Monday, August 31, 2015

Re: [LINUX_Newbies] Chrome starts blocking Flash, too

 

On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 11:13:40AM -0400, david poston dvdposton@gmail.com [LINUX_Newbies] wrote:
> Only reason Flash has so much malware is it was the first out for what it
> did. As HTML takes over and replaces Flash, it too will have the same
> problem with malware.

Most likely--and likely that ads will start running in it without our
permission and making noise and all the other things that make people
install adblock.

Hopefully, sooner or later, adblock or similar will be able to block the
html5 ads too.

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Re: [LINUX_Newbies] Chrome starts blocking Flash, too

 

And Joan, If HTML takes over, it will only make it easies for some one to put malware code into videos.

On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 10:03 AM, Joan Leach jleach728@sbcglobal.net [LINUX_Newbies] <LINUX_Newbies@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
 

I've seen folks complain about Firefox, now it's coming to Google's Chrome/ium...So has anyone seen tools to help all those Web Devs convert Flash stuff to HTML5? Wonder how long it will take?

Lord knows plenty of folks come to depend on word games online and other stuff that don't come with your OS or easily found for it.

Joan in Reno


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Re: [LINUX_Newbies] Chrome starts blocking Flash, too

 

No matter what operating system(Windows, OS X, Linux, OS/2 or any of the others) you use, as long as you use ANY kind of Flash, you will get malware. The malware is coded into the video. So just opening it gets you the malware.

On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 10:03 AM, Joan Leach jleach728@sbcglobal.net [LINUX_Newbies] <LINUX_Newbies@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
 

I've seen folks complain about Firefox, now it's coming to Google's Chrome/ium...So has anyone seen tools to help all those Web Devs convert Flash stuff to HTML5? Wonder how long it will take?

Lord knows plenty of folks come to depend on word games online and other stuff that don't come with your OS or easily found for it.

Joan in Reno


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Re: [LINUX_Newbies] Chrome starts blocking Flash, too

 

Only reason Flash has so much malware is it was the first out for what it did. As HTML takes over and replaces Flash, it too will have the same problem with malware.

On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 10:56 AM, Scott scottro@nyc.rr.com [LINUX_Newbies] <LINUX_Newbies@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
 

On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 02:03:42PM +0000, Joan Leach jleach728@sbcglobal.net [LINUX_Newbies] wrote:
> I've seen folks complain about Firefox, now it's coming to Google's Chrome/ium...So has anyone seen tools to help all those Web Devs convert Flash stuff to HTML5? Wonder how long it will take?
> Lord knows plenty of folks come to depend on word games online and other stuff that don't come with your OS or easily found for it.
> Joan in Reno

 You can right click and choose to run this plugin. They are blocking it by
default, which is, to many people, a good thing, especially as flash
powered ads are responsible for lots of malware.

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Re: [LINUX_Newbies] Chrome starts blocking Flash, too

 

On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 02:03:42PM +0000, Joan Leach jleach728@sbcglobal.net [LINUX_Newbies] wrote:
> I've seen folks complain about Firefox, now it's coming to Google's Chrome/ium...So has anyone seen tools to help all those Web Devs convert Flash stuff to HTML5? Wonder how long it will take?
> Lord knows plenty of folks come to depend on word games online and other stuff that don't come with your OS or easily found for it.
> Joan in Reno

You can right click and choose to run this plugin. They are blocking it by
default, which is, to many people, a good thing, especially as flash
powered ads are responsible for lots of malware.

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[LINUX_Newbies] Chrome starts blocking Flash, too

 

I've seen folks complain about Firefox, now it's coming to Google's Chrome/ium...So has anyone seen tools to help all those Web Devs convert Flash stuff to HTML5? Wonder how long it will take?

Lord knows plenty of folks come to depend on word games online and other stuff that don't come with your OS or easily found for it.

Joan in Reno

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Sunday, August 30, 2015

Re: [LINUX_Newbies] Who is familiar with Debian? Will it run OK on my laptop?

 

Linux Mint - Cinnamon - 17.2 will run seamlessly!  What's Debian? (just kidding!... about the Debian...)

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On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 9:26 PM, Scott scottro@nyc.rr.com [LINUX_Newbies] <LINUX_Newbies@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
 

On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 06:19:26PM -0700, relztrah@yahoo.com [LINUX_Newbies] wrote:
> My wife just got a new laptop for her birthday and I'll get her old Acer laptop with an ADM C-50 processor running at 1 GHz and 8 GB of RAM.
>
> I have been using Puppy (Tahrpup) for a couple years on an very old IBM Thinkpad and really like Puppy, and it runs great on this jalopy. But I imagine that the Acer can handle a more robust distro.

I did one of those online distro chooser surveys, and Debian came out as the best choice for me since I want stability and don't do any tinkering under the hood. Will the latest release of Debian run on this Acer given its configuration? I don't do any high-end operations like video editing or gaming. Mainly I just need it for documents, spreadsheets, email and surfing.

It should be fine. Usually, the only issues will be things liek a wireless
card, but if the machine is older than a year or so, wireless will almost
certainly work.

