Re: Gnome weather extension as malware?

2014-05-02 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 12:26 AM, Tim ignored_mail...@yahoo.com.au wrote: Unless you're actually in the airport control tower, or flying a plane, I doubt you need to keep updating a weather report that often. LOL your comment made my day. Well said. :) Although by reading some other mailing

Re: Gnome weather extension as malware?

2014-05-01 Thread Suvayu Ali
Hi, Disclaimer: I do not use this extension, but I do use the XFCE counterpart. On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 10:29:24AM -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote: This extension gets its weather information from the Norway weather service, and you can't change this. This is standard practise among many FOSS

Re: Gnome weather extension as malware?

2014-05-01 Thread Tim
Robert Moskowitz: This extension gets its weather information from the Norway weather service, and you can't change this. Suvayu Ali: This is standard practise among many FOSS weather monitoring tools. A year or so back most popular weather feeds either stopped, went proprietary, or kept

Re: Gnome weather extension as malware?

2014-05-01 Thread Steven Stern
On 05/01/2014 07:47 PM, Tim wrote: Robert Moskowitz: This extension gets its weather information from the Norway weather service, and you can't change this. Suvayu Ali: This is standard practise among many FOSS weather monitoring tools. A year or so back most popular weather feeds either

Re: Gnome weather extension as malware?

2014-05-01 Thread Tim
Tim: While that sounds reasonable, the 15 second refresh period does not. Does it really do that? Is it really necessary to do so? Steven Stern: I've left the capture running for a while and it seems that the timing varies. It's been a while since it last checked. It seems that the

Gnome weather extension as malware?

2014-04-30 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Is anyone running the Gnome weather extension? I have disabled it and my system is running better. Or rather FIrefox is working 'right' again. This extension gets its weather information from the Norway weather service, and you can't change this. I had noticed that many places I was going

Re: Gnome weather extension as malware?

2014-04-30 Thread Steven Stern
On 04/30/2014 09:29 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: Is anyone running the Gnome weather extension? I have disabled it and my system is running better. Or rather FIrefox is working 'right' again. This extension gets its weather information from the Norway weather service, and you can't change

Re: Gnome weather extension as malware?

2014-04-30 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 04/30/2014 10:44 AM, Steven Stern wrote: On 04/30/2014 09:29 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: Is anyone running the Gnome weather extension? I have disabled it and my system is running better. Or rather FIrefox is working 'right' again. This extension gets its weather information from the