Re: [OT] Has my e-mail account been hacked?

2015-10-14 Thread Timothy Hobbs
Say that you are using the Desktop version of Android(tm). It's pretty close to the truth. On 10/14/15 05:33, Stuart Longland wrote: On 14/10/15 13:23, John Hasler wrote: Lie. Tell them you're running Windows 95. "Ohh sorry, we only support Windows 7 or 8"

Re: Video-UNfriendly browsers?

2015-10-11 Thread Timothy Hobbs
Please don't go all pedantic on us! On 10/11/15 23:31, Chris Bannister wrote: Please don't top post on the debian-user mailing list. On Sun, Oct 11, 2015 at 01:57:11PM -0500, Mario Castelán Castro wrote: El 11/10/15 a las 13:13, moxalt escribió: Seriously, though, as much as you dread returni

Re: is google earth safe to install?

2015-10-11 Thread Timothy Hobbs
PRISM has been watching you for years with no incident. On 2015-10-10, Mario Castelán Castro wrote: You want to hear "yes, I have been using it for years with no incident", but that doesn't means it's secure. With the internals of the system hidden from you, you will never be able to trust it.

Re: is google earth safe to install?

2015-10-10 Thread Timothy Hobbs
You could try running google-earth in subuser.org . But I don't recommend it, because I don't recommend using any non-free software ;). Tim On 10/10/15 23:29, rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: On Sat, October 10, 2015 3:20 pm, Torsten Rahn wrote: Thanks, Torsen. Over the past week I have been runnin

Re: Video-UNfriendly browsers?

2015-10-10 Thread Timothy Hobbs
Are you sure that noscript doesn't block video in iceweasel when fully enabled? It claims to block and tags. On 10/10/15 21:56, Sven Arvidsson wrote: On Sat, 2015-10-10 at 21:45 +0200, Sven Arvidsson wrote: Sounds like Mozilla have improved the support for stopping auto -playing video, but y

Re: debian-user list problem

2015-10-10 Thread Timothy Hobbs
The question, is whether it is better to be mean to someone, or to ignore them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NI18UrCkBEk On 10/10/15 21:48, Brian wrote: On Sat 10 Oct 2015 at 21:33:03 +0200, Timothy Hobbs wrote: Brian, that wasn't a very kind email. If you don't have time to be

Re: Video-UNfriendly browsers?

2015-10-10 Thread Timothy Hobbs
However, with noscript enabled and yahoo blocked (I had to do that manually by pressing the icon), the video does not play. On 10/10/15 21:35, Timothy Hobbs wrote: I have been playing with this after you posted that link, and it is really quite frustrating. It seems that there are several

Re: Video-UNfriendly browsers?

2015-10-10 Thread Timothy Hobbs
I have been playing with this after you posted that link, and it is really quite frustrating. It seems that there are several options in "about:config" which should allow me to either disable video completely or at least disable webm (search about:config for "media") however, none of them seem

Re: debian-user list problem

2015-10-10 Thread Timothy Hobbs
Brian, that wasn't a very kind email. If you don't have time to be kind, you should stop reading the mailing list and do the things that are obviously more important to you. On 10/10/15 21:30, Brian wrote: On Sat 10 Oct 2015 at 19:23:22 +0200, maderios wrote: I cannot receive anymore debian-

Re: Video-UNfriendly browsers?

2015-10-10 Thread Timothy Hobbs
Interestingly, I would say that this is one of those cases that makes the case for trademark. I cannot keep Adblock, Adblock Plus, uBlock, and uBlock origin straight, and neither can most people. Tim On 10/10/15 21:17, Andrew McGlashan wrote: On 11/10/2015 5:16 AM, Timothy Hobbs wrote: Be

Re: Video-UNfriendly browsers?

2015-10-10 Thread Timothy Hobbs
Be careful of AdBlock: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AdBlock#Acceptable_Ads_Program_and_sale Use uBlock instead. Tim On 10/10/15 19:59, John Hasler wrote: NoScript will block the videos (you will want to configure it). You'll also want AdBlock. Also go into Perferences in Firefox and set it

Re: No sound in Debian 8 'jessie' Xfce on Youtube

2015-10-09 Thread Timothy Hobbs
My wife and I also have this problem on our respective laptops. So it is definitely a bug. On 10/09/15 09:26, David Henderson wrote: Muntasim Ul Haque inventati.org> writes: Hi, I have had problems with Debian 8 'jessie' Xfce edition. I didn't get any sound initially. Then after 'some' confi

Re: why jessie is quick at boot/shutdown

2015-10-08 Thread Timothy Hobbs
One of the things that systemd does differently than sysv init is that it is a much more dynamic boot system. It shouldn't be thought of as a boot system so much as a services system. Services startup when they are requested, not necessarily at boot time. So any boot time live logging would be

Re: Advertising and commercial services in free software

2015-10-06 Thread Timothy Hobbs
On 10/06/15 11:19, Darac Marjal wrote: On Mon, Oct 05, 2015 at 08:58:19PM +0200, Timothy Hobbs wrote: Dear list, I have used Debian for many years now, and I have come to trust it as a source of software that is safe. That is, the software that I install with apt-get is not spy-ware, nor ad

Re: Advertising and commercial services in free software

2015-10-06 Thread Timothy Hobbs
Thank you all for your replies. I was particularly pleased with Sven Arvidsson's reply with his link to the DuckDuckGo discussions. I am glad that the iceweasel advertising issue is being resolved. Timothy Hobbs

Advertising and commercial services in free software

2015-10-05 Thread Timothy Hobbs
inions on, what is for me, a rather distressing and unclear issue. Thank you, Timothy Hobbs http://timothy.hobbs.cz http://subuser.org