing.

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Hall of Fame Orioles manager Earl Weaver, after he stuck with lefty
Mike Cuellar way too long, finally pulling him out of the rotation
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[Discuss] Distribution that tests printing

[Laura Conrad]

Can someone recommend a distribution for people who use printing
intensively?  

In general I like Ubuntu, but they have a fairly long history of
screwing up printing, and 11.10 seems particularly bad for my purposes.

One of the things I do with my desktop computer is print out music that
I've transcribed for my group to play, and in general I'm printing at 7
for a 7:30 rehearsal, and it's a nuisance when the computer doesn't do
what I tell it to.

I need duplexing to work, the normal lpr options (e.g. -#) to work, and
large files to print without complaining.  Rocket science is in fact
very like all of this, but the rocket science was done at least 20 years
ago, so it should still work, if anyone bothered to test it when they
fiddled with it.

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Try to leave out the part that readers tend to skip.


Elmore Leonard / AARP magazine, August, 2009
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Re: ebooks and pdf?

[Laura Conrad]

 Bill == Bill Bogstad bogs...@pobox.com writes:

Bill From my experience so far with the Kindle, even ebook formats
Bill don't work that well for books with lots of images, charts,
Bill graphs, etc.  

I agree.  I mostly read novels on my reading device, and read other
things either onscreen on a desktop or laptop or as dead trees.


Bill Admittedly, this could be peculiar to the books/device
Bill (Kindle) that I'm using and it may work better on other
Bill similar sized devices.


Not with what I've used.  But I've always thought the Kindle form factor
was the worst of all possible worlds -- too big to put in a pocket and
too small to really do graphic-intensive displays.

On a cheerful note, I was assuming my cheap android phone would be
useless as an ereader, but I find I've almost stopped taking the Nokia
810 on trips where there might be casual reading, because it's so easy
to whip out the phone and read the free samples I tell Amazon to put on
it.  

Then when I like the sample enough to buy it, I put it on the Nokia,
which is in my opinion the ideal size for portable (in the sense of
putting in your pocket, or reading in bed) reading.

I still bring the Nokia if it's a long bus or train ride or might
involve reading in a bar, because the 5 screen involves a *lot* less
page turning than the 3 screen on the phone.

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Re: ebooks and pdf?

[Laura Conrad]

 Chris == Chris O'Connell omegah...@gmail.com writes:

Chris I do like EPUBs and like the portable nature of the EPUB
Chris format.  The EPUB format became standardized in 2007, so it's
Chris a relatively young file format.  I'm a bit concerned the file
Chris format has the longevity that PDFs have.

I think it's a pretty simple conversion between epub and html, so I'm
assuming it's likely there will be programs that can read it for the
forseeable future.  

If I did get paranoid about that, I could have calibre convert all my
epubs to html.  So far I haven't done that.


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This song is Copyrighted in U.S., under Seal of Copyright #154085, for
a period of 28 years, and anybody caught singin' it without our
permission, will be mighty good friends of ourn, cause we don't give a
dern. Publish it. Write it. Sing it. Swing to it. Yodel it. We wrote
it, that's all we wanted to do.

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Re: ebooks and pdf?

[Laura Conrad]

 Bill == Bill Bogstad bogs...@pobox.com writes:

 Kindle for PC does run under Wine.

Bill Do you use this solution?  I've tried and it seems you have to
Bill have just the right version of Kindle for PC and Wine to make
Bill it work.  So far, I haven't had much luck.

Yes, it's part of the way I strip the DRM from Kindle books.  You're
right, you need just the right version of Kindle for PC.  The version of
Wine that's on Ubuntu 10.04 seems to be OK; I haven't had to fiddle with
it, except for the winetricks mentioned in the post.

These http://okomestudio.net/biboroku/?p=931 are the directions I
used.  On ubuntu, you don't need lib32nss-mdns.  Combined with the
plugins for calibre I pointed to previously, I am now able (on one
computer) to strip Kindle DRM.

