Re: Flash Drive suddenly read only?

2021-01-31 Thread David Wright
On Sun 31 Jan 2021 at 20:30:22 (+0800), kaye n wrote: > On Sun, Jan 31, 2021 at 5:20 PM wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 30, 2021 at 11:27:52PM -0700, Charles Curley wrote: > > > On Sun, 31 Jan 2021 14:00:31 +0800 kaye n wrote: > > > > > > > When I plug in my usb flash drive to my desktop computer, I can ed

Re: Flash Drive suddenly read only?

2021-01-31 Thread David Christensen
On 2021-01-30 22:00, kaye n wrote: Hello Friends! When I plug in my usb flash drive to my desktop computer, I can edit certain libreoffice calc files saved in that flash drive. But after I try to copy several dbf files from the desktop computer hard drive to the flash drive via the terminal, it

Re: Flash Drive suddenly read only?

2021-01-31 Thread The Wanderer
(I've replied publicly again, as I'm not the only person who may be able to advise you on this, and I don't see any reason for this to have been taken off-list. If your reply being direct instead of via the list was intentional, then I apologize.) On 2021-01-31 at 08:28, kaye n wrote: > On Sun, J

Re: Flash Drive suddenly read only?

2021-01-31 Thread The Wanderer
On 2021-01-31 at 07:30, kaye n wrote: > On Sun, Jan 31, 2021 at 5:20 PM wrote: > >> On Sat, Jan 30, 2021 at 11:27:52PM -0700, Charles Curley wrote: >>> Are the files marked read only (ro), or is the entire flash >>> drive mounted ro? > > The dbf files seem to be READ WRITE EXECUTE for OWNER, G

Re: Flash Drive suddenly read only?

2021-01-31 Thread kaye n
On Sun, Jan 31, 2021 at 5:20 PM wrote: > On Sat, Jan 30, 2021 at 11:27:52PM -0700, Charles Curley wrote: > > On Sun, 31 Jan 2021 14:00:31 +0800 > > kaye n wrote: > > > > > When I plug in my usb flash drive to my desktop computer, I can edit > > > certain libreoffice calc files saved in that flas

Re: Flash Drive suddenly read only?

2021-01-31 Thread tomas
On Sat, Jan 30, 2021 at 11:27:52PM -0700, Charles Curley wrote: > On Sun, 31 Jan 2021 14:00:31 +0800 > kaye n wrote: > > > When I plug in my usb flash drive to my desktop computer, I can edit > > certain libreoffice calc files saved in that flash drive. But after I > > try to copy several dbf fil

Re: Flash Drive suddenly read only?

2021-01-30 Thread Charles Curley
On Sun, 31 Jan 2021 14:00:31 +0800 kaye n wrote: > When I plug in my usb flash drive to my desktop computer, I can edit > certain libreoffice calc files saved in that flash drive. But after I > try to copy several dbf files from the desktop computer hard drive to > the flash drive via the termina

Opera/Firefox speed, was Re: flash in stretch again

2017-10-12 Thread David Wright
TL;DR perhaps try http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/ On Thu 22 Jun 2017 at 13:00:35 (-0300), Wellington Terumi Uemura wrote: > I really recommend that you switch up to Opera and forget about > Chromium and Firefox for a number of reasons. It uses much less > resources, native AdBlock, embedded free

Re: Flash Player Problem

2017-08-03 Thread MENGUAL Jean-Philippe
Hi, Do you absolutely want to use free software for Flash? Otherwise, pepper-flash package is a good solution, up-to-date and working. Best regards, Le 03/08/2017 à 19:38, Thomas George a écrit : > An attempt to log in to the Bridgebase website fails. > > Login using firefox ESR results in

Re: Flash Player Problem

2017-08-03 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Thu, 3 Aug 2017 13:38:37 -0400 Thomas George wrote: > An attempt to log in to the Bridgebase website fails. > > Login using firefox ESR results in an all blue screen. The firefox > plugin shockwave flash is installed. > > My system is debian stretch using the LXDE desktop. I have also > inst

Re: Flash Player Problem

2017-08-03 Thread Curt
On 2017-08-03, Thomas George wrote: > An attempt to log in to the Bridgebase website fails. Seems to work here (Wheezy, Firefox-esr). > Login using firefox ESR results in an all blue screen. The firefox > plugin shockwave flash is installed. Background is indeed glaucous, but in the foreground

Re: Flash Player Problem

2017-08-03 Thread Joe
On Thu, 3 Aug 2017 13:38:37 -0400 Thomas George wrote: > An attempt to log in to the Bridgebase website fails. > > Login using firefox ESR results in an all blue screen. The firefox > plugin shockwave flash is installed. > > My system is debian stretch using the LXDE desktop. I have also > inst

