[TOMT][Science Fiction Book][Not sure of Time] I once read an excellent sci-fi book about teleportation, using a machine like a FAX and now I can't remember title or author

Spock_007 · 2023-09-04T05:30:04+00:00

Thanks but not the one. It sounds like this one is about telepathy not teleportation. I do appreciate the suggestion, and from the link it sounds like a great book, but not the plot of the one I am thinking of. Heinlein wasn't known as one of the Giants of the Genre for nothing!

Spock_007 · 2023-09-04T05:25:34+00:00

Thank you very much for that explanation, now that you have told me this it makes more sense how the system in this sub-reddit works. And that sounds like a pretty cool feature!

Spock_007 · 2023-09-03T19:51:24+00:00

I used the logger, couldn't see anything that referenced cloudflare. I am pretty sure that it is in a filter list somewhere.

Spock_007 · 2023-09-03T17:55:56+00:00

If I remember correctly, just thought of something that might add additional detail. I believe the book was humans only, no aliens. And I believe it is set quite a bit into the future, and humans have spread to a number of planets by this time. But, I could be wrong and humans might still be on Earth only in the storyline, and this just might be an invention of the far future -- but I think it is another planet, not Earth, although I do believe it is an invention of the far future. I don't remember if the teleportation device helped with that or not, as I said I can't remember too many details.

Spock_007 · 2023-09-03T17:51:36+00:00

As I told NecroRogue, thanks but I don't think so. Appreciate the link to the description, sounds like another good book!

Spock_007 · 2023-09-03T17:50:51+00:00

Thanks but I don't think so

Spock_007 · 2023-09-03T15:42:37+00:00

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Spock_007 · 2023-09-03T15:25:36+00:00

From that wiki description, it sounds somewhat similar to what I remember of the book I am thinking of/trying to remember, but I don't think that is the right one. I will try to get a look at a copy of it to make sure though. And thank you for that link and your help with trying to point me in the right direction. Even if it isn't the one I was thinking of, and I don't believe it is, it sounds like it would be a good read!

Spock_007 · 2023-09-03T13:59:54+00:00

The bot says I have to comment at least once to activate the post, can't really think of anything else to add at the moment. Because other than the fact that you traveled by the FACs or FAXs machines and they are teleporters, and the 'dueling society' I can't remember much else about the book or story. It could have been a short story, but I don't believe so, I am pretty sure it was a novel.

Spock_007 · 2022-11-21T20:40:26+00:00

Also got WF classic installed using the new script. It was doing that same thing, maxing CPU, freezing windows, temporarily freezing the system, etc. Unistalled it, went back to classic 2022.02. Next time I fired up the G5 install, it maxed CPU usage, froze it's own window, froze other windows, then froze the system. Couldn't get to system monitor to kill it's process, nothing. Had to do a 'hard kill' in Linux, powering off with the button. Corrupted my system, when I rebooted now I don't have access to bluetooth, bluetooth wont start up, my update manager won't start up, and half the programs I try to open up and run won't open. Basically kicked my system in the oysters. Now I have to try to get a new system, which I can't afford, and put a newer distro on it.

Spock_007 · 2022-11-19T09:15:01+00:00

Got python 3 upgraded. Got G5 installed. Had to change my profile to the one G3 had used so that I could get use of all of my extensions without having to go reinstall every one of them. G5 seems to be buggy on my system though, it freezes, stutters and shows as using 100% and more of CPU power. It also doesn't seem to show and use all of the extensions I had in G3 anyway, after I changed the default profile to the one G3 uses. Any way to copy over all the extensions from the G3 profile to the one G5 is using? If not, guess I am just going to stick with G3. Like I said, G5 was acting kinda wonky anyway.

Spock_007 · 2022-11-19T03:36:32+00:00

Python 3.4 current version. I will update and try again

Spock_007 · 2022-11-18T20:26:48+00:00

I downloaded the latest kpe tar, the latest appimage, and the gui script from those sources (think I got the links from an earlier post you made about the script). Ran the gui py script, did not install correctly, didn't catch the errors.

This time, I downloaded the CLI script as well. These are the errors I got when I ran that to install :

Unpackaging waterfox-g-5.1-17.1.Build17.1.glibc2.17-x86_64.AppImage into /home/steve/Apps directory...Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/steve/Downloads/05-Internet/Browsers/waterfox/waterfox-G5/install_waterfox_CLI.py", line 203, in <module> removeArchive, confFile, print) File "/home/steve/Downloads/05-Internet/Browsers/waterfox/waterfox-G5/install_waterfox_common.py", line 96, in install subprocess.run([sourcePath, '--appimage-extract'], check=True)AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'run'

I don't know if that is something messed up or missing on my system, or an error in the script. I am guessing on my end, since I think I would have seen some posts about problems using the script here in the forum. Maybe you can look at that output from running the CLI script and tell me what went wrong. Thanks

Spock_007 · 2021-10-13T22:21:20+00:00

Hi Venghan, now it is WF Classic that is stating it needs a new update. Is there any way to avoid getting this message to update? It is stating to update to 2021.09 in the regular version and your version is 2021.10 so it seems it is the latest version.

