so.
the people at amazon say it will be friday before my new power supply arrives, and i'm still on the X200 that won't connect its wireless. (new developments: neither network-manager nor wicd will recognize the wireless chip, but if i uninstall network-manager the little wifi LED goes out, so it seems to be getting closer. but in that my desktop machine isn't working, i can use the space its keyboard occupied to place the X200 and plug it in via a nice, normal cat5 cable, which is how i can send this note.) you would think that after being hammered by the supreme court last week amazon would be trying extra hard for my business rather than taking a frigging week to get me my power supply. perhaps soon there will be a computer store on every block, like there was 30 years ago. but i digress.)
the gemini project continues apace; the people at planet computing were in my estimation lying when they said it was an android/linux device. it is a medocre googledroid phone with a keyboard that through extensive hacking may me made to prove that linux isn't all that useful on such a device. when it was offered, i and others thought that this meant they had worked out the bugs. they hadn't, they haven't now, and they never will have -- the people working on it are all volunteers, working hard and well for free. i hope that the essential features come to work aceptably well before everybody says the hell with it, but i have little confidence in that outcome.
which brings us to the subject of this note. in the other room, attached to its charger, is a bright new GPD Pocket. it is gorgeous. it looks as if i didn't read the tag and put my macbook into the dryer and it shrank. it is twice the size of the gemini but a hundred times the computer in many respects. it does not have an eight-core SoC like the gemini does (though i think that at least half those cores are to report back to mediatek, google, and Gok who else). but it does have a nice intel x86 chip, and in a bit i shall be backing up the win10 that came on it and installing instead ubuntu 17.10 with the unity desktop. this is because a version of that tuned to the Pocket is available for download, and most everything works right out of the tin.
when i fired it up the thing booted to windows 10 and that screeching harridan "cortana" began issuing demands. (leave it to microsoft -- they can't even spell cortina correctly; a terrible car, but it was also my first car, a 1965 four-speed that i got in 1969, not knowing that cortinas had only about four and one-half years of use in them, and i loved it anyway.) i disabled cortina, misspelled, at the first opportunity.
it's now on the charger, because things are about to get pretty delicate. i have to reflash the bios. the initial one was crippled. (though, come to think of it, i might check first to see if maybe they're shipping the updated version, which would be nice and might be possible: we're not talking planet computers here.)
anyway, it is my (probably vastly inflated) expectation to have linux working on the Pocket by evening's end, after which the next and most important task will be getting the trinity desktop up and running on it. so now, finally, a couple of questions:
actually, one: will it work? the Pocket has a touchscreen but it also has a nice, thinkpad-style trackpoint, so if the touchscreen doesn't work at all it will be at the very most a minor inconvenience -- i'm typing away here on the thinkpad and never does it cross my mind to poke at the screen with my fingers. i've installed TDE on other atom-powered devics uneventfully. anyone know of things to watch out for?
(if i get it all working, next project will be to acquire and attach a cheap 4G dongle, whereupon i will have achieved what i was hoping for with the gemini, only on a robustly-built device big enough to use.)
think it will all work?
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> On Monday 25 June 2018 21:30:31 Kate Draven wrote:
> > > On Monday 25 June 2018 14:15:18 J Leslie Turriff wrote:
> > > > On 2018-06-25 01:08:32 William Morder wrote:
> > > > > I can't imagine that I am 100 years old, but I can imagine that I am
> > > > > 60, and have already begun to feel the ravages of time on my body.
It
> > > > > also
> >
> > is
> >
> > > > > a pain to use computer screens that are designed by and for young
> >
> > people.
> >
> > > > One of the reasons I'm not using KDE4/Plasma is that there are no
> > > > HiColor icons available there (AFAIK), just the wishy-washy pastel
ones
> > > > that imitate Windoze. Their contrast is so poor it's hard for me to
> >
> > distinguish
> >
> > > > one icon from another in many cases. As you say, today's desktops are
> > > > designed for young people, by young people, and the limitations due to
> > > > aging or other disabilities are not thought of, while they seem to be
> > > > concentrating on eye-candy instead of functionality.
> > > >
> > > > Leslie
> > >
> > > Old people have less disposable income, so there's no reason to waste
> > > time designing systems for them to use when they can't afford them
> > > anyway. Also, old people tend to die sooner than young people, so it's a
> > > shrinking market.
> > >
> > > Bill
> > >
> > >
> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > Only fools count the marginalized out.
