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VLC Media Player to the rescue, yay! Thanks for the reply, Gizmo.

Good news, thank you booman and Gizmo. The only catch is that the .pdf's will be on a CD-ROM or DVD-ROM. No DLing will be possible.

Hi friends and neighbors, does Adobe Acrobat Reader work in Mint 17.3? I ask because I found out that the complete (or so they say) collection of the "National Lampoon" magazines is available on DVD--but Acrobat Reader is required. Saw "Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead," the story of the magazine...

School work comes first, congratulations for taking on the extra responsibility. We always love to see your posts. I agree with Daniel, you are definitely part of my on-line education too!

It is great to see you on the board, Daerandin! My hat is of to you, you should be proud of taking on extra work to make your life better! Iirc, school in Europe is much more difficult than what we have here. I recall three hours of homework every freakin' school night in high school over...

Yes I agree, Dan. Sometimes the Depp is very amusing in the P of C collection. Sometimes you have to grin (or grit your teeth?) and bear it in this long series of filems. Oops, sorry, I meant to say fil-ems. Speaking of the Depp, I thought his performance in "The Lone Ranger" was surprisingly...

That movie series does have its moments. Can't think of one right now. Oh well.

Surely not the Pittsburgh Pirates?

Thank you very much for your advice on these security how-to's, Gizmo!

"Ya takes what cha can get... else ya get nut'in." Thoughtful proverb, thanks Dan!

Oh, the embarrassment. I was a more or less trusting MS user for too long. I always ran a paid for good AV prog and anti-rootkit software but I bet I was virussed and hacked a lot more than I realized. Assuming that you have the knowledge and can afford the equipment is it possible to monitor...

Reminds me of an utterance by Stewie in an early "Family Guy" episode: "But I thought the fat one would perish," said Stewie, very unhappily. Referring to his complete idiot of a father. Watching MS perish beneath the great weight of its greed will be lovely. Sadly, the un-generous Mr Gates...

I'm wondering if it's now necessary to secure an as powerful as you can afford sixth-generation Intel or AMD processor? Before Zen and Kaby Lake take over the business. Simply my paranoia or something to seriously consider?

MS has become so cute that it should be against the law--as well as against common sense. booman nailed it, exactly sir! They felt that they weren't making near enough money from selling OS's, so they decided to do a Google and Facebook style snoop and sell the finely granulated information...

I'm sorry that the cute folks in charge are making you run around like the proverbial "topless" chicken just because they have the power to make it so. T'ain't right I tells ya! Wonder if you remember the news item from maybe fifteen years ago in our fair state that said a small bunch of...

Ouch, I didn't think about monitors, tv's, DVD and Blu-Ray players. Plus stereos and MP3 players. Ah for the "good ole' days" of krank generator powered short-wave sets.

So we really need to run anti-virus and anti-malware software? Is it the end of the good old days?

Thank you very much for your explanation, Gizmo! The article in Slashdot grabbed my attention. Tbh, I don't know what "appliances" means. Does it refer to the Iot, or other things as well? Sysadmin for more than 450 Linux Servers, wow!

Argh, just what we need. Another Linux security problem. Please see: https://linux.slashdot.org/story/16/09/06/2219229/pokemon-themed-umbreon-rootkit-targets-linux-systems-on-arm-and-x86

No, no insult involved. I was just lamely trying to make a funny, Gizmo. Seriously, your education on tech is always most welcome!