You appear to be confused. That (wishlist) bug is not that Firefox can't or won't show plain text files (it certainly will, ftp, http, or local) - it's Add "View as Text/HTML/..." option for unknown mime content-type. As a typical/. reader I can appreciate how you missed reading the description or saw words that plain weren't there. i.e. conflated that with your claim that "Firefox will not render plain text files". Tricky.
The reason that hasn't been "fixed", and may never be fixed is because it's blocked by two other bugs (1 and 2). The main problem being that servers are unreliable when it comes to describing the mimetype.(in reference to your second sentence).
More importantly, as I've already pointed out - Firefox/Iceweasel does display plain text files
Rather than dismissing that fact, maybe you should have taken the time to read the link I posted on how to solve your "issue" (which works fine when the server provides the correct mimetype).
The relevant sections from the default mimeTypes.rdf (~/.mozilla/firefox/$gibberish.default/mimeTypes.rdf)
Note: the order in which they occur is important. As is the presence of any other handler rules for text/plain. If you have those rules, in that order, and no other rules about text/plain then plain text files will be rendered by the browser - I checked with Windows 8.1 (and I want that 10 minutes back).
If modifying/correcting mimeTypes is too hard for you. Use the extension that achieves the same outcome.
Pretty much every Firefox extension exists for Chrome. uBlock and FlashControl are all I use.
Agreed, pretty much. Though the key ones for my regular browsing are FlashBlock, NoScript and AdBlock Plus. The last two don't have complete replacements in Chrome. Note - we're only discussing personal preferences, not which is better. I recommend various browsers to others depending on their usage.
Chrome doesn't, yet, have equivalents for all the extensions I use for work.
Adblock Plus, CacheViewer2, cliget, Exify, Flashblock, GoogleSharing, Greasemonkey, Live HTTP headers, LocalLink, Modify Headers, NoScript, Print pages to PDF, RightToClick, User Agent Switcher, Add to Search Bar, Add-on Compatibility Reporter, Autofill Forms, Awesome screenshot, Browser Sign In, BugMeNot Plugin, CSS Usage, cssUpdater, Debian buttons, DNSSEC/TLSA Validator, DOM Inspector, Dust-Me Selectors, EPUBReader, Exif Viewer, Extended DNSSEC Validator, Firebug, FireDiff, Fireformat, Firefox OS Simulator, FireFTP, FireFTP button, Firepicker, FlashFirebug, FlashGot, Font Information, FoxGuide, FoxReplace, Google Plus Manager, GridFox, Groundspeed, Illuminations for Developers, iMacros for Firefox, JavaScript Deobfuscator, KDE Wallet password integration, New Tab Tools, Nightly Tester Tools, ODF Viewer, Open With, PageDiff, PageRank, Passive Cache, Password Exporter, QuickJS, RefreshBlocker, Saved Password Editor, ScrapBook, Scriptify, Self-Destructing Cookies, Server Switcher, TinEye Reverse Image Search, Video DownloadHelper, View Dependencies, W3Techs Website Technology Information, Wappalyzer, WCAG Contrast checker, YouTube ALL HTML5, YSlow
(from about:support, after a little sed, cut and grep).
...more useless bloat that I'm going to have to disable when practical things like being able to view text files in the browser is STILL broken after years of waiting.
Seriously?! Your install of Firefox won't render plain text files?? I've never had that problem and I definitely don't recall have to change any configs.
It sounds like either it's a Windows thing; you accidentally set the filetype handling behaviour; or you have installed a downloader extension that changed things. Take a look at your mimetypes. It's easily fixable.
Installed Chrome recently because EVERY BLOODY STUPID TAB I open in Firefox stalls the entire browser for eternity. And that includes Slashdot tabs.
Not having that problem here. It's Iceweasel but it should behave identically to Firefox. Lots of extensions. A five year old CPU and only 4GB of RAM. Two instances open (in different desktops) each with about a dozen tabs open. No freezes - ever.
Do you have Ad-block enabled? NoScript? (I find those two extensions tend to actually speed Firefox/Iceweasel up on many sites).
Have you tried Qupzilla?
Chrome (and Chromium) seem to be a bit quicker but not enough that I want to give up all the extensions I use.
Don't know how I feel about social sharing built-in - if I can't see it or notice it I probably don't care (I'll wait and see).
You see a blurb of text on a screen without any additional factors and attempt to draw a meaningful conclusion, a diagnostic conclusion no less, based on that? That is akin to seeing my foot and telling me that you have concluded that I am an elephant.
I just looked up the manual - turns out he's right. The erratic use of scare quotes isproof of bi-polar. They look like bats "". Scary.
I'm unique - there are a dozen OS that I don't like. I don't complain about them, I just don't use them. You're like the majority of people. Really.
You are unique. Uniquely stupid and unable to pass basic reading comprehension.
The GP felt dismayed that Linus has drunk the systemd coolaid, and wants to switch to FreeBSD. I pointed out that not everyone has been taken in by the systemd nonsense, and that their are distros available that remain untainted, that if he wants to switch to *BSD I've found Dragonfly to be quite nice, but that there are a number of Linux choices he has available if he doesn't want to switch.
But go ahead and label that whining, [--rant---rabid froth--bullshit--]
Bully for you. I quoted what I was responding to. And yes, you're still whining. You seem to feel the need to lug the goal posts around while clutching at straws to build your strawman... meh, you probably need the exercise anyway.
I have no problems with people who don't want to use systemd, I don't use it for production machines myself (but apparently I'm a piss and kool-aid drinker). I don't like people who demand that choice be removed - and when the anti-systemd crowd complain it's not because they can't use their choice of init system. It's because they're fascists who want to deny others the choices they disapprove of. You know - like bullies.
Like you they attack anyone who isn't opposed to systemd - whether we actually use systemd or not. That's anti-choice, and bullying. You demand that developers don't use systemd. You demand the distros don't use systemd.
