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Hi, I am a newbie, so I do not have much computer savvy, so here goes. I have been doing online surveys, most go ok, but I can not get some to load. I have Linux, Firefox3.0, if that helps any! When I click on "take survey" the left hand corner says Done, and the arrow is spinning, but the blocks on the right remain empty and will not load. Is it my browser? I would appreciate any help.
Converted Slack64 to multilib today, following the procedure in the article by Eric (Alien Bob), which is excellent - clear and informative as usual. As far as I can tell, everything went OK. I could do with finding some means of testing it, but my knowledge of programming is limited to cut & paste, or just copying programs, to compile. I have edited "Hello World" programs in several languages to read "Hello, Brian! How are you today? You're looking GOOD!!", but that's the...
I meant this evening to continue exploring the installation of Slackware onto my old Dell laptop. The battery stopped working many years ago and I've been running it off the mains. This evening I plugged in the power-supply and switched on at the socket and nothing happened.
I've put a meter across the mains outlet and it's working and the plug's fuse is okay and power gets as far as the connection into the power supply, but there's no little green light coming on.
There would appear to be two opening braces '{' which have not been closed, these are on line 142 and 145. You will need to go back to the original script to see where the close braces should be.
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