What's up with the Talkback server?

2002-01-29 Thread David Gerard
Haven't been able to send talkbacks for about the last 24 hours. Is talkback5.netscape.com on and alive and stuff? -- http://thingy.apana.org.au/~fun/ http://www.rocknerd.org/ burger king apple fritters taste like cunt. (siani evans)

More useful error messages from Talkback please?

2001-12-04 Thread David Gerard
Having Talkback tell me: Please check your Proxy Server settings or try again later is not really helpful when the problem is actually that the talkback server is down ... -- http://thingy.apana.org.au/~fun/ http://www.rocknerd.org/ Sorry sunshine, but I have clothes

Re: More useful error messages from Talkback please?

2001-12-04 Thread Daniel Veditz
David Gerard wrote: Having Talkback tell me: Please check your Proxy Server settings or try again later is not really helpful when the problem is actually that the talkback server is down ... What would you prefer it to say? Most of the time the server is up, so proxy settings

Re: More useful error messages from Talkback please?

2001-12-04 Thread David Gerard
On Tue, 04 Dec 2001 11:02:24 -0800, Daniel Veditz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: :David Gerard wrote: : : Having Talkback tell me: :Please check your Proxy Server settings or try again later : is not really helpful when the problem is actually that the talkback server : is down ... :What would you

Re: Finding talkback incident data

2001-11-22 Thread Christian Biesinger
Michael Gratton wrote: Is there anyway to get at the stack trace reported in a Talkback incident? I clicked Send accidently before looking at the trace and I'd really like to see where the thing is crashing. The talkback client itself does not give a stack trace anyway. The only way

Re: How does talkback do its thing?

2001-08-09 Thread Brian Craigie
David Illsley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... Talkback seems to use http. It has options to allow you to use HTTP or socks proxies. Please try to use it, it helps the bug fixing process immensely. David It doesn't do proxy authentication, something I asked

Re: How does talkback do its thing?

2001-08-09 Thread Hall Stevenson
Talkback seems to use http. It has options to allow you to use HTTP or socks proxies. Please try to use it, it helps the bug fixing process immensely. David It doesn't do proxy authentication, something I asked for when talkback first appeared in the 4.x days. Please can

Re: How does talkback do its thing?

2001-08-09 Thread Phil Edwards
Asa Dotzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Talkback should send its reports over HTTP. [...] I think you can manipulate the proxy settings by going to the install dir/bin/components/ and running the talkback.exe. Then select Settings|Options and there should be HTTP or SOCKS proxy settings

Re: How does talkback do its thing?

2001-08-09 Thread Michael Pillsbury
P.P.S.- Who turned off the single-click expand/collapse of bookmark folders between 0.9.1 and 0.9.3? I just discovered I have to double-click on the folders. I was enjoying being so lazy, too. :-) You can single-click the triangles to the left of the folder names to expand them. I, too,

Re: How does talkback do its thing?

2001-08-08 Thread Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T.
the Outside World. Just how is the talkback agent supposed to get through things like blocked outbound ports, etc? Is it just using email? http? ftp? If it's using its own fancy protocol, then I might as well disable it permanently; no way is it ever going to reach its server unless we know which

Re: How does talkback do its thing?

2001-08-08 Thread Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T.
Simon Fraser wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There should be a cautionary note: At least on some platforms (MAC especially) where Talkback in most cases will actually cause crashes instead of catching crashes. Thus could send

Re: How does talkback do its thing?

2001-08-07 Thread David Illsley
Talkback seems to use http. It has options to allow you to use HTTP or socks proxies. Please try to use it, it helps the bug fixing process immensely. David

How does talkback do its thing?

2001-08-06 Thread Phil Edwards
The subject pretty much covers it... I am behind so many firewalls that a team of network security engineers has to sacrifice a virgin goat in order to retrieve a simple webpage from the Outside World. Just how is the talkback agent supposed to get through things like blocked outbound ports

Re: Does mozilla-win32-installer-sea.exe contain talkback?

