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    Thread: Suggestions and Feedback for Forum User Friendliness
Post: Re: Suggestions and Feedback for Forum User Friend...

Hi. I cannot find a way to find my own posts on this forum. I it's not already implemented I suggest adding a new entry under the Profile drop-down menu and name it "My contents" or something like th...
Sprintrdriver Suggestions and Feedback 33 200,775 08-17-2017, 09:27 PM
    Thread: The Glitz and Glamour of maintaining an OS
Post: Re: The Glitz and Glamour of maintaining an OS

People that write such messages, I can only assume thy have their own payload of problems. The worst of them are just rotten inside and is nothing to mind about at all. If they can't figure things out...
Sprintrdriver On Topic 25 28,821 12-11-2019, 12:30 AM
    Thread: What was your first Linux Distro ?
Post: Re: What was your first Linux Distro ?

I think the first distro I installed on bare metal must have being Mint Debian edition, around 2014. I had installed Ubuntu on Virtualbox before that, and I also have used Gparted live-cd way before ...
Sprintrdriver Off Topic 24 15,173 08-15-2019, 06:27 PM
    Thread: Tips for buying hardware?
Post: Re: Tips for buying hardware?

I have noticed some discussion on various forums and mention on youtube (no I ave no link) that graphic cards from AMD is preferable over Nvidia because of AMD use open source drivers. Truth being to...
Sprintrdriver Off Topic 24 16,087 08-22-2019, 10:24 PM
    Thread: 403 forbidden
Post: Re: 403 forbidden

Have the same issue, I need to add contents of smb.conf in my post but get this 403 forbidden message every time. It happens both when I try to edit the post and if I try to reply. https://www.linuxli...
Sprintrdriver On Topic 20 11,988 05-23-2017, 08:12 PM
    Thread: If Windows was a stand-up comedian
Post: Re: If Windows was a stand-up comedian

Fun reading. What comes next: A goat jumps over a fence where the grass is more green - that equals a windows 8 user upgrades to windows 10. Then what will be next up for the goat if we compare to sw...
Sprintrdriver Off Topic 19 18,863 06-26-2018, 04:28 PM
    Thread: Linux and feminism
Post: Re: Linux and feminism

So then what do you say when installed Linux ? I have her installed ? She's laid into my harddrive ? I don't think that will sound too satisfying for a "she".
Sprintrdriver Off Topic 16 15,228 08-30-2019, 03:17 PM
    Thread: System backup to another drive
Post: Re: System backup to another drive

I've always being using Clonezilla for system backup purposes. The nice thing about CZ is that it limits the image file size, so that FAT32 maximum file size won't be a concern.
Sprintrdriver Other 10 8,369 12-03-2019, 10:37 PM
    Thread: System backup to another drive
Post: Re: System backup to another drive

Tyrannocaster link Wrote: (12-04-2019, 02:53 PM) -- Clonezilla works, but it's not the easiest program to figure out, especially if, like me, you don't need to use it often. If Timeshift will work fo...
Sprintrdriver Other 10 8,369 12-04-2019, 11:03 PM
    Thread: please help, cant download a 4.4 GB ISO file
Post: Re: please help, cant download a 4.4 GB ISO file

Can you say something about what medium you're trying to download into, and what web browser you're using. It may just be the file server that disconnects, and the normal reaction in most web browser...
Sprintrdriver Other 9 14,096 05-02-2018, 05:48 PM
    Thread: Cannot seem to edit PDF's. Any advice for how to fill out PDF forms?
Post: Re: Cannot seem to edit PDF's. Any advice for how ...

Editing PDF's really comes down to what program the pdf file is opened with. Seems that the PDF reader that ships with LL can't save any changes to pdf forms (I just tested with a pdf with forms crea...
Sprintrdriver Other 9 8,848 05-02-2018, 08:17 PM
    Thread: please help, cant download a 4.4 GB ISO file
Post: Re: please help, cant download a 4.4 GB ISO file

Also when I know you're using Firefox I would have choosed to use the addon DownThemall. Thing about that one is if a download halts, you can resume download again. Haven't tried the download manager...
Sprintrdriver Other 9 14,096 05-03-2018, 10:09 PM
    Thread: user forum - removes newlines on posting
Post: user forum - removes newlines on posting

Hi. I have posted a couple of threads here recently due to some questions after installed LL 4.2, so I noticed one behavior. Each time I post in this forum - it appears to me that each single line shi...
Sprintrdriver Suggestions and Feedback 9 7,451 12-11-2018, 08:12 PM
    Thread: user forum - removes newlines on posting
Post: Re: user forum - removes newlines on posting

line 1: Written by using Leafpad 0.8.18.1 - copy'n paste to forum line 3: one empty line above this and beyond line 1 line 4 line six (I will write another post directly into the forum)
Sprintrdriver Suggestions and Feedback 9 7,451 12-14-2018, 11:18 PM
    Thread: user forum - removes newlines on posting
Post: Re: user forum - removes newlines on posting

Line 1. This is entered directly into the web browser / forum Line 3Line 4 Line 6 Line 9
Sprintrdriver Suggestions and Feedback 9 7,451 12-14-2018, 11:19 PM
    Thread: Year 2038 problem
Post: Re: Year 2038 problem

Laser Robot Dinosaurs running Linux ?
Sprintrdriver On Topic 9 5,991 09-17-2019, 07:57 PM
    Thread: Disappearing Libre Office docs.
Post: Re: Disappearing Libre Office docs.

Maybe you have make it hidden (dot before filename). Try open file explorer, go to desktop folder and press Ctrl+H to toggle view hidden files.
Sprintrdriver Other 8 5,508 08-14-2019, 05:51 PM
    Thread: Worth upgrading to 64bit?
Post: Re: Worth upgrading to 64bit?

Glad I found this post, because I have a question that might be relevant. So I installed LL onto a really old laptop that does not have a cpu with PAE. By searching on the web I quickly found out fir...
Sprintrdriver On Topic 7 5,208 06-06-2017, 09:14 PM
    Thread: Two users access to common folder
Post: Two users access to common folder

Hi forum. I have this situation where I have two users on the computer. I have tried to read up on users and groups to understand, but is still very new to this (most of what I have done so far is by...
Sprintrdriver Hard Drives and SSDs 7 9,256 05-02-2018, 09:12 PM
    Thread: Two users access to common folder
Post: Re: Two users access to common folder

Thanks for answers. First off - just an addition to my first post: What I does is I tries to use two separate users (both is actually me as I'm the only physical user of the laptop) where user2 is th...
Sprintrdriver Hard Drives and SSDs 7 9,256 05-03-2018, 10:28 PM