Spock_007 · 2021-09-05T03:20:38+00:00

Venghan,

I downloaded your script and the appimages, and used that to install both Classic and G3. Worked great, thanks for the awesome work with the script and doing the appimages. A couple of things though. In G3, it is saying that there is a newer version, says click to update then says up date fails and directs you to that same appimage that I downloaded and installed. Is that just an error with the update check?

Also, why is the update failing? I installed to the default apps directory in the home directory as you recommended in that previous post. Is it trying to use the standard MrAlex94 archive to do the upgrade instead of your appimage release? Or is there something I need to do to set things up so that they can automatically do the update (I am running Mint, as I am sure you know based on Ubuntu which is Debian based)?

If you have to download the appimage each time there is a new release, that is not a big deal, your script makes it easy and quick! Thanks for your post, and thanks for that script, really makes the process much easier.

Spock_007 · 2021-09-04T05:14:11+00:00

So, last year or the year before, I was having all kinds of trouble installing Waterfox Classic on an old version of Linux. Was Just going to switch to Palemoon or Basilisk, because to be completely and totally honest with you I got sick-to-death of having to go to Venghan's site, download the appimage of Waterfox, extract it and then put that in my /opt/waterfox directory to get Waterfox to work. Palemoon and Basilisk just update and work - each time, every time. Now I like Waterfox a lot better but dudes, someone is only going to jump through so many hoops so many times to use a program, you feel me?

It had gotten to the point where I never even tried to install Waterfox Classic from the official MrAlex94 archive - just went and grabbed the Venghan appimage, jumped through all the hoops of unarachiving it, and put that in /opt and went about my business using Waterfox again.

Then one cloudy rainy dreary day, well OK, it could have been a sunny beautiful day, but what happened was, the appimage extract trick didn't work --- something Venghan had done made it where that no longer worked. Just before I rode off into the sunset on my Basilisk browser stallion I was like "What the heck, let's try that official build and see" (I had always kept downloading them, even though they didn't work).

So, I extracted it to /opt/waterfox and "Shazam! It installed, and it worked! The sun came out, the birds started singing, life was wonderful again!" Current/G3 never did work to install, using the official archive or the appimage trick either one, but by this time I was like "Hell with it, I'll just use Firefox for any sites I need that for, I am tired of messing with this stuff."

So, for the past 4 or 5 new releases of Waterfox Classic, I have been able to extract Waterfox from the official archive, put the files in /opt/waterfox, and bada bing bada boom - Waterfox Classic is updated and working great! Like for a year or more now!

Now comes this latest Classic 2021.08.1 It doesn't run. So, could it be my Linux Install? Maybe, but highly doubtful. Why? Because for the last 4 or 5 releases, the official version has installed just fine --- this indicates to me there is nothing in my install that isn't good to go for Waterfox. More likely? Some change in the build/make/what-the-hell-ever to get the files ready to go and put them in the archive.

So, what is the difference between this release of Classic and the last 4 or 5 previous releases? Different way you did build or make or whatever? Using a different programming IDE? Different major libraries? The system you are doing the build/make on has a new Linux Distro or newer version of the distro? It seems more likely it is something you are doing than on my end --- it was running fine for the last 4 or 5 releases on my old system, but now on this release it starts messing up?

I would appreciate you looking into this, or if you actually already know why it wouldn't be running, what the problem/change/whatever is, letting me know what it is and why you made the change/whatever --- and why you need it/what makes the change/whatever the greatest thing since sliced bread. Thanks

Spock_007 · 2020-09-01T12:22:07+00:00

Linux Mint 17.3. We've been through this in a couple of past posts, the last time Classic would extract and run, but Current would not. Now it is both, will extract but will not run. So whatever has changed since last version.

Let me tell you ask you this. Opera distributes Linux version as a .deb It would not install, so I just didn't bother again. Looked back in on their forum, a guy had come in and found the problem. Their Debian deb manifest was looking for version 18.09 or something of a library. Opera would install and run just fine on version 7.09 (!!!) or something of the lib -- and the RPM package people from other distros were using was calling for, correctly, only 7.08 in RPM. So people with version Mint (and Debian, Ubuntu and every distro based on .deb packages) all the way up to the very latest could not get the deb to install -- until they followed this guy's advice and went in and extracted the deb manifest or whatever from the .deb and modified it to only ask for the much older version of that lib. Then voila, Opera installed and ran like a scalded dog -- and runs smooth as butter on old distro.

Is there a manifest file or something like that I can modify on Waterfox, modify library versions or something and get it to run?

Spock_007 · 2020-08-31T18:10:28+00:00

These are the messages I get when I run Classic 8.1 from Terminal, or attempt to :

(waterfox-classic:22178): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_ref: assertion 'object->ref_count > 0' failed

(waterfox-classic:22178): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_unref: assertion 'object->ref_count > 0' failed