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by ComputerBob
2023-01-15 13:53
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: [Discussion] How often, if you do, change your passwords?
Replies: 17
Views: 1728

Re: [Discussion] How often, if you do, change your passwords?

ComputerBob wrote: 2023-01-15 01:43 That's nobody's business but mine. ;)
Translation: private security, publicly-discussed, is an oxymoron.
by ComputerBob
2022-12-11 14:28
Forum: Docs, HowTos, Tips & Tricks
Topic: Transfer Files between Android and Debian
Replies: 24
Views: 18140

Re: Transfer Files between Android and Debian

Thanks for all the information about Total Commander! I'll take a closer look at that! For the past several years -- ever since I spent a lot of time looking for wifi Android//Linux file-transfer solutions through my local, private router -- I've used something that I've never seen anyone else talk ...
by ComputerBob
2022-12-10 12:52
Forum: Docs, HowTos, Tips & Tricks
Topic: Transfer Files between Android and Debian
Replies: 24
Views: 18140

Re: Transfer Files between Android and Debian

Does Total Commander need to run in Wine?
by ComputerBob
2021-10-10 14:50
Forum: Beginners Questions
Topic: Debian sid vs stable
Replies: 20
Views: 10992

Re: Debian sid vs stable

I'll put it this way if you compare window whit Debian sid you will realise that windows which is suppose to be a stable OS is unstable and that Debian sid in comparison is stable which is said to be unstable, and that's because it's compared whit Debian stable which is a rock betony titan solid re...
by ComputerBob
2021-09-01 12:45
Forum: Installation
Topic: Partitioning during install
Replies: 23
Views: 11922

Re: Partitioning during install

Woodfish wrote: 2021-08-31 14:22 ...I am trying to repurpose it to run my recently acquired 3D printer, and other little projects to keep dimenture at bay.
VERY COOL! I wish you all the best!!!
by ComputerBob
2020-12-12 20:38
Forum: Forum information, requests, and feedback.
Topic: Use HTTPS
Replies: 82
Views: 203346

Re: Use HTTPS

Thanks for the confirmation.
by ComputerBob
2020-12-12 13:33
Forum: Forum information, requests, and feedback.
Topic: Use HTTPS
Replies: 82
Views: 203346

Re: Use HTTPS

Isn't https a choice?

Isn't it possible to easily do both -- serve https to users whose equipment can process it, but fall back to http for those whose equipment can't process https?
by ComputerBob
2020-10-29 12:36
Forum: Beginners Questions
Topic: How to install *.iso packages
Replies: 12
Views: 5537

Re: How to install *.iso packages

Freecad MAY already be available on your .iso #1, and ready to be manually installed:

https://wiki.freecadweb.org/Install_on_Linux
by ComputerBob
2020-10-29 11:26
Forum: Beginners Questions
Topic: How to install *.iso packages
Replies: 12
Views: 5537

Re: How to install *.iso packages

Your Debian installation only requires #1 to be "normal." You don't "install" 2 and 3. They both contain EXTRA programs that you may choose to individually add to your Debian installation, if you need them. For example, I've been using Linux since 1996, but I've never needed to i...
by ComputerBob
2020-07-09 11:20
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: How many members here remember
Replies: 9
Views: 5812

Re: How many members here remember

OK. One more story... I recall using WordPerfect (in DOS) to embed some charts and a graphic in a paper around 1991. The professor held my paper in front of the class and praised it. It was actually quite embarrassing and the whole class was staring at me...angrily. After that, my fellow students s...
by ComputerBob
2020-07-08 22:06
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: How many members here remember
Replies: 9
Views: 5812

Re: How many members here remember

I didn't start using Linux until Mepis in the 90's. But, after doing tons of research on it, I bought the original Amiga that had one built-in 3-1/2" floppy (no hard drive) and only 512K of RAM. Paid a local guy $200 to solder on another 512K. Did my Master's thesis on it (was the first person ...
by ComputerBob
2020-01-05 00:50
Forum: General Questions
Topic: ?howto troubleshoot? systems dies
Replies: 5
Views: 2142

Re: ?howto troubleshoot? systems dies

Many years ago, I ran into a similar problem. Sudden, random freezes, with nothing in the log files to indicate what had gone wrong. In my case, the problem ended up being just ONE of the drive connector "tubes" fitting onto one of the drive pins too loosely (apparently, microscopically), ...
by ComputerBob
2019-10-15 23:18
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: Some people still actually work , even with a handicap
Replies: 9
Views: 9818

Re: Some people still actually work , even with a handicap

Thanks, Hoas, I'm doing much better than I was a year ago, but much worse than I was 2 years ago, two days before Christmas. On a side note, if you're gonna have a stroke, try to schedule it for ANY time, other than 2 days before Christmas. All the people who can really help you are gone on vacation...
by ComputerBob
2019-10-14 23:37
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: Some people still actually work , even with a handicap
Replies: 9
Views: 9818

Re: Some people still actually work , even with a handicap

I really don't "get" the point of this thread. Someone thinks that disabled people are cheating someone? Someone wants to brag that they're disabled, but they still work? I don't get it. My first stroke, 12 years ago, was certainly not a choice. Nor was my 2nd stroke, almost 2 years ago. T...
by ComputerBob
2019-04-12 14:24
Forum: Graphical Environments & Desktops
Topic: Copy a protected text
Replies: 4
Views: 2773

Re: Copy a protected text

Take one or more screenshots of the page?
by ComputerBob
2014-03-23 12:21
Forum: General Debian
Topic: Create TV's logo
Replies: 16
Views: 12328

Re: Create TV's logo

...this would suggest a recognizability for Debian that goes far beyond any realistic expectation and, quite frankly, even the unrealistic, biased expectations of us Debian users. ;) I have no unrealistic, biased expectations. ...I simply stressed out that by being Debian users we are naturally bou...
by ComputerBob
2014-03-23 04:35
Forum: General Debian
Topic: Create TV's logo
Replies: 16
Views: 12328

Re: Create TV's logo

What kind of discussion did you expect to create, opening with, "Has anyone else noticed that the logo for the public television channel, Create TV looks a lot like the Debian logo?" A brainless Beavis and Butthead-style discussion, an intellectual discussion, or something else? I didn't ...
by ComputerBob
2014-03-22 17:17
Forum: General Debian
Topic: Create TV's logo
Replies: 16
Views: 12328

Re: Create TV's logo

@keithpeter: I wasn't offended by your post at all. @mor: I suggest that maybe you're the one who should just "relax" and take my OP for what it was -- a simple observation. I was clicking through the TV channels one night and suddenly thought I saw the Debian logo in the bottom-right corn...
by ComputerBob
2014-03-22 15:26
Forum: General Debian
Topic: Create TV's logo
Replies: 16
Views: 12328

Re: Create TV's logo

Sheesh, can't a guy point out that the two logos look basically the same without having to read a whole series of replies on the minutiae of graphic design, and implying that he's ignorant, unrealistic and biased? :roll: