HACKED!

[Paul]

gilpel at altern.org wrote:
> 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.
>   




I want some of whatever you're on, or maybe even lots of it.



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Paul