On 10/16/23 14:32, Rich Shepard wrote:
On Mon, 16 Oct 2023, Dick Steffens wrote:
When did the developers decide against DFWAB? (Don't Fix What Ain't
Broke)
Anyway, back to my opening rant, what is the point of all these changes?
Do they fix something? For me they break things.
Dick
eded?
Anyway, back to my opening rant, what is the point of all these changes?
Do they fix something? For me they break things.
Grouse, grouse.
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Dick Steffens
On 9/28/23 18:32, wes wrote:
On Thu, Sep 28, 2023 at 8:33 AM Dick Steffens wrote:
I have three of these models
if you have 3 of them, you could swap batteries with a working one and
follow the problem to its source.
-wes
True, but one of them is for my wife's computer, so I can't do
On 9/27/23 16:13, Dick Steffens wrote:
On 9/27/23 16:10, Bill Barry wrote:
Yes, I would definitely take it out of the circuit and test it. There
is little else that can go wrong with a UPS. Especially since all the
warning signals are working.
BIll
Probably tomorrow. Thanks for confirming
On 9/27/23 23:43, Keith Lofstrom wrote:
On Wed, Sep 27, 2023 at 02:11:03PM -0700, Dick Steffens wrote:
The battery has 12.54v. Sounds like my UPS is borked. Any ideas on
how to test it? And any recommendations on who makes a good,
moderately priced model?
At 12.54 volts open circuit
On 9/27/23 16:10, Bill Barry wrote:
On Wed, Sep 27, 2023 at 5:44 PM Dick Steffens wrote:
I would expect the current battery, with 12.54v should have at least
started up, so I'm suspicious that it's not the battery. I can take it
up to the place I got it, Battery X-Change of Oregon City
On 9/27/23 15:51, Rich Shepard wrote:
On Wed, 27 Sep 2023, Dick Steffens wrote:
The battery has 12.54v. Sounds like my UPS is borked. Any ideas on
how to
test it? And any recommendations on who makes a good, moderately priced
model?
Dick,
Look at <https://www.refurbups.com/>. I bough
no effect.
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Dick Steffens
On 9/27/23 15:39, Bill Barry wrote:
On Wed, Sep 27, 2023 at 5:16 PM Dick Steffens wrote:
On 9/27/23 14:12, Russell Senior wrote:
I have a UPS in my basement right now, beeping every 14m53s and the
battery is fine. The problem is oxide on the connector. Every 3-4
months I ritually disconnect
of the 1500.
Time to start researching UPSs again and see who currently makes the
best, moderately priced unit. Amazon has the 850 for $117. Best Buy no
longer has it. Amazon has the 1500 for $174. Best Buy, $222.
Any recommendations for other brands?
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Dick Steffens
On 9/27/23 13:44, Keith Lofstrom wrote:
On Wed, 27 Sep 2023, Dick Steffens wrote:
After the power was restored, when I turned the unit back on, it
went through a repeating cycle of beep-beep, shut down, then beep-beep,
shut down, and so on. Is it possible that more than the battery may
On 9/27/23 12:36, Rich Shepard wrote:
On Wed, 27 Sep 2023, Dick Steffens wrote:
We had a power outage this morning. My CyberPower 800AVR Battery Backup
did not work, meaning that when the power went off, the computer shut
down. After the power was restored, when I turned the unit back
, and so on. Is it possible that more than the battery may be
the problem?
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Dick Steffens
On 9/17/23 16:35, Dick Steffens wrote:
I have an issue with my HP printer. Xsane will start, but fails when I
try to Acquire preview. I get the error message
Failed to start scanner: Invalid argument.
It's not at all clear to me what argument is invalid. Is there some
way to find this out
On 9/17/23 16:35, Dick Steffens wrote:
I have an issue with my HP printer. Xsane will start, but fails when I
try to Acquire preview. I get the error message
Failed to start scanner: Invalid argument.
It's not at all clear to me what argument is invalid. Is there some
way to find this out
I have an issue with my HP printer. Xsane will start, but fails when I
try to Acquire preview. I get the error message
Failed to start scanner: Invalid argument.
It's not at all clear to me what argument is invalid. Is there some way
to find this out?
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Dick Steffens
On 9/7/23 22:04, Russell Senior wrote:
On 9/7/23 11:43, Dick Steffens wrote:
20 years ago I used to use Word Perfect in Win 95, and it was easy to
print a booklet. I'm trying to achieve the same results in
LibreOffice Writer 7.3.7.2 in Xubuntu 22.04.
