Windows frozen

[OzSpen]

Not at all. An icon to the Software Center is on your left hand side and just like the Apples, move the cursor to bump the left side of the screen and your Launchers float out for you to launch the progam of your choice. Select the Software Center andf type wine into it and select Install and type your password when asked. Wait for it to ask you for your notice to agree to the MSTTF fonts, click Agree and when finiswhed, close the program. There are over forty thousand Packages available that are for just about anything from business to gaming aqnd they are all free. There are also programs you can purchase but I doubt you will ever need them. I purchased Crossover, only because they beat the Wine people on compatability for a windoze game I purchased.

You're missing what I'm saying. You assume way too much. It may be familiar to you but it aint to me. These are a few examples from your post:

• Which Software Center?
  
• Type wine into what?
  
• Left hand side of what?
  
• MSTTF fonts;
• Wine people;
• Crossover;
• Windoze game.
• Just like the Apples misses me if that is supposed to refer to Apple computer. I've never ever used one.
  
• Launchers float.

Loaded with assumptions. Degree needed!

 

[calvin]

You're missing what I'm saying. You assume way too much. It may be familiar to you but it aint to me. These are a few examples from your post:

• Which Software Center?
  
• Type wine into what?
  
• Left hand side of what?
  
• MSTTF fonts;
• Wine people;
• Crossover;
• Windoze game.
• Just like the Apples misses me if that is supposed to refer to Apple computer. I've never ever used one.
  
• Launchers float.

Loaded with assumptions. Degree needed!

Hello calvin here,
Actually a lot would depend on what flavour desk top you would have.
T'would seem Bill does not use the 'mate' desk top which is what I use.
I can agree and sympathize with you, but I am somewhat confused too.
You said earlier

My son is a Linux Ubuntu guru and works for a Linux organisation.

Could he not sit down with you for 10 minutes and show you the ropes?
It is actually not hard at all, however, while looking for a good 'get started with Linux' site I am dismayed at the level of confusion there.
One site in particular stated out talking Linux, then the next thing you know they are showing you screen shots from Ubuntu and the unity desk top.
Great stuff if you already know the ropes and don't need it, but for a beginner??
So, at the very least, your son could create a bootable USB for you with Linux on it. you can select the usb at boot up, 'pressing F12' let the demo version load, and play till your heart is content. Doing this will not touch your HDD contents at all...unless you click on install of course.So, after playing around with Linux you can just re boot into windoze and it will be none the wiser for your excursion into real computing.

 

[th1b.taylor]

You're missing what I'm saying. You assume way too much. It may be familiar to you but it aint to me. These are a few examples from your post:

• Which Software Center?
  
• Type wine into what?
  
• Left hand side of what?
  
• MSTTF fonts;
• Wine people;
• Crossover;
• Windoze game.
• Just like the Apples misses me if that is supposed to refer to Apple computer. I've never ever used one.
  
• Launchers float.

Loaded with assumptions. Degree needed!

I yield, you are intent on making a simple thing difficult and that, I can never overcome. You, certainly, are not alone in that, most of the people were raised with a "You can; t do that mentality," but it is a shame. You have chosen to stick with the most dangerous system in the world and it is your choice to make. But I will suggest, at some point, did you not learn windoze?

 

[Wrg1405]

We have a saying over here

"You can't teach an old dog new tricks"

It's not a nasty or detrimental saying.

Now I'm not saying any of you above are old dogs. I don't know you well enough to know that if I slipped that comment in every now and then that you wouldn't get the hump with me.

But hey me I'm an old dog who you can't teach new tricks. Well actually you can but to be honest I can't be bothered.

I've spent the last 18 years being the I.T. Manager in our household to 4 kids and a wife.

Not just with laptops/computers/iPhones/iPads/wireless printers/wifi extenders/iTunes.

It does my head in when I have to spend hours sorting all this stuff out. Just last week Apple had to swap out my wife's iPad Pro which wasn't backed up. Took me the whole day to sort it.

Over here schools require homework to be uploaded, spent hours sorting that out.
Everything is Windows based.

So this old dog could learn new tricks but he'd rather stick with what he knows and eventually works.

Did someone above mention wine? This old dog is going to have a glass of wine.

 

[Wrg1405]

Mind you, you know your getting old when your kids/grandkids start teaching/showing you how to use all things I.T. and smart (like phones and tablets)

My kids all have iPhones but the concept of using it to make phone calls is alien to them.

Do you remember the good old days of

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[daninthelionsden]

Mind you, you know your getting old when your kids/grandkids start teaching/showing you how to use all things I.T. and smart (like phones and tablets)

My kids all have iPhones but the concept of using it to make phone calls is alien to them.

Do you remember the good old days of

View attachment 10768

I still remember my childhood phone number...HO55105.........back in the 60s all Houston phone numbers had an HO prefix.

 

[Wrg1405]

Now there is one thing that I'm in control off and no one in my house knows how programme it.
No one is allowed to use it without my say so. If they do so it's at their own peril.

This is one thing I know how to work

View attachment 10769

My precious smart tv/entertainment systems/control. It's mine

 

[daninthelionsden]

Now there is one thing that I'm in control off and no one in my house knows how programme it.
No one is allowed to use it without my say so. If they do so it's at their own peril.

This is one thing I know how to work

View attachment 10769

My precious smart tv/entertainment systems/control. It's mine

yikes....looks like it controls the portal to another alternate universe

 

[Wrg1405]

I still remember my childhood phone number...HO55105.........back in the 60s all Houston phone numbers had an HO prefix.

I can't recall prefix over here, don't think we had it.

