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I run Firefox almost always in "private" mode, for a variety of reasons. To ensure this, I have set the flag

browser.privatebrowsing.autostart=TRUE.

Therefore, whenever FF opens -- whether...

Autodave --

Thanks for the continuing support! I like your "keep it simple" principle. I tend to go that direction myself, so I'll likely do something similar to your setup.

Since you don't...

Based on the kind advice offered here in this thread, I have been investigating my options for replacing my HDD with an SSD. After considerable study, I seem to have found that:

- If I use an...

Thanks Autodave --

For my further education, how do you format and partition your SSD and your HDD. That is, what filesystem (ext4?) and what partitions of what size on each. I think this would...

Thanks, again, to Dennis N. for that additional information and suggestions. I think these are going to really help me out. I'm definitely going to take a harder look at SSD, in combination with...

Thanks everyone! Those are very helpful ideas. In fact, after some thinking, they raise a few more questions:

1) Is that 2 TB limit a pretty universal rule for "old hardware"? Is it most likely...

I have a Dell OptiPlex 360 desktop (roughly 10 years old).
- The cpu is Intel Core(TM) 2 Duo E7400 2.8 GHz.
- The Base Board (System Board / Motherboard) is Dell 0T656F.
- The BIOS is the...

Thanks for your suggestion, monkeybrain. In my case, though, I already have my web apps "open as window." When the web app window would open, an additional instance (window) of Chromium would open,...

After much further researching, I found the solution to my problem: On the computer in question, I had installed the Google Keep extension to Chromium. It turns out that Google Keep wants you to...

I regularly create desktop shortcuts to web apps using the Chromium browser. I navigate to the target web page, click on the three-button menu launcher at the upper right of Chromium, choose "More...

Thanks to BCH for reminding me about the way bytes are counted. I'm used to working with much smaller drives (shows how old I am) where the difference between "promised" and "actual" bytes is not so...

I have received the gift of a WD My Passport Ultra 1TB USB hard disk. When I mount it, my file manager (SpaceFM) tells me I have 931.1GB of 931.5 free. I see 6 folders and one file of...

After still more experimentation, I have concluded that:

For mp3 encoding, RubyRipper writes ID3v2.4 tags with zero padding. Since I prefer ID3v2.3 tags, I have two options.

a) I can use...

I've had pretty good luck with RubyRipper as a substitute for EAC, but I'm at a loss trying to understand how it adds tags to my mp3 files.

I'm running RubyRipper with LAME 3.99.3. I rip to FLAC...

Thanks for your kind replay, Batguano.

I'll have to give EasyTag another look. (I'm away from my Linux box until tomorrow.)

I wonder if it only shows APE tags for Monkey's Audio files?

In...

Still no luck reading APE tags with Puddletag.

Since EasyTag advertises that it can work with Monkey's Audio (APE), I installed it and gave it a try. I had no luck there, either.

Maybe I just...

In my Windows days, I ripped my CDs to both FLAC and mp3 files. The FLAC files were for playing on my home system, while the mp3s were for use on portable devices and car stereo. I used mp3gain to...

My thanks to Slim Odds and to Bashing-om (again!) for details on both df and du commands. Remarkably, I read through the man pages for both earlier this evening, and started playing around with...

My thanks to vasa1 for making me feel a little bit less embarrassed. I normally do a ton of research trying to find an answer before posting a new question. I think this time I panicked a little...

Having continued to search for answers elsewhere, I have read that my use of PCManFM may be the problem. Various people on other forums have reported the identical problem with Size on Disk reported...

Forgive me if this has been asked and answered. I expected to find an answer by search, but had no luck. Please point me to it if I simply missed it.

I've been converting to Linux from Windows...

I guess I'm not too surprised at getting no responses on this one. I've researched this topic (using LADSPA plugins directly in GStreamer) for tens of hours, and have found very little. There is...

I've posted here previously about various parts of this issue, but still haven't been able to pull together a bottom line. Nor have my continuing experiments provided any answers. I thought I...

Thank you! I have already begun studying it. As you said, it would be a great asset to be able to do a little scripting.

Yes, JohnOShock, I have been using Audacious as my player when I don't have any exploring to do. I can tailor the sound to each of my rooms, and do some special processing on very old recordings...