<div dir="auto">Thanks for your email.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">This is a community, not free Linux support. You sign off with Merriwa, not a suburb that's near to the city and you share with us the things that broke.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">What's missing is things you tried, specific things you would like an answer to or advice on.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">People in this community have been using Linux for some time, for me it's over two decades. For many of us it's not the primary focus of our lives, even if plenty of us work in the ICT field.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">So, if you need onsite support, ask for recommendations, if you need an answer to a vexing question, ask the vexing question.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Berating people in an email without a subject is none of those things.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I for one won't be driving to Merriwa for a call out.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">An apology would also be welcome.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Unimpressed,</div><div dir="auto">Onno<br><br><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature" dir="auto">--<br>finger painting on glass is an inexact art - apologies for any errors in this scra^Hibble<br><br>()/)/)() ..ASCII for Onno..</div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat., 31 Jul. 2021, 15:50 Dave, <<a href="mailto:adogslife01@optusnet.com.au">adogslife01@optusnet.com.au</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div bgcolor="white" background="cid:image001.gif@01D785CE.2C402F00" lang="EN-AU" link="#993300" vlink="blue"><img src="cid:image001.gif@01D785CE.2C402F00" width="0" height="0" style="display:none;width:0;height:0"><div class="m_4187314266041111770WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext">Come on Guys,<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext">I thought PLUG was supposed to promote and encourage the use of LINUX within the Perth area, which I would have assumed, I thought, at the very least, just may have included, returning Emails.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext">Both my neighbour and myself have wives with disabilities and are petty-well house bound and therefore can't attend PLUG meetings, so if any assistance was to be forthcoming, it would most likely have to be in house.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext">Sorry to sound like I'm nagging, but Windows is being an absolute pain in the *&$R%(&^. and is starting to cost us money, and it would be a shame if you guys lost a couple of converts.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext">Below is my original Email, dated the 23rd July<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext">Once again I look forward to your reply. <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext">Dave Orson<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext">Thanks for your reply.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext">Since my Email on the 16th, things have got a little worse.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext">The original enquiry was to ask for help in setting up a couple of programs that would put one step ,closer to getting out of Windows altogether.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext">Those programs are, <b>OANDA FX Trade</b>, World Enigma Groups <b>ENIGMA</b> Emulator, and <b>the World of Tanks</b> game site. All these have LINUX versions and are supposed to be plug and play.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext">That was the original question, THEN!!!! I forgot the LINUX password to access my LapTop. I had just completed an update and hadn't had time to document it, then promptly forgot it.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext">The next thing was that I helped a neighbour install Linux Mint 19 Cinnermim onto a replacement hard drive, He then promptly went and screwed up his ThunderBird Mail.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext">My suggestion to him now, is to re-install Linux and start again. He hasn't been there long enough for him to have saved much, so I think this might be the only way.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext">I am running Mint 19 Cinnermin Tessa.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext">My interest in Linux started back in the 1980's when my son joined the Navy and got into UNIX. as a result of this I ran UNIX for quite a while until he moved to Sydney and was no longer around to help out when I stuffed up. After that my interest in UNIX, Linux has never left. Now my main aim in using Linux is to give Windows the flick.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext">I look forward to your reply<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Amazone BT";color:windowtext">David C.N. Orson<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Amazone BT";color:windowtext">Merriwa<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Amazone BT";color:windowtext">Western Australia<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Amazone BT";color:windowtext">0448 407 112<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:windowtext"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:windowtext"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Amazone BT";color:windowtext">David C.N. Orson<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Amazone BT";color:windowtext">Merriwa<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Amazone BT";color:windowtext">Western Australia<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Amazone BT";color:windowtext">0448 407 112<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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