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Re: 2006 Toyota Corolla Ascent Seca review

mamboze — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 23:52:27 -0000

Agreed. The review is totally misconceived. The Corolla is not a BMW. It is a reliable, economical car with NO pretensions.

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mamboze — Tue, 08 Mar 2022 02:06:42 -0000

does anyone respond to these comments??

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mamboze — Fri, 04 Mar 2022 13:54:08 -0000

I'm running Linux Mint 19.3 on an HP Pavilion
15-cs0057tx. I can't upgrade to LM 20 because Ubuntu has problems with Intel RST (so the error message suggests). My question which I hope you may be able to help me on is, will LMDE5 be a suitable upgrade path for this machine?

Re: Linux Mint’s Website Has a Much Needed Minty Fresh New Look

mamboze — Wed, 22 Sep 2021 04:02:41 -0000

I've used Mint for the past 8 years. It's an easy to use, intuitive distro which makes using my laptop a pleasant experience. I'm still using 19.3 and there's a reason for that. It seems to be impossible to install Mint 20 on my recent HP Pavilion laptop due to the fact that Mint 20 is incompatible with Intel Rapid Storage Technology (RST). This is very disappointing. The only alternative seems to be to go for Mint LMDE 4, tho I"m not sure that will work. Any suggestions??

Re: You Can Still Use the Old Firefox Interface (but not for long)

mamboze — Sat, 12 Jun 2021 04:07:51 -0000

I don't have any problems with 89 except that when I type a query in the query line in DuckDuckGo (the one in the middle of the page), this is treated as a html address query and gives an error message, forcing me to use the queryline at the top of the page. DDG is a browser and why can't its query line be used for that purpose. BTW, can anyone help on this problem?

Re: IPython mini-book: Learning IPython for Interactive Computing and Data Visualization

mamboze — Thu, 10 Jun 2021 19:06:27 -0000

I have been using both of your books in my data science studies. They are excellent textbooks. Thank you and best regards in this difficult time

Re: The Linux Kernel Team May Not Be Entirely Happy with University of Minnesota’s Apology

mamboze — Fri, 30 Apr 2021 19:15:32 -0000

I agree entirely. Surely it is possible to devise a protocol which would provide for "proof of concept" studies and, at the same time, guard against a "government actor" scenario. The issue is a real one.

Re: Linux Mint 19.2 Named ‘Tina’, Will Feature Faster Window Manager

mamboze — Sun, 04 Aug 2019 07:13:53 -0000

All this flaming really pisses me off. Do you guys want to go back to Windows? 10 or whatever? Mint, IMO, is a really cool distro, alos not forgetting that it is free. OK

Re: Police behead boa constrictor wrapped around body of Ohio woman

mamboze — Sun, 30 Jul 2017 09:50:04 -0000

Oh right, I'm from Australia where there are no squirrels, so I lack local knowledge. Still I suppose squirrels are somewhat less aggressive than snakes, at least they can't coil themselves around people's necks :)

Re: Police behead boa constrictor wrapped around body of Ohio woman

mamboze — Sat, 29 Jul 2017 21:10:55 -0000

The victim seems to be acting from the best of motives - a concern for wild animal welfare - but snakes are not harmless pets, they are predators and will attack instinctively. If she wants to continue her rescuing of animals than perhaps she might try working in the future with less aggressive animals, like rabbits or squirrels. Much safer!

Re: How to install Lamp server on ubuntu 14.04

mamboze — Wed, 15 Apr 2015 23:24:06 -0000

Thanks very much. This is an excellent howto. No problems installing localhost on my ubuntu 14.04 platform. I will check out your other howtos.

Re: http://www.openprinting.org/printer/HP/HP-LaserJet_1022

mamboze — Wed, 17 Dec 2014 10:55:15 -0000

I've been using an HP LaserJet 1022 for about 6 years. Apart from one service 6 months ago to replace a worn paper feed part, this printer has not needed any repair work at all. Its thruput over the years has been around 5 reams/year. It's described as low-end, well that may be true but it is a sturdy well-built machine very much in the HP tradition.

