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Mick wrote: |
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> On Sunday 02 Sep 2012 08:54:27 Dale wrote: |
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>> Howdy, |
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>> I have this little weather "applet" thingy down at the bottom of my |
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>> desktop in the thing I think they call the panel. Anyway, the weather |
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>> thing has been sending something for HOURS now. I have logged out of |
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>> KDE, reset the network and even the router just to see if it would die. |
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>> As soon as I login or the router comes back up, it start sending data |
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>> again. I can't get it to stop. As a last resort, I took the thing off |
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>> my panel thingy. It still sends data like crazy. |
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> I clicked on my Weather Forecast applet settings and it also started sending |
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> packets to wetter.com - despite the fact that I have set it to connect to the |
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> BBC weather RSS feed. Hmm ... |
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>> Does anyone know how to kill this thing? I'd like to surf the net |
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>> without this thing hogging up my DSL connection. |
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> It's not using that many packets, but I agree that it is annoying. |
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> The solution is to kill the kio_http that was running it. Use ps, top, lsof |
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> as you prefer to find which PID you should kill. |
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Well, I got annoyed beyond reason and just renamed the config file. Now |
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all is quiet except for me surfing the web. ;-) I used ps and I |
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couldn't figure out what process was running it. Then again, I wasn't |
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sure what to look for either. o_O |
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I lost my settings tho. :-( |
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>> While I am at it. I'm supposed to get my weather stuff from NOAA or at |
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>> least that is where it came from ages ago. Ever since I went from KDE3 |
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>> to KDE4, it wants to come from wetter.com which doesn't work to begin |
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>> with. This is what I think it is doing to my network. It is trying to |
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>> get data that doesn't exist to begin with so it just keeps trying. |
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>> Anybody know how to beat this thing silly? By the way, using iftop, |
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>> that is where all this traffic is going to. |
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> I am not sure if wetter.com is hardcoded somewhere. In my |
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> .kde4/share/config/plasma-desktop-appletsrc I can see my BBC URI in the |
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> weather applet settings, but nothing about wetter.com. |
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I researched this a good while back and it appears that it is hard |
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coded. Back in KDE3, I think it had some way of selecting what to |
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connect to, depending on what country you are in I guess. Now, It's |
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either wetter.com or nothing on my rig. From my vague recollection of |
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others describing it, if you live in the USA, no weather updates. Since |
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KDE4 seems to have broken it, maybe KDE5 will fix it. LOL |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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