When people point out that you have no right to complain - you claim you're being bullied and that the alternative is unfair. What a load of bullshit. If you don't like it don't use it. If developers don't feel you are as special as you think you are, either: ask them nicely to reconsider (once) - bullying isn't going to work and name calling doesn't engender sympathy; do the work yourself instead of whining about how fucking hard it is; put the money up for someone else to do the work; likewise the neglected systemv-init - or just don't. Pick one.
In real life Open Source is not like some science fiction book you author - it's authored by others, and we don't do the work because someone, no matter how special they think they are, demands it.
I don't use systemd for work - but I do use it in projects I contribute to, and I will probably move to use it for work in the next year or two (when more of the bugs are ironed out). Because the existing init system is a poorly maintained unmanageable project and I have neither the time nor desire to help fix that - but you don't hear me whining, bitching, protesting, or pissing and shitting all around the place in protest and attacking and maligning anyone about it. If only a tiny percentage of the energy the anti-system mob put into complaining and protesting was invested in work or other contributions to systemv-init - you'd have nothing to bitch about because systemd wouldn't be being built into to so many Linux distros. But that's not your point or you'd just be recommending other people who don't like systemd use OS/distros that don't rely on it - instead of recommending OS/distros that don't include the choice, ranting about urine drinkers, shit (speaks volumes of you), and systemd kool-aid. You know - quietly going about your business instead of acting like spoilt brat. A whiner. If you don't like it, take your ball and fuck off - oh wait.... it's our ball.
Stress can be depressing, and creativity correlates with chronic depression. No surprise that depressed people could have a great idea to turn into a startup, or that the stress of doing so could express as depression. In the case of BiPolar disorder, that manic phase has obvious advantages for an entrepreneur, but people with BPD rarely consider themselves depressed.
And yet... I do freely admit to often having been depressed. Why do you sound like the childhood shrink who diagnosed me as hyperactive - while the very book he was quoting from noted that a key symptom was "thrive on lack of sleep". I like my sleep, always have.
As a personal note - excessive, semi-random use of rhetorical/grammatical tools like "scare quotes" also correlates to BPD.
Excessive? Semi-random? You don't read like much of a psychiatrist or a semiotician
Combine that with starting a number of successful businesses during periods of high-energy, optimism and a sense of operating at a mental optimum, along with phases of crippling depression, and you've pretty much announced that you have BPD. I'll be the armchair asshat who says it - you just described the symptoms perfectly. No criticism, no shaming, I'm just going to recommend you repeat that to a psychiatrist.
Yeah - you are an asshat. You sound like one of those "I have a problem but 10 visits to a shrink cured me - now I'm an expert in spotting the specks in other people's eyes" - but that's just my opinion, my partner says "hallmarks - but I wouldn't judge on so little information" (there's your semi-random "scare" quotes). Though I make no claims to psychiatric insights - I'll leave that to the suitably qualified with a few years experience (those that gain that same knowledge from treatment/therapy may just be delusional)
You'd think she might have noticed sometime in the last 26 years that I "might" be bi-polar? If I am bi-polar, and the people around me have failed to notice - I must be high functioning given my age and the lack of crash and burn in my history. But what do I know? Personally - I suspect your "opinion" say little of me and speaks volumes of you.
I meant to talk to you about that. Can you please stop downloading so much porn? It's getting in the way of me downloading torrents through your network.
Before some armchair asshat brands you as bipolar, consider that depression is a natural result of effectively burning out the anxiety receptors/generators.
Thanks - but I've never been labeled bi-polar, or manic-depressant (well, once or twice). Over-enthuasiastic, yes, and also accused of "thinking too much" - neither of which labels worry me (nor smart-arse, especially considering the antithesis).
Too much stress, and you either lack the stress hormone generation, or you are desensitized to its effects.
Oh I stress. And I worry. But neither consume me. A certain amount of stress is good, and worry is just a sign that some risk needs to be managed - beyond that I'm not concerned.
Untreated anxiety results in depression. For some, that means a trip to the doc for some meds. For others, it means time to do something exciting, like start a new company.
Agreed - though I suspect the medical "solution" is the result of not properly addressing the cause. The few people I know who suffer from anxiety attacks also seem to have a lot of "issues" they ignore: money they owe; people they've fucked over; huge differences between the person they appear to be and the person they really are - and they believe "we" all live like that. It's my belief that when you bury major issues they pop back up in the night and drag their maggot infested corpses into your bed - which can't be healthy. Denial, guilt, and "I am not worthy" should be addressed or you build new ventures on a rotten foundation.
Serial startups may be self medication. It may seem like you are coping well, but it may be a coping mechanism to make up for things you are missing.
Maybe - self awareness is a bit like do-it-yourself eye surgery (tricky). Business is like physical challenges to me - a challenge that produces great satisfaction.
At some point, and it may not be you in particular, but many in the same position will have something give out. Physical or mental health or something else, it doesn't matter. Basically anyone living in a first world country (by any definition) already has an abnormal life, and living on the edge is really just taking an extra chance.
"Insanity is a sane reaction to an insane world" ~ some dead Scot.
I suspect there is no real "issue" here other than people deciding that "toughing it out" is somehow "being true to yourself".
Agreed - I suspect they (the people referred to in the cited article), lack the necessary balances required for a "whole" life. Real friends (what Neil Young called the people "who will tell you when you're pissing in the wind"), love, relaxation, regular exercise, healthy community involvement, rest and good food. Most importantly, a business plan that includes an escape clause - if I don't achieve x I will walk - and mean it. I've often found committing myself to the escape clause makes it redundant.
The normal stressors of modern living plus the added stress of putting your life on the line, basically, eventually put people like you at higher risk.
No argument there. Only that without risk there is few gains, life without joy is no life at all, and some become habituated to the joy of overcoming difficulties, likewise discovering their limitations. The trick - I suspect, is to take only risks that carry the sort of potential failure that you can live with. Calculated risks I'll spare you the muscle, sinew, and bone analogies for when stress is good (it also requires rest, nutrition, and light stretching)..
