On Saturday 17 September 2016 10:34:17 claude juif wrote: > 2016-09-09 13:36 GMT+02:00 Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net>: > > On Thursday 08 September 2016 19:02:31 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > > On Thu, 08 Sep 2016, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > Has anyone an idea of a schedule of when that will put this > > > > security update into the wheezy repo's? > > > > > > https://wiki.debian.org/LTS > > > > > > Please contact the Debian LTS people, and if this fix is not > > > already in the priority queue, you could offer to sponsor the work > > > required or something. > > > > > > > I believe this is why I cannot use the paypal account I just > > > > opened. > > > > > > Gene, may I humbly suggest you should get a new box for > > > non-Linux-CNC work, and keep that wheezy box you use for Linux-CNC > > > off the grid so that it doesn't become a liability in the future? > > > > Liability? Only if its destroyed on purpose by a malicious update. > > I have a router with dd-wrt reflashed into it. No back doors. And > > it stops _all_ the unfunny stuff. And according to the error message > > I get when I run firefox-esr from a terminal, SSL is missing. But > > its not, FF just can't find it. IMO firefox-esr is a disaster > > despite the hype. > > > > > You will be happier in the medium/long term after the investment > > > in the new box pays itself off, Debian jessie should work much > > > better overall for you for desktopish things (i.e. not Linux-CNC), > > > and the rest of us will be happier even sooner because we will > > > have less support requests related to oldstable to attend to[1] > > > ;-) > > > > > > Paypal works just fine with firefox in a standard Debian 8.6 > > > install. > > > > > > [1] Any work done for stable and unstable/testing _usually_ helps > > > a lot more people than work done for oldstable. > > > > I can appreciate that, but wheezy is supposed to have security > > support until sometime in 2018, but this gradual destruction of a > > formerly working system just to get folks to update smells an awful > > lot like fedora, and that rebuild your system every 30 days got old, > > very fast, so I bailed to mandrake all those years ago. And now its > > happening again. All I want is a system that Just Works(TM) and now > > it isn't. > > Fedora work just fine, and you don't need to rebuild anything every 30 > days. I use it for years now, because sometimes I want cutting edge > packages. > > You want too much for free ...
I'll be 82 in 2 weeks, and on SS, so I watch my $. > You just need to update your ssl library to be able to use paypal. So > : - You upgrade to jessie and use VM to run linux CNC stuff (or the > opposite) - You pin libnss3 to stretch/unstable in apt preferences (it > may or may not work) > - You grab the deb src and dpkg-buildpackage by yourself > - You wait until a fix is available > > 4 solutions comes to you, choose one and do it ! You don't need to be > rude against people trying to help you. I wasn't intending to be rude. My appologies if it came thru that way. In the meantime I've made a rather astonshing (to me) discovery that the original, never updated, google Chromium browser works just fine and is 3 or 5 times faster than firefox has been for several years. I did have to confirm it was me to paypal since they had not previously seen me trying to login using Chromium. After that confirmation, everything is just ducky. > > > Sometime today I'll see if I can figure out how to install the real > > mozilla firefox 48.something tarball. Maybe even make it use the > > new flashplayer.so, now at major version 23 something. I already > > have them downloaded. > > > > 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> 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>