 

[Wrg1405]

yikes....looks like it controls the portal to another alternate universe

Yes it takes me to the portal of daddy universe. In this universe we watch TV. Things like sport and things like sport

 

[Wrg1405]

yikes....looks like it controls the portal to another alternate universe

Unfortunately the mute button on the remote mutes the TV. It doesn't mute the kids, or pause the kids and so on.

In the film Click Adam Sandler had one but I've not been able to source it.

 

[historyb]

You're missing what I'm saying. You assume way too much. It may be familiar to you but it aint to me. These are a few examples from your post:

• Which Software Center?
  
• Type wine into what?
  
• Left hand side of what?
  
• MSTTF fonts;
• Wine people;
• Crossover;
• Windoze game.
• Just like the Apples misses me if that is supposed to refer to Apple computer. I've never ever used one.
  
• Launchers float.

Loaded with assumptions. Degree needed!

Not at all. That is a huge misconception of Linux. Ubuntu is one of the easiest to use and while there is a learning curve it's not that much anymore. My wife uses Linux and she was a windows person and I never showed her how. Anyone can use Linux now

 

[historyb]

Mind you, you know your getting old when your kids/grandkids start teaching/showing you how to use all things I.T. and smart (like phones and tablets)

My kids all have iPhones but the concept of using it to make phone calls is alien to them.

Do you remember the good old days of

View attachment 10768

My favorite phone in the good old, old days :

or even older:

:D

 

[daninthelionsden]

My favorite phone in the good old, old days :

or even older:

:biggrin

did they have to crank harder for long distance??

 

[calvin]

I still remember my childhood phone number...HO55105.........back in the 60s all Houston phone numbers had an HO prefix.

G'day Calvin here,

I can remember back to our first phone # in the 50s 708374 and that was a party line where sometimes you'd pick up the phone to ring someone but the line was in use by someone you didn't even know.

 

[OzSpen]

You said earlier
Could he not sit down with you for 10 minutes and show you the ropes?
It is actually not hard at all, however, while looking for a good 'get started with Linux' site I am dismayed at the level of confusion there.
One site in particular stated out talking Linux, then the next thing you know they are showing you screen shots from Ubuntu and the unity desk top.
Great stuff if you already know the ropes and don't need it, but for a beginner??
So, at the very least, your son could create a bootable USB for you with Linux on it. you can select the usb at boot up, 'pressing F12' let the demo version load, and play till your heart is content. Doing this will not touch your HDD contents at all...unless you click on install of course.So, after playing around with Linux you can just re boot into windoze and it will be none the wiser for your excursion into real computing.

calvin,

At this stage of my life, I have more to do with my time than learning Ubuntu. I'm perfectly happy with Windows 7 and MS Word 2003. I'll move to another programme when my existing programmes no longer work, thanks to Microsoft.

Please don't assume I'm interested in Ubuntu. If I were, my son or his wife would help me get started. Writing a religious instruction curriculum takes precedence at the moment.

Oz

 

[OzSpen]

You have chosen to stick with the most dangerous system in the world and it is your choice to make.

From where did you gain that kind of information? Or, is it your presupposition? If Microsoft were the most dangerous system in the world, governments, media outlets, businesses, individual people, etc would not be using it.

I urge you to go public. Issue a news release today to provide evidence that Microsoft is 'the most dangerous system in the world'. I wonder who will be paying litigation fees?

Oz

 

[th1b.taylor]

From where did you gain that kind of information? Or, is it your presupposition? If Microsoft were the most dangerous system in the world, governments, media outlets, businesses, individual people, etc would not be using it.

I urge you to go public. Issue a news release today to provide evidence that Microsoft is 'the most dangerous system in the world'. I wonder who will be paying litigation fees?

Oz

You know not because you believe the windoze lies. No other operating system has as much virus, trojan, worm, or root kit trouble, none of them. Windows even comes with a built in root kit that is a key mapper that reports, directly to America's NSA. Everyone in the Linux World knows this and most MAC users know it. It is not a reaking story.

 

[calvin]

calvin,

At this stage of my life, I have more to do with my time than learning Ubuntu. I'm perfectly happy with Windows 7 and MS Word 2003. I'll move to another programme when my existing programmes no longer work, thanks to Microsoft.

Please don't assume I'm interested in Ubuntu. If I were, my son or his wife would help me get started. Writing a religious instruction curriculum takes precedence at the moment.

Oz

G'day Oz, calvin here.
On re reading your post/reply #5 I can see that you were not expressing a desire to get into Linux/Ubuntu, it was just a misunderstanding on my part.
So now with a corrected understanding of your position, I will show you the respect of acceptance.

 

[calvin]

You know not because you believe the windoze lies. No other operating system has as much virus, trojan, worm, or root kit trouble, none of them. Windows even comes with a built in root kit that is a key mapper that reports, directly to America's NSA. Everyone in the Linux World knows this and most MAC users know it. It is not a reaking story.

G'day Bill, calvin here.
Really it is one huge growth industry.
"Here is an OS, here are its vulnerabilities.
Right some script to exploit those vulnerabilities.
Sell some software to remove those harmful scripts and pay me some of the royalties.
Meanwhile I'll write an update for my OS with fixes for the old vulnerabilities and give you a list of the new vulnerabilities engineered into it."

There are a lot of cleaver people out there who mostly use their cleaver to make money, veiled behind mischief.
Adobe no longer supports a Linux version of their acrobat reader,...why?
There are heaps of other programs that support windoze and the apple OS, but don't bother about Unix based OS,....why?
The same situation exist with many many device drivers, plenty of windoze and osx support, but not Linux,...why?
Answer to all of above $$$$
If I was capable of writing a particular device driver for windoze and for OSX, I most certainly would have the ability to write one for Linux.
So in some instances Linux lags behind until someone can spare the unpaid time to write an independent driver.
just my end of rant.