Re: flash in stretch again

2017-06-26 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Sun, 25 Jun 2017 18:03:22 -0400 Maureen L Thomas wrote: > > > On 06/25/2017 05:18 PM, Dan Norton wrote: > > > > > > On 06/25/2017 03:42 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote: > >> On Sat, 24 Jun 2017 22:17:13 -0400 Maureen L Thomas > >> wrote: > >> > >>> > >>> On 06/24/2017 07:29 PM, The Wanderer wrote:

Re: flash in stretch again

2017-06-26 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Sun, 25 Jun 2017 17:18:50 -0400 Dan Norton wrote: > > > On 06/25/2017 03:42 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > On Sat, 24 Jun 2017 22:17:13 -0400 Maureen L Thomas > > wrote: > > > >> > >> On 06/24/2017 07:29 PM, The Wanderer wrote: > >>> On 2017-06-24 at 18:56, Maureen L Thomas wrote: > >>> > >>

Re: flash in stretch again

2017-06-25 Thread Maureen L Thomas
On 06/25/2017 05:18 PM, Dan Norton wrote: On 06/25/2017 03:42 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote: On Sat, 24 Jun 2017 22:17:13 -0400 Maureen L Thomas wrote: On 06/24/2017 07:29 PM, The Wanderer wrote: On 2017-06-24 at 18:56, Maureen L Thomas wrote: As a last desperate attempt I completely remov

Re: flash in stretch again

2017-06-25 Thread Dan Norton
On 06/25/2017 03:42 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote: On Sat, 24 Jun 2017 22:17:13 -0400 Maureen L Thomas wrote: On 06/24/2017 07:29 PM, The Wanderer wrote: On 2017-06-24 at 18:56, Maureen L Thomas wrote: As a last desperate attempt I completely removed firefox-esr and reinstalled it. I opened

Re: flash in stretch again

2017-06-25 Thread Carl Fink
On 06/25/2017 03:42 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote: ... The only file you need be concerned with is libflashplayer.so As root, using a terminal (or if your filemanager is able to switch to root priviledge), copy libflashplayer.so to /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/ One thing that has bitten me when doing th

Re: flash in stretch again

2017-06-25 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Sat, 24 Jun 2017 22:17:13 -0400 Maureen L Thomas wrote: > > > On 06/24/2017 07:29 PM, The Wanderer wrote: > > On 2017-06-24 at 18:56, Maureen L Thomas wrote: > > > >> As a last desperate attempt I completely removed firefox-esr and > >> reinstalled it. I opened it up and the first game actu

Re: flash in stretch again

2017-06-25 Thread Curt
On 2017-06-24, Maureen L Thomas wrote: > > > It returns /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/libflashplayer.so > it also return one for gnash. could this be the problem or confusion? > > I think it is (although that path is compliant with the Debian wiki on the matter). On my machine, 'about:plugins' re

Re: flash in stretch again

2017-06-24 Thread Maureen L Thomas
On 06/24/2017 07:29 PM, The Wanderer wrote: On 2017-06-24 at 18:56, Maureen L Thomas wrote: As a last desperate attempt I completely removed firefox-esr and reinstalled it. I opened it up and the first game actually came up. But the next two games again stated that I needed flash. So I shut

Re: flash in stretch again

2017-06-24 Thread Maureen L Thomas
On 06/24/2017 07:29 PM, The Wanderer wrote: On 2017-06-24 at 18:56, Maureen L Thomas wrote: As a last desperate attempt I completely removed firefox-esr and reinstalled it. I opened it up and the first game actually came up. But the next two games again stated that I needed flash. So I shut

Re: flash in stretch again

2017-06-24 Thread The Wanderer
On 2017-06-24 at 18:56, Maureen L Thomas wrote: > As a last desperate attempt I completely removed firefox-esr and > reinstalled it. I opened it up and the first game actually came up. > But the next two games again stated that I needed flash. So I shut > down thinking that firefox had a problem

Re: flash in stretch again

2017-06-24 Thread Maureen L Thomas
On 06/24/2017 04:36 PM, Maureen L Thomas wrote: On 06/24/2017 07:09 AM, Curt wrote: On 2017-06-24, Maureen L Thomas wrote: Are there no fixes to this problem? I have tried everything that I know how to do. Still nothing and it doesn't matter which browser I use. It worked just fine in

Re: flash in stretch again

2017-06-24 Thread Maureen L Thomas
On 06/24/2017 07:09 AM, Curt wrote: On 2017-06-24, Maureen L Thomas wrote: Are there no fixes to this problem? I have tried everything that I know how to do. Still nothing and it doesn't matter which browser I use. It worked just fine in Jessie and I am really sorry it upgraded to Stretch.

