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...den, no reason for an *IX desktop to > be forced to ignore or deal with this crap. > > Anybody else seeing it? > > In case attachments aren't allowed in the list, here's the Dropbox url > for the image. > > https://www.dropbox.com/s/b2p2ki7t2rwi5ot/FreeDeskTop_Org_Orwell_1984.png?dl=0 > > I believe this relates to an earlier thread in which someone questioned > what that Freedesktop.org stuff was doing (as did I). > > Any help appreciated. What is going-on ? It really looks Windozed ! Looking at it makes me feel ill. -- Regards, Paul. Englan...

...01-22 at 21:19 -0500, Bill Maltby (C4B) wrote: > > > >> I object to this sort of crap. Hidden, no reason for an *IX desktop to > >> be forced to ignore or deal with this crap. > >> > >> > >> https://www.dropbox.com/s/b2p2ki7t2rwi5ot/FreeDeskTop_Org_Orwell_1984.png?dl=0 > >> > > > > What is going-on ? It really looks Windozed ! Looking at it makes me > > feel ill. > > > Just out of curiosity: how do you guys look at it? This asks me for > password... In general it is good idea to place something into open URL...

On Thu, January 22, 2015 22:23, Always Learning wrote: > > > Surely Linux users change to Root to do system work, rather than > attempt to make Root changes in the middle of doing ordinary GUI > tasks whilst logged-in as a normal user ? > I logon with my normal user id and run a development desktop. Then I open terminal sessions and su -l into root as I need to. However, if

On Fri, January 23, 2015 06:50, Bill Maltby (C4B) wrote: > > I don't want this stupid thing popping up every time I switch from my > normal active user logons to my "dead" one (used to get around the > unaddressed bug I filed over a month ago about switching run levels > causing crashes and running multiple users as I'd been doing for ... > over a decade(?) on

On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 09:30:03PM -0600, Valeri Galtsev wrote: > Just out of curiosity: how do you guys look at it? This asks me for > password... In general it is good idea to place something into open URL I think that's what he wanted you to look at. It's a screenshot of a window asking you to enter a password. -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Real D 3D Digital Cinema ~

On Jan 23, 2015, at 12:35 PM, Valeri Galtsev <galtsev at kicp.uchicago.edu> wrote: > As a matter of fact I tend to not use GUI admin tools since long ago. Bring back Xconfigurator! > I do prefer 3ware web RAID admin > interface anything else (it more transparently prevents me from making > fatal blunders - probably just me). No, not just you. tw_cli is needlessly confusing

On Fri, 2015-01-23 at 13:32 -0800, Keith Keller wrote: > <snip> > But (getting back a little to the original topic) getting to the 3ware > web interface should not require root privileges on the client, since > it's just the browser connecting to the 3ware http(s) listener. The OP > seemed to be ranting about a prompt for an administrative password from > the desktop

On 2015-01-23, Bill Maltby (C4B) <centos4bill at gmail.com> wrote: > > Actually, my rant was much more about it interrupting me, without being > asked, to do some updates that I didn't yet request *and* being > persistent about it over time in *my* (not Freedesktop.org's) work > space. Perhaps if you'd specified that in your original post there would have been a

...rap. >>>> >>>> Anybody else seeing it? >>>> >>>> In case attachments aren't allowed in the list, here's the Dropbox url >>>> for the image. >>>> >>>> https://www.dropbox.com/s/b2p2ki7t2rwi5ot/FreeDeskTop_Org_Orwell_1984.png?dl=0 >>>> >>>> I believe this relates to an earlier thread in which someone questioned >>>> what that Freedesktop.org stuff was doing (as did I). >>>> >>>> Any help appreciated. >>> What is going-on ? It really looks Win...

I object to this sort of crap. Hidden, no reason for an *IX desktop to be forced to ignore or deal with this crap. Anybody else seeing it? In case attachments aren't allowed in the list, here's the Dropbox url for the image. https://www.dropbox.com/s/b2p2ki7t2rwi5ot/FreeDeskTop_Org_Orwell_1984.png?dl=0 I believe this relates to an earlier thread in which someone questioned what that Freedesktop.org stuff was doing (as did I). Any help appreciated. Bill

...e or deal with this crap. > >> > >> Anybody else seeing it? > >> > >> In case attachments aren't allowed in the list, here's the Dropbox url > >> for the image. > >> > >> https://www.dropbox.com/s/b2p2ki7t2rwi5ot/FreeDeskTop_Org_Orwell_1984.png?dl=0 > >> > >> I believe this relates to an earlier thread in which someone questioned > >> what that Freedesktop.org stuff was doing (as did I). > >> > >> Any help appreciated. > > What is going-on ? It really looks Windozed ! Looking a...

On 2015-01-23, Warren Young <wyml at etr-usa.com> wrote: > On Jan 23, 2015, at 12:35 PM, Valeri Galtsev <galtsev at kicp.uchicago.edu> wrote: > >> I do prefer 3ware web RAID admin >> interface anything else (it more transparently prevents me from making >> fatal blunders - probably just me). > > No, not just you. tw_cli is needlessly confusing in its

<rant> I run a small consulting service and work with both individuals and (very) small businesses. The objective of my consulting business is to help average people move to Linux when they decide that they have had enough of the M$ money wheel and endless malware infections. Not one individual who belongs to that class of users cares how Uniix/Linux works, how it does updates or how

On Fri, January 23, 2015 2:05 pm, Warren Young wrote: > On Jan 23, 2015, at 12:35 PM, Valeri Galtsev <galtsev at kicp.uchicago.edu> > wrote: > >> As a matter of fact I tend to not use GUI admin tools since long ago. > > Bring back Xconfigurator! > >> I do prefer 3ware web RAID admin >> interface anything else (it more transparently prevents me from making

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...(C4B) wrote: >> > >> >> I object to this sort of crap. Hidden, no reason for an *IX desktop >> to >> >> be forced to ignore or deal with this crap. >> >> >> >> >> >> https://www.dropbox.com/s/b2p2ki7t2rwi5ot/FreeDeskTop_Org_Orwell_1984.png?dl=0 >> >> >> > >> > What is going-on ? It really looks Windozed ! Looking at it makes me >> > feel ill. >> > >> Just out of curiosity: how do you guys look at it? This asks me for >> password... In general it is good idea to pl...

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...ktop to >> be forced to ignore or deal with this crap. >> >> Anybody else seeing it? >> >> In case attachments aren't allowed in the list, here's the Dropbox url >> for the image. >> >> https://www.dropbox.com/s/b2p2ki7t2rwi5ot/FreeDeskTop_Org_Orwell_1984.png?dl=0 >> >> I believe this relates to an earlier thread in which someone questioned >> what that Freedesktop.org stuff was doing (as did I). >> >> Any help appreciated. > What is going-on ? It really looks Windozed ! Looking at it makes me > feel ill. &...

...wrong in using the earlier convention or is something else amiss? Thanks. -- Surendra Singhi http://ssinghi.kreeti.com, http://www.kreeti.com Read my blog at: http://cuttingtheredtape.blogspot.com/ ,---- | "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." | -- Orwell, Animal Farm, 1945 `----

...ething or doing something wrong or have other people also experience the same problem? Thanks. -- Surendra Singhi http://ssinghi.kreeti.com, http://www.kreeti.com Read the latest news at: http://news.kreeti.com ,---- | "War is Peace! Freedom is Slavery! Ignorance is Strength!" | -- Orwell, 1984, 1948 `----