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#401 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » Mozilla Firefox unacceptable tactics - PLEASE ADVISE » 2019-05-06 00:18:59

Ron

I've been using Pale Moon for years and love it. If you run into any problems (because Pale Moon has diverged far away from Firefox things that work in FF may not work in PM, but there are usually alternatives) I'd suggest searching the PM forums.  Or post here (in off topic I suppose). I usually visit this forum at least once a day.

#403 Re: Other Issues » [SOLVED] Weird message while updating the system » 2019-05-01 01:09:39

Ron

Well, I just retried it today before trying anything else, and everything installed like it normally does without any kind of messages.
So is everything good to go and I got a fully up-to-date system? ?

#404 Other Issues » [SOLVED] Weird message while updating the system » 2019-04-30 03:08:57

Ron
Replies: 4

When trying to install updates tonight, I got a message box that read:

Some of the packages could not be retrieved from the server(s).
Do you want to continue, ignoring these packages?

So I clicked "no." Below is the message I got afterwards:

W: Failed to fetch http://mirrors.dotsrc.org/debian-security/pool/updates/main/g/gst-plugins-base1.0/libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-0_1.10.4-1+deb9u1_amd64.deb
  404  Not Found

W: Failed to fetch http://mirrors.dotsrc.org/debian-security/pool/updates/main/g/gst-plugins-base1.0/gstreamer1.0-plugins-base_1.10.4-1+deb9u1_amd64.deb
  404  Not Found

W: Failed to fetch http://mirrors.dotsrc.org/debian-security/pool/updates/main/g/gst-plugins-base1.0/gstreamer1.0-x_1.10.4-1+deb9u1_amd64.deb
  404  Not Found

I've never had this happen before. Should these 3 things become available later on? Should I just redo this again and click "Yes" this time, or just wait?

#405 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » What tool for software updates + notifications? » 2019-04-24 01:18:22

Ron

MiyoLinux wrote:
I also change the number of minutes that elapse between update checks, but that's voluntary on my part.

Can it be configured to only check about 1 minute after boot up? (Each boot up, that is.)

#406 Re: Devuan » What happened at devuan.org? » 2019-04-06 03:12:13

Ron

Head_on_a_Stick wrote:
Because they were laughing at the clueless idiots, perhaps?

Real good marketing ploy . . . exposing your own user base as supposed idiots. That makes the "jokers" the idiots.

Lysander wrote:
Can we please stop this before it starts and not pollute a third forum with the same bullshit that infected FDN and DUF?

Okay, I'm done. Now tell that to Head_on_a_Stick who keeps insulting people.

#407 Re: Devuan » What happened at devuan.org? » 2019-04-04 19:13:21

Ron

Head_on_a_Stick
I reckon the Devuan devs just didn't think anybody would be stupid enough to think the joke was real.

Making your own website looked hacked, that's the real stupidity.

#408 Re: Devuan » What happened at devuan.org? » 2019-04-03 23:19:46

Ron

ChuangTzu wrote:
How would you feel if your bank said "we were hacked today etc..." then announced just kidding a day later.  Your Dr. says, you have cancer...nah just yanking your chain.

There comes a time when people need to grow up, its not about being frat boys and sorority girls anymore.  The dev's need to stop hiding behind some false hacker ethos to shrug off poor judgement.  Big difference between honest mistakes and poor judgement.

Nicely put. And so true.

#409 Re: Devuan » What happened at devuan.org? » 2019-04-03 00:56:56

Ron

Saying 1 + 1 = 3 is human error. What this guy(s) did was just plain stupid. If I were in charge, he'd be gone.

#410 Re: Devuan » What happened at devuan.org? » 2019-04-02 01:12:40

Ron

dxrobertson wrote:
I thought the joke/page display was done internally, by a Devuan admin, as a joke.

Well, that's what I thought also. Can somebody who knows what happened please inform the rest of us on the whole story, joke, or whatever it was?

#411 Re: Devuan » What happened at devuan.org? » 2019-04-01 19:22:33

Ron

Head_on_a_Stick wrote:
Fooling you is awesome, yes. You actually took time off work because of this?

Your powers of reading comprehension are amazing. Read what I wrote again.