Re: flash in stretch again

2017-06-24 Thread deloptes
david...@freevolt.org wrote: > If a user does not enable the non-free component of the archive, > apt-cache show will show no result for that search. The OP stated he downloaded the non free version. He/Her's problem is it doesn't work and the goal is to work. If OP does add the repo and use th

Re: flash in stretch again

2017-06-24 Thread davidson
On Sat, 24 Jun 2017, Hans wrote: Yeah, but this is an external 3rd party repo and not the original debian one. So it is clear, why it cannot be found. Yeah, I see now. I totally overlooked that it was a third-party repo package. Sorry for the pointless noise. You got that right. As far as I

Re: flash in stretch again

2017-06-24 Thread Hans
Yeah, but this is an external 3rd party repo and not the original debian one. So it is clear, why it cannot be found. As far as I know, this repo is meanwhile orphaned (or is this changed in the last years?) as the multimedia packages are integrated now in the original repos of debian. Do I m

Re: flash in stretch again

2017-06-24 Thread davidson
On Sat, 24 Jun 2017, deloptes wrote: Hans wrote: [...] I could not find a package named flashplayer-mozilla. Where is it? I am running debian/testing. [...] https://www.deb-multimedia.org/dists/stable/non-free/binary-i386/package/flashplayer-mozilla https://www.deb-multimedia.org/dists/stabl

Re: flash in stretch again

2017-06-24 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 6/24/17, Curt wrote: > On 2017-06-24, Maureen L Thomas wrote: >> >> Are there no fixes to this problem? I have tried everything that I know >> how to do. Still nothing and it doesn't matter which browser I use. It >> worked just fine in Jessie and I am really sorry it upgraded to Stretch. >

Re: flash in stretch again

2017-06-24 Thread Curt
On 2017-06-24, Maureen L Thomas wrote: > > Are there no fixes to this problem? I have tried everything that I know > how to do. Still nothing and it doesn't matter which browser I use. It > worked just fine in Jessie and I am really sorry it upgraded to Stretch. > Have you verified that 'upd

Re: flash in stretch again

2017-06-24 Thread deloptes
Hans wrote: > Hi, > >> you have to install this package - forget the download from adobe - it's >> much easier to use the debian package >> >> $ dpkg -l | grep flash >> ii flashplayer-mozilla3:26.0.0.126-dmo1 >> amd64Adobe Flash Player > > I could not find a packag

Re: flash in stretch again

2017-06-24 Thread Hans
Hi, > you have to install this package - forget the download from adobe - it's > much easier to use the debian package > > $ dpkg -l | grep flash > ii flashplayer-mozilla3:26.0.0.126-dmo1 > amd64Adobe Flash Player I could not find a package named flashplayer-mozill

Re: flash in stretch again

2017-06-23 Thread deloptes
Maureen L Thomas wrote: > > > On 06/23/2017 04:46 PM, Maureen L Thomas wrote: >> >> >> On 06/22/2017 02:32 AM, deloptes wrote: >>> Maureen L Thomas wrote: >>> I just updated some packages and it upgraded me to stretch. That is all fine but I cannot get flash to work yet again. I

Re: flash in stretch again

2017-06-23 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 06/23/2017 08:50 PM, Maureen L Thomas wrote: On 06/23/2017 09:35 PM, Ralph Katz wrote: On 06/23/2017 06:30 PM, Maureen L Thomas wrote: [...] Are there no fixes to this problem? I have tried everything that I know how to do. Still nothing and it doesn't matter which browser I use. It w

Re: flash in stretch again

2017-06-23 Thread Maureen L Thomas
On 06/23/2017 11:50 PM, Maureen L Thomas wrote: On 06/23/2017 09:35 PM, Ralph Katz wrote: On 06/23/2017 06:30 PM, Maureen L Thomas wrote: [...] Are there no fixes to this problem? I have tried everything that I know how to do. Still nothing and it doesn't matter which browser I use. I

Re: flash in stretch again

2017-06-23 Thread Maureen L Thomas
On 06/23/2017 09:35 PM, Ralph Katz wrote: On 06/23/2017 06:30 PM, Maureen L Thomas wrote: [...] Are there no fixes to this problem? I have tried everything that I know how to do. Still nothing and it doesn't matter which browser I use. It worked just fine in Jessie and I am really sorry i

Re: flash in stretch again

2017-06-23 Thread Ralph Katz
On 06/23/2017 06:30 PM, Maureen L Thomas wrote: [...] > Are there no fixes to this problem? I have tried everything that I know > how to do. Still nothing and it doesn't matter which browser I use. It > worked just fine in Jessie and I am really sorry it upgraded to Stretch. Works fine for me

