Redoing it all again...

Sat Jun 28 18:54:14 UTC 2008

Hi Daniel:

I bought all the repositories on DVD's because we have very slow
Download here, great for E-mail. Trouble is that "Add CD in Synaptic
does not work any more" (it did in 6.06 and 7.04 and 7.10, but in 8.04
it don't work at all), and even though the Desktop mounts the CD or DVD,
Synaptic does not see it at all. It produces an error. I got all new DVD
Burners and CDROMS and put them in my machine, and cutting works now,
but adding CD or DVD's in Synaptic does not work! So I'm spending about
all of my time doing up grades 2 days ago there was 50 megs and a few
weeks before that 350 megs in 8.04, I'm running 3 different Ubuntu
Versions, Ubuntu Studio, Ubuntu Gutsy and Hardy, that's about 1.2 gigs
of Upgrades.) and today another 12 items. Nice if you have high speed,
but we don't. I raised this issue on the forum, but nothing. 

I did do the upgrade in 8.04 to Firefox three last week, but that is
when that problem appeared. The first error message says that Firefox is
the 64 bit version, and needs to be replaced by the 32 bit version, the
second error message says that one item is missing, and then got 5 lines
of code to paste into the terminal, to correct the problem, but then the
error message repeats next time firefox is being made use of. So
Flashing Error Messages! So from my view point it's still got bugs! I
don't know if Firefox is indeed the 64 bit version or if it is just an
error, from Firefox, that still has errors in it. 

In 8.04 all the games requiring an AGP Card, don't work anymore, they
did in 7.10. Now I get a message on my Acer flat screen AL1914 screen
saying "Input not supported". I changed the screen resolution and made
it smaller, but still that error! This big Dialog Box fills most of the
screen, and bounces all over the place, and the game you can't play at
all. 

I used to do many repairs, and the credo was "If it works don't mess
with it", it appears to me, like that is not the credo in Linux. I
started with Mandrake, then switched to Ubuntu 4.10 and just stayed with
it. Betas I don't download them, because if the software Accounting
program says you are doing well, and it is a Beta, that can result in
your going out of business, because all the lofty results in it, are an
error. There are lots of people that like testing, and at times I would
download Betas to look for errors, on an extra hard drive. Right now I
have two hard drives, and I'm starting up a Business, and I need
something that works, Linux used to work when you got the stable
edition, GnuCash that is on the Ubuntu Repositories, is a beta, and was
producing many errors. The GetDeb link worked nice. Now I'm not getting
the errors. With my Gnucash2.2.4 in 7.10 and Gnucash2.2.5 in 8.04. The
other alternative got so complicated that having a Doctors degree in
Computer Science, and years of post Doctoral work, would not be enough,
to stop it from having all kinds of Glitches in it! I use Linux because
it WORKS! It does not have to be toyed with all the time! But shipping
Betas as part of the Stable operating system, makes the operating
system, similar to the alternative. It makes you want to blow the dust
off the old WANG Adding machine looking for something that works! 7.10
Works most of the time, and I'm glad I did a Side by side upgrade to
8.04, because now I can use either one. 8.04 reads 7.10's directories,
and Vice Versa. Or  - Try to find that guy you fired Decades ago, that
operated the Abacus! :(

*****Is it possible to use a stable version of Synaptic instead of the
one in 8.04, because, these days My computer is on 24/7 trying to catch
up to all the upgrades, on dial-up. When if I use the DVD's and Add CD
in Synaptic, I could use them, and be done in a few minutes like I used
to do in 6.06? 

****Is it possible to get AGP things fixed in 8.04 so that things work
again? I know I have to reconfigure X in order to do this, but I'm not
real sure just what to change, because the error message gives no clue
about that. This brings into focus bad memories doesn't it. :) It's too
vague. 

Making Linux into the Alternative's Operating system, might not be a
good idea, because people are coming to Linux in Droves because of the
very bad experiences they had with the Alternative. The most common
complaint is MY COMPUTER IS TOOOOOOOOOOOOO
SLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW! When I put Linux on it a few have said My Computer, is too fast in Alvin's voice! That makes it good to hear about!

There are lots of Beta versions and others, and then the Stable edition
comes out, could that not have all stable software in it, and no Beta
Software, because then People will shout with Joy "IT WORKS!!". I
remember a long time ago, I had a computer and I turned it on, and it
worked, after a few seconds of boot up. Now it's spending all kinds of
time hardening it against the Internet, fixing all the problems, with
software, and hardly having any time to use the computer to be creative
with it.

I worked on a Windows XP machine a few days ago, and it was refusing to
install a driver because it was not Digitally Signed. I'm seeing similar
things in Linux now too. The error message we get is "It cannot be
Authenticated", even when it is downloaded from Ubuntu Repositories. 

Alfred!

-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel Robitaille <robitaille at gmail.com>
Reply-To: The Canadian Ubuntu Users Community
<ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com>
To: The Canadian Ubuntu Users Community <ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com>
Subject: Re: Redoing it all again...
Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2008 11:59:46 -0400

On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 11:47 AM, Alfred <alfred.s at nexicom.net> wrote:

> Perhaps a previous version of Synaptic might work, I don't know. Firefox
> that shipped with Ubuntu 8.04 is a Beta, and My computer is looking like
> it's Windows XP, with all kinds of Flashing Red Error messages all over
> the screen! Way back in time when Beta's were an option, things worked
> very well when the software was all Stable in a version upgrade!

If you have the official hardy-updates repository enabled, by now your
Hardy computer should have upgraded Firefox3 from Beta5 that was
shipped with Hardy to the final release of Firefox:

$ apt-cache policy firefox
firefox:
  Installed: 3.0+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1
  Candidate: 3.0+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1
  Version table:
 *** 3.0+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     3.0~b5+nobinonly-0ubuntu3 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy/main Packages

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