Re: [gentoo-user] The latest java plugin is a giant PITA

2014-02-02 Thread Stroller
On Sun, 2 February 2014, at 1:39 pm, J. Roeleveld wrote: > ... > I like the option to be able to 'mount' an iso or usb stick from my laptop > and make the server think I put a cd/dvd in a non existent drive in the > server. Even though I am nowhere near. Yeah, the DRACs, and many others, do th

Re: [gentoo-user] The latest java plugin is a giant PITA

2014-02-02 Thread J. Roeleveld
On 2 February 2014 01:21:52 CET, Stroller wrote: > >On Sat, 1 February 2014, at 6:30 pm, J. Roeleveld >wrote: >> ... >> If there is a better way, please let me know. >> >> The IPMI of my servers use a Java application to allow me to see the >console. > >Not Dell DRACs, by any chance? > >I thoug

Re: [gentoo-user] The latest java plugin is a giant PITA

2014-02-01 Thread Stroller
On Sat, 1 February 2014, at 6:30 pm, J. Roeleveld wrote: > ... > If there is a better way, please let me know. > > The IPMI of my servers use a Java application to allow me to see the console. Not Dell DRACs, by any chance? I thought of them when I saw Walt's original posting earlier. I have

Re: [gentoo-user] The latest java plugin is a giant PITA

2014-02-01 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Sat, February 1, 2014 16:59, walt wrote: > I admit that Oracle finally did something right by requiring a white-list > of all java websites you want to use, but it's taken me all morning to > understand how to do it. > > AFAICT, the only way to white-list a website is to use the Java Control > P

[gentoo-user] The latest java plugin is a giant PITA

2014-02-01 Thread walt
I admit that Oracle finally did something right by requiring a white-list of all java websites you want to use, but it's taken me all morning to understand how to do it. AFAICT, the only way to white-list a website is to use the Java Control Panel (jcontrol) and type the full URL including the htt