Re: flash in stretch again

2017-06-23 Thread Maureen L Thomas
On 06/23/2017 04:46 PM, Maureen L Thomas wrote: On 06/22/2017 02:32 AM, deloptes wrote: Maureen L Thomas wrote: I just updated some packages and it upgraded me to stretch. That is all fine but I cannot get flash to work yet again. Is there any help out there for this program. I even in

Re: flash in stretch again

2017-06-23 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 23 Jun 2017 16:59:19 -0400 The Wanderer wrote: ... > Flash will fail. If you download the Flash installer from Adobe > yourself, and run it (as root, with any needed options) yourself, it > should still work - but the flashplugin-nonfree package itself is FTR, downloading the .gz archiv

Re: flash in stretch again

2017-06-23 Thread The Wanderer
On 2017-06-23 at 16:46, Maureen L Thomas wrote: > On 06/22/2017 02:32 AM, deloptes wrote: > >> Maureen L Thomas wrote: >> >>> I just updated some packages and it upgraded me to stretch. That >>> is all fine but I cannot get flash to work yet again. Is there >>> any help out there for this prog

Re: flash in stretch again

2017-06-23 Thread Maureen L Thomas
On 06/22/2017 02:57 PM, Fungi4All wrote: From: silver...@verizon.net To: debian-user@lists.debian.org I just updated some packages and it upgraded me to stretch. What did you have before stretch and how did updating some packages switched you from your "other system" to stretch??? Wouldn

Re: flash in stretch again

2017-06-23 Thread Maureen L Thomas
On 06/22/2017 02:32 AM, deloptes wrote: Maureen L Thomas wrote: I just updated some packages and it upgraded me to stretch. That is all fine but I cannot get flash to work yet again. Is there any help out there for this program. I even installed Chromium with pepperflash and it won't work

Re: flash in stretch again

2017-06-22 Thread Fungi4All
From: silver...@verizon.net To: debian-user@lists.debian.org I just updated some packages and it upgraded me to stretch. What did you have before stretch and how did updating some packages switched you from your "other system" to stretch??? Wouldn't this be a major bug? That is all fine but I c

Re: Opera questions (was Re: flash in stretch again)

2017-06-22 Thread The Wanderer
On 2017-06-22 at 12:53, Wellington Terumi Uemura wrote: > * Who does it? I use 30 tabs max. Over the course of the past two years (give or take), I've managed to reduce my open-tab count on my primary computer to a current count of only 426 - but my peak was 5,190 simultaneous open tabs. I hope t

Re: Opera questions (was Re: flash in stretch again)

2017-06-22 Thread Wellington Terumi Uemura
* Who does it? I use 30 tabs max. * I don't know, I'm a right hand. You can install and figure it out I guess. * Not that I'm aware of, BUT, instead of recover tabs you can look at history and recover from there without using huge amount of resource on your HDD to show all the tabs you had ope

Opera questions (was Re: flash in stretch again)

2017-06-22 Thread rhkramer
I'm not the OP, but because you use and recommend Opera, let me ask a few questions: * Have you ever used a really large number of tabs--I mean like 800 or so? * Does Opera have, hmm, what to call it--a tab interface on the left hand side--a thing where the tab labels can be nested and

Re: flash in stretch again

2017-06-22 Thread Wellington Terumi Uemura
I really recommend that you switch up to Opera and forget about Chromium and Firefox for a number of reasons. It uses much less resources, native AdBlock, embedded free VPN for your privacy concerns, it uses chromium engine to render pages, pop up video, Speed Dial, etc, etc. http://www.techrep

Re: flash in stretch again

2017-06-21 Thread deloptes
Maureen L Thomas wrote: > I just updated some packages and it upgraded me to stretch. That is all > fine but I cannot get flash to work yet again. Is there any help out > there for this program. I even installed Chromium with pepperflash and > it won't work either. Any help would be greatly ap

Re: Flash proplem

2017-03-13 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
On 14/03/17 12:36, Maureen L Thomas wrote: Please disregard my last post. I realized my mistake and corrected it and it worked. I now have flash. Thank you very much for your patience and help. Great! Thanks for letting us know. (I guess that you spotted that you needed a capital letter "O"

Re: Flash proplem

2017-03-13 Thread Maureen L Thomas
Please disregard my last post. I realized my mistake and corrected it and it worked. I now have flash. Thank you very much for your patience and help. Maureen On 03/13/2017 05:58 PM, Maureen L Thomas wrote: On 03/13/2017 05:00 PM, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: On 13/03/17 13:06, Maureen L Th

Re: Flash proplem

2017-03-13 Thread Maureen L Thomas
On 03/13/2017 07:00 PM, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: On 14/03/17 10:58, Maureen L Thomas wrote: I un-installed gnash and I no longer have any flash in Plugins and the adobe page stated it needed a plugin to use it. I also re-installed flash-nonfree but still no reading in Plugins. What is the

