[PLUG] Forking F/OSS

2015-07-12 Thread Keith Lofstrom
Firefox, Flash, Gnome ... It seems that F/OSS development is migrating away from stability and towards inept and self-indulgent experimentation. Traditionally, F/OSS development is a way to develop skills and demonstrate competence - which is a path to A Real Job. When competence actually

[PLUG] Google maps crash

2015-07-12 Thread Keith Lofstrom
This combination: 2048x1536 laptop RHEL 6.6 clone, kernel 2.6.32 Gnome 2.28.2 Firefox ESR 38.1.0 Google maps ... randomly crashes X. Very slow before it crashes. Smaller laptops, different distros OK. I don't need to fix this, just remember that this happens, and warn others.

Re: [PLUG] Reminder: 2nd Annual Book Review/OSCON Pass Contest!

2015-07-12 Thread Scott Bigelow
I ended up picking Docker: Up and Running from the list and was very impressed with the depth of information and real-world experience the author brought to the topic. Here's the Amazon review I wrote for the contest: http://www.amazon.com/review/R3I23O2HMIQ6AX On Thu, Jul 2, 2015 at 10:08 AM,

Re: [PLUG] Firefox again

2015-07-12 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 11 Jul 2015, John Jason Jordan wrote: Firefox 38.0 on Xubuntu 14.04.1, up to date. Firefox-31.8.0 on Slackware-14.1 here. Does anyone know how to get the URL bar back? I had one of the bars disappear after an upgrade a few versions ago. The View - Toolbars menu allowed me to

Re: [PLUG] Firefox again

2015-07-12 Thread Michael Rasmussen
On Sat, Jul 11, 2015 at 08:01:59PM -0700, John Jason Jordan wrote: Firefox 38.0 on Xubuntu 14.04.1, up to date. I used to have an URL bar and a smaller search bar in the same toolbar. Suddenly my URL bar is missing; that is, what was the URL bar has become a larger search bar. I no longer

Re: [PLUG] Firefox again

2015-07-12 Thread Dale Snell
On Sat, 11 Jul 2015 20:01:59 -0700, in message 20150711200159.5d8b5d83@Devil-Bonobo, John Jason Jordan wrote: Firefox 38.0 on Xubuntu 14.04.1, up to date. I used to have an URL bar and a smaller search bar in the same toolbar. Suddenly my URL bar is missing; that is, what was the URL bar

Re: [PLUG] Using GitHub Download

2015-07-12 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 11 Jul 2015, Nat Taylor wrote: you could try it in an ubuntu or debian docker container on your slackware desktop. And slackware should DEFINITELY have git baked in somehow. Here it is. http://packages.slackware.com/?r=slackware-currentp=git-2.3.5-i486-1.txz Didn't look for it

Re: [PLUG] Firefox again

2015-07-12 Thread Joe Shisei Niski
On 07/12/2015 08:30 AM, John Jason Jordan wrote: On Sun, 12 Jul 2015 06:08:23 -0700 Michael Rasmussen mich...@jamhome.us dijo: Thanks to all for the responses. I didn't know about Ctrl-l, but I did try the Customize link. Unfortunately, it opened a blank page. A Google search produced the

Re: [PLUG] Firefox again

2015-07-12 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Sun, 12 Jul 2015 06:08:23 -0700 Michael Rasmussen mich...@jamhome.us dijo: On Sat, Jul 11, 2015 at 08:01:59PM -0700, John Jason Jordan wrote: Firefox 38.0 on Xubuntu 14.04.1, up to date. I used to have an URL bar and a smaller search bar in the same toolbar. Suddenly my URL bar is