I know that this is not good karma, but JC dude, cut back on the coffee and pose a coherent question. --- On Wed, 8/12/09, gilpel@xxxxxxxxxx <gilpel@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > From: gilpel@xxxxxxxxxx <gilpel@xxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: HACKED! > To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > Date: Wednesday, August 12, 2009, 7:12 PM > Monday, the 10th, my provider was > offline once again. Some repairs were > needed at Bell/Microsoft's CO. So I thought it was time to > write a letter > which I had postponed. > > Two hours later, the service was back and I did some > research. When I came > back to my text, I saw it was blank except for the date and > the > recepient's name and address. I closed AbiWord and was > asked if I wanted > to save the text. Of course, I... didn't, but most newbies > would have: > man, you've got to save whatever is left of that file! > > Whatever changes I later made were never saved: the text > always came back > to the previous version. I had to finish the text offline. > > Thereafter, it's with video that I had problems. At > Radio-Canada/Microsoft, nothing would play. I checked Edit, > Prefrences, > Applications in Firefox and the settings were all wrong. I > closed/restarted Firefox, everything was back to normal. > But soon, the > list of applications was shortened by half and, for > whatever was left, the > usual defaults weren't available to select. I even had > Windows Media > Player for playing Windows Media files! > > Yesterday, the service was off for close to 24 hours at my > ISP: the > equipment at Bell/Microsoft's CO was really antiquated and > had to be > changed. That's after they came to repair my line twice in > the last 4 > months! You can see that Bell/Microsoft really dig that > Linux users don't > care about market share: they give top service! > > So, I desinstalled/installed the MM applications and, after > some playing > around, everything almost "seemed" back to normal... with > GNOME-MPlayer > for playing ASF/WM files by default. For ASX, I believe > Amarok was still > suggested :) Since it's impossible to see the properties of > GNOME-MPlayer > -- a default which looks rather weird, since it's supposed > to be only an > interface to MPlayer --,I chose /usr/bin/mplayer, but I'm > still asked to > install MPlayer. > > Does anybody know the PATH to their default application for > ASX files? I > really want to give that Bell/Microsoft service another try > ASAP. > > > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines > -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