2001-07-20 Thread Peter Lairo
Peter Lairo wrote: David Hallowell wrote: Peter Lairo wrote: Hi, i have encounteresd a serious crasher bug (affects MANY links) and use mozilla-win32-installer-sea.exe, whch hasn't called up talkback during these crashes. My question is: Does *mozilla-win32-installer-sea.exe

Re: Talkback reports

2001-07-19 Thread Clarence (Andreas M. Schneider)
Ashant wrote: Recently when mozilla crashed on my windows machine, I sent a talkback report that was automatically generated. What happens to these things? Do they get filed as bugs? How do I find out what happened to my report? If a similar crash has been reported several times, you can

Re: Talkback reports

2001-07-19 Thread Gavin Long
Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T. wrote... Supposedly they are logged at a special server. And each and everyone (every minute detail) is gone over with a fine tooth comb. The Talkback reports can definitely lead to bugzilla logs, and influence which bugs get marked topcrash guesswork I suspect

Does mozilla-win32-installer-sea.exe contain talkback?

2001-07-19 Thread Peter Lairo
Hi, i have encounteresd a serious crasher bug (affects MANY links) and use mozilla-win32-installer-sea.exe, whch hasn't called up talkback during these crashes. My question is: Does *mozilla-win32-installer-sea.exe* contain talkback? Here's the bug, if you're interested: http

Re: Does mozilla-win32-installer-sea.exe contain talkback?

2001-07-19 Thread Peter Lairo
David Hallowell wrote: Peter Lairo wrote: Hi, i have encounteresd a serious crasher bug (affects MANY links) and use mozilla-win32-installer-sea.exe, whch hasn't called up talkback during these crashes. My question is: Does *mozilla-win32-installer-sea.exe* contain talkback? Here's

Crash on reload and talkback

2001-07-01 Thread Duane Clark
Since I could reliably get a crash, I decided to get the talkback build. I used the link on the releases page to the talkback enabled x86 tar.gz format: ...releases/mozilla0.9.2/mozilla-i686-pc-linux-gnu-0.9.2.tar.gz After unpacking and running it, I do my crash procedure. Go to http

Mozilla and talkback

2001-06-08 Thread Fulvio Perini
This may be obvious to most,but it is not to me.I downloaded 0.9,last month,installer file,because,in spite of the fact that the talkback file was recommended,I could not make any sense out of it. This time I decided to download the talkback file,in a directory of my choice. The file

Re: Can't report crash via talkback, so...

2001-06-08 Thread Fulvio Perini
Ed Hurst wrote: this is the only way I can think to get the data to you folks. Since I'm not look for a solution, I won't be checking back, but you can respond to my e-mal if it suits you. Upon installing the Win32 0.9.1 talkback installer, I get a crash on initialization, a second or two

Can't report crash via talkback, so...

2001-06-07 Thread Ed Hurst
this is the only way I can think to get the data to you folks. Since I'm not look for a solution, I won't be checking back, but you can respond to my e-mal if it suits you. Upon installing the Win32 0.9.1 talkback installer, I get a crash on initialization, a second or two after converting my

Re: Examining/searching talkback data?

2001-05-13 Thread Asa Dotzler
Daniel Veditz wrote: Gervase Markham wrote: Is it possible for a mere bug-reporter to look through talkback data to look for stack traces duplicate/similar to the ones you find? No. :-( You'll need to ask [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a specific talkback ID. Yes, this sucks. Gerv A summary

Re: Examining/searching talkback data?

2001-05-07 Thread jesus X
Daniel Veditz wrote: Sorry we couldn't do more, but we do want to protect the privacy of people kind enough to send us their crash data. We did, after all, promise that we would. Which is exactly one of the many reasons people like me still prefer to use Netscape products, and Mozilla.

Re: Examining/searching talkback data?

2001-05-06 Thread Gervase Markham
A summary of talkback data is posted at ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/data/crash-data/ Personally identifying information has been removed, and links to detailed crash data are to a server behind the Netscape firewall. Sorry we couldn't do more, but we do want to protect the privacy of people

Re: Examining/searching talkback data?

