[PLUG] Turning off Firefox "your Adobe Flash player is insecure" nag

2015-12-30 Thread Keith Lofstrom
About 4 times a year, a new insecurity is discovered in Adobe Flash player, and Firefox demands an update. Until that happens, every flash video requires a click to enable it. The big problem is, even if the flash player is automatically updated by the distro, ~/.mozilla/pluginreg.dat doesn't

Re: [PLUG] Turning off Firefox "your Adobe Flash player is insecure" nag

2015-12-30 Thread Keith
type about:config in the firefox browser. On 12/30/2015 09:48 PM, Randy Stapilus wrote: > Not a solution exactly, but I've largely switched over to Chrome for > exactly that reason. No more nags. > > Randy Stapilus > Ridenbaugh Press > www.ridenbaugh.com > WA, OR, ID Weekly Briefings >

Re: [PLUG] Optical drive driving me crazy

2015-12-30 Thread David
On 12/30/2015 09:39 AM, John Jason Jordan wrote: > On Tue, 29 Dec 2015 22:16:42 -0800 > Russell Senior dijo: > >>> "John" == John Jason Jordan writes: >> >> John> However, at this point the optical drive won't mount anything. I >> John> tried

Re: [PLUG] Optical drive driving me crazy

2015-12-30 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Tue, 29 Dec 2015 22:16:42 -0800 Russell Senior dijo: >> "John" == John Jason Jordan writes: > >John> However, at this point the optical drive won't mount anything. I >John> tried half a dozen different DVDs, the light on the drive flashes

Re: [PLUG] Optical drive driving me crazy

2015-12-30 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Tue, 29 Dec 2015 22:29:41 -0800 Keith dijo: >I'm running Linux Mint 17.3 and have the same effect with my DVD drive. >If I open a CLI terminal and type 'eject' then the folder is removed >from /media/USER/DVD-NAME If I can get the drive working again I'll try that

[PLUG] RIP Ian Murdock

2015-12-30 Thread Josiah Luscher
I know many of you love Debian (for good reason). This is bad news for all lovers of open and free software: https://bits.debian.org/2015/12/mourning-ian-murdock.html -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. ___ PLUG

Re: [PLUG] What do you call a portable computer that ...

2015-12-30 Thread Matt McKenzie
On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 5:48 PM, Dick Steffens wrote: > On 12/22/2015 12:37 PM, Chuck Hast wrote: > > > > > > If you still want the "Tablet PC" here is the Thinkpad X201 tablet pc > > version > > of the X201. > > > > >