If you wear sun screen, watch your diet, or in any fashion try to look after your physical body, but neglect your mental health, it seems you are willing to accept an abnormal life as normal, when it's not. To individuals, yes, but to humans in general not in an
oh dont get me wrong, I say the same thing you just did many many times.[...]
I don't think you got what I said at all (fantasy is part of the entertainment pillar dude). And you're rationalizing your apathy.
Jefferson, for all his failings, never said revolution was a novel reaction that breaks the cycle. No system is perfect and requires constant review. He certainly never said "endless revolution equals freedom". At some point even a passing review of world history should give credence to the idea that replacing leaders is not the solution to the problem of leaders failing to represent them (like we're all in nappies needing to be fed).
If Jefferson was alive today I suspect (hope?) he'd be suggesting people get off their arses and do something more constructive than lighting torches, loading guns and blaming others for their own fates (like, oh, maybe - represent yourself, don't fucking outsource responsibility). Or maybe just face-palming, it's just a guess.
Actually - it's possible in this "ooh shiny thing" world he'd be wandering the streets searching for a bottle of cheap wine and muttering to himself about a world full of un-self-educated people with the attention span of a goldfish on speed in a crowded shopping mall.
Linus may not be showing good leadership in this instance, but not everyone has drunk the urine just yet, and there are others stepping up to the plate to maintain or create alternatives.
Leadership is not just "responding to users" (in your case, with the silent "L"). Stepping up to the plate is a baseball term - it implies doing something. While technically "whining" is doing something, as is taking up space, it's not a useful contribution. Nor does it mean that your "demands" are worth more that those of others (even if they are less demanding). But don't let me stop you from indulging yourself in the fantasy that "complaining" == bug reports, and that bug reports somehow equates to "you must serve me" (no matter how crackpot your "needs" i.e. I can haz my init but i demanz all references to systemd be removed, coz, um, eh, end of world scenario).
And feel free to accuse me of "bullying". Continue spamming, though perhaps, if you find the free time - you could start some sort of "anti-bullying" service as you are such an expert on the subject.
I'm unique - there are a dozen OS that I don't like. I don't complain about them, I just don't use them. You're like the majority of people. Really.
Yeah, 'cuz it failed right away. They spent more time mislabelling each other as "systemd trolls" than they ever spent on doing something useful, like, you know, forking Debian.
I believe you're being unfair to all those experienced Unix system administrators - one of them raised enough money to buy a new laptop, and the others spend their time spraying lists and forums with spurious claims. I'd hardly call that failure.
Oh wait... do you mean they really intended to create something in software? In that case - I was wrong, and you are right.
I'm now revising my opinion of Outlook - especially in light of the recently passed Oz laws about pirating. In fact I'm about to order an external antennae for a laptop (trivial) hardware hack shortly.
There are times when M$'s drive to put stupid in the sysadmin seat make me very happy - this may be one of them.
No - I don't run Windows as my OS of choice. It's fine for some, in some situations (seriously). But rarely do I celebrate M$ stupid - and this "sounds" like both M$ stupid (I know - they really are catering to many of their "users" needs), and cause for celebration. I've always wondered whether Dallas Buyers Club was worth watching...
What percentage of people who begin startups have a history of depression?
I know that some years ago a doctor quizzed me about depression.
GP"Do you ever get depressed?"
Me"Well... yes, sometimes" "Isn't that normal?"
GP"It's not healthy" "Do you ever feel sad about events outside of your control?"
Me"For instance?"
GP."Do events in other countries ever make you feel sad?"
Me"Yes" "Seems normal to me that knowing other people are suffering doesn't make me happy"
The GP then tried to prescribe me Xanax - which just made me feel depressed (no - I never took Xanax). So I have a history of depression (there's more than that incident - I do have "black days" where I want to stay in bed and avoid the world). Whether that's serious or normal doesn't change the fact that I've started a number of successful new businesses, and as part of the process I've often neglected my diet, been extremely stressed, and suffered from extreme lack of sleep. Others with similar business history report the same thing - periods of optimism, energy and the feeling that the brain (and the mouth) are at their optimum, followed by periods when I get words wrong, struggle to get out of bed, feel mentally sluggish, and have difficulty believing things will "go well". Clearly I haven't committed suicide, but was it the startups that caused the "depression" - or the "side-effects" of "depression" ("extreme" optimism and "energy") that "impelled" the desire to startup a new business venture?
My "suspicion" is that starting any new business involves mixed emotions. Losses loom larger than gains - and despite initial optimism there will always be periods of doubt. It kind of balances out, no ups without downs.
Anything new involves risks - and to many the risks appear larger as the involvement shifts from dipping your toes to taking a plunge. Terms like "bi-polar" and "manic" get bandied about when describing people who are successful at taking risks but I've seen little to show that's a result of starting a new/novel venture. Perhaps I'm too depressed to look in the right places?
Note: after the first couple of experiences the process is much easier to deal with as you can look back on previous occasions when it felt like the sun would never shine again - and know that good things, while often hard to imagine - are just as likely outcomes as the bad things that are much easier to imagine. That seems normal to me.
I don't want to defame UoP, so I'll say that I've heard from a large number of sources that this institution has come to represent everything wrong with for-profit education, i.e. complete lack of quality in offerings leading to useless certifications, watered-down assessments so that "everyone passes," and shady applications and loan-mongering to skim the most revenue possible from unaware students.
Now that community and mainstream colleges are legitimately coming on board with better online offerings, it couldn't be that UoP is being squeezed out by the competition?...or so I've heard.
Yeah - but.. if they had a football team they'd be making millions.
Go doggies! (one of you is destined to become Governor)
But, it's something to talk about. little late maybe, but it helps me forget about my bunions, which really aren't that bad, I just need to wear big shoes, so I have to be careful on small stairs, but they have non-skid soles, so that's a plus...
