Re: [GTALUG] wired headset suggestions?

On Mon, 10 Oct 2022 02:27:01 -0400 (EDT) Karen Lewellen via talk wrote: > Hi folks and happy thanksgiving if you are celebrating. > Given others might spend far more time in on line meetings than myself, > plus the ideas here tend to be workable, I thought I would toss this > question out

Re: [GTALUG] scanner under Windows under Linux?

On Tue, 2 Aug 2022 10:28:02 -0400 (EDT) "D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk" wrote: > This message is also a test of the list. > > CZUR makes interesting page scanners: > We actually have a couple. > > Until recently, all of their scanners' software only runs under Windows. >

Re: [GTALUG] Chromebook death dates

On Thu, 1 Jun 2023 15:24:56 -0400 Scott Allen via talk wrote: > On Thu, 1 Jun 2023 at 15:05, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk > wrote: > > Pickett was a good brand. I really didn't like plastic slide rules > > because they were jerky to operate: stiction.\

Re: [GTALUG] Favorite desktop manager?

On Tue, 25 Jul 2023 16:58:47 -0400 Michael Galea via talk wrote: > Xfce on Debian 11 for MythTv (boots directly to the Myth screen in ~ 10S) > KDE on debian 12 on my personal system and laptop I like xfce and lxde, but I am still running FVWM2. -- Howard Gibson hgib...@eol.ca

Re: [GTALUG] Dual boot

Gron, How critical is that software? GIMP works fine with my Nikon camera. Darktable allows me to remotely control it. On Thu, 27 Jul 2023 19:55:01 -0400 Gron Arthur via talk wrote: > Thinking of buying a Dell 3571 and making it dual boot with Windows and > Debian. Main reason for

Re: [GTALUG] War Story: adding RAM to a laptop can increase the speed

On Mon, 19 Feb 2024 12:31:08 -0500 (EST) "D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk" wrote: > | From: Howard Gibson via talk > | > |I have long ago given up trying to run computers on 8GB RAM. For > |GNU/Linux, 16GB minimum. > > What tasks to you do that challen

Re: [GTALUG] War Story: adding RAM to a laptop can increase the speed

On Mon, 19 Feb 2024 02:52:38 -0500 (EST) "D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk" wrote: > I bought a very inexpensive laptop from costco.ca. > Dead deal: > > > Unlike most

Re: [GTALUG] GNOME's "Attach Modal Dialogs"?

On Sun, 26 Nov 2023 01:33:41 -0500 (EST) "D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk" wrote: > By default, when a GNOME application pops up a dialog, it gets glued to > (one of?) the application's window: the dialog sits in front of the > Window, glued in place. If you move the dialog, the window moves with

Re: [GTALUG] mbox vs Maildir [was Re: Linux friendly email providers?]

On Fri, 24 Nov 2023 01:20:20 -0500 (EST) "D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk" wrote: > You mentioned that you were running out of space on your system. If a lot > of that space is mail messages, I would bet that Maildir is costing you a > lot of it. Each message is taking a multiple of the

Re: [GTALUG] Linux friendly email providers?

On Wed, 22 Nov 2023 21:25:13 -0500 (EST) Karen Lewellen via talk wrote: > Hi folks, > let me be more specific..some of you tech wizards run your own mail > servers laughs. > for context, although google is removing access to basic html in January, > they pulled my access to it early..and

Re: [GTALUG] Linux friendly email providers?

is a nice email tool, mostly plain text. The thing I desperately needed at the time was the capability to download email, read it offline, and use send-later for my replies. On Thu, 23 Nov 2023 12:33:14 -0800 Ron / BCLUG via talk wrote: > Howard Gibson via talk wrote on 2023-11-22 21

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