I have successfully managed to format
Brochure. Clicking on it does not produce a change.
I think the problem is the printer, but don't know what to do next.
What am I missing?
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Dick Steffens
On 7/23/23 17:07, Russell Senior wrote:
If pavucontrol makes it too loud, you can damped the speakers with a small
piece of Sugru.
;-)
;-) indeed!
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Dick Steffens
On 7/23/23 16:49, Tomas Kuchta wrote:
- pavucontrol -
That looks like it might do what I want.
Thanks.
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the number is from where I start raising or lowering the level,
and I'd like to be able to set the level to a specific point.
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On 7/13/23 08:00, Rich Shepard wrote:
On Thu, 13 Jul 2023, Dick Steffens wrote:
Has anyone used this or some other trail cam without an iPhone or
Android
phone?
Dick,
I've had several trail cames and now have 2. I don't purchase any that
are
supposed to communicate wirelessly
lf.
I can always pull the SIM card do get the images, but if I can find it
with my house Wi-Fi would I be able to access the images?
Has anyone used this or some other trail cam without an iPhone or
Android phone?
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Dick Steffens
On 6/13/23 14:26, Dick Steffens wrote:
... I'm experiencing longer than expected delays from time to time.
I've replaced my hard drive with a Samsung SSD 980 PRO 1TB. The much
faster "drive" has solved the delay issues.
Thanks to all who offered advice.
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Dick Steffens
On 6/26/23 21:37, King Beowulf wrote:
On 6/26/23 16:13, Dick Steffens wrote:
Here's another one that I don't know what to call it. In Xubuntu 20.04,
when I create a file with Right-click - file type, I would get a text
box where, for example, a new text file would show up with something
like
ike it did in 20.04?
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er depends on the "display name" for the mailbox,
which I think you can change.
Probably. No need to change them, just a couple of links inside the
settings.
Thanks for getting me to look further.
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Dick Steffens
,
Dick Steffens
I've been calling the virtual machine VMware. What I use is VirtualBox.
Not sure if it really matters, but ...
On 6/15/23 14:28, Dick Steffens wrote:
On 6/15/23 14:16, Dick Steffens wrote:
As part of solving my sluggish machine issue, I'm working on setting
up my alternate desktop machine. I
On 6/15/23 14:16, Dick Steffens wrote:
As part of solving my sluggish machine issue, I'm working on setting
up my alternate desktop machine. I have installed VMware on it, and
copied some .ova files. However, VMware doesn't like .ova files. It
says it wants .ovf. On my other machine I try
to be available, only .ova. How can I get the import appliance to
recognize the .ova file?
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been run.
Is there something I should be running?
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ther thing is that while it's annoying, I can live with the
problem, and life keeps happening. Tomorrow we try to go get
strawberries and then have to process them for freezing. And that's way
more interesting and important that a sluggish machine. :-)
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Dick Steffens
running, I've always had a
similar number running and response in them used to be pretty quick.
What else can I do to try to figure out what's slowing things down?
Thanks.
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Dick Steffens
t to save, and you should have the option to pick someplace
other than the default.
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On 4/18/23 12:01, Dick Steffens wrote:
On 4/18/23 11:41, Dick Steffens wrote:
I can't get sound out of my virtual machine (VirtualBox 6.1) on my
Xubuntu 20.04 machine. Sound works for the rest of the machine, but
not from the virtual machine.
In the VirtualBox Manager/Settings/Audio
On 4/18/23 11:41, Dick Steffens wrote:
I can't get sound out of my virtual machine (VirtualBox 6.1) on my
Xubuntu 20.04 machine. Sound works for the rest of the machine, but
not from the virtual machine.
I was messing around with sound settings on the regular machine the
other day
(vertical bars).
I thought it was alsamixer, but when I run that from a terminal those
controls are not present. Running alsamixer on my other machine gives me
those controls. What did I do to mess up alsamixer on my main machine?
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On 4/17/23 12:13, Rich Shepard wrote:
On Mon, 17 Apr 2023, Dick Steffens wrote:
I can now record. Quality is not ideal, but the original source is also
not idea. But at least I have something I can work with.
Dick,
Perhaps ChatGPT can improve the quality?
Rich
Chuckle.
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Dick
o know, but
haven't paid attention to for a long time.
Thanks!
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Dick Steffens
a
tape player that creates .mp3 files.
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not idea. But at least I have something I can work with.
Thanks!
