Re: Verifying file integrity with "MD5 signatures" (was: Linux Mint (Cinnamon 17.3 ONLY) hacked on Saturday)

2016-02-26 Thread Tom Buskey
On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 5:52 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen <roz...@hackerposse.com > wrote: > On 02/21/2016 06:49 PM, Ted Roche wrote: > > According to > > > > > http://fossforce.com/2016/02/linux-mint-hacked-iso-for-17-3-cinnamon-edition-modified/ > > > > Or

Re: Verifying file integrity with "MD5 signatures" (was: Linux Mint (Cinnamon 17.3 ONLY) hacked on Saturday)

2016-02-24 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
On 02/21/2016 06:49 PM, Ted Roche wrote: > According to > > http://fossforce.com/2016/02/linux-mint-hacked-iso-for-17-3-cinnamon-edition-modified/ > > Original web site posting here: > > http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=2994 > > Be careful out there. And he says "

Linux Mint (Cinnamon 17.3 ONLY) hacked on Saturday

2016-02-21 Thread Ted Roche
According to http://fossforce.com/2016/02/linux-mint-hacked-iso-for-17-3-cinnamon-edition-modified/ Original web site posting here: http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=2994 Be careful out there. -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche

Re: GNOME 3 (was: mint)

2012-01-06 Thread Derek Atkins
kevin_d_cl...@comcast.net (Kevin D. Clark) writes: Joshua Judson Rosen writes: It's funny what non-hackers notice and appreciate :) The feature that I *cannot* live without is virtual desktops. I prefer to have 16 or 25 of them, in a 4x4 or 5x5 format. I logically separate my work onto

Re: mint

2012-01-05 Thread Kevin D. Clark
My solution was to flip gnome 3 the bird and switch to XFCE. Me, too - I switched to the XFCE-based Xubuntu. I couldn't figure out Gnome3 when I upgraded to Fedora 16. It just threw me for a loop. I tried out LXDE and then I found that XFCE suited me better. YMMV. --kevin --

GNOME 3 (was: mint)

2012-01-05 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
kevin_d_cl...@comcast.net (Kevin D. Clark) writes: My solution was to flip gnome 3 the bird and switch to XFCE. Me, too - I switched to the XFCE-based Xubuntu. I couldn't figure out Gnome3 when I upgraded to Fedora 16. It just threw me for a loop. I tried out LXDE and then I found

Re: GNOME 3 (was: mint)

2012-01-05 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Joshua Judson Rosen writes: It's funny what non-hackers notice and appreciate :) The feature that I *cannot* live without is virtual desktops. I prefer to have 16 or 25 of them, in a 4x4 or 5x5 format. I logically separate my work onto these desktops, and I navigate between these with my

Re: GNOME 3 (was: mint)

2012-01-05 Thread Bill Sconce
On 05 Jan 2012 13:53:04 -0500 kevin_d_cl...@comcast.net (Kevin D. Clark) wrote: I'll say one really nice thing about LXDE: if you want to change the format of the displayed time in the date/time applet, the docs say use the format described in strftime(). Wow, that's minimal, and that's

Re: GNOME 3 (was: mint)

2012-01-05 Thread Chris Linstid
On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 1:53 PM, Kevin D. Clark kevin_d_cl...@comcast.netwrote: I'll say one really nice thing about LXDE: if you want to change the format of the displayed time in the date/time applet, the docs say use the format described in strftime(). Wow, that's minimal, and that's

Re: GNOME 3 (was: mint)

2012-01-05 Thread Bill Freeman
On 1/5/12, Bill Sconce sco...@in-spec-inc.com wrote: Only thing is I can't figure out how to present both local and UTC... :) 29_desktops_here'ly yrs, -Bill Use python. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org

Re: mint

2012-01-04 Thread Shawn O'Shea
On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 1:42 PM, Bruce Labitt bruce.lab...@myfairpoint.netwrote: snip Maybe I'm just looking to hold on to gnome. It worked well enough. It didn't have too much stupid stuff and was relatively easy to maintain. Any insights? Who knows how long it will still be available,

Re: mint

2012-01-04 Thread Ed lawson
On Wed, 4 Jan 2012 16:42:18 -0500 Shawn O'Shea sh...@eth0.net wrote: Who knows how long it will still be available, but if you launch Ubuntu Software Center and install the GNOME Desktop Environment package (or apt-get install gnome-desktop-environment) you will get GNOME and GNOME Classic

Re: mint

2012-01-04 Thread Chris Linstid
My solution was to flip gnome 3 the bird and switch to XFCE. I've been much happier since. It may be missing some of the graphical bells and whistles you get with gnome 2 plus compositing, but at least I have all of the functionality that I'm used to from gnome 2. - Chris On Wed, Jan 4,

Re: mint

2012-01-04 Thread Shawn O'Shea
On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 5:14 PM, Ed lawson elaw...@grizzy.com wrote: Thank you for that info. I have been switching between Gnome 3 and the Classic Gnome options provided in SID and nice to know you can get there in Ubuntu too. For me using classic is relatively painless, but Gnome 3 will

Re: mint

2012-01-04 Thread Michael ODonnell
My solution was to flip gnome 3 the bird and switch to XFCE. Me, too - I switched to the XFCE-based Xubuntu. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

Re: mint

2012-01-03 Thread David Rysdam
On Tue, 03 Jan 2012 11:46:17 -0500, Ken D'Ambrosio k...@jots.org wrote: On 01/02/2012 03:02 PM, David Rysdam wrote: I actually upgraded directly from Ubuntu 10.04 to Debian 6 with zero problems. That is, I kept my /home (and dotfiles) and just replaced the OS and had no issues other than

mint

2012-01-02 Thread Bruce Labitt
I'm tempted to try out mint. There are quite a few options. From what I gather, Mint is based on Ubuntu. So the latest Mint 12 is based on Oneiric. I have Oneiricnow and really think it is a steaming bucket as far as productivity. It really is not made for doing work, it seems to be more

Re: mint

2012-01-02 Thread Coleman Kane
A friend of mine at work (GE) uses Mint for his primary desktop environment and swears by it. I think GNOME 3 is the desktop environment (rather than Unity). Sent from my iPhone On Jan 2, 2012, at 1:42 PM, Bruce Labitt bruce.lab...@myfairpoint.net wrote: I'm tempted to try out mint

Re: mint

2012-01-02 Thread David Rysdam
On Mon, 02 Jan 2012 13:42:16 -0500, Bruce Labitt bruce.lab...@myfairpoint.net wrote: Should I take the plunge to LMDE? I've never run debian before. Yes you have. Ubuntu, especially older versions, *is* Debian, but with shinier graphics. I'm not looking for which distro is the best ever,

Re: mint

2012-01-02 Thread Bruce Labitt
On 01/02/2012 01:59 PM, David Rysdam wrote: On Mon, 02 Jan 2012 13:42:16 -0500, Bruce Labittbruce.lab...@myfairpoint.net wrote: Should I take the plunge to LMDE? I've never run debian before. Yes you have. Ubuntu, especially older versions, *is* Debian, but with shinier graphics. Yes, and

Re: mint

2012-01-02 Thread David Rysdam
On Mon, 02 Jan 2012 14:27:42 -0500, Bruce Labitt bruce.lab...@myfairpoint.net wrote: On 01/02/2012 01:59 PM, David Rysdam wrote: On Mon, 02 Jan 2012 13:42:16 -0500, Bruce Labittbruce.lab...@myfairpoint.net wrote: Getting closer to topic - what are the down sides to Debian? More work