Of course talk alone won't change anything. We need to get some t-shirts printed and organise some car boot sales. Let's form a committee and fix things.
Where'd you get those shoes? I'd need a government subsidy to buy the really non-slip ones. My bunions are giving me hell.
Good luck getting people to "abolish" this. I don't exactly know too many people willing to literally assault government offices, [...]
When the citizens of a country attack the citizens of the same country peace and enlightenment won't be the result. Replacing one corrupt government for failure to look after your interest is how likely to result in another government that will look after your interests?
Repeat after me - "I will not outsource my problems and expect the ability to blame others is acting responsible in anyway". People will always lie to you - the problem is not the lying it's the failure to check facts. If history shows anything it's that shooting your own people (and that includes the police and the army) does not improve anything for the majority.
The reason governments abuse power is because they can - regardless of the political model or party, they will. Periodic cleansing is a requirement - do it via the ballot box but that process is meaningless unless you think a little harder and realise that the solution is meaningless unless you reduce the scope of government power asking less of the government.
Demanding either by show of force, signatures on pieces of dead tree, or marches does nothing (good) of lasting effect. Instead of demanding, stop asking. Don't ask for employment stimulus or better roads, or better education. Do it yourself.
History also show that ain't gonna happen either - you'll all follow the next person that promises to lead you to a better life (if you lay down your lives) or provide you with better representation (if you'll just back their candidacy). Outsource responsibility, outsource responsibility, rinse and repeat. The cycle of rise of civilization followed by overthrow by the stupid, the greedy, and the poor - who destroy that which they wish to inherit, leaving future generations to wonder who built that great civilization now lying in ruins - and why did they build it in the middle of the desert when now only illiterate sheep and goat herders wander.
Wake me up when you all plan on breaking the cycle of history. Until then doing the same old shit over and over is unlikely to result in a different outcome
Hint, the North didn't liberate the slaves of the South - they now work the LSP, formerly the Angola Plantation, run by descendants of the original "freeman" - and kept populated by the descendants of the original rollers - now judges and police. Lest that sound too focused on the USA - the situation is little different in any of the FiveEyes countries (different dog, same leg action). The "elected" leader of the Eureka Stockade joined parliament and sold out his supporters, aborigines, Kanacks, the Irish, etc, etc, and the Scots still occupy the same economic positions they did when every Australian "revolution" fizzled (didn't the USA used to have a "Revolution" day??).
Of course it [insert label for those on the shitty end of the stick here] is "their" fault. Poverty is a choice right?
Replacing a judge with another judge is just playing a game where those with power write the rules (and some of them make all those guns).
The majority of the American people are sufficiently well-off that there is no way in hell they are going to risk their lives rebelling against the government. [...]
Lives? I disagree - though not seriously. Let me try:-
The majority of people living in the countries represented by FiveEyes believe they are millionaires in waiting. They blame:-
"illegal immigrants" (people fleeing the countries they are at war with - who now work the jobs they are too good to do)
"disruptive technology" (business that threatens the businesses that profit from the many wars their countries are involved in - run by liberals and others that understand things as a result of effort they're too lazy to exert)
"moral degeneracy" (anyone that don't toe the line they plant their noses on hoping to impress the powers that be)
the "welfare state" (that which seeks to redress the imbalance that "they" hope will one day soon be unbalanced in their favor - "that single mother lives in government housing with her four kids on almost $1000 pw - I wish I got that much to watch tv all day")
for the fact that they are not already millionaires.
What they want is to be conspicuous millionaires (spend like there is no tomorrow), and celebrities (worshiped like they worship other celebrities). They want the fruits of technology and instant knowledge without effort. Holidays in foreign climes where life is cheap, financed by credit serviced by revenue from winnings and speculation guided by others. Angry, scared (of losing what they don't have), and insane (as a consequence of believing in diametrically opposing impossible things) they cower like whipped dogs before the same authority they wish to be.
No surprise then that most retreat to worship at the altars of entertainment, superstition, or conservatism - the three pillars of denial.
So much typing. It should be easier (someone else do it for me).
Now rise up and rebel you, you, - other people. Some one (else) needs to kick some arse.
I've been trying to refill my toner cartridge with your hosts file, and I can't quite mange it. Can you help me out?
You need to spend more time on it. For every hour of ad-free toner cartridge you need to spend 3 weeks updating your host file - or just download the latest updated host file from APKs ad revenue financed web site. The download is currently 500MB (and you need to update every hours - those advertisers keep changing the address of your toner).
That's interesting about Kaspersky. I wonder if that's an indication that they may be working with criminals, or if it's just some sort of sense of patriotic pride (we have the best criminals, AND the best researchers!), or even if the researchers feel like there would be repercussions if they said anything. I have no doubt that cybercriminals in Russia are probably receiving some sort of direction, support, or protection from their government.
Or because they live in the same place? (don't throw stones when you live in a glasshouse?).
Ask the people who live/work near gangsters what they think of their infamous neighbors - be sure to tell them their comments will be made public. Few are likely to lack the sense of self-preservation that stops them from putting dog shit in their mouth to test whether it really tastes as bad as they've been led to believe. That's not a phenomena that only occurs in Russia. Same in Melbourne as it is in Chicago - there's always a chance that when you offend those with power by shining lights on their activities they'll find out. The nature of "organized" crime is that it not only "taxes" other criminal activities (i.e. cybercriminals making real money), it pays for protection (politicians and police don't have to "solicit" bribes). It's a little simplistic to say cybercriminals get support from politicians - they do, but only in the same way that burglars and prostitutes do, via a pyramid of "taxes" and a host of not necessarily enthusiastic third-parties. Politicians rarely sit at the top of those pyramids.
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Nope, it's Firefox. Plaintext files often don't have a mime type so present as unknown.
Here's the nearly 15 year old bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/s...
