Gentlemen & Ladies
I decided to join your 'club' as over the past 10 years or so the MS attitude that they have the right etc etc. Much prefer the better and free path that is Linux.
I started Linux life with PClinuxOS which was very similar to Windows and it was exciting to use. The problems came in keeping it up to date and the general maintenance aspect. (with Windows an '*.exe' almost cured all) After I found Distrowatch, this opened up a whole new world. Ubuntu was the first OS that I used in earnest, but, Unity arrived. Good bye Ubuntu!
That's when I found Linux Mint 11 and I am now on Olivia. My favourite desktop is Mate. I do most of the PC maintenance for my friends and as I am now retired, I'm slowly converting them all to use Mint.
I do not however, have the skills to dig into the OS and my latest project has been to try to get the scanners on the all-in-one printers to function. And of course, the dreaded Skype problem. So, if I can give anything to the group I will, but I can't help feeling it will be the other way round.
My name is Bob Innes and I live Sproughton, Ipswich. Thank you for listening..er reading
Best wishes
Hallo and welcome Bob. Scanners, eh? You're a brave man. :¬) Steve of this parish, successfully sorted mine out but only after commenting out a bin file.
Bev.
On 14/09/13 15:11, Bob wrote:
I do not however, have the skills to dig into the OS and my latest project has been to try to get the scanners on the all-in-one printers to function. And of course, the dreaded Skype problem.
On Sat, 14 Sep 2013 15:11:47 +0100 Bob bob@beriwold.plus.com allegedly wrote:
Gentlemen & Ladies
I decided to join your 'club' as over the past 10 years or so the MS attitude that they have the right etc etc. Much prefer the better and free path that is Linux.
Bob
Hello and welcome. The natives are (largely) friendly.
There is an Ipswich based contingent who meet locally to you. I'm sure one or more will point you in the right direction.
That's when I found Linux Mint 11 and I am now on Olivia. My favourite desktop is Mate. I do most of the PC maintenance for my friends and as I am now retired, I'm slowly converting them all to use Mint.
Presumably you /do/ first ask their permission before nuking their windows installation? :-) (Sorry, I had this momentary vision of you visiting friends and zealously trashing their PC setup)
I do not however, have the skills to dig into the OS and my latest project has been to try to get the scanners on the all-in-one printers to function. And of course, the dreaded Skype problem.
Just don't use skype. Seriously.
So, if I can give anything to the group I will, but I can't help feeling it will be the other way round.
Everybody contributes in some way.
Best
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On 14/09/13 15:11, Bob wrote:
Gentlemen & Ladies
I decided to join your 'club' as over the past 10 years or so the MS attitude that they have the right etc etc. Much prefer the better and free path that is Linux.
Welcome to the list: mostly harmless^h^h^h^generally a friendly and helpful lot.
I would have concurred unreservedly with your observations, but some Linux distros Windows-like, are beginning to bloat-up. Fortunately, it's not so difficult to shed any dead weight, and should a use present itself after you have done so, no problems putting it back.
I started Linux life with PClinuxOS which was very similar to Windows and it was exciting to use. The problems came in keeping it up to date and the general maintenance aspect. (with Windows an '*.exe' almost cured all) After I found Distrowatch, this opened up a whole new world. Ubuntu was the first OS that I used in earnest, but, Unity arrived. Good bye Ubuntu!
Mine was Linux FT,which was taken overby the SuSE people. I didn't like SuSE and since I know a Debian developer, guess what I chose to replace FT?
That's when I found Linux Mint 11 and I am now on Olivia. My favourite desktop is Mate. I do most of the PC maintenance for my friends and as I am now retired, I'm slowly converting them all to use Mint.
Listmembers got mestarted on Mint, and i use it almost exclusively now.
I do not however, have the skills to dig into the OS and my latest project has been to try to get the scanners on the all-in-one printers to function. And of course, the dreaded Skype problem.
Is there one?
So, if I can give anything to the group I will, but I can't help feeling it will be the other way round.
My name is Bob Innes and I live Sproughton, Ipswich. Thank you for listening..er reading
Best wishes
Reciprocated. Well, you have all 'grades' here. Some of the butch ones wrestle Pythons...
