On Sunday 17 September 2006 01:32 am, Ric Moore wrote: > How do I purge those little demon spawn from my machine and rid myself > of all reference to them in mozilla, firefox and Everything? I want them > gone, real simple... no ambiguity there, just removed completely and all > dependencies to either resolved to mplayer. It's late, like 3:30 AM and > firefox is back to not doing windows media and rm files. Even file > mangler can't remove them with dependency issues. > > Mplayer rules, it may not be for polite society BUT I DON'T CARE about > it being politically correct. I just want stuff to happen on my monitor > is all and sounds to come from my speakers... -reliably-, which means > for more than a week at a time and not hunting all over for some relief > and howtos every time they blow up. > It's gotten way the F tooo old. > I won't have them in my computer house no more. > RedHat!! Yeah, -I- said the name right here... drop these stinkers. > Right out the old chute. > Use the hook on 'em. > I'm spending way too much of my precious LIFE (what little I actually > have of one) dinking with them. > They suck. They have sucked in the past, predictably they always shall > suck. > I could go into the Dead Parrot routine, but everyone here already knows > it by heart... having no lives either, while trying to make these two > dead parrots breathe. > Just gimmie Mplayer. > I believe it's mozplugger that is over-riding preferences in firefox. > Dirty trick if you ask me. > I HAD mplayer doing everything and now it's not again. <sniffs> > <gives nightly yum the "thousand yard stare"> > It makes me crazy! <pants heavily> > I got stuff to DOOooo!!! <wails inconsolably> > <runs off stage left broken and weeping> > <runs back> ... and take noatun with 'em!! > <runs off stage again, still broken and weeping> Aw tell us how you really feel <ducks runs for exit> > > > -- > ================================================ > My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: > "There are two Great Sins in the world... > ...the Sin of Ignorance, and > ...the Sin of Stupidity. > Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad. > > Linux user# 44256 > Sign up at: http://counter.li.org/ > http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/oar > http://www.wayward4now.net > > ================================================ -- Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice Doggy" While you look for a rock..Will Rodgers