nd water.
Fortunately, I had an image of that machine. That was my noob (used
self-perjoratively!) moment for that month.
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tings policy (this is done at server side).
Or at least _try_ to prevent it. See my sig.
The only 100% failproof way to prevent John Doe printing a file? Prevent
Mr Doe from acquiring the file in the first place. It may be rocket
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he upgrade?
Try ctrl+alt+Fn, for n = 2..6.
How many lines of the form
N:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 ttyN
do you have in your /etc/inittab?
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uick way to resolve it or I'll have to go trough
> this mess manually one step at a time?
See find(1) and chown(1). If you prefer info documents, the {core,find}utils
files will be of much use.
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> this, not the OS.
This is the same method vim uses with its netrw plugin. Each app handles it
itself (as vim and emacs do) or (theoretically) uses some library to do it (as
I believe KDE does; haven't used KDE since etch)
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c:996:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave
play soxio: Can't open output file `default': cannot open audio device
2
$ sudo invoke-rc.d mpd stop
$ play /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav; echo $?
# Audio is heard as normal.
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breakages are known, time to file
appropriate bugs if the breakages aren't known and so on.
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least the easy availability of ultra-small USB disks) and boot images
placed on vendors' websites. Made firmware upgrades fairly OS-agnostic.
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LARTs are due to HW makers that
do that kinda thing.
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Quoting Karl E. Jorgensen on 2011-01-02 17:22:20:
> for i in `seq 1 $a`
That `seq 1 $a` could be trimmed to `seq $a`. Unsure of portability.
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> Shows only the installed one:
> $ aptitude search ~Omultimedia |grep ^i
Without a fork to grep:
aptitude search '~Omultimedia ~i'
OT: I thought that changing search terms would affect speed. I guess
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Quoting Artur Frydel on 2010-11-12 06:26:08:
> Any magical command to see all obsolete packets in my system?
aptitude search '~o'
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3 series, still happily humming
along, made back when printers weren't disposable. *waves cane*
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sswd
package is updated.
Packages which need a single statically allocated uid or
gid should use one of these; their maintainers should
ask the base-passwd maintainer for ids.
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get install `sed "s/\n/ /" /your/listfile
apt-get install foo bar baz
(read db; grab foo, bar, baz; install foo, bar, baz; write new db)
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-user-$LANG@, to simply redirect the user to the
language-appropriate list?
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e to make
the program autostart on _any_ XDG-compliant system? That's what I'm
getting from reading the spec (though it's marked Draft currently)
http://standards.freedesktop.org/autostart-spec/autostart-spec-latest.html
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keyboard, and a screen reader, to teach them the value of Web standards
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y
I was bored yesterday, so I decided to try this out. Lot more user
friendly than my cronjob.
I've yet to measure the impact on system performance though, I'll
probably measure that tonight. For modern systems, though, performance
hit should be epsilon.
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-reload-desktop ]-
| #!/bin/sh
|
| (pidof xfdesktop 2&>/dev/null) && xfdesktop --reload
`
4. Add a user crontab entry. The desktop will change when this script's
run. The example below runs every five minutes; crontab(5).
*/5 * * * * /usr/local/bin/xfce-reload-desktop
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an
SiS700 series chipset; I'd have to contact the new owner and let me see
if he'll let me run lspci on it, or still has the folder with lspci, etc
printouts.
> I don't know what kind of sound processor it has. If you know of a
> Linux command that will tell me what the sound c
Quoting Kumar Appaiah on 2010-09-10 13:18:06, in Message-Id
<20100910181805.gi13...@146653177.ece.utexas.edu>
> If someone else can point our the "right" way, please do.
,[ /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/00trustcdrom ]-
| APT::Authentication::TrustCDROM "true";
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> So what do others use?
Most of the time I use elinks. For poorly-designed sites though I fire
up Kazehakase or Iceweasel.
