On 1/22/24 11:56, Curt wrote:
On 2024-01-21, Greg Wooledge <g...@wooledge.org> wrote:
On Sun, Jan 21, 2024 at 01:30:41PM -0500, gene heskett wrote:
chroming is dangerous.
I haven't touched it since they hijacked port 80 so you cannot use it
locally.
Gene, this is NOT true. Chrome does not "hijack port 80". You can
go to http://localhost:80/ to talk to a local web server *just fine*
in Chrome.
I think Firefox can now fill out and save fillable pdf forms (and even
add text to ones that are not even editable). So Gene may
obviate his moral allergy by adopting another route.
I don't think that was the case here, none of the utility's suggested in
this thread could find a form space to fill, and I wound up cobbleing it
together using fldsed, whose interface is quite clunky but more or less,
complete with speeling errors, typu's and overstrikes, did get the job
done, and exported as pdf. Fed to the printer ia okular it was pixel
accurate. I'll compose an email hopefully explaining their broken pdf
composer made my reply very difficult, and suggesting they take a look
at OpenOffice Writer, which I think CAN be coaxed into doing what they
thought they were doing with their pdf composer.
I've not emailed it back to them as an attachment yet but will before
the end of my day.
Thanks Curt.
People with causes often display a tendency of making their points with a
careless regard for the truth (as they feel, I suppose, that the end
justifies the means).
It was and is the truth as I see it on my screens here. Everyone else
claims if "127.0.0.1 localhost" is present in the /etc/hosts files
which it is, that it should Just Work, but it doesn't here. Firefox
OTOH, does Just Work.
This is another one of your imaginary problems, which has already been
disproved, but to which you still cling. You seem to have many of these.
Tell me about it, but they have existed here since I put the 12.2
netinstall iso on a dvd and rebooted to it the first time which has been
the subject of numerous prior threads because the installer finds ANY
usb-serial adaptor plugged in, assunes I am blind and installs brltty
and orca without once asking be if I wanted it. And they cannot be
removed once installed, or the execute bits removed and still reboot the
system when needed, That alone caused over 20 re-installs before someone
took pity on me and said to unplug the usb tree as it was reacting to
the adapter feeding a cm11a for heyu's use.
I'm not going to spend the time to dig up the old thread in which you
first espoused this idea, and in which I showed you that it's untrue.
That would be a waste of my time.
And mine too until its fixed to Just Work.
Take care, stay warm, dry and well, Curt.
Cheers, Gene Heskett.
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soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940)
If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.
- Louis D. Brandeis