On 15 Sep 15:36, Anthony Anson wrote:
On 14/09/13 15:11, Bob wrote:
Gentlemen & Ladies
I decided to join your 'club' as over the past 10 years or so the MS attitude that they have the right etc etc. Much prefer the better and free path that is Linux.
Welcome to the list: mostly harmless^h^h^h^generally a friendly and helpful lot.
?!
"""Welcome to the list: mostly harml^generally a friendly and helpful lot.""" ?!!?
(^h being interpreted as ctrl-h, and that being delete a character... I'm guess you meant ^w^w, but hey ;)
I would have concurred unreservedly with your observations, but some Linux distros Windows-like, are beginning to bloat-up. Fortunately, it's not so difficult to shed any dead weight, and should a use present itself after you have done so, no problems putting it back.
I started Linux life with PClinuxOS which was very similar to Windows and it was exciting to use. The problems came in keeping it up to date and the general maintenance aspect. (with Windows an '*.exe' almost cured all) After I found Distrowatch, this opened up a whole new world. Ubuntu was the first OS that I used in earnest, but, Unity arrived. Good bye Ubuntu!
Mine was Linux FT,which was taken overby the SuSE people. I didn't like SuSE and since I know a Debian developer, guess what I chose to replace FT?
I started with Peanut Linux, then Slackware, then Redhat 5.2 (it was more broken than you can believe), then SuSE (can't remember the version number), then Debian Slink... and am still running a Debian system now... and one day, I'll get round to packaging the last few things and becoming a Real DD.
That's when I found Linux Mint 11 and I am now on Olivia. My favourite desktop is Mate. I do most of the PC maintenance for my friends and as I am now retired, I'm slowly converting them all to use Mint.
Listmembers got mestarted on Mint, and i use it almost exclusively now.
My only problem with mint is that they don't follow a particular secure set of procedures of adding new repositories (in as much as it'll cheerfully do it in the background for you without asking, or would last time I looked!).
I do not however, have the skills to dig into the OS and my latest project has been to try to get the scanners on the all-in-one printers to function. And of course, the dreaded Skype problem.
Is there one?
Well, it being non-free, the chances of becoming a supernode if it notices that you might have some spare bandwidth, and that it's now under MS control... those might be considered "problems"...
So, if I can give anything to the group I will, but I can't help feeling it will be the other way round.
My name is Bob Innes and I live Sproughton, Ipswich. Thank you for listening..er reading
Best wishes
Reciprocated. Well, you have all 'grades' here. Some of the butch ones wrestle Pythons...
Less wrestle, more writhe in the infinite possibilities and the generally lovely readable code :)
On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 11:57:41PM +0100, Brett Parker wrote:
On 15 Sep 15:36, Anthony Anson wrote:
On 14/09/13 15:11, Bob wrote:
I do not however, have the skills to dig into the OS and my latest project has been to try to get the scanners on the all-in-one printers to function. And of course, the dreaded Skype problem.
Is there one?
Well, it being non-free, the chances of becoming a supernode if it notices that you might have some spare bandwidth, and that it's now under MS control... those might be considered "problems"...
I don't think normal Skype users can end up as supernodes these days? MS had moved them all to Linux boxes in their own datacentres at some point last year.
J.
On 15 Sep 16:03, Jonathan McDowell wrote:
On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 11:57:41PM +0100, Brett Parker wrote:
On 15 Sep 15:36, Anthony Anson wrote:
On 14/09/13 15:11, Bob wrote:
I do not however, have the skills to dig into the OS and my latest project has been to try to get the scanners on the all-in-one printers to function. And of course, the dreaded Skype problem.
Is there one?
Well, it being non-free, the chances of becoming a supernode if it notices that you might have some spare bandwidth, and that it's now under MS control... those might be considered "problems"...
I don't think normal Skype users can end up as supernodes these days? MS had moved them all to Linux boxes in their own datacentres at some point last year.
Handy to know :)
On 16/09/13 00:09, Brett Parker wrote:
On 15 Sep 16:03, Jonathan McDowell wrote:
On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 11:57:41PM +0100, Brett Parker wrote:
On 15 Sep 15:36, Anthony Anson wrote:
On 14/09/13 15:11, Bob wrote:
I do not however, have the skills to dig into the OS and my latest project has been to try to get the scanners on the all-in-one printers to function. And of course, the dreaded Skype problem.
