Posts by Nameless Dread

Geoid, anybody ? -Correction

Missed the edit window ...

I should have written ' ... 50 - 60 metres altitude..' (difference between smartphone and real GPS receiver which corrects for Geode shape).

Not for me, thanks

Mint user here ...

Ran the core version of Zorin live yesterday but didn't like the 'Fisher-Price' icons. Also, to my disappointment, it didn't install a proper version of Wine, so it wouldn't run Lotus 1-2-3 ( unlike Mint).

Didn't try Virtual Box. I can do that already on Mint. (+ Win XP, Lotus). So no go.

MX Linux is OK;

Tx for OS suggestions, Liam

DOBs on multiple occasions

" ... and merged the records of the individuals that share the same name and date of birth on multiple occasions during 2000, 2021 and 2022."

Remind me to change my DOB on multiple occasions, just in case I share it with Zuck or someone. Once would be enough, shirley.

Oh, Brother ...

... Not the universal answer, sadly.

I have an HL-L2350DW which ghostBSD has never heard of. (Many thanks for mentioning this OS, Liam.)

Nor has Brother' s site a driver for FreeBSD or GhostBSD

Even Ghost's recommended alternative driver (HP something or other) doesn't function.

And yet Linux Mint copes, no bother.

Perhaps Ghost HQ will wake up some day ...

FreeBSD to HOST VirtualBox?

Installed it and liked the fast boot-up to Desktop. - much faster than Linux Mint.

(Perhaps the verbose start-up messages makes it more interesting than Mint's bla[c/n]k screen.)

Now, how to install Virtual Box ON the thing ?

Internet search seems exclusively to yield install GhostBSD INTO Virtual Box on another OS.

Any pointers ? Somebody ?

Xit away

Ever seen one of those pesky pop-up windows with an 'X' top RH corner to send it away?

Well the other day, I got one but it was the wrong sort of 'X' and when I hit it as a reflex, our Elon got another hit he didn't deserve.

Eternal vigilance, folks!

Old hat here

I still yearn for Lotus 1-2-3.

Graphs ('charts') were neat; not klunky like in OL Calc.

Larry

The good old days

XP in Virtual Box on Mint on a private network (disabled) - runs Lotus 1-2-3 and Notepad - Magic! (So much faster and more eye-appealing than Libre Office !)

For non US readers re robocalls ...

I had a well-spoken 'lady from Amazon' call my land-line the other day to say 'suspicious activity' had been noted on my Amazon account and it had been blocked.

'Dial 1 to speak to a customer representative.'

I hung up and logged in on my desktop to my Amazon account and, to no surprise, there had been no suspicious activity reported.

Then I recalled I had NEVER given my land-line number to Amazon at all:

Draw your own conclusions ...

"Amenities"

... a steering wheel, gear shift, accelerator, or brake pedal... amenities ...

Ironic, or what?

Bring back the good ol' days

Just gone from LM19.3 to LM20.3, prompted (driven?) by warnings of LM19's imminent EOL.

IMO, general appearance of LM20 is 'Teletubbies' compared with LM19 crispness, and overall performance has slowed.

Any chance of reverting the appearance ?

Also had to upgrade Virtual Box and now B -Win XP can't see my second hard drive. AND can't update Firefox manually!

Not a happy bunny.

Larry Grew

"... traditional GPS..." !

... from beyond the gravy ...

Count another XP user here.

It's in a VM on Mint so I can use Lotus 1-2-3, just like the good old days.

Some things never change

... The solution is to open Task Manager, then kill and restart the Explorer process, which is not too painful though hardly intuitive.

Sounds like the bastard son of 'Stop it then Restart it' (of beloved memory).

Ads ? Paid features ?

On the topic of 'ads', what's the difference between one of them and a 'paid feature' like we've started seeing on el Reg pages ?

Life on the edge

OK, the blocking tool works, it tells me.

But I had to use an ELEVATED Powershell (admin permissions) so as to dodge the "access denied" refusal.

Strange that the "help" page from MicroSoft doesn't seem to mention this. (At first sight, anyway.)

(Just spotted a commenter above mentions use by admin.)

Any ideas how to Uninstall Edge if it's already in place ?

It's absent from the "Uninstall or change a program" screen; likewise from the "Windows features" box.

Reminds me of trying to remove Internet Explorer in the good old days. Only more so.

PDFs nogo in FF - Vivaldi OK

Just in case anyone's interested - PDFs don't open any more for me in Firefox ( with with add blocker, on Windows 7) so I have switched default PDF application to Vivaldi - works fine. Useful for tax and other docs from secure sites.

@ David 132: I’m sure there’s a limerick in there somewhere....

The fuss Dickinsonia provokes,

those plentiful sexual jokes,

augment their transmission

by prompting coition

as Charles Darwin's notion evokes.

...

NEXT!!!

Words and their meanings

Seem to remember Woody Allen commenting that, when accosted by some undesirables, "I told them to go forth and multiply, but not in those exact words ... "

"... the FAA may find time to get off its ass..."

A bit like Donkey Hotee standing down to tilt at windmills ?

... private data been stories in the cloud is unlikely ...

Sieze title.

" ... uploaded himself to the Cloud."

10 out of 10 !

Sorry - misread that ..

" ... When he's not helping _repair_ the next generation of business models, ... "