OT Why publicity is good for Debian -was Re: [OT] Why politics are not important to Debian? [Re: DPL voice meeting live -was Re: Berkeleytip]

On Tue, 14 Apr 2009 09:11:47 +0300, "Andrei Popescu" said: > Ok, I know this is a troll, but I just want to get a few facts straight. It was not a troll, it was a rant. But, no problem. :) > > On Sun,12.Apr.09, 16:18:43, john_re wrote: > > > Tragically, in TYPICAL! Debian fashion, there was N

Re: Aptitude versus Update-manager

On Mon,13.Apr.09, 23:53:21, Marcelo Laia wrote: > Hi, > > I decided upgrade my Latitude D630 to unstable from testing. > > First, I have googled and having found that the good way was to set > the Pin-Priority in /etc/apt/preferences, and set /etc/apt/apt.conf to > unstable, and change sources.li

Rescanning for USB devices?

If I unmount a device, and I want KDE/GNOME to rescan the bus for devices to mount with pmount *without* having to pull the device and re-insert it, what is the best way to do that? I find this is something I have to do rather often, and a command-line option for remounting unmounted media would be

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