Re: [Torios] Torios fails to install - but does in verbose mode - hurray, installed, but no browser?

2017-02-21 Thread George DiceGeorge
From: Torios <mailto:torios-bounces+jackdtrice=outlook....@lists.launchpad.net> on behalf of George DiceGeorge <mailto:dicegeo...@hotmail.com> Sent: 17 February 2017 23:28 To: torios@lists.launchpad.net<mailto:torios@lists.launchpad.net> Subject: Re: [Torios]

Re: [Torios] Torios fails to install - but does in verbose mode - hurray, installed, but no browser?

2017-02-17 Thread George DiceGeorge
broadband installed Wednesday which means i can get on with these projects...) On 17/02/2017 22:24, George DiceGeorge wrote: > I tried again in verbose mode > > and its got up to the torios desktop! > > [george] > > > On 17/02/2017 22:22, George DiceGeorge wrote: >> boo

Re: [Torios] Torios fails to install - but does in verbose mode

2017-02-17 Thread George DiceGeorge
I tried again in verbose mode and its got up to the torios desktop! [george] On 17/02/2017 22:22, George DiceGeorge wrote: > booting from > Torios-Debian.iso 714,752 KB > > It stops at: > > torios login: > Debian GNUI/Linux 8 torios tty1 > > > what should I do?

[Torios] Torios fails to install

2017-02-17 Thread George DiceGeorge
booting from Torios-Debian.iso 714,752 KB It stops at: torios login: Debian GNUI/Linux 8 torios tty1 what should I do? [george] --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~torios Post to

Re: [Torios] download fails - server in the bedroom

2017-01-08 Thread George DiceGeorge
someone's already said this, i should have read all the emails before posting! [g] On 08/01/2017 17:11, George DiceGeorge wrote: >> Why can we not host an ISO on torios.top? >> Is there a downside to doing that? > im not an expert but it seems to me the downside of

Re: [Torios] download fails - server in the bedroom

2017-01-08 Thread George DiceGeorge
> > Why can we not host an ISO on torios.top? > Is there a downside to doing that? im not an expert but it seems to me the downside of hosting on someone's server in their bedroom is that if torios goes viral via a mention in a news site then thousands will want to download and the server in the

[Torios] download fails

2017-01-05 Thread George DiceGeorge
from http://torios.top/download/ [Firefox can't establish a connection to the server at phillw.net.] http://phillw.net/isos/torios/ToriOS-1.0.iso [g] --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net

Re: [Torios] [FINAL BITS] (1) Updating the website

2016-09-02 Thread George DiceGeorge
website suggestions: homepage: [ToriOS is a GNU/Linux Operating System built for very old computers (NON PAE) ] [ (NON PAE) ] could be a link explaining what it means and how to find out if a PC is PAE (as on About page) http://torios.top/news/ delete (2) http://torios.top/join/ delete [a l

Re: [Torios] [Torios-dev] ToriOS Release Schedule - edition 1.0

2016-03-19 Thread George DiceGeorge
DiceGeorge ; toriOS Mailing list ; ToriOS developers Subject: Re: [Torios] [Torios-dev] ToriOS Release Schedule - edition 1.0 Den 2016-03-16 kl. 13:48, skrev George DiceGeorge: Is it possible for the install CD/USB stick to first scan the computer and post up a message if the CPU is unsuitable with

Re: [Torios] [Torios-dev] ToriOS Release Schedule - edition 1.0

2016-03-18 Thread George DiceGeorge
Is it possible for the install CD/USB stick to first scan the computer and post up a message if the CPU is unsuitable with recommendation for what distro would work. I wish Ubuntu etc would do this for non-pae CPUs [george] someone wrote: There are hardly any non-pae computers left. The boot

Re: [Torios] ToriOS on GitHub

2016-01-07 Thread George DiceGeorge
Samuel Klein wrote: here's the website: https://tori-os.github.io/ This can be changed to toris.top easily. Hurray! github is free and supported isnt it, much better than hosting at somewhere private or with my friends of friends in my opinion. I dont think torios NEEDS wordpress does it? jus

Re: [Torios] The History of ToriOS Websites

2016-01-04 Thread George DiceGeorge
No, this is not a temporary solution It is more permanent than your option... because under your paid for option with your friend what would happen if/when he or you die or go bankrupt? george From: Ali/amjjawad Sent: Monday, January 4, 2016 12:13 PM To: George DiceGeorge ; Nio Wiklund Cc

Re: [Torios] The History of ToriOS Websites

2016-01-04 Thread George DiceGeorge
maybe you misunderstand me, http://torios.dicenews.com/ is only set up as a temporary address until torios.net or torios.top etc are pointed there, which ould take five minutes. Its provided by http://www.hatters.org.uk/ They are not ‘professional’ in the sense that they’re not asking for money,

Re: [Torios] sudo apt-get install 2016 -y

2016-01-02 Thread George DiceGeorge
maybe you missed my email where friends of mine have donated a free wordpress website now at http://torios.dicenews.com/ but easy to point torios.top to it will make you an admin [g] From: Ali/amjjawad Sent: Friday, January 1, 2016 2:42 PM To: toriOS Mailing list Subject: [Torios] sudo apt-get

[Torios] Here is a free wordpress website for torios

2015-12-23 Thread George DiceGeorge
Here is a free wordpress website for torios http://torios.dicenews.com/ it can be moved to torios.org andor .net easily later on i hope who should have admin passwords? hosted by friends of friends at: http://www.hatters.org.uk/ [g] From: George DiceGeorge Sent: Wednesday, December 23, 2015

