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Brian, do you know how to stop Teamviewer from resetting the password for remote desktop connection? I'm sure I could figure it out but sometimes easier (and quicker) to ask someone.

Based on my mind, I'm still 35 ... it's my frikken body that doesn't agree!

Not quite there yet... workin on it. One thing I had to overcome was VPN and remote desktop. Been using an app called Teamviewer in the Windows environment ... I was happy to see a Linux version so that is off the plate now. Still a few others to go but I can run Oracle Virtual box or Wine to handle those. Am also going to test out CentOS seeing as lilbeaver speaks so highly of it.

FWIW ... Linux Mint 15 is based on Ubuntu 13.04

RIP ...

hmmmmmmmmmm... could that be a bit of an oxymoron? I mean, if you did it all night before and now it takes all night to do.... heck, it only takes me 5 min now....

As mentioned... it's not for me. Frankly, I am not a "gamer" ... but give me a programming project and I don't sleep LOL

Well, I discovered how to do it. Open a terminal window and type in system-config-printer This opens a configuration utility that allows you to select and install drivers for attached printers that were not automatically installed. :banana:

So that's the secret!!! Heck, certain "things" haven't been up for me in a long time .... gonna go and get me a 1st gen now!

I will be ordering 2 new laptops for the bosses in a few days ... Dell still sells them with Win 7 PRO installed plus a Win8 licence.

All of our workstations (with exception of management and myself) are still running XP SP3 and have been doing so for 7 years without a lick of problem .... except for this one user who continually screws his computer up somehow. Thankfully I got smart a while back and took an image of it when I rebuilt it and it was working properly LOL

hmmmmmmm.... care to share how? Not for me tho, I have a corporate exec that likes to play solitaire when he's travelling by air and he just got himseelf a new laptop with Win8 on it and of course, I'm the poor sukka that has to set it up for him. In any event, I grabbed it off a WinXP box so he's a happy camper.

I have a Canon multi-function device that my "Mint" won't recognize. I found and installed some drivers for it but it still didn't seem to "see" the Canon printer/copier. Haven't gone past that stage yet but will endeavor to resolve that over the coming days. Once I figure out how to get all my Outlook email/contacts, etc ported over and how to remote desktop to my work I should be all set to forget....about Winderz! ... oh but then there's my Tax software to deal with .... hmmmmm .... this might not happen

I am working towards running Linux on my home PC. Have it installed, have worked with it off and on for several years and, like you, I refuse to go to Win8. Currently running Win7 Pro and it works quite well. Unfortunately, I have several PC's at work (workstations) that will soon require replacing. Linux might be an option but I'm 80% sure that some of the apps we run will not work in a linux OS. I have appx 8 months to figure that out. I'm also appx 90% sure my boss will love me even more if I can make them run in Linux OS. MAC is simply not an option, either at home or at work.

Microsoft !!!!! arrrrrgghhhhhhhhhhhhh Windows 8 POS!!! They are forcing us to go in a direction they want us to and before long the world will be controlled by them! (as if it aready isn't) :bang head: :bang head: Do you know that solitaire, which has been around since Windows 3 way back in the early 90's is no longer "local" and you now have to go to "the cloud" to get it and play it. Oh, and Windows Vista/7 versions can't be copied over either -BUT- if you can grab the following files off a WinXP box and paste them onto your Win8, those will work! card.dll freecell.exe mshearts.exe sol.exe spider.exe winmine.exe These are all located in C:\Windows\System32 on a WinXP system

No, not in this thread but I have seen what I felt was rambling elsewhere as you lost me after the second sentence there LOL

So which one are you using?

Now that's downright MEAN and UNCALLED for! Don's new "boat" is such a great machine that they've stopped making them soas to preserve their value forever. Heck, in a few years he can sell it and retire, it's value will have appreciated that much!

Being that I am primarily a Windows user (and tech), I find Mint very similar, easy to find things. Didn't try any variant of the latest Ubuntu, just the default new legacy desktop... which I didn't care for. I plan to put Windows 7 into a virtual box to see how that works as I have a lot of apps that I use in it. Hoping I can create an ISO Image and load it into the virtual box. Must be crappy weather for me to sit here all day, tinkering with this LOL

Just installed this on my home PC to check it out. Sof far, I like it ... tried the latest flavor of Ubuntu ... don't care for it at all.. Wondering who else is using Linux here, what "flavor", how long you been using it, pros/cons, anything... and specifically, if you use Mint. FWIW, I've been in the computer/IT field since 1987. Been experimenting (off and on) with various flavors of Linux since appx 1999 and have used Open SuSe as a network file server in a Microsoft Windows Domainhttp://images.intellitxt.com/ast/adTypes/icon1.png using Win Server domain controllers and Active Directory. (Just thought I'd throw this in)

A little "lesson" I learned long ago when typing long "narratives" in places such as this (where you have no "Save" button) is to occasionally press Ctrl+A (select all), then Ctrl+C (copy). This stores what I've type into the clipboard (aka memory). If the app locks up or the post fails, you can easily get the info back by starting over and pressing Ctrl+V (paste). Sometimes I'll also jump into a Word document and past my copied info there. (sorry for the hijack! )

Another one for parts

Had a similar incident happen to me. Guy in a 4x4 pulling a camper trailer ... almost put me into the concrete median divider. Now, I HAVE a FIAMM air horn that is very loud ... he never even heard it and I was practically beside the driver's door blasting it. He must have had his tunes cranked up or who knows what.... maybe he was deaf. I had to hammer the brakes hard to prevent getting mushed. Lucky for him that Nina was with me. Ya, we pulled up alongside the right of him and screamed some choice words, etc, saluted him (and his wife) but they just ignored us and kept on going. If Nina wasn't there, I would have ...... well, I hate to think what I'da done but it wouldn't have been pretty! Be careful out there! ... they are ALL out to get rid of us.

Hold onto the grip, keep your left foot on the peg, stand up and slide your right leg over the seat and down to the ground. You can also use the passenger foot board.

This almost tops Eck's washing his cell phone!