HACKED!

[Bob Kinney]

I know that this is not good karma, but JC dude, cut back on the 
coffee and pose a coherent question.

--- On Wed, 8/12/09, gilpel at altern.org <gilpel at altern.org> wrote:

> From: gilpel at altern.org <gilpel at altern.org>
> Subject: HACKED!
> To: fedora-list at redhat.com
> Date: Wednesday, August 12, 2009, 7:12 PM
> Monday, the 10th, my provider was
> offline once again. Some repairs were
> needed at Bell/Microsoft's CO. So I thought it was time to
> write a letter
> which I had postponed.
> 
> Two hours later, the service was back and I did some
> research. When I came
> back to my text, I saw it was blank except for the date and
> the
> recepient's name and address. I closed AbiWord and was
> asked if I wanted
> to save the text. Of course, I... didn't, but most newbies
> would have:
> man, you've got to save whatever is left of that file!
> 
> Whatever changes I later made were never saved: the text
> always came back
> to the previous version. I had to finish the text offline.
> 
> Thereafter, it's with video that I had problems. At
> Radio-Canada/Microsoft, nothing would play. I checked Edit,
> Prefrences,
> Applications in Firefox and the settings were all wrong. I
> closed/restarted Firefox, everything was back to normal.
> But soon, the
> list of applications was shortened by half and, for
> whatever was left, the
> usual defaults weren't available to select. I even had
> Windows Media
> Player for playing Windows Media files!
> 
> Yesterday, the service was off for close to 24 hours at my
> ISP: the
> equipment at Bell/Microsoft's CO was really antiquated and
> had to be
> changed. That's after they came to repair my line twice in
> the last 4
> months! You can see that Bell/Microsoft really dig that
> Linux users don't
> care about market share: they give top service!
> 
> So, I desinstalled/installed the MM applications and, after
> some playing
> around, everything almost "seemed" back to normal... with
> GNOME-MPlayer
> for playing ASF/WM files by default. For ASX, I believe
> Amarok was still
> suggested :) Since it's impossible to see the properties of
> GNOME-MPlayer
> -- a default which looks rather weird, since it's supposed
> to be only an
> interface to MPlayer --,I chose /usr/bin/mplayer, but I'm
> still asked to
> install MPlayer.
> 
> Does anybody know the PATH to their default application for
> ASX files? I
> really want to give that Bell/Microsoft service another try
> ASAP.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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