[PLUG] Android chrome and safety warning...

2019-01-15 Thread Michael Christopher Robinson
I had an ill advised browsing session on my Android smart phone. I was looking for porn sites and we'll leave it at that. Little did I know, Chrome has a list builtin of sites that can track you and most porn sites request to be on that list. This list by the way doesn't clear if you clear cache

Re: [PLUG] Android chrome and safety warning...

2019-01-15 Thread Bill Weiss
Michael Christopher Robinson(mich...@robinson-west.com)@Tue, Jan 15, 2019 at 07:08:24AM -0600: > I had an ill advised browsing session on my Android smart phone. I was > looking for porn sites and we'll leave it at that. Little did I know, > Chrome has a list builtin of sites that can track you

Re: [PLUG] Android chrome and safety warning...

2019-01-15 Thread Tyrell Jentink
I think he's talking about this: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/3220216?co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop&hl=en I also think the risk is overstated... But I'm also a sipper of the Google cool-aid. On Tue, Jan 15, 2019, 07:39 Bill Weiss Michael Christopher Robinson(mich...@robinson-west.com)@

[PLUG] x2go and GNOME3 problem...

2019-01-15 Thread Michael Christopher Robinson
I have a CentOS 7 based server. I'm trying to log in to a gnome session using x2go. All I get is a cursor on a black background. Note if I select kde session instead that kde works. I tried yum groupinstall 'GNOME Desktop' and that did install a few things, but it didn't resolve the issue. Unin

[PLUG] To ecmascript or not to ecmascript...

2019-01-15 Thread Michael Christopher Robinson
For those who aren't aware, Javascript is the nickname of Ecmascript. Everything javascript can do, is there an open source non Microsoft alternative that is perhaps safer and equally powerful? Ecmascript is often used on web sites where it is commonly called JavaScript, though it isn't Java at a

Re: [PLUG] connecting to a postgresql database from libreoffice

2019-01-15 Thread Galen Seitz
On 01/14/2019 11:21 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: On Mon, 14 Jan 2019, Galen Seitz wrote: Here are the relevant lines in /var/lib/pgsql/data/pg_hba.conf # TYPE  DATABASE    USER    ADDRESS METHOD # "local" is for Unix domain socket connections only local   all

Re: [PLUG] connecting to a postgresql database from libreoffice

2019-01-15 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 15 Jan 2019, Galen Seitz wrote: My user id is the only non-system user with database access permissions. Trust authentication is basically wide open, but since you are the only user on your system, it's not that important that your security be tightened. Galen, That's why I use Trus

[PLUG] Installing nvidia-legacy340 on Slackware 14.2

2019-01-15 Thread Dick Steffens
I'm trying to downgrade from the nVidia legacy 390 driver to the legacy 340 driver. To do so I first downloaded the nvidia-legacy340-kernel.tar.gz, and unpacked it. Then I downloaded NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-340.104.run and moved it to the nvidia-legacy340-kernel directory. Then I downloaded NVIDIA

Re: [PLUG] Installing nvidia-legacy340 on Slackware 14.2

2019-01-15 Thread Dick Steffens
On 1/15/19 3:20 PM, Dick Steffens wrote: I'm trying to downgrade from the nVidia legacy 390 driver to the legacy 340 driver. To do so I first downloaded the nvidia-legacy340-kernel.tar.gz, and unpacked it. Then I downloaded NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-340.104.run and moved it to the nvidia-legacy340-k