Using applications while the system is offline

[David Jansen]

On Tue, 2009-05-26 at 08:19 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote: 
> On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 09:42:48 +0200,
>   David Jansen <jansen at strw.leidenuniv.nl> wrote:
> > Is there a way to bypass this offline mode so that access to local
> > services is possible without the network? It seems the "work offline"
> > option in the file menu is not selectable at such moments. Am I missing
> > something here?
> 
> For firefox, you can use file: urls to reference local files. That doesn't
> solve the evolution issue, but might be helpful.
> 
> It's odd that you wouldn't even have the loopback interface running. You
> might try using 127.0.0.1 instead of localhost for the domain name and
> see if that works for you.

It must have been some sort of glitch, now it is all working; firefox
and other applications switch to offline mode when the laptop looses its
network connection, but switching the application out of offline mode
manually, makes it possible to connect to,localhost as expecten.
Sorry to have bothered you all with this non-issue, I don't know what
went wrong earlier today, but it's fine now.

David