> >
> > Kate
> > AKA Konfucius
> >
>
> "... my super-dainty Kate -
> For dainties are all Kates -"
> (or thus quoth another bloke named William)
>
> Bill
>
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
LOL you're alright mate, and a mighty poet.
Me great grandmother always said the above to encourage me.
I was a wee child (and adult now) so everyone always assumed I was incapable.
They were wrong lol.
Most of the people I have using Linux are over the age of 60. About, hmm, 40
something people. Then about a dozen kids. It's because of the high numbers
of pensioners that I'm trying to get qtcurve to use background images like
the brushed metal of baghira. The background doesn't blend in with the
colours, making it easier for them to see differences. I feel they are worth
the effort, despite how much they've shrunk.
But this is all off topice so I'll end it here.
Back to business lads and lasses.
Cheers William of The Poets
Kate
Hi people,
Trying a new iso, boots fantastically fast, very smooth, no complaints.
However, as the subject states, extract & compress are missing from konq's
right click menu.
Does anyone know where those servicemenus are located in the file sys. I can
grab them from older iso and install them there. I have already check the
usual suspects /opt/trinity/share/apps/konq/servicmenus and the like.
Nothing.
Any help is appreciated. There's mental chocolate in it for everyone.
Kate
Can it be done? If so, how?
I never lock session on purpose.
It's extremely irritating that it's placed there at all, much less right on top
of log out. I try to log out, I put the pointer over log out, I click, and half
the time the pointer moves as I click to selecting lock session instead of log out.
--
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get, get wisdom." Proverbs 4:7 (New Living Translation)
Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks!
Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/
> On Monday 25 June 2018 14:15:18 J Leslie Turriff wrote:
> > On 2018-06-25 01:08:32 William Morder wrote:
> > > I can't imagine that I am 100 years old, but I can imagine that I am 60,
> > > and have already begun to feel the ravages of time on my body. It also
is
> > > a pain to use computer screens that are designed by and for young
people.
> >
> > One of the reasons I'm not using KDE4/Plasma is that there are no HiColor
> > icons available there (AFAIK), just the wishy-washy pastel ones that
> > imitate Windoze. Their contrast is so poor it's hard for me to
distinguish
> > one icon from another in many cases. As you say, today's desktops are
> > designed for young people, by young people, and the limitations due to
> > aging or other disabilities are not thought of, while they seem to be
> > concentrating on eye-candy instead of functionality.
> >
> > Leslie
> >
> Old people have less disposable income, so there's no reason to waste time
> designing systems for them to use when they can't afford them anyway. Also,
> old people tend to die sooner than young people, so it's a shrinking market.
>
> Bill
>
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
Only fools count the marginalized out.
Kate
AKA Konfucius
Greetings;
One of the things I miss most is "focus follows mouse", but I've not
found a place in the trinity-control-center to turn this on.
Is such a function available, and if so, where do I enable it?
Thanks.
--
Cheers, Gene Heskett
--
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
So I tried setting it back to jessie, but all that got me was a sea of
red or outright refusal to even mark it for install.
Stretch has been out for quite a while, so whats the magic potion folks?
--
Cheers, Gene Heskett
--
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
what a week. on thursday my corsair hx750 power supply up and died stone dead. i do not suppose i can blame it -- the power system here is awful, with frequent blackouts, generally preceded by a half dozen off-on cycles in quick succession. i have a biggish UPS between the mains power and the computer, but still . . .
so until the replacement arrives -- remember when there was a computer store on every block? -- i am on my previously reliable thinkpad X200, which got a little flaky when i upgraded it to debian stretch a few weeks ago. i now have most everything working, the exception being wireless. the nice little switch on the side of the machine is turned on, but no light on the wifi led and wicd reports no wifi signals, though there is certainly a wifi signal,from a router about 3 feet away that every other gadget in the house recognizes just fine.
lspci -nnk | grep -iA2 net reports:
00:19.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Intel Corporation 82567LM Gigabit Network Connection [8086:10f5] (rev 03)
Subsystem: Lenovo 82567LM Gigabit Network Connection [17aa:20ee]
Kernel driver in use: e1000e
Kernel modules: e1000e
--
03:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 5350 AGN [Echo Peak] Network Connection [8086:423b]
Subsystem: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 5350 AGN [Echo Peak] Network Connection [8086:1011]
Kernel modules: iwlwifi
04:00.0 Memory controller [0580]: Intel Corporation Turbo Memory Controller [8086:444e] (rev 11)
i suspect that i'm missing something really obvious. for lo, these many years, the thing just worked. now it doesn't. wired network works just fine.
dep
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