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Re: Thunderbird almost unusable after upgrade

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On 08/11/2017 10:12 AM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Friday 11 August 2017 10:54:22 Greg Wooledge wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Aug 11, 2017 at 10:48:59AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
>>> I have a 5 or 6 machine home network, most of which are running
>>> linuxcnc to carve wood or metal. Linuxcnc, generally needs realtime
>>> support so that when a machine needs direction as to what to do
>>> next, linuxcnc has at the most 10 microseconds to respond.
>> So why do you run a *web browser* on this machine?  Put it in the work
>> shed or wherever, and control it like a server or an appliance.
>>
> Chuckle.  2 of them are in fact in a 12x16 shed in the back yard, and
> occasionally I might need to step over to the other idle machine and
> look something up, so both have FF installed, but with the dram shortage
> FF causes, I don't run LCNC and FF at the same time on either atom
> powered machine.  Ditto the garage and its currently 2 machines.
>
>> Put your web browser on your desktop computer, and upgrade it to
>> something that is supported.
> That I have in the planning stage, starting with a fresh HD. But

     *wheezy is an old friend and I have excised the majority of its warts over the years.*

First off, I have some scripts that greatly simplify things for me, and
which depends on dbus, which I read is deprecated, so what replaces it?


It still works, doesn't it?
As Anne Landers used to say, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." Sounds like
good advice to me.

--doug

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Thunderbird almost unusable after upgrade Jape Person <japers@comcast.net> - 2017-08-10 16:30 +0200
  Re: Thunderbird almost unusable after upgrade Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> - 2017-08-10 16:50 +0200
    Re: Thunderbird almost unusable after upgrade Jape Person <japers@comcast.net> - 2017-08-11 15:20 +0200
    Re: Thunderbird almost unusable after upgrade Sven Hartge <sven@svenhartge.de> - 2017-08-11 21:50 +0200
      Re: Thunderbird almost unusable after upgrade Javier Barroso <javibarroso@gmail.com> - 2017-08-12 00:30 +0200
        Re: Thunderbird almost unusable after upgrade Jape Person <japers@comcast.net> - 2017-08-12 06:00 +0200
          Re: Thunderbird almost unusable after upgrade Javier Barroso <javibarroso@gmail.com> - 2017-08-12 13:40 +0200
            Re: Thunderbird almost unusable after upgrade Jape Person <japers@comcast.net> - 2017-08-12 21:30 +0200
  Re: Thunderbird almost unusable after upgrade Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2017-08-10 17:10 +0200
    Re: Thunderbird almost unusable after upgrade Cindy-Sue Causey <butterflybytes@gmail.com> - 2017-08-10 18:10 +0200
    Re: Thunderbird almost unusable after upgrade Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2017-08-10 18:30 +0200
      Re: Thunderbird almost unusable after upgrade MENGUAL Jean-Philippe <mengualjeanphi@free.fr> - 2017-08-10 19:30 +0200
        Re: Thunderbird almost unusable after upgrade Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2017-08-10 20:40 +0200
          Re: Thunderbird almost unusable after upgrade MENGUAL Jean-Philippe <mengualjeanphi@free.fr> - 2017-08-10 22:40 +0200
            Re: Thunderbird almost unusable after upgrade Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2017-08-11 07:50 +0200
          Re: Thunderbird almost unusable after upgrade Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2017-08-11 07:40 +0200
            Re: Thunderbird almost unusable after upgrade MENGUAL Jean-Philippe <mengualjeanphi@free.fr> - 2017-08-11 08:00 +0200
              Re: Thunderbird almost unusable after upgrade Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2017-08-11 16:50 +0200
                Re: Thunderbird almost unusable after upgrade Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2017-08-11 17:00 +0200
                Re: Thunderbird almost unusable after upgrade Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2017-08-11 17:20 +0200
                Re: Thunderbird almost unusable after upgrade Doug <dmcgarrett@optonline.net> - 2017-08-11 21:00 +0200
                Re: Thunderbird almost unusable after upgrade Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2017-08-12 01:20 +0200
                Re: Thunderbird almost unusable after upgrade Liam O'Toole <liam.p.otoole@gmail.com> - 2017-08-11 21:10 +0200

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