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Grex > Helpers > #137: Grex System Announcements - Winter 2004/2005 |  |
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jep
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response 108 of 219:
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Jan 5 18:21 UTC 2005 |
I was using IE from home. Sorry to ask for a fix to such a stupid
problem (and yes, it *is* a stupid problem). Does Firefox handle it
better?
I won't be using https as long as I have to keep clicking on pop-ups in
order to use it.
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twenex
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response 109 of 219:
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Jan 5 18:25 UTC 2005 |
Firefox can block popups, but that might disable the secure login itself in
this case. The only other fix I can think of is to email the webmaster and
ask him politely to write better code!
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blaise
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response 110 of 219:
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Jan 5 18:32 UTC 2005 |
That's not a popup in the usual sense of the word; it's a browser dialog
window. IIRC, Firefox does not complain about mixed secure and insecure
items on a page; if I am wrong then it has a "never complain about this"
checkbox on the dialog.
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twenex
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response 111 of 219:
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Jan 5 18:33 UTC 2005 |
Oh, those. duh. Jim's solution sounds like a winner, though.
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tod
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response 112 of 219:
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Jan 5 18:50 UTC 2005 |
ANy of you ever delete the certificate authority roots out of your browsers
and start from scratch?
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gull
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response 113 of 219:
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Jan 5 19:53 UTC 2005 |
Nope. Why, you don't trust Versign? ;)
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cross
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response 114 of 219:
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Jan 5 20:36 UTC 2005 |
This response has been erased.
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other
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response 115 of 219:
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Jan 5 20:43 UTC 2005 |
MSIE has pretty configurable security settings. I'd try looking for
ones that might be applicable here. Depending on how much you rely on
your brain and how much on your browser for secure surfing (you're far
better off with the latter), you might just want to switch the
applicable setting off.
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jep
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response 116 of 219:
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Jan 5 21:14 UTC 2005 |
re resp:115: that possibility had not occurred to me. I did this:
Tools > Internet Options > Security > Internet > Custom Level
Under "Miscellaneous" there is a setting "Display Mixed Content" which
is set by default to "Prompt"
I set it to "Enable" and that removed the problem.
Thanks!
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nharmon
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response 117 of 219:
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Jan 5 21:14 UTC 2005 |
Re #114
Is a cert from a company really necessary? And the cheapest I've found from
a source I trust (which is either verisign, geotrust, or thawte) is $149/year
(thawte.com).
IMHO, Grex's own certs are plenty fine for what it uses them for.
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gull
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response 118 of 219:
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Jan 5 21:24 UTC 2005 |
I agree. I told Firefox to accept Grex's certificate permanently, so I
wouldn't be nagged about it every time. I don't see what benefit a
trust path to an entity that's trusted by default (which is what you're
paying for) would have, here.
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petercon
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response 119 of 219:
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Jan 6 15:38 UTC 2005 |
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petercon
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response 120 of 219:
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Jan 6 15:41 UTC 2005 |
Some people may have more problems in their scripts now that we've
moved away from a SysV UNIX to a BSD UNIX - the "usr/ucb" directory in
a SunOS sytem is where BSD UNIX commands were put in Suns SysV OS.
Something like the move from Korn shell scripts to bash. Shell scripts
using Sun's SysV commands may not work the same in BSD (or be missing
entirely) so be aware.
Also, there are more differences in the directory structure and the
whole environment and deamon setup that may affect scripts written in a
SysV system. Better test your scripts before trusting them.
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twenex
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response 121 of 219:
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Jan 6 15:41 UTC 2005 |
Ksh is now under an open source license. Failing that, pdksh might be
available, but it's a klone of ksh88, not 93.
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twenex
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response 122 of 219:
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Jan 6 15:41 UTC 2005 |
Er, clone.
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mfp
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response 123 of 219:
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Jan 6 15:56 UTC 2005 |
http://www.clonesforjesus.org/
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twenex
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response 124 of 219:
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Jan 6 16:23 UTC 2005 |
SunOS before version 5 (aka Solaris) is BSD, not System V.
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twenex
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response 125 of 219:
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Jan 6 16:23 UTC 2005 |
That is, SunOS =>5 is aka Solaris.
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tsty
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response 126 of 219:
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Jan 6 16:46 UTC 2005 |
re #107 ..... here is the stuff about that university :
Penn State University has just told its
80,000 students to switch to an
alternative browser such as Firefox, Mozilla,
Opera, or Safari. They
are urging their students to
stop using Internet Explorer.
Go here for the entire article in Information Week:
<http://www.informationweek.com/showArticle.jhtml;
jsessionid=MJHKZY2Y4HQ5OQSNDBCCKHSCJUMEKJVN?articleID=55301109>
obviously, the url needs to be pasted twice into your location
field, minus the <> stuff.
you will get this headline:
Penn State Tells 80,000 Students To Chuck IE
lovely headline .......
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mfp
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response 127 of 219:
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Jan 6 16:54 UTC 2005 |
http://www.jewsforjesus.org/ (site only viewable in ie)
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rcurl
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response 128 of 219:
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Jan 6 17:00 UTC 2005 |
I'll help TS out - try http://tinyurl.com/63zy2 in place of that long url.
What's going on eith Mozilla/Netscape? The article doesn't mention Netscape
as an alternative, though I've gotten the sense it is now related in some
fashion to Mozilla.
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gull
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response 129 of 219:
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Jan 6 17:05 UTC 2005 |
Mozilla and Firefox are based on the same rendering engine. I'm not
sure about Netscape; I think it forked off a couple years ago, but I
could be wrong.
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twenex
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response 130 of 219:
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Jan 6 17:10 UTC 2005 |
Mozilla began as an open source fork of Netscape; Firefox began as a
webbrowsing alternative to Mozilla, which is an Internet user's kitchen sink.
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rcurl
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response 131 of 219:
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Jan 6 17:15 UTC 2005 |
The "About Netscape" under Netscape 7.1 says
"Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624
Netscape/7.1"
and
"Copyright 2000-2003 Netscape Communications Corporation. Portions of this
code are copyrighted by Contributors to the Mozilla codebase under the
Mozilla Public License and Netscape Public License."
So, is Netscape 7.1 the same as Mozilla 5.0?
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remmers
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response 132 of 219:
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Jan 6 19:24 UTC 2005 |
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that the latest Netscape
and Mozilla use the same "rendering engine" (Gecko) -- meaning that
web pages will look the same in both browsers -- but differ in other
details such as the user interface (menus, toolbars, etc.).
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