Re: Flash proplem

2017-03-13 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
On 14/03/17 10:58, Maureen L Thomas wrote: I un-installed gnash and I no longer have any flash in Plugins and the adobe page stated it needed a plugin to use it. I also re-installed flash-nonfree but still no reading in Plugins. What is the output of: ls -al /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/ I a

Re: Flash proplem

2017-03-13 Thread Maureen L Thomas
On 03/13/2017 05:00 PM, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: On 13/03/17 13:06, Maureen L Thomas wrote: My version of firefox is 45.830esr-1-deb7u1. It shows in add-ons and is activated with version 10.1r999. At the website it is 24.0.0221. I am using a 64 bit machine with jessie on it. Hope this hel

Re: Flash proplem

2017-03-13 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
On 13/03/17 13:06, Maureen L Thomas wrote: My version of firefox is 45.830esr-1-deb7u1. It shows in add-ons and is activated with version 10.1r999. At the website it is 24.0.0221. I am using a 64 bit machine with jessie on it. Hope this helps. Please keep emails on-list. The flash with ver

Re: Flash proplem

2017-03-12 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
On 13/03/17 08:59, Maureen L Thomas wrote: I have upgraded my firefox esr as it came up on my upgrade list. Since then I have lost the flash ability in my browser. I uninstalled flash and reinstalled in. I am using the nonfree plug in for my debian machine. I am at a complete loss as to what c

Re: Flash update

2016-04-05 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Tuesday 05 April 2016 09:59:13 Curt wrote: > On 2016-04-05, Lisi Reisz wrote: > >> My experience is the exact opposite: with HTML5 videos, I just > >> "right-click => Save Video as..." and it's done, whereas with Flash I am > >> not offered any option to save the video. > > > > Which browser?

Re: Flash update

2016-04-05 Thread Curt
On 2016-04-05, Lisi Reisz wrote: >> >> My experience is the exact opposite: with HTML5 videos, I just >> "right-click => Save Video as..." and it's done, whereas with Flash I am >> not offered any option to save the video. > > Which browser? I don't get this! Me neither. I just use one of the (m

Re: Flash update

2016-04-04 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> > No, I mentioned this as a benefit. It's a side-effect to flash's >> > writing the file mentioned in the previous sentence (the very first >> > sentence of the post). I want the file and with flash I can have it. >> My experience is the exact opposite: with HTML5 videos, I just >> "right-click

Re: Flash update

2016-04-04 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Tuesday 05 April 2016 01:33:52 Stefan Monnier wrote: > > No, I mentioned this as a benefit. It's a side-effect to flash's > > writing the file mentioned in the previous sentence (the very first > > sentence of the post). I want the file and with flash I can have it. > > My experience is the exac

Re: Flash update

2016-04-04 Thread Stefan Monnier
> No, I mentioned this as a benefit. It's a side-effect to flash's > writing the file mentioned in the previous sentence (the very first > sentence of the post). I want the file and with flash I can have it. My experience is the exact opposite: with HTML5 videos, I just "right-click => Save Video

Re: Flash update

2016-04-04 Thread David Wright
On Mon 04 Apr 2016 at 18:18:12 (+0300), Adam Wilson wrote: > On Sun, 3 Apr 2016 23:12:41 -0500 David Wright > wrote: > > On Sun 03 Apr 2016 at 09:38:00 (+0300), Adam Wilson wrote: > > > On Fri, 1 Apr 2016 23:34:58 -0500 David Wright > > > wrote: > > > > When flash streams a movie, a copy is dow

Re: Flash update

2016-04-04 Thread Brian
On Mon 04 Apr 2016 at 15:14:10 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Monday 04 April 2016 14:04:41 Brian wrote: > > > > This is becoming painful to hear about. :) > > Yes. ;-) I didn't raise it. I was responding to the suggestion that there > isn't a problem. Someone said that the kerfuffle was for

Re: Flash update

2016-04-04 Thread Adam Wilson
On Sun, 3 Apr 2016 23:12:41 -0500 David Wright wrote: > On Sun 03 Apr 2016 at 09:38:00 (+0300), Adam Wilson wrote: > > On Fri, 1 Apr 2016 23:34:58 -0500 David Wright > > wrote: > > > When flash streams a movie, a copy is downloaded somewhere on my > > > disk. One beneficial effect of this is tha

Re: Flash update

2016-04-04 Thread David Wright
On Mon 04 Apr 2016 at 08:42:17 (+0200), Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > See package youtube-dl. Just give the URL you see in your browser > as argument to the youtube-dl command (beware of special characters, > better use "...", see man youtube-dl). > This works also for other sites with movies. Silly