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Re: [LINUX_Newbies] Who is familiar with Debian? Will it run OK on my laptop?

 

On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 06:19:26PM -0700, relztrah@yahoo.com [LINUX_Newbies] wrote:
> My wife just got a new laptop for her birthday and I'll get her old Acer laptop with an ADM C-50 processor running at 1 GHz and 8 GB of RAM.
>
> I have been using Puppy (Tahrpup) for a couple years on an very old IBM Thinkpad and really like Puppy, and it runs great on this jalopy. But I imagine that the Acer can handle a more robust distro.

I did one of those online distro chooser surveys, and Debian came out as the best choice for me since I want stability and don't do any tinkering under the hood. Will the latest release of Debian run on this Acer given its configuration? I don't do any high-end operations like video editing or gaming. Mainly I just need it for documents, spreadsheets, email and surfing.

It should be fine. Usually, the only issues will be things liek a wireless
card, but if the machine is older than a year or so, wireless will almost
certainly work.

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[LINUX_Newbies] Who is familiar with Debian? Will it run OK on my laptop?

 

My wife just got a new laptop for her birthday and I'll get her old Acer laptop with an ADM C-50 processor running at 1 GHz and 8 GB of RAM.

I have been using Puppy (Tahrpup) for a couple years on an very old IBM Thinkpad and really like Puppy, and it runs great on this jalopy. But I imagine that the Acer can handle a more robust distro.  I did one of those online distro chooser surveys, and Debian came out as the best choice for me since I want stability and don't do any tinkering under the hood. Will the latest release of Debian run on this Acer given its configuration?  I don't do any high-end operations like video editing or gaming. Mainly I just need it for documents, spreadsheets, email and surfing.

Thanks for any input.


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Friday, August 28, 2015

Re: [LINUX_Newbies] Com ports in linux

 

Clarification— Shouldn't that be "dev/ttyS0", the number after the "S" is a "zero"? 

Dan, aa0qc 



On Aug 28, 2015, at 3:19 PM, Cameron Simpson cs@zip.com.au [LINUX_Newbies] <LINUX_Newbies@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

On 28Aug2015 15:06, James Jolin <james.jolin@gmail.com> wrote:
>I want to run a weather app in linux that is a windows app. The app is
>called Cumulus and in the setup it asks for a com port....it defaults to
>com 1. How can I get around this. Can I type in ttySx? Is a virtual box
>the only way? I don't think the ttyS thing will work. Would like some
>thoughts.

FOr a genuine Windows app the two main routes here are Wine and a VM.

Wine ("Wine Is Not an Emulator":-) runs Windows applications in a Windows API 
emulation layer. That is probably the lowest impact way to run your program, 
and it will present ttyS0 as COM1 and so forth.

Otherwise run Windows in a VM (cumbersome, supposedly needs a licence, etc).

However, it sounds like the app is already running for you. Is it something 
portable (eg a Java app) rather than a Windows .exe file?

If it is portable you probably can tell it "/dev/ttyS0" or the like. Unless it 
is badly written

Cheers,
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that matters to us is what APIs are used by the applications we want
to support. In fact, Wine only implements about half of the Windows
APIs. Now some (like my wife) might argue that's because we're just lazy,
but the truth is that over half of the Windows APIs have never been used!
- Jeremy of Wine
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Re: [LINUX_Newbies] Com ports in linux

 

On 28Aug2015 15:06, James Jolin <james.jolin@gmail.com> wrote:
>I want to run a weather app in linux that is a windows app. The app is
>called Cumulus and in the setup it asks for a com port....it defaults to
>com 1. How can I get around this. Can I type in ttySx? Is a virtual box
>the only way? I don't think the ttyS thing will work. Would like some
>thoughts.

FOr a genuine Windows app the two main routes here are Wine and a VM.

Wine ("Wine Is Not an Emulator":-) runs Windows applications in a Windows API
emulation layer. That is probably the lowest impact way to run your program,
and it will present ttyS0 as COM1 and so forth.

Otherwise run Windows in a VM (cumbersome, supposedly needs a licence, etc).

However, it sounds like the app is already running for you. Is it something
portable (eg a Java app) rather than a Windows .exe file?

If it is portable you probably can tell it "/dev/ttyS0" or the like. Unless it
is badly written

Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au>

We really don't care what APIs Microsoft publishes - the only thing
that matters to us is what APIs are used by the applications we want
to support. In fact, Wine only implements about half of the Windows
APIs. Now some (like my wife) might argue that's because we're just lazy,
but the truth is that over half of the Windows APIs have never been used!
- Jeremy of Wine
http://interviews.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/05/17/0057241&mode=nested

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[LINUX_Newbies] Com ports in linux

 

I want to run a weather app in linux that is a windows app.  The app is called Cumulus and in the setup it asks for a com port....it defaults to com 1.  How can I get around this.  Can I type in ttySx?  Is a virtual box the only way?  I don't think the ttyS thing will work.  Would like some  thoughts.
Jim, wa9arb

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