You appear to be confused. That (wishlist) bug is not that Firefox can't or won't show plain text files (it certainly will, ftp, http, or local) - it's Add "View as Text/HTML/..." option for unknown mime content-type. As a typical /. reader I can appreciate how you missed reading the description or saw words that plain weren't there. i.e. conflated that with your claim that "Firefox will not render plain text files". Tricky.
The reason that hasn't been "fixed", and may never be fixed is because it's blocked by two other bugs (1 and 2). The main problem being that servers are unreliable when it comes to describing the mimetype.(in reference to your second sentence).
More importantly, as I've already pointed out - Firefox/Iceweasel does display plain text files
Rather than dismissing that fact, maybe you should have taken the time to read the link I posted on how to solve your "issue" (which works fine when the server provides the correct mimetype).
The relevant sections from the default mimeTypes.rdf (~/.mozilla/firefox/$gibberish.default/mimeTypes.rdf)
Note: the order in which they occur is important. As is the presence of any other handler rules for text/plain.
If you have those rules, in that order, and no other rules about text/plain then plain text files will be rendered by the browser - I checked with Windows 8.1 (and I want that 10 minutes back).
If modifying/correcting mimeTypes is too hard for you. Use the extension that achieves the same outcome.
Pretty much every Firefox extension exists for Chrome. uBlock and FlashControl are all I use.
Agreed, pretty much. Though the key ones for my regular browsing are FlashBlock, NoScript and AdBlock Plus. The last two don't have complete replacements in Chrome. Note - we're only discussing personal preferences, not which is better. I recommend various browsers to others depending on their usage.
Chrome doesn't, yet, have equivalents for all the extensions I use for work.
Adblock Plus, CacheViewer2, cliget, Exify, Flashblock, GoogleSharing, Greasemonkey, Live HTTP headers, LocalLink, Modify Headers, NoScript, Print pages to PDF, RightToClick, User Agent Switcher, Add to Search Bar, Add-on Compatibility Reporter, Autofill Forms, Awesome screenshot, Browser Sign In, BugMeNot Plugin, CSS Usage, cssUpdater, Debian buttons, DNSSEC/TLSA Validator, DOM Inspector, Dust-Me Selectors, EPUBReader, Exif Viewer, Extended DNSSEC Validator, Firebug, FireDiff, Fireformat, Firefox OS Simulator, FireFTP, FireFTP button, Firepicker, FlashFirebug, FlashGot, Font Information, FoxGuide, FoxReplace, Google Plus Manager, GridFox, Groundspeed, Illuminations for Developers, iMacros for Firefox, JavaScript Deobfuscator, KDE Wallet password integration, New Tab Tools, Nightly Tester Tools, ODF Viewer, Open With, PageDiff, PageRank, Passive Cache, Password Exporter, QuickJS, RefreshBlocker, Saved Password Editor, ScrapBook, Scriptify, Self-Destructing Cookies, Server Switcher, TinEye Reverse Image Search, Video DownloadHelper, View Dependencies, W3Techs Website Technology Information, Wappalyzer, WCAG Contrast checker, YouTube ALL HTML5, YSlow
(from about:support, after a little sed, cut and grep).
...more useless bloat that I'm going to have to disable when practical things like being able to view text files in the browser is STILL broken after years of waiting.
Seriously?! Your install of Firefox won't render plain text files?? I've never had that problem and I definitely don't recall have to change any configs.
It sounds like either it's a Windows thing; you accidentally set the filetype handling behaviour; or you have installed a downloader extension that changed things. Take a look at your mimetypes. It's easily fixable.
Installed Chrome recently because EVERY BLOODY STUPID TAB I open in Firefox stalls the entire browser for eternity. And that includes Slashdot tabs.
Not having that problem here. It's Iceweasel but it should behave identically to Firefox. Lots of extensions. A five year old CPU and only 4GB of RAM. Two instances open (in different desktops) each with about a dozen tabs open. No freezes - ever.
Do you have Ad-block enabled? NoScript? (I find those two extensions tend to actually speed Firefox/Iceweasel up on many sites).
Have you tried Qupzilla?
Chrome (and Chromium) seem to be a bit quicker but not enough that I want to give up all the extensions I use.
Don't know how I feel about social sharing built-in - if I can't see it or notice it I probably don't care (I'll wait and see).
China does have some good points.
[puts on nationalist 'murican hat] It's probably just a propaganda campaign to make the USA look bad
[takes off hat] It's working.
You see a blurb of text on a screen without any additional factors and attempt to draw a meaningful conclusion, a diagnostic conclusion no less, based on that? That is akin to seeing my foot and telling me that you have concluded that I am an elephant.
I just looked up the manual - turns out he's right. The erratic use of scare quotes is proof of bi-polar. They look like bats "". Scary.
I'm unique - there are a dozen OS that I don't like. I don't complain about them, I just don't use them. You're like the majority of people. Really.
You are unique. Uniquely stupid and unable to pass basic reading comprehension.
The GP felt dismayed that Linus has drunk the systemd coolaid, and wants to switch to FreeBSD. I pointed out that not everyone has been taken in by the systemd nonsense, and that their are distros available that remain untainted, that if he wants to switch to *BSD I've found Dragonfly to be quite nice, but that there are a number of Linux choices he has available if he doesn't want to switch.
But go ahead and label that whining, [--rant---rabid froth--bullshit--]
Bully for you. I quoted what I was responding to. And yes, you're still whining.
You seem to feel the need to lug the goal posts around while clutching at straws to build your strawman... meh, you probably need the exercise anyway.
I have no problems with people who don't want to use systemd, I don't use it for production machines myself (but apparently I'm a piss and kool-aid drinker). I don't like people who demand that choice be removed - and when the anti-systemd crowd complain it's not because they can't use their choice of init system. It's because they're fascists who want to deny others the choices they disapprove of. You know - like bullies.
Like you they attack anyone who isn't opposed to systemd - whether we actually use systemd or not. That's anti-choice, and bullying. You demand that developers don't use systemd. You demand the distros don't use systemd.