Re: Flash update

2016-04-04 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 04 April 2016 14:04:41 Brian wrote: > On Sun 03 Apr 2016 at 20:42:08 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Friday 01 April 2016 11:39:29 Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > I know this is an old thread, but I thought it would be worth > > > mentioning that BBC IPlayer now works without Flash. If you

Re: Flash update

2016-04-04 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Mon, Apr 4, 2016, 3:42 PM Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > See package youtube-dl. Just give the URL you see in your browser > as argument to the youtube-dl command (beware of special characters, > better use "...", see man youtube-dl). > This works also for other sites with movies. > > > H How ver

Re: Flash update

2016-04-04 Thread Brian
On Sun 03 Apr 2016 at 20:42:08 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Friday 01 April 2016 11:39:29 Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > > I know this is an old thread, but I thought it would be worth mentioning > > that BBC IPlayer now works without Flash. If you go to the BBC IPlayer > > web page it says you ca

Re: Flash update

2016-04-03 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
See package youtube-dl. Just give the URL you see in your browser as argument to the youtube-dl command (beware of special characters, better use "...", see man youtube-dl). This works also for other sites with movies. Regards, jvp.

Re: Flash update

2016-04-03 Thread David Wright
On Sun 03 Apr 2016 at 09:38:00 (+0300), Adam Wilson wrote: > On Fri, 1 Apr 2016 23:34:58 -0500 David Wright > wrote: > > When flash streams a movie, a copy is downloaded somewhere on my > > disk. One beneficial effect of this is that if I click the slider to > > an earlier point in the movie, the

Re: Flash update

2016-04-03 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 01 April 2016 11:39:29 Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 27 Jun 2015, Lisi Reisz wrote: > [snip] > > > > > > 1. Using iplayer with flash involves downloading a file. > > > > > > > > > > 2. Wouldn't it be nice if the file could be downloaded, preferably > > > > > using a program which is in a p

Re: Flash update

2016-04-03 Thread Adam Wilson
On Sun, 3 Apr 2016 19:49:29 +0100 Brian wrote: > On Sun 03 Apr 2016 at 19:05:21 +0300, Adam Wilson wrote: > > > On Sat, 2 Apr 2016 20:30:29 +0100 > > Brian wrote: > > > > > On Sat 02 Apr 2016 at 06:59:29 +0300, Adam Wilson wrote: > > > > > > > On Fri, 1 Apr 2016 11:39:29 +0100 > > > > Anthony

Re: Flash update

2016-04-03 Thread Brian
On Sun 03 Apr 2016 at 19:05:21 +0300, Adam Wilson wrote: > On Sat, 2 Apr 2016 20:30:29 +0100 > Brian wrote: > > > On Sat 02 Apr 2016 at 06:59:29 +0300, Adam Wilson wrote: > > > > > On Fri, 1 Apr 2016 11:39:29 +0100 > > > Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > > > > > > I know this is an old thread, bu

Re: Flash update

2016-04-03 Thread Adam Wilson
On Sat, 2 Apr 2016 20:30:29 +0100 Brian wrote: > On Sat 02 Apr 2016 at 06:59:29 +0300, Adam Wilson wrote: > > > On Fri, 1 Apr 2016 11:39:29 +0100 > > Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > > > > I know this is an old thread, but I thought it would be worth mentioning > > > that BBC IPlayer now works wi

Re: Flash update

2016-04-03 Thread Jude DaShiell
deo and --no-skinned-playlist switches will need removal for most of the members of this list and perhaps this can be improved further in ways people who can look at screens will know. On Sun, 3 Apr 2016, Adam Wilson wrote: Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2016 02:38:00 From: Adam Wilson To: debian-user@lists.de

Re: Flash update

2016-04-02 Thread Adam Wilson
On Sat, 2 Apr 2016 06:59:29 +0300 Adam Wilson wrote: > On Fri, 1 Apr 2016 11:39:29 +0100 > Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > On 27 Jun 2015, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > [snip] > > > > > > > > > > > > > > 1. Using iplayer with flash involves downloading a file. > > > > > > > > > > > > 2. Wouldn't it be n

Re: Flash update

2016-04-02 Thread Adam Wilson
On Fri, 1 Apr 2016 23:34:58 -0500 David Wright wrote: > On Fri 01 Apr 2016 at 11:39:29 (+0100), Anthony Campbell wrote: > > On 27 Jun 2015, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > [snip] > > > > > > > > > > > > > > 1. Using iplayer with flash involves downloading a file. > > > > > > > > > > > > 2. Wouldn't it be

Re: Flash update

2016-04-02 Thread Brian
On Sat 02 Apr 2016 at 06:59:29 +0300, Adam Wilson wrote: > On Fri, 1 Apr 2016 11:39:29 +0100 > Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > > I know this is an old thread, but I thought it would be worth mentioning > > that BBC IPlayer now works without Flash. If you go to the BBC IPlayer > > web page it says

Re: Flash update

2016-04-02 Thread Curt
On 2016-04-02, David Wright wrote: >> >> I know this is an old thread, but I thought it would be worth mentioning >> that BBC IPlayer now works without Flash. If you go to the BBC IPlayer >> web page it says you can access the programs using HTML5. You just have >> to install a cookie to do this.

