similar to: Orwell's 1984 from Freedesktop,org?

On 01/23/2015 04:05 PM, Always Learning wrote: > On Thu, 2015-01-22 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. >> >> Anybody else seeing it? >> >> In case attachments aren't allowed in the list, here's the Dropbox url >>

On Thu, January 22, 2015 9:05 pm, Always Learning wrote: > > On Thu, 2015-01-22 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. >> >> Anybody else seeing it? >> >> In case attachments aren't allowed in the list, here's the Dropbox

On Fri, 2015-01-23 at 16:18 +1300, Rob Kampen wrote: > On 01/23/2015 04:05 PM, Always Learning wrote: > > On Thu, 2015-01-22 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. > >> > >> Anybody else seeing it? > >> >

On 01/23/2015 05:50 AM, Bill Maltby (C4B) wrote: > On Fri, 2015-01-23 at 16:18 +1300, Rob Kampen wrote: >> On 01/23/2015 04:05 PM, Always Learning wrote: >>> On Thu, 2015-01-22 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.

On Thu, 2015-01-22 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. > > Anybody else seeing it? > > In case attachments aren't allowed in the list, here's the Dropbox url > for the image. > >

On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 09:30:03PM -0600, Valeri Galtsev wrote: > > On Thu, January 22, 2015 9:05 pm, Always Learning wrote: > > > > On Thu, 2015-01-22 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. > >> > >> >

On Fri, January 23, 2015 5:37 am, Scott Robbins wrote: > On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 09:30:03PM -0600, Valeri Galtsev wrote: >> >> On Thu, January 22, 2015 9:05 pm, Always Learning wrote: >> > >> > On Thu, 2015-01-22 at 21:19 -0500, Bill Maltby (C4B) wrote: >> > >> >> I object to this sort of crap. Hidden, no reason for an *IX desktop >> to

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

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

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, 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 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

<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

I sometimes receive e-mails I post to this list, like I did the bug I reported about X problems, but other times not, like my first post about that before I reported the bug. That one appeared in gmane, but Evolution never picked it up. And today I've not seen either of my posts but I know it got there because I did see a reply to my post about the flash plugin and it had a snippet of my post

On 2015-04-04, Bill Maltby (C4B) <centos4bill at gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, 2015-04-04 at 11:12 +0100, Nux! wrote: >> 100% with Digimer here. <snip> > >> All this energy should be put into contributing towards to the >> project, testing, helping out community. > > Well, I used to agree. But when a bug report filed in December goes > untouched entering

On Fri, Jan 09, 2015 at 07:07:38PM -0500, Bill Maltby (C4B) wrote: > On Fri, 2015-01-09 at 15:17 -0500, Fred Smith wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 09, 2015 at 02:34:38PM -0500, Bill Maltby (C4B) wrote: > > > On Fri, 2015-01-09 at 09:17 -0500, Fred Smith wrote: > > > > Hi all! > > > > > > > > Using the default Gnome desktop on Centos-6, I keep having

On Thu, 2015-08-13 at 23:51 -0700, Gordon Messmer wrote: > On 08/13/2015 02:44 PM, Bill Maltby (C4B) wrote: > > Top shows > > PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND > > 32160 root 20 0 259m 104m 22m R 76.5 1.3 559:07.79 Xorg > > 23391 hardtolo 20 0 6293m 215m 26m S 16.9 2.7 21:49.86 java > > Well, what's process