2001-05-05 Thread Gervase Markham
Is it possible for a mere bug-reporter to look through talkback data to look for stack traces duplicate/similar to the ones you find? No. :-( You'll need to ask [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a specific talkback ID. Yes, this sucks. Gerv

Re: Examining/searching talkback data?

2001-05-05 Thread Daniel Veditz
Gervase Markham wrote: Is it possible for a mere bug-reporter to look through talkback data to look for stack traces duplicate/similar to the ones you find? No. :-( You'll need to ask [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a specific talkback ID. Yes, this sucks. Gerv A summary of talkback data

Examining/searching talkback data?

2001-05-04 Thread Matthew Cline
Is it possible for a mere bug-reporter to look through talkback data to look for stack traces duplicate/similar to the ones you find? Thanks in advance. -- Matthew Cline| Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose that [EMAIL PROTECTED] | you were a member of Congress. But I repeat

How to turn on Talkback?

2001-03-23 Thread Geka M
o tried re-downloading from http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/nightly/latest/mozilla-win32-talkback.zip and running that installation, but it made no difference, crashes still do not bring up the talkback agent. Thanks! __ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your

Re: Is talkback broke or is it me?

2001-03-21 Thread barney
Daniel Veditz wrote: barney wrote: I recently started downloading win32 talkback nightlies again now that they've shrunk down to a more tolerable size. I've had a couple of crashes, but talkback didn't kick in. Then I noticed a message in the console log when mozilla starts up: talkback

Re: Is talkback broke or is it me?

2001-03-20 Thread Daniel Veditz
barney wrote: I recently started downloading win32 talkback nightlies again now that they've shrunk down to a more tolerable size. I've had a couple of crashes, but talkback didn't kick in. Then I noticed a message in the console log when mozilla starts up: talkback can't initialize

Re: Talkback PS

2001-01-28 Thread Simon P. Lucy
At 10:19 27/01/2001 -0500, Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T. wrote: PS: I was hoping to reach the Netscape employee's that read this group. After All Mozilla is the research arm and Netscape is the comercial product. Phillip, you know that isn't going to work it only irritates. mozilla.org isn't any

Re: Talkback

2001-01-27 Thread Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T.
Steve Chapel wrote: "Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T." [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... Daniel Veditz wrote: "Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T." wrote: Your not missing much with Talkback. It been my experienc

Re: Talkback PS

2001-01-27 Thread Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T.
"Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T." wrote: Steve Chapel wrote: "Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T." [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... Daniel Veditz wrote: "Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T." wrote:

Re: Talkback

2001-01-26 Thread Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T.
Daniel Veditz wrote: "Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T." wrote: Your not missing much with Talkback. It been my experience on Mac that Talkback cause crashes instead of reporting them. On Communicator for Mac the recomended course is to remove all traces of Talkback in Co

Re: Talkback

2001-01-26 Thread Steve Chapel
"Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T." [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... Daniel Veditz wrote: "Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T." wrote: Your not missing much with Talkback. It been my experience on Mac that Talkback cause cra

Re: Talkback

2001-01-25 Thread Asa Dotzler
Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T. wrote: Asa, I reliaze that we are talking about Mozilla. Talkback is included with both Mozilla, and netscape6 for Mac point me to a mac Mozilla build with talkback. --Asa

Talkback

2001-01-24 Thread ValerieGSharp
Been using Mozilla 0.7, from Win32 Zipfile. It won't talkback. I also downloaded build 2001012020 from 'Windows' link under 'Nightly Builds' on Mozilla.org page, and it claimed to be 'mozilla-win32-talkback.zip', but it doesn't talkback either. Previous milestones/nightlies used to talkback

Re: Talkback

2001-01-24 Thread Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T.
Your not missing much with Talkback. It been my experience on Mac that Talkback cause crashes instead of reporting them. On Communicator for Mac the recomended course is to remove all traces of Talkback in Communicator and in system Files Talkback and Full Circle items, before opening

Re: Talkback

2001-01-24 Thread Asa Dotzler
Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T. wrote: Your not missing much with Talkback. It been my experience on Mac that Talkback cause crashes instead of reporting them. On Communicator for Mac the recomended course is to remove all traces of Talkback in Communicator and in system Files Talkback and Full