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After much pondering, I think I understand a basic reason why a glass
of something reviving is so welcome in the early evening.  Partly, of
course, it's just that, to revive, to relax, but it's also a
convenient way of becoming a slightly different person from your
daytime self, less methodical, less calculating -- however you put it,
somebody different, and the prospect of that has helped to make the
day tolerable.  And, conversely, it's not having that prospect that
makes the day look grim to the poor old ex-boozer, more than missing
the alcohol as such.  Changing for dinner used to be another way of
switching roles.  Coming home from work has a touch of the same
effect.

Writers haven't got that advantage -- when they finish work they're at
home already.  So perhaps they need that glass of gin extra badly.
Any excuse is better than none.

Kingsley Amis, _Every Day Drinking_

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Re: Android Tablet

[Laura Conrad]

 Kent == Kent Borg kentb...@borg.org writes:

Kent P.S. Even without root, I can ssh into my phone (though not on
Kent port 22), I can ssh out, I can run Python. I can do stuff...

How do you do that, and can you rsync stuff to it?



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If there happens to be a number of greater voices in the Concert than
your own, they will swallow you up; therefore in such a case, I would
recommend to you the resolution (tho' not the impudence) of a
discarded actor, who after he had been twice hissed off the stage,
mounted again, and with great assurance he thundered out these words:
I will be heard.

William Billings

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Re: Android Tablet

[Laura Conrad]

 Kent == Kent Borg kentb...@borg.org writes:

 and can you rsync stuff to it?
 

Kent I don't think so, you need a copy of rsync on the other end to do
Kent that, right? (Maybe someone has done an rsync server for Android.)


Kent scp works, 

I can live with scp.  We're mostly talking about things like ebooks and
music files that don't change after you've put them on the phone.


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Mr. Barenboim recalled observing Mr. Boulez lead Schoenberg’s “Pelleas
und Melisande” with the BBC Symphony in the early 1960s.

“I sat with the score during the rehearsal,” he said. “At the
beginning there is quite a lot of chromaticism, and at a certain point
there was a chord out of tune and Pierre said, ‘No, no, this is sharp,
this is flat.’ I was amazed.

“As a pianist I had no idea how he heard all that. I mean, when I
thought my piano was out of tune, I just called the tuner. So I asked
Pierre how he did it. I was starting to conduct, and I wanted to know
if this was something I could learn.

“Pierre said: ‘You have to have the courage to say what you hear and
think when you conduct. Either the player will correct you and say
it’s not me out of tune, it’s the second oboe, or you will be
right. But in any case you will learn. Don’t put your ego above the
music. Do what you have to do for the sake of the music, and only in
that way will you make progress.’ ”

Quoted by Michael Kimmelman in the New York Times, January 10, 2010

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Re: network issues

[Laura Conrad]

 Dan == Dan Ritter d...@tao.merseine.nu writes:

 i recently acquired an acer aspire and installed fc14.  neither wlan0 or
 eth0 shows up from dmesg, so the networking gui can't make any 
connection.
 the wireless is there and was used successfully in the original windows7
 installation, now gone.  any suggestions?

Dan lspci to see what the hardware is. Then start googling for
Dan driver compatibility.

What I did with mine was just try linux distributions until I found one
that seemed to work.  I think I stopped on Easy Peasy Linux.  I'm mostly
just using it as an ebook reader for PDF's that need a bigger screen
than my Nokia N810, though, so what distribution I use isn't very
important.


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Hard to know whether to file this under excessive government spending,
loss of civil liberties (nearly full day detention due to carrying
honey), or runaway health care costs.

Philip Greenspun, commenting on a report that two bottles of honey set
off explosives detection systems, and led to a gardener being detained
and two TSA agents being hospitalized.
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scanner flaking out

[Laura Conrad]

Recently, when I scan, I'm often missing a piece of the page.  I notice
that this happens when the disk drive is also busy doing something else,
like a backup.

I don't remember this happening until the last couple of weeks.  Do you
think:

My scanner is dying

My disk drive is dying

I'm just scanning and/or backing up more often

I'm most concerned about the second possibility -- I would want to do
something about the drive before it died.  If the scanner died, I could
usually either wait or convince someone else to do it for me.

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I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but I know
that World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

Einstein

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