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Dick Steffens
On 4/16/23 16:05, Dick Steffens wrote:
First I tried the jack on the front that is not the headphone jack. I
think it's a mic in jack, but don't know for sure.
Then I tried the red ring jack on the back. I've switched to the blue
ring jack. Still no results in Audacity.
In Audacity I have
On 4/16/23 15:50, Rich Shepard wrote:
On Sun, 16 Apr 2023, Dick Steffens wrote:
I have an old boom box and some audio tapes. I'm trying to run the
headphone out of the boom box into the computer. I've tried the mic
input
on the front, and the back of my desktop, but none of my recording
with the same results.
Please apply the appropriate clue stick to let me record some audio from
an external source.
Thanks.
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Dick Steffens
On 3/27/23 13:23, John Jason Jordan wrote:
On Mon, 27 Mar 2023 09:00:01 -0700
Dick Steffens dijo:
Normally, image files on my desktop, or some Thunar windows, display a
thumbnail of that image. Now, I get an icon with the letters GIF or
JPG instead. I can fix the problem by restarting
On 3/27/23 13:40, King Beowulf wrote:
On 3/27/23 11:05, Dick Steffens wrote:
In Xfce you can try deleting $HOME/.thumbnails and then running
$ xfdesktop --reload
Nothing changed.
It could be that the .thumbnails is getting too big, too many stale
thumbnails.
.thumbnails is empty.
Also
On 3/27/23 09:16, Rich Shepard wrote:
On Mon, 27 Mar 2023, Dick Steffens wrote:
Any ideas how to do this without restarting the machine?
Dick,
Have you tried killing X, then restarting it?
Every now and then the cut-and-paste functions fail between applications
when X is running. I learned
On 3/27/23 10:54, Dick Steffens wrote:
On 3/27/23 10:44, King Beowulf wrote:
On 3/27/23 09:00, Dick Steffens wrote:
Normally, image files on my desktop, or some Thunar windows, display a
thumbnail of that image. Now, I get an icon with the letters GIF or JPG
instead. I can fix the problem
On 3/27/23 10:44, King Beowulf wrote:
On 3/27/23 09:00, Dick Steffens wrote:
Normally, image files on my desktop, or some Thunar windows, display a
thumbnail of that image. Now, I get an icon with the letters GIF or JPG
instead. I can fix the problem by restarting the machine, but shouldn't
.
Any ideas how to do this without restarting the machine?
Thanks.
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Dick Steffens
restoring the mail lists.
Rich
+1!
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Dick Steffens
Have "we" looked into holding in-person meetings at one of the area
libraries? Some of them have or are planning spaces suitable for meetings.
https://multcolib.org/about/building-libraries-together
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Dick Steffens
Reply List,
Forward, Archive, Junk, Delete, and More.
The limited form of headers is in the messages pane.
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On 1/10/23 13:24, Bill Barry wrote:
On Tue, Jan 10, 2023 at 3:10 PM Dick Steffens wrote:
On 1/10/23 12:21, Bill Barry wrote:
On Tue, Jan 10, 2023 at 2:03 PM Dick Steffens wrote:
I'm trying to run two programs that need JACK, MuseScore and GrandOrgue.
I start JACK with QjackCtl. When I
On 1/10/23 12:21, Bill Barry wrote:
On Tue, Jan 10, 2023 at 2:03 PM Dick Steffens wrote:
I'm trying to run two programs that need JACK, MuseScore and GrandOrgue.
I start JACK with QjackCtl. When I click "Start" I get an error message
telling me "D-BUS: JACK server could
://jackaudio.org/faq/pulseaudio_and_jack.html
where I'm told to change a setting in QJackctl. It says there's a field
labeled "Server path". I find no such field, nor anything that looks
like it could be it.
Any idea where I should look next?
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Dick Steffens
have been happy with it for the year or so that I have been using it.
Jason
Thanks. I'll look into it.
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Dick Steffens
the app is
in a folder specified by $PATH. Most DE's and even some window managers
implement XDG so this is distro agnostic.
-Ben
Thanks!
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he command selector and it took the .appimage
file for OpenShot in that directory.
Thanks!
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ch file or directory)
Just to make sure I'm not mistyping:
rsteff@ENU-1:~/appimage$ ls
OpenShot-v3.0.0-x86_64.AppImage
Text in the Launcher:
OpenShot-v3.0.0-x86_64.AppImage
(I did mistype the error message in my first post. The Launcher has the
filename correct.)
