Re: [wpkg-users] Notifications of Flash and Java updates

2012-10-24 Thread Pete Boyd
> NEW=`wget -q $URL -O - | grep 'Flash Player' |grep -m 1 ''|awk > '{gsub("","",$0);print $3}'` Y'all don't read FilleHippo then? -- Pete Boyd thegoldenear.org openplanit.co.uk

Re: [wpkg-users] Big problem with Java Update

2012-10-20 Thread Pete Boyd
I see this from time to time with JRE upgrades. What I do is add a WPKG 'upgrade' line, that removes the version you're upgrading to, before installing it. Then bump the revision number. So, uninstall it, then reinstall it. -

Re: [wpkg-users] Firefox addon question

2012-10-17 Thread Pete Boyd
quot;extensions.autoDisableScopes", 11); // Don't display the disabled extensions dialog pref("extensions.shownSelectionUI", true); It might be worth you also joining the Mozilla Enterprise mailing list for getting information about such

Re: [wpkg-users] Why VNC and not remote desktop?

2012-10-02 Thread Pete Boyd
ere it's at now WRT security. -- Pete Boyd thegoldenear.org openplanit.co.uk - wpkg-users mailing list archives >> http://lists.wpkg.org/pipermail/wpkg-users/ ___ wpkg-u

Re: [wpkg-users] Advice on remote assistance program to deploy

2012-10-01 Thread Pete Boyd
Likewise we use TightVNC server on Windows XP desktops, with Remmina as the client on Ubuntu. We used UltraVNC for a few years before switching to TightVNC as UltraVNC is so appalling, I'm trying to remember what was so agonising about it but my memory is a bit hazy: - Version 1.0.4 was a major n

Re: [wpkg-users] Install of Firefox 10.0.03 and uninstall of firefox 3.6.X versions

2012-04-24 Thread Pete Boyd
In my experience there's absolutely no need to uninstall 3.6 and then install 10, as upgrading works fine from 3.6 to 10ESR, for example using this: -- Pete Boyd thegoldenear.org openplanit.co.uk - wpkg-

Re: [wpkg-users] Firefox 8 and extension deployment

2011-12-07 Thread Pete Boyd
> not needed) and it worked flawlessly. Sorry I should have given some context there to what I was replying to, for those not reading this threaded, it was to the above. -- Pete Boyd thegoldenear.org openplanit.co.uk ---

Re: [wpkg-users] Firefox 8 and extension deployment

2011-12-07 Thread Pete Boyd
This is the way we install Firefox and Thunderbird extensions, and until I read here about alternate methods I understood this was Mozilla's recommended method. We've not seen any breakage when recently upgrading from 3.6.x to 8.0.x and not changing our installation methods. --

Re: [wpkg-users] Foxit Reader add-ons - how to deal with them?

2011-11-09 Thread Pete Boyd
ive. Yeah I'd already tried unzipping it with 7-Zip, which claims it's not an archive. -- Pete Boyd thegoldenear.org openplanit.co.uk - wpkg-users mailing list archives >> http

[wpkg-users] Foxit Reader add-ons - how to deal with them?

2011-11-09 Thread Pete Boyd
execute JavaScript in many interactive forms. If you don't install this add-on, although you still can fill in such forms, you wouldn't be able to perform some automated tasks like field value verification and recalculation." Thanks -- Pet

Re: [wpkg-users] Open Office 3.1 Installation and upgrade

2009-06-09 Thread Pete Boyd
There's plenty of information about this here: http://wpkg.org/OpenOffice.org_2.x -- Pete Boyd Open Plan IT - http://openplanit.co.uk The Golden Ear - http://thegoldenear.org - wpkg-users mailing list archives &g