On Friday, February 13, 2015 07:12:37 AM Liam O'Toole wrote: > On 2015-02-13, Gene Heskett <ghesk...@wdtv.com> wrote: > > Greetings; > > > > Is there any way to get rid of all these boring screen decorations > > saying javascipt doesn't work? > > > > There are quite a few javascript "engines" installed, but I haven't > > managed to find that Magic Twanger yet. > > > > Is this a conscious effort to get rid of javascript? Or can it be > > fixed with additional packages installed? > > > > Thanks all. > > > > Cheers, Gene Heskett > > Could you tell us what Debian release and browser you are using, and > what web pages cause the behaviour you describe? Then we would be in a > better position to help you.
This is a special compilation that is 99.9% Wheezy, put together by the LinuxCNC people, using the wheezy repos with a couple added lines in the /etc/apt/sources.list, available as the hybride-iso on the linuxcnc.org web site. The previous install I ran for quite a while was ubuntu-10.04.4 LTS, with a special RTAI patched kernel, and it started doing this also shortly after the hurrah about javascript having an exploitable problem. I figured it would be fixed by now in a newer install. It effects anything that looks like a browser, Konqueror, iceweasal, firefox, but have not checked w3m however. The major difference between this and wheezy is the default kernel is an RTAI patched kernel. It doesn't play well with 64 bit machine with lots of memory, and I am not actually running machinery with this box, so I can run the sim versions of linuxcnc on an rt-preempt kernel and am running a PAE version of 3.2.0-4 ATM. The distro is basically a 64 bit distro, but the RTAI patches aren't fully aware of a 64 bit machine yet as the PAE seems to be disabled by that patchset. I don't need RTAI to run the simulation, but do need the PREEMPT RT. And it runs well, uptime is 8.5 days ATM. Currantly booted kernel is: root@coyote:~# uname -a Linux coyote 3.2.0-4-rt-686-pae #1 SMP PREEMPT RT Debian 3.2.65-1+deb7u1 i686 GNU/Linux I would like to thank a previous poster this morning as I was not aware of the update-altenatives cli facility, which which I was able to make iceweasal the default browser. Although it has not been checked for function yet. Thanks for that. Now, the javascript problem? Still remains. A PIMA, if I goto www.cbsnews.com it will start to display it, for perhaps a second, then this warning pops up and completely displaces the sites content downward and off screen about twice the height of the screen so at first glance, you assume the site is not available, but on this 1920x1280 monitor, its still there but you have to scroll down about 1.5 to 2x the screens height to see the sites contents. Slashdot for instance, has about 50% of its screen area devoted to javascript errors. The site can still be used by iceweasal but its quite annoying. Konqueror just throw up its hands and sits there, no response to clicking on any sublink on any of the mainsleeze news sites. Lots of javascript stuff is installed, but something is blocking its use. and no "blockers" like add-block and its ilk are installed. Thanks Liam. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> US V Castleman, SCOTUS, Mar 2014 is grounds for Impeaching SCOTUS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/201502130753.55495.ghesk...@wdtv.com