When people point out that you have no right to complain - you claim you're being bullied and that the alternative is unfair. What a load of bullshit. If you don't like it don't use it. If developers don't feel you are as special as you think you are, either: ask them nicely to reconsider (once) - bullying isn't going to work and name calling doesn't engender sympathy; do the work yourself instead of whining about how fucking hard it is; put the money up for someone else to do the work; likewise the neglected systemv-init - or just don't. Pick one.
In real life Open Source is not like some science fiction book you author - it's authored by others, and we don't do the work because someone, no matter how special they think they are, demands it.
I don't use systemd for work - but I do use it in projects I contribute to, and I will probably move to use it for work in the next year or two (when more of the bugs are ironed out). Because the existing init system is a poorly maintained unmanageable project and I have neither the time nor desire to help fix that - but you don't hear me whining, bitching, protesting, or pissing and shitting all around the place in protest and attacking and maligning anyone about it.
If only a tiny percentage of the energy the anti-system mob put into complaining and protesting was invested in work or other contributions to systemv-init - you'd have nothing to bitch about because systemd wouldn't be being built into to so many Linux distros. But that's not your point or you'd just be recommending other people who don't like systemd use OS/distros that don't rely on it - instead of recommending OS/distros that don't include the choice, ranting about urine drinkers, shit (speaks volumes of you), and systemd kool-aid. You know - quietly going about your business instead of acting like spoilt brat. A whiner. If you don't like it, take your ball and fuck off - oh wait.... it's our ball.
Stress can be depressing, and creativity correlates with chronic depression. No surprise that depressed people could have a great idea to turn into a startup, or that the stress of doing so could express as depression. In the case of BiPolar disorder, that manic phase has obvious advantages for an entrepreneur, but people with BPD rarely consider themselves depressed.
And yet... I do freely admit to often having been depressed. Why do you sound like the childhood shrink who diagnosed me as hyperactive - while the very book he was quoting from noted that a key symptom was "thrive on lack of sleep". I like my sleep, always have.
As a personal note - excessive, semi-random use of rhetorical/grammatical tools like "scare quotes" also correlates to BPD.
Excessive? Semi-random? You don't read like much of a psychiatrist or a semiotician
Combine that with starting a number of successful businesses during periods of high-energy, optimism and a sense of operating at a mental optimum, along with phases of crippling depression, and you've pretty much announced that you have BPD. I'll be the armchair asshat who says it - you just described the symptoms perfectly. No criticism, no shaming, I'm just going to recommend you repeat that to a psychiatrist.
Yeah - you are an asshat. You sound like one of those "I have a problem but 10 visits to a shrink cured me - now I'm an expert in spotting the specks in other people's eyes" - but that's just my opinion, my partner says "hallmarks - but I wouldn't judge on so little information" (there's your semi-random "scare" quotes). Though I make no claims to psychiatric insights - I'll leave that to the suitably qualified with a few years experience (those that gain that same knowledge from treatment/therapy may just be delusional)
You'd think she might have noticed sometime in the last 26 years that I "might" be bi-polar? If I am bi-polar, and the people around me have failed to notice - I must be high functioning given my age and the lack of crash and burn in my history. But what do I know?
Personally - I suspect your "opinion" say little of me and speaks volumes of you.
I meant to talk to you about that. Can you please stop downloading so much porn? It's getting in the way of me downloading torrents through your network.
- Your neighbor
Can Johhny Droptables come out to play?
Hmm... Maybe they should have one of those fantasy football teams?
Too late - they just laid off the coach.
Before some armchair asshat brands you as bipolar, consider that depression is a natural result of effectively burning out the anxiety receptors/generators.
Thanks - but I've never been labeled bi-polar, or manic-depressant (well, once or twice). Over-enthuasiastic, yes, and also accused of "thinking too much" - neither of which labels worry me (nor smart-arse, especially considering the antithesis).
Too much stress, and you either lack the stress hormone generation, or you are desensitized to its effects.
Oh I stress. And I worry. But neither consume me. A certain amount of stress is good, and worry is just a sign that some risk needs to be managed - beyond that I'm not concerned.
Untreated anxiety results in depression. For some, that means a trip to the doc for some meds. For others, it means time to do something exciting, like start a new company.
Agreed - though I suspect the medical "solution" is the result of not properly addressing the cause. The few people I know who suffer from anxiety attacks also seem to have a lot of "issues" they ignore: money they owe; people they've fucked over; huge differences between the person they appear to be and the person they really are - and they believe "we" all live like that. It's my belief that when you bury major issues they pop back up in the night and drag their maggot infested corpses into your bed - which can't be healthy. Denial, guilt, and "I am not worthy" should be addressed or you build new ventures on a rotten foundation.
Serial startups may be self medication. It may seem like you are coping well, but it may be a coping mechanism to make up for things you are missing.
Maybe - self awareness is a bit like do-it-yourself eye surgery (tricky). Business is like physical challenges to me - a challenge that produces great satisfaction.
At some point, and it may not be you in particular, but many in the same position will have something give out. Physical or mental health or something else, it doesn't matter. Basically anyone living in a first world country (by any definition) already has an abnormal life, and living on the edge is really just taking an extra chance.
"Insanity is a sane reaction to an insane world" ~ some dead Scot.
I suspect there is no real "issue" here other than people deciding that "toughing it out" is somehow "being true to yourself".
Agreed - I suspect they (the people referred to in the cited article), lack the necessary balances required for a "whole" life. Real friends (what Neil Young called the people "who will tell you when you're pissing in the wind"), love, relaxation, regular exercise, healthy community involvement, rest and good food. Most importantly, a business plan that includes an escape clause - if I don't achieve x I will walk - and mean it. I've often found committing myself to the escape clause makes it redundant.
The normal stressors of modern living plus the added stress of putting your life on the line, basically, eventually put people like you at higher risk.