Is there one?
Well, it being non-free, the chances of becoming a supernode if it notices that you might have some spare bandwidth, and that it's now under MS control... those might be considered "problems"...
I don't think normal Skype users can end up as supernodes these days? MS had moved them all to Linux boxes in their own datacentres at some point last year.
Handy to know :)
See, Bob - The List is all-knowing...
On 15/09/13 23:57, Brett Parker wrote:
On 15 Sep 15:36, Anthony Anson wrote:
On 14/09/13 15:11, Bob wrote:
Gentlemen & Ladies
I decided to join your 'club' as over the past 10 years or so the MS attitude that they have the right etc etc. Much prefer the better and free path that is Linux.
Welcome to the list: mostly harmless^h^h^h^generally a friendly and helpful lot.
?!
"""Welcome to the list: mostly harml^generally a friendly and helpful lot.""" ?!!?
(^h being interpreted as ctrl-h, and that being delete a character... I'm guess you meant ^w^w, but hey ;)
Bit of Usenet creeping in - read 'huh-huh-huh' for h^h^h - but you knew that...
/snip/
Mine was Linux FT,which was taken overby the SuSE people. I didn't like SuSE and since I know a Debian developer, guess what I chose to replace FT?
I started with Peanut Linux, then Slackware, then Redhat 5.2 (it was more broken than you can believe), then SuSE (can't remember the version number), then Debian Slink... and am still running a Debian system now... and one day, I'll get round to packaging the last few things and becoming a Real DD.
I have Debian on this netbook thingy and on a laptop - and Lenny (IIRC) on the megabox (but with microcapabilities). First two are dual-boot, and the old full tower has a caddy. It obviously likes Linux because it will not work with anything NT-based. Works OK with Debian, FT and up to Win 98.
That's when I found Linux Mint 11 and I am now on Olivia. My favourite desktop is Mate. I do most of the PC maintenance for my friends and as I am now retired, I'm slowly converting them all to use Mint.
Listmembers got me started on Mint, and i use it almost exclusively now.
My only problem with mint is that they don't follow a particular secure set of procedures of adding new repositories (in as much as it'll cheerfully do it in the background for you without asking, or would last time I looked!).
Now you're making me feel insecure.
/snip/
Reciprocated. Well, you have all 'grades' here. Some of the butch ones wrestle Pythons...
Less wrestle, more writhe in the infinite possibilities and the generally lovely readable code :)
My Pythonic culpabilitise reside in a nice thick book which I keep meaning to learn things from.
I might just get round to it now I have the Pacemaker...
On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 3:11 PM, Bob bob@beriwold.plus.com wrote:
Gentlemen & Ladies
I decided to join your 'club' as over the past 10 years or so the MS attitude that they have the right etc etc. Much prefer the better and free path that is Linux.
I started Linux life with PClinuxOS which was very similar to Windows and it was exciting to use. The problems came in keeping it up to date and the general maintenance aspect. (with Windows an '*.exe' almost cured all) After I found Distrowatch, this opened up a whole new world. Ubuntu was the first OS that I used in earnest, but, Unity arrived. Good bye Ubuntu!
Gentleman & Ladies?
A member of the senior sex hasn't replied... ( you didn't mean to get it the wrong way round!).
I also liked PCLoS - one of the best packaged distros, only one using APT rpm and successfully it seems (fedora had apt repos for a while I believe but reverted to yum or yuck I think it is sometimes called). Before you say good bye to Ubuntu, have a look at Xubuntu and ubuntu-gnome when they come out next month.
james
On 14/09/13 15:11, Bob wrote: [SNIP]
Hi!
I do not however, have the skills to dig into the OS and my latest project has been to try to get the scanners on the all-in-one printers to function. And of course, the dreaded Skype problem.
Skype Problem?
I've not had much problem. I just downloaded it from the relevant website. I run a Ubuntu variant, & I had to tweak it a bit:
On Options/Sound Devices, I make sure everything is set to PulseAudio server. Then I had to install pavucontrol. This shows up my the menu as PulseAudio Volume control.
I then had to use the PA Vol Control to select my input sound/video device and output sound device as I have a plugin webcam.
After that, it just worked!
HTH Steve
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