As far as Iceweasel goes I've applied a lot of tweaks to my prefs.js to
improve responsiveness on my IBM T23, al
of Linux rather than on
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rather than on the destructive goal of enriching oneself
Thanks to Ian Murdock for the sample text.
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ns to place their data.
As I read FHS, I can see logic for stuff like what you want to store
placed in either /usr/local/share or /srv.
Quoting FHS, though:
Local placement of local files is a local issue, so FHS
does not attempt to usurp system administrators.
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t the full range
of bash options available. The bash version is in /etc/bash.bashrc
Note that I have only tested this with [db]ash, not {c,k,pdk}sh.
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the 'echo done' is there only to show when the process is finished.
Without it I'd likely have sat waiting for quite a while.
> Where can I read about these issues?
See bash(1), or the info document for it if you have it installed.
> Puzzled.
Hope this explanation helps.
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available disk space and available inodes. I know from our previous
conversations that you've got plenty of inodes and disk space free.
Another thing those articles have in common is referencing the 'ipcs'
and 'ipcrm' commands. I'm reading the
if you wish,
> [1]
> http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&&sa=X&ei=moRiTNLuIKf60wTl_aGYCQ&ved=0CBQQBSgA&q=web+msn
Seconded on both accounts.
Also, the output of the following command will be helpful:
$ aptitude search '~Gprotocol::msn-messenger'
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This is an up-to-date Lenny system.
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Q
Standard information sources (README, usd/aptitude, etc) were no-go as
to getting the information.
Any pointers would be appreciated.
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Quoting Johan Grönqvist on 2010-04-05 23:50:37:
>
> I think you may be interested in the dist-upgrade command instead.
Now called full-upgrade (though dist-upgrade remains for backcompat).
upgrade is now safe-upgrade.
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Quoting Matthew Moore on 2010-04-05 22:22:55:
> Heresy! zsh is *always* the right tool for the job. As a corollary, if zsh is
> not the right tool for the job, then it is not, in fact, a job.
Welcome to my random-sigblock file, Matthew, even though it's over 69
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t 750. Would
I have to pin all the Debian entries (backports, security, volatile) at
750 as well, or are they not relevant? I have no backports, security,
volatile in my home repository, obviously.
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I have to pin all the Debian entries (backports, security, volatile) at
750 as well, or are they not relevant? I have no backports, security,
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#x27;aptitude install
foopackage/somethingelse'? The way I see it, though, it wouldn't settle
the update issue.
As an aside, the homeRepo is mainly intended for installing packages
until I can get to a network connection, at which time they'll be
upgraded on my next upgrade run.
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4MB gzipped. Icedove, IIRC,
stores messages in an mbox-like format.
I believe Angus would have some experience in this regard. I'll give him
a link to this post.
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it removes the escape character, but leaves the printable characters
that form the rest of the escape sequence, which seems to me to be
working as intended. Could be misreading what little documentation
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etapackage.
Probably the most succinct definition is in aptitude, actually. Start a
new debtags browser view, and select role::metapackage.
One of the References should have more information. I don't remember if
it's the user or developer reference though -- no net access as I write
this ma
cable to simulate an outage of the CIFS server. Works okay for me, but
more testing would probably be necessary.
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tually gave me a slightly better understanding of grep and
pipelines. I assumed that adding a pipe would slow it down a bit, but
never could get off my corpulent posterior to look into put some hard
data into my hyptothesis.
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a bit hypocritical, as I tended to flood #debian on
> IRC eons ago when I first started using Debian.
I wouldn't call it hypocrisy, Stan. I'd call it something one would grow
out of.
Anything else I can contribute to this thread has already been posted,
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it's equally able to be parsed by software, and (IMO) easier to parse by
wetware.
[#include usDateFormatRant.txt]
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distributors in Ghana, but the site listed at [1] should help.
[1] http://www.debian.org/CD/vendors/
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[1] http://www.backports.org
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how to enable it
[3] Highly unlikely, by my knowledge.
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