[Torios] I may be able to get a free wordpress website for torios if thats whats needed

2015-12-23 Thread George DiceGeorge
I may be able to get a free wordpress website for torios if thats whats needed [george] From: Israel Sent: Tuesday, December 22, 2015 9:31 PM To: torios@lists.launchpad.net Subject: Re: [Torios] Please Read and Reply On 12/20/2015 12:51 AM, Ali/amjjawad wrote: NOTE: Whatever you'll read b

Re: [Torios] ToriOS Motto on the website

2015-06-08 Thread George DiceGeorge
or This computer is Free as a Bird [g] -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~torios Post to : torios@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~torios More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

Re: [Torios] ToriOS Motto on the website

2015-06-08 Thread George DiceGeorge
Your computer is free as a bird I think the extra ‘as’ doesn’t add anything, but ‘a’ does improve things. Maybe the capitals aren’t needed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9DmBRR05BE "Free As A Bird" Free as a bird It's the next best thing to be Free as a bird Home, home and dry Like a homi

[Torios] Torios download page error

2015-05-25 Thread George DiceGeorge
The page http://torios.net/download/ is undated, I hope its current It says: [The permanent link to ToriOS 0.5 is here: http://phillw.net/isos/torios/ToriOS-beta.iso] but there's an error with the link. http://torios.net/download/%20http://phillw.net/isos/torios/ToriOS-beta.iso I'm downloading f

Re: [Torios] TORI OS manual

2015-04-12 Thread George DiceGeorge
https://github.com/zleap/torios-manual/blob/master/torios-12.04/torios.pdf failed twice to download the pdf in Internet Explorer /win7, but with firefox/win7 it opened the PDF for about a minute and then crashed. But when I tried a third time in Internet Explorer it did download! When I tried a

Re: [Torios] Links not highlighted bug at torios.net

2015-02-23 Thread George DiceGeorge
22/2015 09:11 AM, George DiceGeorge wrote: As Paul noticed the links in http://torios.net/tori-os-pre-beta/ are not highlighted a different colour. He seems to have coloured the link where it says [The first candidate for the final Beta is here:] by inserting a SPAN in the HTML, Ive added the U

[Torios] Live CD cant see my hard disk files

2015-02-22 Thread George DiceGeorge
Running Live from CD, web browser works (but renders strangely) File Manager / Places doesn't seem to find either hard disk or the files on them which i would need on a rescue disk [g] -Original Message- From: Israel Sent: Sunday, 22 February, 2015 16:40 To: Nio Wiklund ; torios Subjec

[Torios] Links not highlighted bug at torios.net

2015-02-22 Thread George DiceGeorge
As Paul noticed the links in http://torios.net/tori-os-pre-beta/ are not highlighted a different colour. He seems to have coloured the link where it says [The first candidate for the final Beta is here:] by inserting a SPAN in the HTML, Ive added the URL to make things clearer, but it is not highl

Re: [Torios] The HTML manual work

2015-01-18 Thread George DiceGeorge
Is it OK if i proofread and send you suggested improvements like this: = http://hugsmile.eu/file/torios/manual/node3.html [GNU stands for GNU's Not Unix] insert a possessive apostrophe [up-to-date security built-in] may not need hyphens [." "ToriOS does not require a

Re: [Torios] ToriOS-alpha-rc2.iso testing

2015-01-08 Thread George DiceGeorge
Sent: Wednesday, 07 January, 2015 17:50 To: smile4e...@torios.org Cc: George DiceGeorge ; torios@lists.launchpad.net Subject: Re: [Torios] ToriOS-alpha-rc2.iso testing Den 2015-01-07 18:46, Smile4ever skrev: Aan vr, 02 jan 2015 22:38:35 +0100 Nio Wiklund schreef > Den 2015-01-02 22:18

Re: [Torios] ToriOS-alpha-rc2.iso testing

2015-01-02 Thread George DiceGeorge
lso have a dedicated machine ONLY for testing ToriOS, so I wipe it clean each time as well... ... On 01/02/2015 01:29 PM, George DiceGeorge wrote: Will ToriOS-alpha-rc2.iso ( which i downloaded from http://torios.org/iso.html ) reformat any of my hard disk partitions if I click INSTALL from the bot

[Torios] ToriOS-alpha-rc2.iso testing

2015-01-02 Thread George DiceGeorge
Will ToriOS-alpha-rc2.iso ( which i downloaded from http://torios.org/iso.html ) reformat any of my hard disk partitions if I click INSTALL from the bottom of its desktop or do I get a chance to repartition ? george my notes: 19:04 2015-01-02 DOWNLOADED ISO ToriOS-alpha-rc2.iso from http://tori

Re: [Torios] wallpapers

2015-01-02 Thread George DiceGeorge
I suggest that we deliver ToriOS with very light-weight wallpapers xxx maybe tone down the colour, and add the name 'torios.org' ? [g]-- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~torios Post to : torios@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~torios More help : https://help.la

[Torios] New member - Introduction

2014-12-11 Thread George DiceGeorge
Hi, I joined this list yesterday after finding that Lubuntu14.04 probably wont work on all my old computers, and I want a CD that will boot as many as possible, then I can take the others to the hardware recycling centre, etc. I dont want to get involved in the technicalities of coding etc, bu