No argument there. Only that without risk there is few gains, life without joy is no life at all, and some become habituated to the joy of overcoming difficulties, likewise discovering their limitations. The trick - I suspect, is to take only risks that carry the sort of potential failure that you can live with. Calculated risks
I'll spare you the muscle, sinew, and bone analogies for when stress is good (it also requires rest, nutrition, and light stretching)..
If you wear sun screen, watch your diet, or in any fashion try to look after your physical body, but neglect your mental health, it seems you are willing to accept an abnormal life as normal, when it's not. To individuals, yes, but to humans in general not in an
oh dont get me wrong, I say the same thing you just did many many times.[...]
I don't think you got what I said at all (fantasy is part of the entertainment pillar dude). And you're rationalizing your apathy.
Jefferson, for all his failings, never said revolution was a novel reaction that breaks the cycle. No system is perfect and requires constant review. He certainly never said "endless revolution equals freedom". At some point even a passing review of world history should give credence to the idea that replacing leaders is not the solution to the problem of leaders failing to represent them (like we're all in nappies needing to be fed).
If Jefferson was alive today I suspect (hope?) he'd be suggesting people get off their arses and do something more constructive than lighting torches, loading guns and blaming others for their own fates (like, oh, maybe - represent yourself, don't fucking outsource responsibility). Or maybe just face-palming, it's just a guess.
Actually - it's possible in this "ooh shiny thing" world he'd be wandering the streets searching for a bottle of cheap wine and muttering to himself about a world full of un-self-educated people with the attention span of a goldfish on speed in a crowded shopping mall.
Note: I could be joking. Who knows?
Linus may not be showing good leadership in this instance, but not everyone has drunk the urine just yet, and there are others stepping up to the plate to maintain or create alternatives.
Leadership is not just "responding to users" (in your case, with the silent "L"). Stepping up to the plate is a baseball term - it implies doing something. While technically "whining" is doing something, as is taking up space, it's not a useful contribution. Nor does it mean that your "demands" are worth more that those of others (even if they are less demanding).
But don't let me stop you from indulging yourself in the fantasy that "complaining" == bug reports, and that bug reports somehow equates to "you must serve me" (no matter how crackpot your "needs" i.e. I can haz my init but i demanz all references to systemd be removed, coz, um, eh, end of world scenario).
And feel free to accuse me of "bullying". Continue spamming, though perhaps, if you find the free time - you could start some sort of "anti-bullying" service as you are such an expert on the subject.
I'm unique - there are a dozen OS that I don't like. I don't complain about them, I just don't use them. You're like the majority of people. Really.
Yeah, 'cuz it failed right away. They spent more time mislabelling each other as "systemd trolls" than they ever spent on doing something useful, like, you know, forking Debian.
I believe you're being unfair to all those experienced Unix system administrators - one of them raised enough money to buy a new laptop, and the others spend their time spraying lists and forums with spurious claims. I'd hardly call that failure.
Oh wait... do you mean they really intended to create something in software? In that case - I was wrong, and you are right.
I'm now revising my opinion of Outlook - especially in light of the recently passed Oz laws about pirating. In fact I'm about to order an external antennae for a laptop (trivial) hardware hack shortly.
There are times when M$'s drive to put stupid in the sysadmin seat make me very happy - this may be one of them.
No - I don't run Windows as my OS of choice. It's fine for some, in some situations (seriously). But rarely do I celebrate M$ stupid - and this "sounds" like both M$ stupid (I know - they really are catering to many of their "users" needs), and cause for celebration. I've always wondered whether Dallas Buyers Club was worth watching...
What percentage of people who begin startups have a history of depression?
I know that some years ago a doctor quizzed me about depression.
Me "Well... yes, sometimes" "Isn't that normal?"
GP "It's not healthy" "Do you ever feel sad about events outside of your control?"
Me "For instance?"
GP. "Do events in other countries ever make you feel sad?"
Me "Yes" "Seems normal to me that knowing other people are suffering doesn't make me happy"
The GP then tried to prescribe me Xanax - which just made me feel depressed (no - I never took Xanax). So I have a history of depression (there's more than that incident - I do have "black days" where I want to stay in bed and avoid the world). Whether that's serious or normal doesn't change the fact that I've started a number of successful new businesses, and as part of the process I've often neglected my diet, been extremely stressed, and suffered from extreme lack of sleep. Others with similar business history report the same thing - periods of optimism, energy and the feeling that the brain (and the mouth) are at their optimum, followed by periods when I get words wrong, struggle to get out of bed, feel mentally sluggish, and have difficulty believing things will "go well".
Clearly I haven't committed suicide, but was it the startups that caused the "depression" - or the "side-effects" of "depression" ("extreme" optimism and "energy") that "impelled" the desire to startup a new business venture?
My "suspicion" is that starting any new business involves mixed emotions. Losses loom larger than gains - and despite initial optimism there will always be periods of doubt. It kind of balances out, no ups without downs.
Anything new involves risks - and to many the risks appear larger as the involvement shifts from dipping your toes to taking a plunge. Terms like "bi-polar" and "manic" get bandied about when describing people who are successful at taking risks but I've seen little to show that's a result of starting a new/novel venture. Perhaps I'm too depressed to look in the right places?
Note: after the first couple of experiences the process is much easier to deal with as you can look back on previous occasions when it felt like the sun would never shine again - and know that good things, while often hard to imagine - are just as likely outcomes as the bad things that are much easier to imagine. That seems normal to me.
At the end of the day, we're all whores. So "users" isn't an incorrect statement.
There's only two industries that call their clients "users" - and prostitution isn't one of them. So no (speaking for myself).
If M$ want's more users they should consider making that first taste free - perhaps go back to the "give it away to schools" model.
What am I doing? Need. More. Coffee.
And you call your clients "users".
I don't want to defame UoP, so I'll say that I've heard from a large number of sources that this institution has come to represent everything wrong with for-profit education, i.e. complete lack of quality in offerings leading to useless certifications, watered-down assessments so that "everyone passes," and shady applications and loan-mongering to skim the most revenue possible from unaware students.