Re: Login | by Anything Digital LLC

mamboze — Wed, 10 Dec 2014 07:58:20 -0000

Hi, ES is just what I needed. On switching from the JCE editor to no editor, however, some html tags, p and br, are displayed in the text area. This doesn't happen in the reverse direction tho. It's obviously not a design feature :) and is no big deal, but if it can be gotten rid of, please let me know. This little quirk aside, ES is a really useful extension. Thanks

Re: The Birth of Reason

mamboze — Wed, 03 Dec 2014 21:40:12 -0000

Yeah, the current Christian right view of American history, particularly from the Revolution onwards, is complete rubbish, totally in denial of the well-established historical facts. Their religiosity and zeal is exactly what the Founding Fathers, as children of the 18th century Enlightenment would have condemned as ignorant enthusiasm (using that word in its older, derogatory sense).
IMO, one of the important bulwarks against this irrationality is the Establishment Clause, as exercised in the recent legal action in Dover, Pennsylvania regarding the School Board's attempt to push creationism as a scientific theory on the same level as Darwinian evolution.
This is an excellent article which sets out in great detail how the US Constitution is permeated with the values of the Enlightenment. It stands alongside the UN Charter as one of the great documents celebrating human reason, tolerance and justice.

Re: Loading sounds faster - Blog - Clicktorelease

mamboze — Thu, 01 May 2014 07:06:39 -0000

The audio files are specific to each web page so, I guess, that since the split buffers persist as long as the page is open there would be no need to store them, right?

Re: Loading sounds faster - Blog - Clicktorelease

mamboze — Thu, 01 May 2014 06:40:08 -0000

HI,
Thanks for a very interesting article. I have been looking online for ways of reducing audio file latency in an English/Thai language site I'm working on. Our site depends heavily on audio and latency has become a real issue for us, located as we are in SE Asia. The audio files we are using are quite brief being of one or two words or short sentences, but each page might have up to 50 files and individual audio files might be accessed several times.. Your technique looks as though it might do the trick for us.
But I noticed that you mention on the web page that the sound files can only be played once. I'm a novice when it comes to Web Audio, so I haven't been able to get my head completely around all your code, but I'm working on it :). I wonder if you could, in general terms, to indicate where your code might be modified to provide repeated playing of the audio files. From my limited understanding of Web Audio, to get repeated play, the relevant AudioBufferSourceNode has to be recreated and pointed to the existing AudioBuffer. Any help would be much appreciated.

Re: Malcolm Turnbull on journalism's struggles

mamboze — Sat, 01 Mar 2014 21:29:21 -0000

Two things have made the day for me (in Thailand), news of the launch of The Saturday Paper and reading Malcolm's article. They give me renewed hope that politics and civil life in Australia will move towards a sane, rational and compassionate basis. I echo "Malcolm for PM" and I say this as a dyed-in-the-wool ALP supporter.
Good luck to you both.

Re: cssUpdater | DISQUS

mamboze — Sun, 13 Oct 2013 01:46:39 -0000

I forgot to add that I'm running cssUpdater which I dl'd today on FF 24.0 running on ubuntu 11.04, if this helps.

Re: cssUpdater | DISQUS

mamboze — Sun, 13 Oct 2013 01:32:28 -0000

Hi, when I click on "Sync now" in firebug to update a css file, in cssUpdater I get "Response: Could not send commando, is cssUpdater really running?" Setting port gives "Got no connection on ip: 127.0.0.1 port: 1337" and "Make sure cssUpdater is running and that you use the same port." What am I doing wrong? Configuration, I guess. Sorry to be such a noob.

Re: Textmate to JEdit Colour Theme Converter - Odes of the Occult

mamboze — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 11:16:32 -0000

Great set of schemes, thanks Sickill.

jEdit rules