On Wed, May 27, 2015 10:46 am, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Valeri Galtsev wrote:
On Wed, May 27, 2015 9:46 am, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Johnny Hughes wrote:
On 05/27/2015 09:07 AM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
<snip> >> >> Thanks, Johnny. I *just* posted an apology, that I realized it was an >> EPEL issue.... Talk about an "upgrade disaster"! I think the other >> admin - >> he's been here less than a year, is coming to understand why I'm >> paranoid >> about some updates, and why we roll out some things stepwise, testing >> it >> first.... I see he updated firefox > > <rant> > Speaking of which... the last update ("release" or "upgrade" I probably > should say, as it is latest version on FreeBSD and on MS Windows I will > mean here) has nasty changes: it started "blocking downloads that > potentially contain virus or spyware". It blocked download of <snip> Speaking of firefox, does anyone know how to make that idiocy of "Hi! It looks like you haven't run firefox in a while! Want to restart to a New Look?!!!" that shows up every time I log in, and doesn't seem to have any "no, don't bother me, ever" option?
My way of doing that (which took me about 5 years or so, and it _is_ painful) was: switch away from Firefox. I happen to know the guy in person (who was student here) who went to Mozilla Foundation as a production director. He didn't impress me as far as his attitude to software code is concerned. So, I wasn't much surprised when shortly after he became production director noticeable change at Mozilla foundation happened. And as things don't promise to change to decency I finally (5 or 6 years was long way to this decision!) gave up at least on their browser.
Valeri
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++