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[Colin Law]

On 17 February 2015 at 20:47,  <cmhowe at patriot.net> wrote:
> Brian or hggdh2 or Jean'baptist,
>
> I'm an old guy. My birthday was April 27, 1926. I tried to be a programmer
> but was lousy at it. I graduated from the UNC -- Chapel Hill with a BS in
> '49 and a MS in '51 in Physics. Sixty-five years later I find myself
> wanting to use Linux to get something of enormous importance accomplished.
> My effectiveness is greatly diminished. I can't use Thunderbird, (Use
> SquirrelMail instead.) can't print and am constantly losing stuff if I use
> a text editor. Lowriter saves the day.
>
> The problem was created on Jan 24, 2014. I am willing to send screen shots
> if you wish. I want Ubuntu 12-04 LTS restored. novalug, which I have
> belonged to for fourteen years and which has an excellent reputation,
> washes its collective hands. svlug won't help.I get BLU's digest but
> havn't badgered them. I figure you are the ones to goto.
>
> Here's what you can look at. I live at an assisted living establishment,
> Emeritus Manassas. There is a fellow named Gen Robert Scleiger. I decided
> I would attempt to find out his war record, so I keyed in Emeritus
> Manassas Gen Robert D Shleiger. The system's behavior was extremely
> peculiar. It wouldn't let me get back to the screen where I get and send
> mail. Screenshots if you wish.

Hi Charlie

This list is not really for user support, I think you would do better
to try the ubuntu-users list.
https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users
Also it is better to set a subject line that attempts to describe the
problem you are having.
Finally it is also a good idea just to ask for help on one issue at a
time.  Start with the most important and when that is fixed move on to
the next.  Otherwise you will just get lots of suggestions on all the
issues and it will be more difficult to work out what to try first.

Cheers

Colin