Re: Flash update

2016-04-01 Thread David Wright
On Fri 01 Apr 2016 at 11:39:29 (+0100), Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 27 Jun 2015, Lisi Reisz wrote: > [snip] > > > > > > > > > > > 1. Using iplayer with flash involves downloading a file. > > > > > > > > > > 2. Wouldn't it be nice if the file could be downloaded, preferably > > > > > using a progr

Re: Flash update

2016-04-01 Thread Adam Wilson
On Fri, 1 Apr 2016 11:39:29 +0100 Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 27 Jun 2015, Lisi Reisz wrote: > [snip] > > > > > > > > > > > 1. Using iplayer with flash involves downloading a file. > > > > > > > > > > 2. Wouldn't it be nice if the file could be downloaded, preferably > > > > > using a program w

Re: Flash update

2016-04-01 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 27 Jun 2015, Lisi Reisz wrote: [snip] > > > > > > > > 1. Using iplayer with flash involves downloading a file. > > > > > > > > 2. Wouldn't it be nice if the file could be downloaded, preferably > > > > using a program which is in a package in the Debian archives? > > > > > > > > 3. Such a packa

Re: flash? [OT]

2016-03-19 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2016-03-16, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Tuesday 15 March 2016 19:58:18 Brian wrote: >> On Tue 15 Mar 2016 at 08:57:20 +, Lisi Reisz wrote: >> > Even Channel 4, which relies on advertising for its revenue, is totally >> > indifferent to the fact that Linux users can't watch it on a computer. >>

Re: flash? [OT]

2016-03-19 Thread Adam Wilson
On Thu, 17 Mar 2016 12:39:11 -0400 Ric Moore wrote: > On 03/17/2016 01:37 AM, Adam Wilson wrote: > > On Tue, 15 Mar 2016 17:06:12 -0400 Ric Moore > > wrote: > > > >> On 03/14/2016 10:47 PM, David Wright wrote: > >>> On Tue 15 Mar 2016 at 05:30:28 (+0300), Adam Wilson wrote: > >> > They will

Re: flash? [OT]

2016-03-19 Thread Ric Moore
On 03/17/2016 01:37 AM, Adam Wilson wrote: On Tue, 15 Mar 2016 17:06:12 -0400 Ric Moore wrote: On 03/14/2016 10:47 PM, David Wright wrote: On Tue 15 Mar 2016 at 05:30:28 (+0300), Adam Wilson wrote: They will notice when lots of people no longer use Flash, and we will force them to react ac

Re: flash? [OT]

2016-03-19 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2016-03-16, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Wednesday 16 March 2016 15:47:29 Liam O'Toole wrote: [...] >> >> > I've just tried Channel 4 using Google Chrome[1] on jessie, and >> >> > it seems to work. I say "seems" because the site prompts me for >> >> > account details I don't have, whereas iceweasel

Re: flash? [OT]

2016-03-19 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 16 March 2016 12:54:07 Liam O'Toole wrote: > On 2016-03-16, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Tuesday 15 March 2016 19:58:18 Brian wrote: > >> On Tue 15 Mar 2016 at 08:57:20 +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > >> > Even Channel 4, which relies on advertising for its revenue, is > >> > totally indiffere

Re: flash? [OT]

2016-03-19 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 16 March 2016 13:56:50 Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Wednesday 16 March 2016 12:54:07 Liam O'Toole wrote: > > On 2016-03-16, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > On Tuesday 15 March 2016 19:58:18 Brian wrote: > > >> On Tue 15 Mar 2016 at 08:57:20 +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > >> > Even Channel 4, which re

Re: flash? [OT]

2016-03-19 Thread Adam Wilson
On Tue, 15 Mar 2016 08:29:54 +0100 deloptes wrote: > Adam Wilson wrote: > > > On Mon, 14 Mar 2016 19:06:27 +0100 Jörg-Volker Peetz > > wrote: > > > >> IMHO its worth to try the web without flash. > >> HTML5 can do a lot nowadays. > > > > Exactly. I don't use Flash, but somehow the world hasn'

Re: flash? [OT]

