Tuesday, June 11, 2013

iNSAnity Update

Most of these are from TPM:
... and, in the interest of justice, defendants' rights, and fair trials everywhere [/snark],
There was no way, ever, that Edward Snowden could have gotten a fair trial for what he admittedly did. But perhaps if his lawyer is any good, s/he can ply these outrageous statements by members of Congress into a dismissal.

4 comments:

  1. OT: I think I've found it, Steve. Go to the manual update app. When you open it there is a button in the lower left corner for "Settings". Under the leftmost tab you select the source of updates. My selection says US server, and I'll bet yours says UK.

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    1. Bryan, when the system forces a change from en_US to en_GB, it is visible in about:config under spellchecker.dictionary. It can be manually changed from there.

      I am trying out a suggestion I found on one Mozilla forum to delete all the spelling checker dictionaries except the one I want to use. They live in folder /usr/lib/firefox/dictionaries and you have to be root (i.e., use sudo) to delete them. I restarted Firefox and we'll see what happens in the next week or so.

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    2. Steve, I was looking for the reason it reverts when there is an update, which is why I suspect you are getting updates from the UK server which would default everything to UK English.

      I don't have the problem, so I'm looking for differences between your system and mine.

      Bryan

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    3. Bryan, you're talking about the Update Manager, right? I checked that first; under the tab "Ubuntu Software", the setting is "Server for United States". AFAIK, it's always been that. I think this is something Mozilla-specific, because Thunderbird automatically installed the GB language pack... apparently there is no US language pack.

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