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grey@pod.tchncs.de
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Currently my T43 seems really fucked. The new hard drive and new RAM haven't stopped memtest from showing all kinds of errors. Unless there's something else I can think of to save it I believe my T43 may be dead.
My Librebooted X60 may be on it's last legs. I can still run small programs like Pluma and do a bit of homework, but once I run something bigger, like a web browser, it start getting those weird crashes again that force a reboot.
I like my X60 too much to let it run till it dies, but I'm getting behind on my homework. I think I must actually go about buying a new, current and modern laptop. My desktop works well enough, but it's a frankenstien machine of parts from 2000-2002 and using it for homework, during the school year, is a huge pain, when I can't move it around like I can a laptop.
Everything I own is old. I don't have any machines that aren't 32bit. IDK what's out there in the Gnu-Linux space for laptop hardware right. I've heard great things about the Pine64 machines but they are sold out a lot, the Framework laptop has great reviews and the Star Labs laptops also have good things said about them. But I think I'll be looking for something low-end. As long as it is small, has a CD drive and the hardware is linux compatible then I don't really care. Whatever it is, I'll have to buy it soon, exams are coming.

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grey@pod.tchncs.de
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Wtf is wrong with my T43? This is driving me insane. It had been having weird crashes for a while and I determined the HD was just old and dying so I replaced it, and then tried to install the new OS. (LXLE)

I STILL had weird crashes while I was trying to install LXLE so I ran a memtest it showed a bunch of failures. So I bought new RAM, put it in, and then installed LXLE again. I STILL kept getting weird crashes. And now apparently whatever program starts the LXDE desktop became corrupt because all I get is a wallpaper and a cursor on startup, there's nothing to click or interact with.
So I ran another memtest and it says THE NEW RAM I JUST BOUGHT IS ALSO BAD. How is that possible?

I just don't understand what is going on anymore. I need to get work done, my X60 is dying and now I can't even get the T43 to run after bying new parts for it because I don't understand what is causing these corruptions.

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grey@pod.tchncs.de
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So, I'm pretty sure the motherboard in my X60 is dying. It kept having weird crashes and now I'm afraid to use it at all because I don't want to kill it permanently. My X60 is important to me because it is a Libreboot machine and I don't own any other machines as free as it.

Because of that I went to get my old T43 running but when trying to install LXLE it kept crashing. I did a memetest to find that the RAM is pretty bad shape. Lots of errors.

My desktop is fine, but buried under a bunch of school stuff and annoying to unbury.

I have ordered new RAM for the T43 so that should be here in a couple weeks.

Meanwhile I'm using my partners Windows 10 tablet to take exams and holy mother of god do I hate windows. Lol.

Hopefully after the RAM gets here I will have a usable PC running again. I miss IRC and normal package repos.

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tani@diasp.org
Tomy Tani

Let's start with a translation of this four years old post: https://diasp.org/posts/3834747

Seamonkey, Mozilla's hidden child

There is not much buzz about Seamonkey, which is not a well known browser but yet full of qualities. This is the legacy of the old Mozilla suite, which at the time included a web browser, an email client, and other things. Seamonkey is the independent resumption of this project since Mozilla devoted itself to Firefox and Thunderbird.

The software therefore consists of a Web browser equipped with Gecko, an e-mail client, an address book and an IRC client. The whole is extensible and based on modern technologies imported from other Mozilla products.

What I particularly like about Seamonkey is that the user interface is classic. In fact, it has hardly moved since the time of the Mozilla suite. We always have a menu bar and item bars that we can customize at will. The bars can be retracted and removed. Themes management is available. It is less flashy than the latest Firefox whose visual aspect frustrates me.

Seamonkey takes up in a very classical way the canons of the old Mozilla, but behind it there are modern technologies hidden and subtle evolutions like the recent Gecko engine, the synchronization of the bookmarks or the address bar which also makes searches.

Update: Recent versions do not include the IRC client (ChatZilla), but it can be installed as an extension.

So far, so good... Is the project still alive? Yes!

http://www.seamonkey-project.org // Project News // July 27, 2018 // SeaMonkey 2.49.4 released

Let's give it a try!

There are downloads on the official site or there are also unofficial builds available here:
http://www.wg9s.com/comm-257/

Consider - As it says on this page: "the official Linux builds only require glibc version 2.12 (libc-2.12.so) and stdcxx version 3.4.16 (libstdc++.so.6.0.16) or later, the Linux builds provided on wg9s.com require glibc version 2.18 (libc-2.18.so) and stdcxx version 3.4.23 (libstdc++.so.6.0.23) or later."

Check:
- strings /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 | grep GLIBCXX

I'm not sure about Ubuntu, but on Debian Stretch it's GLIBCXX 3.4.22 atm (if I'm not mistaken the wg9s build won't work).

After downloading and extracting the file (which is around 50 MB) from seamonkey-project.org some more packages are required to get it run (after reading the error messages these were the ones I could identify):
- sudo apt install libstdc++-6-dev
- sudo apt install lib32stdc++6
- sudo apt install libgtk-3-0:i386
- sudo apt install libasound2:i386
- sudo apt install libdbus-glib-1-2:i386
- sudo apt install libxt6:i386

Seamonkey starts fine from userspace (did not work for me from /opt/seamonkey).

It looks a bit outdated but actually I don't mind as the theme can be changed anyway. Btw Seamonkey is the default browser on the distros LXLE and Puppy.

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Seamonkey, l'enfant caché de Mozilla

Seamonkey, l'enfant caché de Mozilla On parle peu de Seamonkey, qui est un navigateur peu connu mais pourtant bourré de qualités. C'est l'héritage de l'ancienne suite Mozilla, qui comportait à l'époque un navigateur Web, un client mail, et...