#412 Re: Devuan » What happened at devuan.org? » 2019-04-01 18:54:39

Ron

Head_on_a_Stick wrote:
I though it was an awesome joke, the more so for all the people it apparently fooled lol

So fooling people that use your product is "awesome"? That's just plain stupid. Yes, I'm angry over this. It didn't cost me work time, it cost me some time from my time off of work. There's a good reason why people and businesses that put out products for a profit don't fool their customers. This "joke" was not smart.

#413 Re: Forum Feedback » Forum has been hacked??? » 2019-04-01 17:45:30

Ron

Ogis wrote:
That's right. It's a joke.

Making your own website look like it was hacked is not a joke. I wonder how many people it made wonder if their system or browser was compromised after visiting this "joke"? Not funny and may cost Devuan current and future users.

#414 Re: Devuan » What happened at devuan.org? » 2019-04-01 17:37:47

Ron

This was not harmless humor. I'd still like to know who did this, and how high up the Devuan food-chain they are. Making your own website look like it was hacked? How stupid can you get? If people don't take Devuan seriously, it looks like now they got a reason. Way to go.

P.S. I really do want to know how high this person is on the Devuan food-chain. The higher up they are, the dumber this "joke" was.  mad  mad

#415 Re: Devuan » What happened at devuan.org? » 2019-04-01 03:42:40

Ron

Really? Someone with Devuan did this? Unbelievable!

#416 Re: Devuan » What happened at devuan.org? » 2019-03-31 23:28:58

Ron

sgage wrote:
Hopefully we'll learn some details. I'd like to see more info here, and soonish...

That makes two of us.

#417 Re: Devuan » What happened at devuan.org? » 2019-03-31 23:18:59

Ron

This is bad publicity for Devuan. How did this happen? A weak password or something?

sgage wrote:
I tried copying the comment link, and when I tested it, it went to nothing. Just go to the article and search for 'defacement poster' or something and you'll find it.

I found it 3 minutes before your post. smile

#418 Re: Devuan » What happened at devuan.org? » 2019-03-31 23:07:25

Ron

sgage wrote:
Ron, I just read this on SlashDot:

"I just looked at the source for the page. It's static HTML with the ASCII art defacement poster enclosed in [pre] tags. There isn't any code there with which one could conceivably conduct an attack."

Can you give me a link to that? All I found was this: https://idle.slashdot.org/story/19/03/3 … pher-urls#

EDIT
Never mind, I see the quote at the bottom of the page I linked.

#419 Re: Devuan » What happened at devuan.org? » 2019-03-31 22:12:01

Ron

So for those of us who visited the hacked site, do we need to be concerned about a compromised system/browser?

#420 Devuan » What happened at devuan.org? » 2019-03-31 21:26:26

Ron
Replies: 101

What happened at devuan.org? Has it been hacked?

#421 Re: Off-topic » Life after Firefox » 2019-03-26 23:54:40

Ron

Panopticon wrote:
Many of the old legacy plugins in are available in palemoon too.

Here's a link with probably thousands (yeah, thousands) of legacy (so-called) add-ons. I would guess that a high majority will work in Pale Moon.
Hope some will find this link useful.

Legacy Firefox extensions

#422 Re: Off-topic » Life after Firefox » 2019-03-25 16:04:43

Ron

I have been happily using Pale Moon for the last 6 or 7 years (started with it while on Windows), and have Basilisk as a backup. There are no other browsers out there (right now) for me, except maybe Waterfox if I had to.

#423 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » Avidemux and h264enc » 2019-03-19 01:24:55

Ron

This is also off topic . . .

When I tried avidemux (it may have been twice, my memory isn't as good anymore) it was so buggy I got rid of it.

#424 Re: Installation » Installing devuan without pulseaudio. » 2019-02-02 21:04:17

Ron

Thanks for the info, MiyoLinux. So at risk of hijacking this thread, will future releases of Miyo-Openbox (or Awesome) continue to not include pulseaudio?

#425 Re: Installation » Installing devuan without pulseaudio. » 2019-02-02 15:45:38

Ron

Does Miyo have pulseaudio already removed? It's not installed on my system and I don't remember removing it.

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