Re: [GTALUG] Rogers "Anyplace TV" does not support Firefox

2019-03-11 Thread David Collier-Brown via talk
Depends on the company. Some (you can guess who) figure they've got you, and they should minimize their customer support costs by actively pissing people off in order to drive them away. Others, including ones of the size of Sun and above, worry about losing customers. Many need a

Re: [GTALUG] Rogers "Anyplace TV" does not support Firefox

2019-03-11 Thread Dave Collier-Brown via talk
Depends on the company. Some (you can guess who) figure they've got you, and they should minimize their customer support costs by actively pissing people off in order to drive them away. Others, including ones of the size of Sun and above, worry about losing customers. Many need a clue-stick

Re: [GTALUG] Rogers "Anyplace TV" does not support Firefox

2019-03-11 Thread Stewart C. Russell via talk
On 2019-03-11 12:34 p.m., Giles Orr via talk wrote: > > Netflix can be made to run on Linux if > you're willing to install Chrome - it doesn't work in Firefox Netflix works fine for me on Firefox (65.0.1, Ubuntu 18.10 on x86_64). Your distro may have turned off Widevine: Tools → Add-ons →

Re: [GTALUG] Rogers "Anyplace TV" does not support Firefox

2019-03-11 Thread o1bigtenor via talk
On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 10:34 AM David Collier-Brown via talk wrote: > > The help-desk is tasked with making you happy with what you have. In > many companies they are forbidden to take bug reports. You often have > to ask for their "escalations manger", and sometimes explain to them > what that

Re: [GTALUG] Pain points in debian release process.

2019-03-11 Thread Christopher Browne via talk
On Mon, 11 Mar 2019 at 14:40, Alex Volkov (A Valued Subscriber) via talk wrote: > > Hey Sergio, > > I just found the email from Samuel in my inbox -- it looked like a debian > mailing list announcement, so I moved it to 'read later' pile. I'm sorry > about that. > > This sounds like a great

Re: [GTALUG] Pain points in debian release process.

2019-03-11 Thread Alex Volkov (A Valued Subscriber) via talk
Hey Sergio, I just found the email from Samuel in my inbox -- it looked like a debian mailing list announcement, so I moved it to 'read later' pile. I'm sorry about that. This sounds like a great idea, I'm going to reply to you and Samuel off list. Alex. On 2019-03-11 2:18 p.m., Sergio

Re: [GTALUG] Pain points in debian release process.

2019-03-11 Thread Sergio Durigan Junior via talk
On Monday, March 11 2019, Alex Volkov via talk wrote: > I'm writing this email not to start a flamewar about Debian, as I've > been using it for more than 10 years and I'm pretty happy about the > distribution, but I now I believe that the best way to become Debian > contributor is to go to a Bug

[GTALUG] Pain points in debian release process.

2019-03-11 Thread Alex Volkov via talk
Hello everyone, I've stumbled upon this article describing all the issues that make the process of bugfixes and package releases cumbersome in Debian. https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2019-03-10-debian-winding-down/ I've always been interested in contributing to Debian, but just learning

Re: [GTALUG] Rogers "Anyplace TV" does not support Firefox

2019-03-11 Thread Giles Orr via talk
On Mon, 11 Mar 2019 at 11:36, Alvin Starr via talk wrote: > My guess is that the lack of support for Linux is because of the lack of > built in DRM. > > Years ago we were dealing with several IPTV vendors and a common fear > from the content owners is hackers breaking apart the streams and >

[GTALUG] Last month's meeting will happen tomorrow (Tuesday)

2019-03-11 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk
TL;DR: the meeting and talk scheduled for last month will happen tomorrow. You will remember that last month's meeting was cancelled because of snow. Before you call GTALUG a bunch of wimps, note that Ryerson closed for snow. It looks as if the talks has been rescheduled for tomorrow. I

Re: [GTALUG] Microsoft open sources Windows Calculator

2019-03-11 Thread Kevin Cozens via talk
On 2019-03-10 12:19 p.m., James Knott via talk wrote: Forgot to mention, the first editor I used was SCELBI's "ED", a simple line editor, which was better than that Pr1me editor.  I used ED on my IMSAI 8080. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCELBI https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMSAI_8080 Very

Re: [GTALUG] Rogers "Anyplace TV" does not support Firefox

2019-03-11 Thread Alvin Starr via talk
My guess is that the lack of support for Linux is because of the lack of built in DRM. Years ago we were dealing with several IPTV vendors and a common fear from the content owners is hackers breaking apart the streams and posting them to some torrent site. To get access to the content the

Re: [GTALUG] Rogers "Anyplace TV" does not support Firefox

2019-03-11 Thread David Collier-Brown via talk
The help-desk is tasked with making you happy with what you have. In many companies they are forbidden to take bug reports.  You often have to ask for their "escalations manger", and sometimes explain to them what that is (;-)) --dave (who managed escalations all too often) c-b On 2019-03-11

Re: [GTALUG] Rogers "Anyplace TV" does not support Firefox

2019-03-11 Thread o1bigtenor via talk
pt On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 10:02 AM Karen Lewellen via talk wrote: > > May I make a suggestion? > If any of you are members of the Rogers community boards, or follow them > on twitter, please educate them about Linux. bell has the same problem, > or claims to have as much. > With programs like

Re: [GTALUG] Rogers "Anyplace TV" does not support Firefox

2019-03-11 Thread Karen Lewellen via talk
May I make a suggestion? If any of you are members of the Rogers community boards, or follow them on twitter, please educate them about Linux. bell has the same problem, or claims to have as much. With programs like the TPL training one introducing people to Linux vastness, Rogers must