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ld process
"~/appimage/OpenShot-v.0.0-x86_64.AppImage" (No such file or directory)
Can someone offer a clue stick as to what I'm missing?
Thanks.
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Dick Steffens
find in my software. And I don't get the expected results. So,
hopefully one or more of you are musicians and can point me toward
better documentation.
Thanks.
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Dick Steffens
drivers. But,
during that time, I did not have a problem with the nVidia drivers. This
laptop is the first machine I've had with built-in nVidia hardware. The
nouveau drivers are working fine.
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On 9/13/22 16:35, Dick Steffens wrote:
I am trying to install Xubuntu 20.04 on a Lenovo Ideapad 330. The base
install worked fine. It asked me if I wanted to install updates. I
said yes. It proceeded to do that for a lot of minutes (I was reading
news on another computer, so I don't know
productive, probably because I'm not
using the
appropriate search terms.
If there's a document I can read and use as a reference please point
me to
it.
Rich
Is diacritical mark the search term you need? Or acute accent?
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with the arc chasing around in a circle, then the list
of journal recovery stuff, then a blank screen with the clock in the
upper right hand corner, and then a blank screen with the mouse pointer.
Any ideas on where to start to look to solve this one?
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Dick Steffens
bar
Disabled
...
To the right of Show Sidebar is a drop down box with
Never
Always
Mouseover
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On 6/29/22 18:14, Rich Shepard wrote:
On Wed, 29 Jun 2022, Dick Steffens wrote:
It used to be, when I was looking at T-bird and scrolled over an email
focus the email would scroll. Now I have to click to move the focus to
that email before it will scroll. Did T-bird change something, or do I
On 6/29/22 17:58, Ben Koenig wrote:
--- Original Message ---
On Wednesday, June 29th, 2022 at 5:19 PM, Dick Steffens
wrote:
On 6/29/22 11:30, Bruce Kilpatrick wrote:
On 6/29/22 10:02 AM, Dick Steffens wrote:
It used to be, when I was looking at T-bird and scrolled over an
email
On 6/29/22 11:30, Bruce Kilpatrick wrote:
On 6/29/22 10:02 AM, Dick Steffens wrote:
It used to be, when I was looking at T-bird and scrolled over an
email focus the email would scroll. Now I have to click to move the
focus to that email before it will scroll. Did T-bird change
something
)
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On 6/19/22 14:23, Daniel Ortiz wrote:
http://fivehundred.sourceforge.net
Is the software helpful?
Looks promising to help me understand how to program a card game.
Thanks.
On Sat, Jun 18, 2022 at 11:03 AM Dick Steffens
wrote:
I have friends around the country, some of whom I have visited
.
Alternatively, we would be able to use something like Zoom. The idea is
to "get together" without being in the same room.
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On 6/11/22 11:35, Bill Barry wrote:
On Sat, Jun 11, 2022 at 1:23 PM Dick Steffens wrote:
Grouse, grouse. Google is always trying to be "helpful."
I logged in to Google Mail via a browser, found where to turn on two
factor authentication, and turned it on. I still can't l
On 6/11/22 10:19, Bill Barry wrote:
On Sat, Jun 11, 2022 at 10:45 AM Dick Steffens wrote:
When I try to log in to my Gmail account via Thunderbird I get the message:
Sending of password for user [my account name]@gmail.com did not
succeed. Mail server pop.googlemail.com responded: Username
email
accounts work fine in Thunderbird. Any idea what gives?
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On 5/25/22 15:41, King Beowulf wrote:
On 5/24/22 17:00, Dick Steffens wrote:
Is anyone else having trouble with merge and center cells in Libre
Office Calc, Version: 6.4.7.2?
<...>
I pulled up Libreoffice, verions 7.3.0.3, here to check. It's not a feature
I use too often. It seems t
On 5/25/22 05:21, Rich Shepard wrote:
On Tue, 24 May 2022, Dick Steffens wrote:
Is anyone else having trouble with merge and center cells in Libre
Office Calc, Version: 6.4.7.2?
Dick,
The LO mail list (or web forum) might help. I'd also check the Calc pages
online.
Rich
I tried the Calc
out. There is an
option in Format > Cells > Alignment, Text Alignment, Horizontal Center,
Vertical, Middle. But the vertical option only allows "Default". This is
not a critical issue, but it is annoying.
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Boot? The last time I dual booted
Linux/Windows it was on a legacy BIOS system.