2016-03-19 Thread Adam Wilson
On Tue, 15 Mar 2016 17:06:12 -0400 Ric Moore wrote: > On 03/14/2016 10:47 PM, David Wright wrote: > > On Tue 15 Mar 2016 at 05:30:28 (+0300), Adam Wilson wrote: > > >> They will notice when lots of people no longer use Flash, and we > >> will force them to react accordingly. > >> > > > > Please

Re: flash? [OT]

2016-03-19 Thread Curt
On 2016-03-17, Adam Wilson wrote: >> >> Last time I tried it my YouTube videos refused to play. If it will >> work now, then I can be flash-free, Ric > > YouTube doesn't need Flash at all anymore. All you need is a reasonably > modern browser, for which Iceweasel does the trick. > That's right;

Re: flash? [OT]

2016-03-18 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 16 March 2016 15:47:29 Liam O'Toole wrote: > On 2016-03-16, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Wednesday 16 March 2016 13:56:50 Lisi Reisz wrote: > >> On Wednesday 16 March 2016 12:54:07 Liam O'Toole wrote: > >> > On 2016-03-16, Lisi Reisz wrote: > >> > > On Tuesday 15 March 2016 19:58:18 Bria

Re: flash? [OT]

2016-03-18 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2016-03-16, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Wednesday 16 March 2016 13:56:50 Lisi Reisz wrote: >> On Wednesday 16 March 2016 12:54:07 Liam O'Toole wrote: >> > On 2016-03-16, Lisi Reisz wrote: >> > > On Tuesday 15 March 2016 19:58:18 Brian wrote: >> > >> On Tue 15 Mar 2016 at 08:57:20 +, Lisi Reisz

Re: flash? [OT]

2016-03-15 Thread Ric Moore
On 03/15/2016 06:56 PM, Brian wrote: On Tue 15 Mar 2016 at 16:59:03 -0400, Ric Moore wrote: On 03/14/2016 04:24 PM, Brian wrote: On Mon 14 Mar 2016 at 16:14:11 -0400, Ric Moore wrote: On 03/14/2016 02:06 PM, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: IMHO its worth to try the web without flash. HTML5 can do

Re: flash? [OT]

2016-03-15 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Tuesday 15 March 2016 19:58:18 Brian wrote: > On Tue 15 Mar 2016 at 08:57:20 +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > Even Channel 4, which relies on advertising for its revenue, is totally > > indifferent to the fact that Linux users can't watch it on a computer. > > Well, Brian probably can. But he has

Re: "A Modest Proposal" - was [Re: flash? [OT]]

2016-03-15 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 16 March 2016 00:42:48 Richard Owlett wrote: > On 3/15/2016 11:45 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Tuesday 15 March 2016 10:35:12 Richard Owlett wrote: > >> On 3/15/2016 3:57 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > >> [snip] > >> > >>> The BBC isn't going to take a blind bit of notice if Brian and I don't

Re: "A Modest Proposal" - was [Re: flash? [OT]]

2016-03-15 Thread Richard Owlett
On 3/15/2016 11:45 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Tuesday 15 March 2016 10:35:12 Richard Owlett wrote: On 3/15/2016 3:57 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: [snip] The BBC isn't going to take a blind bit of notice if Brian and I don't watch Happy Valley. It really isn't going to care. It has its licence money.

Re: flash? [OT]

2016-03-15 Thread Brian
On Tue 15 Mar 2016 at 16:59:03 -0400, Ric Moore wrote: > On 03/14/2016 04:24 PM, Brian wrote: > >On Mon 14 Mar 2016 at 16:14:11 -0400, Ric Moore wrote: > > > >>On 03/14/2016 02:06 PM, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > >>>IMHO its worth to try the web without flash. > >>>HTML5 can do a lot nowadays. > >>>

Re: flash? [OT]

2016-03-15 Thread Ric Moore
On 03/14/2016 10:47 PM, David Wright wrote: On Tue 15 Mar 2016 at 05:30:28 (+0300), Adam Wilson wrote: They will notice when lots of people no longer use Flash, and we will force them to react accordingly. Please stop trolling on this list. I don't see it as trolling when he spake the tr

Re: flash? [OT]

2016-03-15 Thread Ric Moore
On 03/14/2016 04:24 PM, Brian wrote: On Mon 14 Mar 2016 at 16:14:11 -0400, Ric Moore wrote: On 03/14/2016 02:06 PM, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: IMHO its worth to try the web without flash. HTML5 can do a lot nowadays. And visiting sites without using flash helps to get rid of it. To the OP, Gen

Re: flash? [OT]

2016-03-15 Thread Brian
On Tue 15 Mar 2016 at 14:51:13 +1100, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > On 15/03/2016 1:47 PM, David Wright wrote: > >> Nothing would ever happen if everyone adopted the logic of "oh well, I'm > >> alone so I can't change anything". The journey of a thousand miles > >> starts with a single step. > >> > >>

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