Three issues: .dmrc, wireless networking, and NetFlix previews
Sebastien ESTIENNE
sebastien.estienne at gmail.com
Tue Feb 7 01:01:24 UTC 2006
Kenneth P. Turvey wrote:
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> I've been running Ubuntu for a few months. It has worked out quite well
> for me as a laptop operating system that handles most of what I want quite
> well. This primarily involves USENET, email, web, Java development, and
> some Mathematica (I'm really just getting started with this). I only have
> a few problems with it right now.
>
> I get a message about the .dmrc file having the wrong permissions every
> time I log in. I've tried setting the .dmrc file to the correct
> permissions (as stated in the message), deleting it entirely, and copying
> it from another user on the box that doesn't have this problem (and
> changing ownership and permissions appropriately), but none of these have
> solved the problem. This is a minor annoyance, but I would like it to
> work correctly.
>
> Every time I go to a cafe and use my wireless card by switching from
> "Home" to "Cafe" in the wireless applet I still have to set the
> configuration for "Cafe". It doesn't seem to remember what I had it set
> to previously. Worse, when I set it to "Cafe", I lose my WEP key for when
> I want it connected to home. I would like to be able to easily switch
> back and forth. This has been a hassle in the past. Now I just keep my
> home WEP key in a file on the desktop and copy it back into the
> configuration, but this isn't ideal. I've tried installing network
> manager and it tells me that my PCMCIA wireless card doesn't support
> scanning and that therefore it won't work well.
>
You should try to post these bugs report in launchpad.net or try
googling a bit, i found some references about your dmrc issue looking
for "linux dmrc"
> Last, I can't seem to view some videos on my box. The example that is
> most annoying is the video provided by NetFlix for previewing movies. I
> would like this to work, but it isn't a show stopper. I guess none of
> these are.
>
about your videos issue, i'm personnaly using the package
mozilla-mplayer instead of totem to play video in firefox
plus the package w32codecs from http://wiki.ubuntu-fr.org/doc/plf
i didn't find a clean way to remove the totem firefox plugin (i didn't
look a lot)
so i just do this:
i remove *totem* from /usr/lib/firefox/plugins anf /usr/lib/netscape/plugins
there is certainly a cleaner way of doing this
after this you can restart firefox and go watching your videos :)
btw you can also use mplayer as a standalone player
> Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
>
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> Kenneth P. Turvey <kt-usenet at squeakydolphin.com>
> http://kt.squeakydolphin.com (not much there yet)
> Jabber IM: kpturvey at jabber.org
> Phone: (314) 255-2199
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