Re: Alternative to Optical Storage????

From	Paul <nospam@needed.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.advocacy, comp.os.linux.misc, alt.os.linux
Subject	Re: Alternative to Optical Storage????
Date	2024-10-04 11:16 -0400
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On Fri, 10/4/2024 5:56 AM, Steve Hayes wrote:
> On Fri, 04 Oct 2024 02:19:08 -0400, Paul wrote:
> 
>> On Thu, 10/3/2024 10:46 PM, Steve Hayes wrote:
>>> I don't know about Linux, but Windows 11 cannot run programs that are
>>> used to read or create older documents, and if you put earlier versions
>>> on a new computer Microsoft won't let you run them. Windows XP, the
>>> 32-bit version anyway, should be made open source.
>>
>> Wasn't the source stolen ?  Article is from four years ago.
>>
>> https://www.theverge.com/2020/9/25/21455655/microsoft-windows-xp-source-
> code-leak
> 
> Well, if they won't let you use the real thing, I suppose a pirate copy 
> will do. But it's the attitude of companies like that that makes 
> "digitisation" a very insecure and unreliable way of archiving documents.
> 
>> All that you need, is a virtualization solution.
> 
> From what I've heard from users, such solutions are clunky and 
> unreliable. 
> 
> BTW what's the quickest way o updating the browser I'm using in Linux? It 
> barfed on the link you gave, saying it wasn't a secure connection. Firfox 
> for Windows lets me override that, but Firefox for Linux obviously 
> doesn't, so I'd better update it. 

Did the line wrap where you are ?

Putting angles around them, at least for me, does not always help.

<https://www.theverge.com/2020/9/25/21455655/microsoft-windows-xp-source-code-leak>

*******

Ubuntu has a SNAP for the Firefox release. That's not a user-serviceable part.

Maybe a Nightly would be new enough ? I don't know whether a SNAP profile
and a nightly as a binary, handle profiles exactly the same way.

https://blog.nightly.mozilla.org/2019/01/14/moving-to-a-profile-per-install-architecture/

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/channel/desktop/

   # If you visit that page from Linux, there is a Nightly at the bottom (I picked a 64 bit)
   # They may update that page automatically, twice a day.

   Name: firefox-133.0a1.en-US.linux-x86_64.tar.bz2
   Size: 99,515,619 bytes (94 MiB)

Unpack the bz2 with archive manager. It makes a folder like ~/Downloads/firefox . Then
change directory (cd) to ~/Downloads/firefox, then run ./firefox

It creates its own profile, the first one in the list here is my demo.

bullwinkle@TARDIS:~/.mozilla/firefox$ ls -alt
total 36
drwx------ 16 bullwinkle bullwinkle 4096 Oct  4 11:09  nl5v1v1p.default-nightly
drwx------  7 bullwinkle bullwinkle 4096 Oct  4 11:05  .
-rw-rw-r--  1 bullwinkle bullwinkle  124 Oct  4 11:05  installs.ini
-rw-rw-r--  1 bullwinkle bullwinkle  404 Oct  4 11:05  profiles.ini
drwx------  3 bullwinkle bullwinkle 4096 Oct  4 11:05 'Crash Reports'
drwx------ 14 bullwinkle bullwinkle 4096 Oct  4 10:53  mzqexjie.default-release
drwx------  4 bullwinkle bullwinkle 4096 Sep 27 02:51  ..
drwx------  2 bullwinkle bullwinkle 4096 Sep 27 02:51  pk2ycwo4.default
drwx------  2 bullwinkle bullwinkle 4096 Sep 27 02:51 'Pending Pings'

It is unlikely to auto-update the executable. Simply throw away the folder
you unpacked and download another, if you want a newer one. With any luck, it
will continue to use the "nl5v1v1p.default-nightly" type of profile.

You can import bookmarks from another folder, using the bookmark manager.

   Paul

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                Re: Alternative to Optical Storage???? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2024-10-04 12:45 +0100
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                Re: Alternative to Optical Storage???? CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2024-10-04 08:34 -0400
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