TIA
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setting. Then I tried going to a link
from an email and was presented with a box to choose the browser I want
to use. Brave was there and I selected it.
A bunch of digging, most of which was figuring out what to search for,
but I think I've finally fixed this problem.
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On 4/2/22 08:10, Dick Steffens wrote:
On 4/1/22 23:10, wes wrote:
On Fri, Apr 1, 2022 at 10:36 PM Dick Steffens
wrote:
~/Downloads/HPLIP 3.22.2$ hplip-3.22.2.run
hplip-3.22.2.run: command not found
What gives? How can the file be there and not be found?
try ./hplip-3.22.2.run
On 4/1/22 23:10, wes wrote:
On Fri, Apr 1, 2022 at 10:36 PM Dick Steffens wrote:
~/Downloads/HPLIP 3.22.2$ hplip-3.22.2.run
hplip-3.22.2.run: command not found
What gives? How can the file be there and not be found?
try ./hplip-3.22.2.run
or ~/Downloads/HPLIP 3.22.2/hplip-3.22.2.run
On 4/1/22 21:14, Dick Steffens wrote:
On 4/1/22 21:11, Denis Heidtmann wrote:
I do not understand the error messages, but I have has issues with an HP
all-in-one. I found that I could go to the device through its IP
address
and launch the scanner from there. Not so convenient, but it worked
find details on how to do that?
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' is a
Hewlett-Packard hp_laserjet_pro_m148-m149 all-in-one
Web searches haven't helped me figure out how to resolve this. Any ideas
where to start?
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On 3/31/22 16:49, Dick Steffens wrote:
On 3/31/22 16:46, Rich Shepard wrote:
On Thu, 31 Mar 2022, Dick Steffens wrote:
This is one of those things that was not bothersome enough to dig
into at
the time, and that has "fixed itself" after a reboot. At some point
yesterday i
On 3/31/22 16:46, Rich Shepard wrote:
On Thu, 31 Mar 2022, Dick Steffens wrote:
This is one of those things that was not bothersome enough to dig
into at
the time, and that has "fixed itself" after a reboot. At some point
yesterday image icons on the desktop stopped showing a
On 3/16/22 14:57, Dick Steffens wrote:
On 3/16/22 14:45, Rich Shepard wrote:
On Wed, 16 Mar 2022, Dick Steffens wrote:
Yes, but it won't let me change it, nor let me uncheck the "check to
see
if Firefox is the default browser."
Dick,
If you open the Brave browser and go to p
On 3/16/22 14:45, Rich Shepard wrote:
On Wed, 16 Mar 2022, Dick Steffens wrote:
Yes, but it won't let me change it, nor let me uncheck the "check to see
if Firefox is the default browser."
Dick,
If you open the Brave browser and go to preferences it should ask you
if you
wa
On 3/16/22 14:36, Rich Shepard wrote:
On Wed, 16 Mar 2022, Dick Steffens wrote:
I started using Brave as my browser in Xubuntu 20.04. Most of the
time it
just works. However, when I click on a link in an email, it opens in
Firefox. I went to the Preferred Applications control and it shows
?
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On 3/15/22 21:59, King Beowulf wrote:
On 3/15/22 09:55, Dick Steffens wrote:
On 3/15/22 00:47, Tony Schlemmer wrote:
I use NordVPN and it runs under Ubuntu, iPhone, Windows 7/10, Android and
ChromeBook. I have only used Windows 7 and 10 only. I know there is Windows 11
but I have used
"located" in West Linn, which I assume is where Comcast
has a collection point for cables in the area.
Home Depot has me at their Oregon City store, but that's because I set
it to be there.
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configurable compared to iPhone, Windows and ChromeBook. May also
run under Mac OS but I have no experience with a Mac.
After hearing all the responses and thinking about it more, my wife
decided not to pursue a VPN at this time.
Thanks for all the ideas.
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My wife is interested in VPNs, but she runs Win7. Is there a VPN that
runs on both Win7 and Linux (Ubuntu based)?
Is it worth the effort?
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On 3/8/22 22:03, Dick Steffens wrote:
I have two computers with VirtualBox installed. One, ENU-1, runs
Xubuntu 20.04 and the other, ENU-2, runs Linux Mint 20.2 Uma \n \l. I
have Win2k and Win7 on both of them. A problem has arisen. On ENU-2
the two virtual machines start up fine. on ENU-1 I
of the error messages
produce no noticeable change.
Any idea where to go next in solving this issue?
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ure it out.
Thanks to all for your experiences.
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