Now that community and mainstream colleges are legitimately coming on board with better online offerings, it couldn't be that UoP is being squeezed out by the competition? ...or so I've heard.
Yeah - but.. if they had a football team they'd be making millions.
Go doggies! (one of you is destined to become Governor)
But the hosts file toner refill prints fewer adds, so you can print 10,000% MORE pages with the same toner. Totally worth 3 weeks.
That's your opinion - and I don't doubt you deserve to hold it. But for me - I don't want no steenking black and white ads.
But, it's something to talk about. little late maybe, but it helps me forget about my bunions, which really aren't that bad, I just need to wear big shoes, so I have to be careful on small stairs, but they have non-skid soles, so that's a plus...
Of course talk alone won't change anything. We need to get some t-shirts printed and organise some car boot sales. Let's form a committee and fix things.
Where'd you get those shoes? I'd need a government subsidy to buy the really non-slip ones. My bunions are giving me hell.
Good luck getting people to "abolish" this. I don't exactly know too many people willing to literally assault government offices, [...]
When the citizens of a country attack the citizens of the same country peace and enlightenment won't be the result. Replacing one corrupt government for failure to look after your interest is how likely to result in another government that will look after your interests?
Repeat after me - "I will not outsource my problems and expect the ability to blame others is acting responsible in anyway". People will always lie to you - the problem is not the lying it's the failure to check facts. If history shows anything it's that shooting your own people (and that includes the police and the army) does not improve anything for the majority.
The reason governments abuse power is because they can - regardless of the political model or party, they will. Periodic cleansing is a requirement - do it via the ballot box but that process is meaningless unless you think a little harder and realise that the solution is meaningless unless you reduce the scope of government power asking less of the government.
Demanding either by show of force, signatures on pieces of dead tree, or marches does nothing (good) of lasting effect. Instead of demanding, stop asking. Don't ask for employment stimulus or better roads, or better education. Do it yourself.
History also show that ain't gonna happen either - you'll all follow the next person that promises to lead you to a better life (if you lay down your lives) or provide you with better representation (if you'll just back their candidacy). Outsource responsibility, outsource responsibility, rinse and repeat. The cycle of rise of civilization followed by overthrow by the stupid, the greedy, and the poor - who destroy that which they wish to inherit, leaving future generations to wonder who built that great civilization now lying in ruins - and why did they build it in the middle of the desert when now only illiterate sheep and goat herders wander.
Wake me up when you all plan on breaking the cycle of history. Until then doing the same old shit over and over is unlikely to result in a different outcome
Hint, the North didn't liberate the slaves of the South - they now work the LSP, formerly the Angola Plantation, run by descendants of the original "freeman" - and kept populated by the descendants of the original rollers - now judges and police. Lest that sound too focused on the USA - the situation is little different in any of the FiveEyes countries (different dog, same leg action). The "elected" leader of the Eureka Stockade joined parliament and sold out his supporters, aborigines, Kanacks, the Irish, etc, etc, and the Scots still occupy the same economic positions they did when every Australian "revolution" fizzled (didn't the USA used to have a "Revolution" day??).
Of course it [insert label for those on the shitty end of the stick here] is "their" fault. Poverty is a choice right?
Replacing a judge with another judge is just playing a game where those with power write the rules (and some of them make all those guns).
The majority of the American people are sufficiently well-off that there is no way in hell they are going to risk their lives rebelling against the government. [...]
Lives? I disagree - though not seriously. Let me try:-
The majority of people living in the countries represented by FiveEyes believe they are millionaires in waiting. They blame:-
for the fact that they are not already millionaires.
What they want is to be conspicuous millionaires (spend like there is no tomorrow), and celebrities (worshiped like they worship other celebrities). They want the fruits of technology and instant knowledge without effort. Holidays in foreign climes where life is cheap, financed by credit serviced by revenue from winnings and speculation guided by others. Angry, scared (of losing what they don't have), and insane (as a consequence of believing in diametrically opposing impossible things) they cower like whipped dogs before the same authority they wish to be.
No surprise then that most retreat to worship at the altars of entertainment, superstition, or conservatism - the three pillars of denial.
So much typing. It should be easier (someone else do it for me).
Now rise up and rebel you, you, - other people. Some one (else) needs to kick some arse.
I've been trying to refill my toner cartridge with your hosts file, and I can't quite mange it. Can you help me out?
You need to spend more time on it. For every hour of ad-free toner cartridge you need to spend 3 weeks updating your host file - or just download the latest updated host file from APKs ad revenue financed web site. The download is currently 500MB (and you need to update every hours - those advertisers keep changing the address of your toner).
That's interesting about Kaspersky. I wonder if that's an indication that they may be working with criminals, or if it's just some sort of sense of patriotic pride (we have the best criminals, AND the best researchers!), or even if the researchers feel like there would be repercussions if they said anything. I have no doubt that cybercriminals in Russia are probably receiving some sort of direction, support, or protection from their government.
Or because they live in the same place? (don't throw stones when you live in a glasshouse?).
Ask the people who live/work near gangsters what they think of their infamous neighbors - be sure to tell them their comments will be made public. Few are likely to lack the sense of self-preservation that stops them from putting dog shit in their mouth to test whether it really tastes as bad as they've been led to believe. That's not a phenomena that only occurs in Russia. Same in Melbourne as it is in Chicago - there's always a chance that when you offend those with power by shining lights on their activities they'll find out. The nature of "organized" crime is that it not only "taxes" other criminal activities (i.e. cybercriminals making real money), it pays for protection (politicians and police don't have to "solicit" bribes).
It's a little simplistic to say cybercriminals get support from politicians - they do, but only in the same way that burglars and prostitutes do, via a pyramid of "taxes" and a host of not necessarily enthusiastic third-parties. Politicians rarely sit at the top of those pyramids.